This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Malt Drying Model Verification for Efficiency Improvement, John David Kribs (Thesis)
The Health Belief Model as a Predictor of Gynecological Exams: Does Sexual Orientation Matter?, Lynn Elizabeth Kunkel (Thesis)
Motion Picture Exhibition and the Development of a Middle-class Clientele: Portland, Oregon, 1894-1915, James Bruce Labosier (Thesis)
A Study of the Success of School College Partnerships Created to Improve Minority and Disadvantaged Student Enrollment and Success in Postsecondary Education, Armando Reinaldo Laguardia (Dissertation)
An Exploration of the Value of Future TESOL Teachers Reflecting on their Pasts as Language Learners, Sarah Elizabeth Lawrence (Thesis)
Seasonal Hidden Markov Models for Stochastic Time Series with Periodically Varying Characteristics, Arthur M. Lewis (Thesis)
Indigent v. Non-Indigent Sex Offenders: An Analysis of Sentencing in Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington Counties, Oregon, Dorelei Victoria Linder (Thesis)
Making the Transition from East to West: Evangelical Christian High School Students from the Former Soviet Union, Sharon Kay Link (Thesis)
Teaching English Grapheme-Phoneme Correspondences to Chinese Students, Li-ching Lin (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Turnover of Incumbent Board Members and Turnover of the District's Superintendent, Frederick James Loomis (Dissertation)
A Non-decision-reaching Decision-making process, Wei Wei Lou (Dissertation)
A Taxonomy of Types of Uncertainty, Byrne Elliot Lovell (Dissertation)
John Rawls, Feminism, and the Gendered Self, Lori Kinder MacArthur (Thesis)
A Swamp in the Desert: Theory, Water Policy, and Malheur Lake Basin, Cristin R. Mandaville (Thesis)
Informational Supports for Caregivers Responsible for Spouses With Alzheimer’s Disease, Janet Lynn Mathews (Dissertation)
Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: Strategies for Self-help in Food Production, Case Study of Kenya, Dieudonne Mayi (Thesis)
Memory Deficit Compensation Among Survivors of Traumatic Brain Injury, Hugo Maynard (Thesis)
Weakest Pre-Condition and Data Flow Testing, Griffin David McClellan (Thesis)
Variation in Plasma Prostaglandin E2 Level in Mouse During Infection with Trichinella spiralis and Trichinella pseudospiralis, Zahra Mehdizadehkashi (Thesis)
The Biogeochemistry of Lakes in the Mount St. Helens Blast Zone, Victor Lee Menting (Thesis)
Use of Language Learning Strategies by Proficient and Less Proficient Learners, Charlene Frances Mills (Thesis)
Minimization of Sum-of-Conditional-Decoders Structures with Applications in Finite Machine EPLD Design and Machine Learning, Sanof Mohamedsadakathulla (Thesis)
Sex-role Stereotypes: How Far Have We Come?, Erica D. Monte (Thesis)
Social Support as a Buffer of the Relationship between Work and Family Involvement and Work-Family Conflict, Tracy Lynn Monzon (Thesis)
Physical and Environmental Features that Contribute to Satisfaction with Hospice Facilities, Arezu Movahed (Dissertation)
Performance Appraisal in Organizational Cultural Context, Unoda C. Moyo (Dissertation)
Silence: A Comparison of Japanese and U.S. Interpretation, Mimi Murayama (Thesis)
An Exploration of Theoretical Issues Related to Mediation Found in the Social Science Literature, Cheryl E. Nally (Thesis)
Tunnel One Generalized Satellite Knots, John Ralph Neil (Dissertation)
Empowering ESL Students for Out of Classroom Learning, Jay Stanley Neuharth (Thesis)
Behavioral and Community Impacts of the Portland Needle Exchange Program, Kathleen Joan Oliver (Dissertation)
Influence of Heater Orientation on Fluctuations in Steady-state Nucleate Boiling, William F. Osborne (Thesis)
Independent Acoustic Stimulation of the Amphibian and Basilar Papillae of Rana pipiens, Mark Parker (Thesis)
State Cooperation on Regulatory Policies for Transboundary Environmental Issues, Jennifer Lyn Pennell (Thesis)
