This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1996
Seed Pods, Bases and Formalism: An Artist's Journey, Craig Luster (Thesis)
The Socio-cultural Content Analysis of English as a Foreign Language Textbooks Used in Junior High School in Taiwan, Republic of China, Vivian Yann-Ling Lu (Thesis)
The Effects of Feedback to Raters on Subsequent Performance Ratings, A. Cybelle Lyon (Thesis)
The Dangers of Nuclear Proliferation: Five Reasons More May Not Be Better, Matthew MacArthur (Thesis)
Bertolt Brechts Exilleben und Parallelen zur Entstehung des Werkes Leben des Galilei, John Timothy Mangan (Thesis)
The Influence of Student Gender on Teacher/Student Interactions in ESL Classrooms, Lisa Sybil Mann (Thesis)
Feminine Rhyme, Laurie Mantecon (Thesis)
Solutions of linear equations and a class of nonlinear equations using recurrent neural networks, Karl Mathia (Dissertation)
A Methodology for Regional Seismic Damage Assessment and Retrofit Planning for Existing Buildings, Thomas C. McCormack (Dissertation)
A History of Transportation in Nineteenth Century Umatilla County, Oregon, Gary Kenneth Miller (Thesis)
The Politics of Nazi Art: The Portrayal of Women in Nazi Painting, Jennifer Anne Miller (Thesis)
Material Origins, Carol E. Minchin (Thesis)
A Study of the Correlation between the Articulation Competence Index (ACI) and the Percentage of Words Understood in the Continuous Speech of 4- and 5-year-olds of Varying Phonological Competence, Susan Coll Mitchell (Thesis)
Evaluation of a Rapid-screening Toxicity Test Using the Ciliate, Colpoda inflata (Stokes): Sensitivity and Bioavailability to Model Compounds, Daria Galina Mochan (Thesis)
Phonological Awareness Skills in Children with Highly Unintelligible Speech, Sheryl Mohwinkel (Thesis)
Determining the Factors Influential in the Validation of Computer-based Problem Solving Systems, Leslie Anne Morehead (Dissertation)
Parental Perceptions of Articulation Intervention Services Received at Portland State University, Janet Ann Murphy (Thesis)
Reading Abilities and Phonological Skills of Second Grade Children with Three Different Language Histories: Normal, Delayed, and Chronically Delayed, Candace Jane Murray (Thesis)
Design and Implementation of a Model for Authoring and Presenting Interactive Multimedia Documents, Vibha Mukul Nayyar (Thesis)
An ASIC Power Analysis System for Digital CMOS Design, Du Van Nguyen (Thesis)
An Analysis of Japanese Learners' Comprehension of Intonation in English, Misako Okubo (Thesis)
Speech Recognition with Linear and Non-linear Amplification in the Presence of Industrial Noise, Marcia Ann Olson (Thesis)
An Evolutionary Simulation of the Tragedy of the Commons, Gretchen Oosterhout (Dissertation)
An Exploratory Inquiry into Community Policing Using Focus Groups: Perspectives from Social Service Providers, Tanya Leigh Ostrogorsky (Thesis)
Japanese Students' Perception of Their Language Learning Strategies, Michiyo Ozawa (Thesis)
Salesforce Involvement in New Product Predevelopment Activities of High Technology Firms, Candace Petersen (Dissertation)
Wear Due to the Physical and Petrographic Properties of Rocks and their Dynamic Interactions with Mining Equipment, Christian Poppeliers (Thesis)
What in God's Name: The Ordination of Women and the Inclusive Language Liturgy Movement, Marylee L. Prince (Thesis)
La Representation de la Femme Aristocrate en Periode Post-revolutionnaire: Balzac Moraliste Chretien et Apologiste de la Passion, Isabelle Marie Renard (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel SF5 Containing Fluoroalkyl Iodides and Derivatives, Julia Anne Renn (Thesis)
Calibration of a CCD Camera and Correction of its Images, Armin Rest (Thesis)
Fire Ants, Joyce Marie Riha (Thesis)
The Reception Theory of Hans Robert Jauss: Theory and Application, Paul Hunter Rockhill (Thesis)
An Evaluation of English Spoken Fluency of Thai Graduate Students in the United States, Sugunya Ruangjaroon (Thesis)
