This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
Communicative Action as Feminist Epistemology, Todd Nathaniel Gilman (Thesis)
Comparison of Prescribed Versus Actual Gain for Children with Profound Hearing Impairments, Kristin Rashelle Gilmer (Thesis)
The Effect of Psychological Gender and Self-monitoring on Leader Emergence and Leader Behavior, Janet Day Goldsmith (Thesis)
English-Speaking Three-Year-Olds in a Spanish Language Immersion Program, Alice Golstein (Thesis)
U.S. Military Intelligence in Mexico, 1917-1927: An Analysis, Corbett S. Gottfried (Thesis)
A study of two attempts by President Plutarco Elías Calles to establish a national church in Mexico, Roger David Gouran (Thesis)
Social Support in an Urban Moroccan Neighborhood: the Effects of Social Networks, Mediation and Patronage on the Physical Health and Psychological Adjustment of Women, Carla Ann Green (Dissertation)
The Love Poems of John Clare and John Keats: A Comparative Study, Elizabeth Stafford Grodd (Thesis)
A Case Study of the Development of Oregon's 1985 Public Policy in Youth Substance Abuse, Sonja Carol Grove (Dissertation)
Treatment Approaches for Pathological Gambling: Review of Literature and Development of New Program, Karen Lee Hafner (Thesis)
Hardware for Fast Global Operations on Distributed Memory Multicomputers and Multiprocessors, Douglas V. Hall (Dissertation)
Monomeric and Polymeric Fluoroalkyl Sulfonyl Fluorides, Sulfonate Salts and Sulfonic Acids for Use as Electrolytes and Coatings, Nicolas Noel Hamel (Dissertation)
Functional Uses of Language in the Conversational Discourse of a Person with Alzheimer's Disease, Julie Anne Haun (Thesis)
The Effects of Positive Illusions on Perceived Racism, Miyako Jun-ko Hayashi (Thesis)
The Effects of Ear Canal Pressure Variation on Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions, Jodi L. Head (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Impact of Intimate Victim-Offender Relationship on Sentencing in Serious Assault Cases, Laura J. Hickman (Thesis)
Synthesis and Characterization of Novel Fluorine Containing Alkylsulfonyls and Sulfonates : Fluorinated Sulfonyl Methanes and Derivatives, Nelson R. Holcomb (Thesis)
The Leadership of John McLoughlin in Relation to the People and Events of Pacific Northwest History, 1824-1846, John David Holliday (Thesis)
The Effect of a Physician's Pronunciation on Nurses' Perceptions of the Physician's Medical Competency, Laura Anne Horani (Thesis)
The Use of the First Language (L1) and the Target Language (TL) in the Foreign Language Classroom, Jeanine L. Huber (Thesis)
The Affects of Vocal Fatigue on Fundamental Frequency and Frequency Range in Actresses as Opposed to Non-Actresses, Ruth Ann Jenkins (Thesis)
Water Quality Model for South Slough, Coos Bay, Oregon, Holly Kay Juza (Thesis)
O-Phthalaldehyde Modification of Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Calcium Release, Steffen Koehler (Thesis)
American Students' Expectations of Teachers in the Japanese Language Classroom, Nariyo Kono (Thesis)
Electrolysis of Titanium in Heavy Water, Radovan Kopecek (Thesis)
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)