Scaling of the Silicon-on-Insulator Si and Si1-xGex p-MOSFETs, Marijan Peršun (Thesis)
A Study of the Duration of Words Surrounding a Moment of Stuttering, Jennifer Dawn Peterson (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Adequacy of the Services of an Urban Public University for International and U.S. Students: a Comparative Study, Alfonso Hernandez Pioquinto (Dissertation)
PSUsort: A Parallel External Sort for a Shared Memory Multiprocessor System, Sujata V. Ramamoorthy (Thesis)
Tree Restructuring Approach to Mapping Problem in Cellular Architecture FPGAS, Narahari Ramineni (Thesis)
Complexity Properties of the Cellular Automaton Game of Life, Andreas Rechtsteiner (Thesis)
We are the Vanguard, Not the Norm: Stories of Successful Minority Students in Predominantly White Graduate Teacher Education Programs, Leslie Rennie-Hill (Dissertation)
Automatic Synthesis of VLSI Layout for Analog Continuous-time Filters, David Lyle Robinson (Thesis)
Insoluble Ambiguity: Criticism and the Structure of the Frame Narrative in The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, Cecilia Rosenow (Thesis)
Clinical Application of Two Phonological-based Treatment Approaches, Holly Kiesz Royer (Thesis)
American Deaf Students in ENNL Classes: A Case Study, Janice Elisabeth Ruhl (Thesis)
Performance Evaluation of Specialized Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers, Rajesh Madukkarumukumana Sankaran (Thesis)
Using a Computer Program to Influence the Expectations Senior Adults have Regarding Hearing Aids, Carol I. Sayre (Thesis)
Zooplankton Community Structure in Lakes Near Mt. St. Helens, WA, Larry Duane Scharnberg (Thesis)
North vs. South: Sovereign Equality and the Environment in the Twentieth Century, Thomas Schlesinger (Thesis)
Origins of Effective Charge of Multivalent Ions at a Membrane/Water Interface and Distribution of 2,3,4,5-Tetrachlorophenol in a Membrane Model System, Piet O. Schmidt (Thesis)
The Origins of Caring: A Study of the Development of Coding Categories for Prosocial Behaviors in Very Young Children, Mark W. Schuster (Thesis)
Germany, Great Britain and the Rashid Ali al-Kilani Revolt of Spring 1941, James Christian Scott (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Integrity Tests: the Effect of Situational and Individual Variables on Response Distortion, Nannette Shayne Searles (Thesis)
A Study of Special Preparation and Training Needs of Middle School Teachers, Marilyn Seger (Dissertation)
Data Allocation for Distributed Programs, Liono Setiowijoso (Thesis)
Disequilibrium Transition of the Consumer Goods Market in China, 1954-1991, Hui Shu (Dissertation)
Electrostatic Interactions at Membrane-water Interfaces and Distribution of 2, 4, 6-Trichlorophenol in a Membrane Model System, Isolde Sieder (Thesis)
Alterations, Edith Kay Slusarenko (Thesis)
Identifying Factors that Influence Perceptions of Teacher Efficacy as a Means of Building Capacity for Restructuring Schools: a Case Study Approach, Deborah Sommer (Dissertation)
Intentions to Cooperate with Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASAs) in Child Protective Proceedings: The Role of Perceived Social Pressure in The Theory of Planned Behavior, Yuko Sato Spofford (Thesis)
Behavioral Differences in the Classroom: U.S. University Teachers and Chinese University Teachers, Xiaocheih Sun (Thesis)
Learning work in the ESL classroom : an evaluation of textbooks designed to teach ESL in the workplace, Amy Taylor-Henry (Thesis)
The Hero at Rest, David Tinsley (Thesis)
Beam Modes of Lasers with Misaligned Complex Optical Elements, Anthony A. Tovar (Dissertation)
From Promised Lands to Promised Landfill: The Iconography of Oregon's Twentieth-Century Utopian Myth, Jeffry Lloyd Uecker (Thesis)
School Attendance and Achievement in a Population of Ecuadorian Underage Street Workers, Rossana Viteri (Thesis)