Spanish for Health Care Professionals: Language and Culture, Mytzi Maryanne Rudolph (Thesis)
Gender Differences in Adaptive Behavior between Two-year-old Boys and Girls with Slow Expressive Language Development, Christine Lee Rusnak (Thesis)
La Protagonista en Dos Novelas Latinoamericanas Escritas por Mujeres, Khatereh K. Sabahi (Thesis)
Validity, Reliability, and Utility of the Oregon Assessment for 3-5 Year Olds in Developmentally Appropriate Classrooms, Steffen Saifer (Dissertation)
Thermal Preference of Spring and Fall Chinook Salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) during Smoltification, Sally T. Sauter (Thesis)
Design of a Two-Chamber-NO₂-Fluorescence-Cell, Volker Schmid (Thesis)
Fluorinated Polymer Films: Synthesis and Characterization, Anja Ulrike Schnurer (Thesis)
Willa Cather's Spirituality, Mary Ellen Scofield (Thesis)
Unrelated Business Enterprise and Unfair Business Competition Issues Facing Nonprofit Organizations, Larry Glen Scruggs (Dissertation)
Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm's Fairy Tales and Children, Cornelia Marianne Seigneur (Thesis)
Circuit Implementation of a High-speed Continuous-time Current-mode Field Programmable Analog Array (FPAA), Osama K. Shana'a (Thesis)
Compiling Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language, David Shapiro (Thesis)
Oregon's Oil: A Geographic View of Petroleum Distribution and Associated Risks, Paul M. Slyman (Thesis)
Social Stratification within a Protohistoric Plankhouse of the Pacific Northwest Coast: Use-wear and Spatial Distribution Analysis of Chipped Lithic Artifacts, Cameron McPherson Smith (Thesis)
Dramatic Conflict and Historical Reality in Carl Zuckmayer's Hauptmann von Kopenick, Craig O. Smith (Thesis)
Relationship of Marital Types and Conflict Styles, Lynn Marie Stanek (Thesis)
The Multiple Pool Migrating Worker Paradigm : A Distributed System Framework and Model, Cynthia Ann Stanley (Thesis)
Jitter and Wander Reduction for a SONET DS3 Desynchronizer Using Predictive Fuzzy Control, Kevin Blythe Stanton (Dissertation)
Ottilie: Expression of the Ideal of Romantic Childlikeness in Goethe's Wahlverwandtschaften, Melodie Joy Steele (Thesis)
Undergraduate Student Satisfaction with the Sociology Program at Portland State University, Katherine Sullivan (Thesis)
Captive Environmental Influences on Behavior in Zoo Drills and Mandrills (Mandrillus), a Threatened Genus of Primate, Erik Terdal (Dissertation)
A Cross-cultural Study of the Speech Act of Refusing in English and German, Charla Margaret Teufel (Thesis)
"With a View Toward Their Civilization": Women and the Work of Indian Reform, Terri Christian Theisen (Thesis)
Justice Delayed: A Sixty Year Battle for Indian Fishing Sites, Roberta Ulrich (Thesis)
Connection, Service and Community: an Examination of Factors that Contribute to Student and Staff Success, Robert Vieira (Dissertation)
Understanding Pre-service Teachers' Conceptualizations of Diversity, Terrine Louise Borwn Vogt (Thesis)
The Demographics, Motivations, and Role Conceptions of Student Nurses, Steven C. Von Flue (Thesis)
A Pilot Study: Normative Data on the Intelligibility of 3 1/2 Year Old Children, Karen Mary Ware (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of a Self-directed Inservice Program to Educate Teachers about the Classroom Needs of Students with Hearing Impairment, Teresa Michelle Whiteley (Thesis)
An Integrated Approach to Theories of Loss and Adaptation to Disability, Marjorie Anne White (Thesis)
Adolescents and Sex on the Soaps: A Content Analysis, Jenelle Gay Winter (Thesis)
Distribution of Ionized and Neutral Halogenated Phenols in an Octanol-water Membrane Model System, Robert Word (Thesis)
Nonlinearities in the Base Emitter Junction of Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors, Oliver Woywode (Thesis)