Some Relationships Between Sedimentary Trace Metal Concentrations and Freshwater Phytoplankton and Sedimentary Diatom Species Composition, Allan Hayes Vogel (Dissertation)
Evaluable Functions in the Gödel Programming Language: Parsing and Representing Rewrite Rules, Janet Vorvick (Thesis)
Lettres d'une Peruvienne: An Enlightenment Utopian Novel, Susan Leigh Weir (Thesis)
The Portland Learning Community : a history, Martin White (Thesis)
Implementing Community Policing: A Documentation and Assessment of Organizational Change, EmmaJean Williams (Dissertation)
The Portland Public School Police: Formative Years - 1937 to 1953, Natalie Anne Woods (Thesis)
Modeling of Decay Rate for Molecules at an Island Surface, Ting Xiong (Thesis)
Performance Analysis of A Banyan Based ATM Switching Fabric with Packet Priority, Zhaohui Yan (Thesis)
DNA Sequences Involved in the Regulation of Human c-MYC Gene Expression by Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 (HSV-1), Shanli Ye (Thesis)
From Pietism to Pluralism: Boston Personalism and the Liberal Era in American Methodist Theology, 1876-1953, Amos Yong (Thesis)
The Chemotactic Response of Neutrophils to Components of the Sera of Mice Infected with Trichinella spiralis, Sara Lynn Youngman (Thesis)
Electrolysis of Palladium in Heavy Water, Christoph Zaczek (Thesis)
Russian-speaking Pentecostal Refugees and Adult ESL Programs: Barriers to Participation, Elena Valerijevna Zaitseva (Thesis)
Testability Design and Testability Analysis of a Cube Calculus Machine, Lixin Zhou (Thesis)
Mobility Modeling and Simulation of SOI Si1-x Gex p-MOSFET, Sida Zhou (Thesis)
An Analysis of Socioeconomic Effects on Scrap Paper Recycling Participation, Sara Phyllis Zimmerman (Thesis)
Departure and Persistence: Exploring Student Experiences at the Master's Level, Jennifer Lee Zoltanski (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Total Quality Management: the Case for the Public Sector: a Comparative Study of the Implementation of Total Quality Management in Three Health Care Organizations, Zayed Mohammed Abu (Dissertation)
"A Listening Child." The Language Life History of an American of Mexican Descent, Alexandra Guerra Alvarez (Thesis)
Establishing US Military Government: Law and Order in Southern Bavaria 1945, Stephen Frederick Anderson (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Phonemic Segmentation Skills in First Grade Children with Normal, Disordered, and Slow Expressive Language Development, David J. Andrews (Thesis)
Circuit Modeling of Switched Linear Networks, Fardin Ansari (Thesis)
Reflection and Refraction of Light from Nonlinear Boundaries, Mohammad Azadeh (Thesis)
Spectrographic Analysis of Second Language Speech: Investigating the Effects of L1, Troy D. Bailey (Thesis)
Oregon Primary Care Physicians' Support for Health Care Reform, Timothy Alan Baker (Dissertation)
AIDS-Preventative Behaviors and the Psychological Costs of Behavior Change, Howard Balshem (Thesis)
A Study of Personal Attributes Associated with Marginality and Failure of Preservice Teachers in the Terminal Field Experience, Sharon Irene Bancroft (Dissertation)
Two Dimensional Finite Element Modeling of Swift Delta Soil Nail Wall by "ABAQUS", Richard James Barrows (Thesis)
Vocabulary Learning for Short-Term ESL Students: A Comparison of Three Methods, Michael William Bess (Thesis)
Private Profit Versus Public Service: Competing Demands in Urban Transportation History and Policy, Portland, Oregon, 1872-1970, Martha J. Bianco (Dissertation)
An Investigation of the Prevalence of Severe Visual Impairment Among Handicapped Children: Implications for Educators, James Bickford (Dissertation)
Adult English as A Second Language Literacy Programs in the Non-profit Sector of Multnomah County, Oregon, Susan Edna Binford (Thesis)
The Impact of Collective Bargaining on the Civil Service Merit System in Oregon, David K. Blanchard (Dissertation)
Building of a Thermoacoustic Refrigerator and Measuring the Basic Performance, Torsten Blumreiter (Thesis)