Government Policy and Private Organizational Forms: Analysis of Refuse Collection and Disposal in Three Metropolitan Cities, Thomas Wright (Dissertation)
NMR Study of Neurophysin Dimer Dissociation by Cosolvents, Jian Yao (Thesis)
Some Possible Sources of Oral Foreign Language Anxiety (FLA) among Japanese Students in the United States, Sawako Yoshikawa (Thesis)
The Development and Evaluation of Aggregation Methods for Group Pairwise Comparison Judgments, Sida Zhou (Dissertation)
Alexander VI: Renaissance Pope, Jonathan P. Zorich (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1995
The Parser Converter Loader: An Implementation of the Computational Chemistry Output Language (CCOL), Donald Randall Abel (Thesis)
Analysis of Intermodulation Distortion for MESFET Small-signal Amplifiers, Imad Saleh Ahmad (Thesis)
Effects of Oral and Silent Reading on the Reading Comprehension Performance of Left Hemisphere-damaged Individuals, Paul K. Akers (Thesis)
The Distribution of Naturally Occurring Soil Radionuclides and Radon Potential of Northwest Oregon, Stuart Graham Ashbaugh (Thesis)
Shoot Structure of Boschniakia hookeri Walpers (Orobanchaceae), John Leland Babur (Thesis)
Validity and Efficiency of the Check-Slash Transcription Method for Measuring Intelligibility, Vicky Jo Bacon (Thesis)
Phytoplankton in Mt. St. Helens Lakes, Washington, Cynthia Fay Baker (Thesis)
Methods of Language Assessment: A Survey of Oregon Public School Speech-language Pathologists, Staci Lee Johnson Ball (Thesis)
Geochemistry of the Boring Lava along the West Side of the Tualatin Mountains and of Sediments from Drill Holes in the Portland and Tualatin Basins, Portland, Oregon, Michelle Lynn Barnes (Thesis)
Perceived Fairness of a Child-care Subsidy in a Temporary Agency: An Equity Theory Approach, Pamela Bermudez (Thesis)
Botanical Variations, Anthony Bernert (Thesis)
A Comparison of High School Student and Adult Expectations of Leader Behavior, Charles Edward Beyer (Thesis)
The Predictive Validity of the Admission Criteria for the Counselor Education Program at Portland State University, Malachy Liam Bishop (Thesis)
A Hydrologic Analysis of Government Island, Oregon, Scott Gregory Bittinger (Thesis)
Through Women's Eyes: Contemporary Women's Fiction about the Old West, Anna Margarete Boettcher (Thesis)
Renal Responses to Differential Rates of Blood Volume Expansion in the Toad, Bufo marinus, Mark Edward Bolke (Thesis)
Der 35. Mai -- Ein Sozialkritisches Erwachsenenbuch für Kinder, Thomas Bosch (Thesis)
Gaining State Response on Global Environmental Problem-Solving: Developing a State-centric Approach, Heather MacGregor Bothwell (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of a Porphyrin Dyad, Dale A. Braden (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Flathead, Cayuse and Nez Perce Tribes in Reference to the Pattern of Acceptance and Rejection to the Missionaries in the Mid-nineteenth Century, Mary Kathleen Branson (Thesis)
The Interaction between a Thiol Specific Probe (OPA) and the Single Channel Characteristics of the Reconstituted Ca++ Release Protein from Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Alexander Braun (Thesis)
Application of a Geographical Information System to Estimate the Magnitude and Frequency of Floods in the Sandy and Clackamas River Basins, Oregon, Dorie Lynn Brownell (Thesis)
Reliability and Validity of Pedometers in a Free-living Environment, Ernest Leroy Brown (Thesis)
Effect of Ototoxic Drugs on the Amphibian Auditory System: Injection of Gentamicin Sulfate into Anuran Otic Capsules and Recovery of Thresholds, Michael Patrick Brown (Thesis)
Student Attitudes Toward Word Processing and Writing in the English as a Second or Other Language Classroom, Greg Lynn Buchan (Thesis)
Authorizing the Reader: Narrative Construction in Sarah Orne Jewett's The Country of the Pointed Firs and Willa Cather's My Ántonia, Cheri Buck-Perry (Thesis)
The Effect of the Ideology of Motherhood on Women, Shari A. Burke (Thesis)