This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Perceived Communication During Organizational Change, Paula Blunck (Thesis)
Coastal Crossing of the Elastic Strain Zero-Isobase, Cascadia Margin, South Central Oregon Coast, Gregory George Briggs (Thesis)
The Geology of Parrett Mountain, Oregon, and Its Influences on the Local Groundwater Systems, Brett Todd Brodersen (Thesis)
The Evaluation of Device Model Dependence in the Design of a High-Frequency, Analog, CMOS Transconductance-C Filter, Susan Rose Brotman (Thesis)
Adult ESL Writing Journals: A Case Study of Topic Assignment, Kathryn Elaine Brunette (Thesis)
Fort Clatsop National Memorial: A Study in Historic Preservation, Kelly June Cannon (Thesis)
Indicators of Nutrient Limited Plankton Growth in Lakes Near Mount Saint Helens, Washington, Kurt Davis Carpenter (Thesis)
Youth's Perceptions of Social and Cultural Dimensions of Drug Use, Brett Joseph Casper (Thesis)
The DNA Sequence Required for the Maximal Transactivation of the VP5 Gene of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1, Shin Chen (Thesis)
Methodology for Accurate Speedup Prediction, Aruna Chittor (Thesis)
Studies in Fluorine Chemistry: 13C NMR Investigation of SF5/SO2F Fluorinated Systems, Yoon S. Choi (Thesis)
Second Grade Academic Performance in Normal Children, Children with a History of, and Children with Expressive Language Delay, Kathleen Ann Clancy (Thesis)
Logging Subsystem Performance: Model and Evaluation, Thomas K. Clark (Thesis)
Modeling Music with Grammars: Some Examples from Balinese Kotekan, Janet Tom Cowal (Thesis)
Culture and Consensus: the Use of Mathematical Models to Examine a Culture of Sports in the Portland Metropolitan Area, Phillip M. Crawford (Thesis)
Freedom as Self-Legislation: An Examination of Rosseau and Kant, Roger L. Cross (Thesis)
Evidence for the Eutrophication of Selected Coastal Dunal Lakes: Historical Comparison of Indices for Nutrient Enrichment, Steven Gregory Dagget (Thesis)
Comparison of Training Methods in a Branch Environment, Lisa Peterson Davidson (Thesis)
Investigations on Glycolipid Production by Pseudomonas Putida grown on Toluene in Batch and Continuous Culture Conditions, Keith Foorest Dockery (Thesis)
Chlorophyll Characterization of Three Mistletoes and the Chloroplast Ultrastructure within Aerial and Endophytic Tissues of Phoradendron Juniperinum, Wesley Emanuel Dubbs (Thesis)
Simultaneous Interpretation (SI): An Information Processing Approach and Its Implications for Practical SI, Doris Maria Ecker (Thesis)
Changes in Proteins Associated with Nitrogen Fixation and Iron Nutrition in the Marine Cyanobacterium Trichodesmium, Karen Marie Elardo (Thesis)
A Cross-national Study of Attitudes and Group Labeling: Multinational Corporation (MNC) Workers in Canada, Brazil, and West Germany, Tobias Albert Ten Eyck (Thesis)
An Experimental Study of Scotopic Sensitivity/Irlen Syndrome in Learning Disabled Students, Kathleen Hickam Farber (Dissertation)
The Use of Faceplate Assemblies as Facsimiles of Custom Hearing Instruments, James A. Fenwick (Thesis)
The Use of Global Issues in A University ESL Classroom: The Students' Perspective, Kelley Denise Fitzpatrick (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Intelligibility and Length and Complexity of Language in a Group of 4- and 5-Year-Old Children, Susan Fodell (Thesis)
The Design, Realization and Testing of the ILU of the CCM2 Using FPGA Technology, David W. Foote (Thesis)
An Examination of the Occurrences of Metaphor in Introductory Engineering Textbooks, Hartwell S. Francis (Thesis)
The Particular Nature of Long-term Lesbian Relationships, Karen Marie Freeman (Thesis)
An Improved English Article System for Japanese Speakers, Dorothy Jean Frew (Thesis)
Relationships between Avian Diversity and Vegetational Parameters in Forested Patches of the Tualatin Mountains, Oregon, Jerry Sexton Fugate (Thesis)
The Holocene Sedimentary Framework of the Lower Columbia River Gorge, Edward Breed Gates (Thesis)
Computer Grammar Checkers and ESL Writers, Robert Lee Gaynor (Thesis)
A Study of Community College Instructional Stakeholder Attitudes Toward Student Outcome Goals, Linda Ann Gerber (Dissertation)
Conversational Structure in Electronic Mail Exchanges, Linda I. Godson (Thesis)
The Preferred Learning Styles of Greek EFL Students and Greek EFL Teachers, Debra Jane Gregory (Thesis)
Math Anxiety, Coping Behavior, and Gender, Sandra Joy Grossmann (Thesis)
The Impact of the Donation Land Law Upon the Development of Oregon, Elwin Edward Grout (Thesis)
Landslide Inventory and Susceptibility Mapping of the Upper Canyon Creek Basin, Cascade Range, Skamania County, Washington, Lawrence P. Growney (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Riparian-influenced Salmonid Habitat Features of Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, Andrew Greiff Gude (Thesis)
Sediment Yield Analysis of Reservoir #1, Bull Run Watershed, West Cascade Mountains, Oregon, Doann M. Hamilton (Thesis)
Technological Organization and Sedentism: Expedient Core Reduction, Stockpiling, and Tool Curation at the Meier Site (35CO5), Stephen Coursault Hamilton (Thesis)
Gender Differences in Slow Expressive Language Development, Cynthia Lee Hare-Blye (Thesis)
The Development of Natural Law from Plato to the Renaissance, James M. Harrison (Thesis)
Questions-asking Strategies of Aphasic and Normal Subjects, Sharla Rae Harvey (Thesis)
Factors that Motivate Washington State Teachers to Participate in Professional Growth and Development, Dolores Adan Heisinger (Dissertation)
British Aristocratic Women and Their Role in Politics, 1760-1860, Nancy Ann Henderson (Thesis)
A Linguistic Needs Assessment of a Latino Community, Cybele Marie Higgins (Thesis)
Impact of Goal-setting on Motivation as Affected by the Joint Influence of the Attributional Dimensions of Causality, Stability, and Control, Nancy Davis Hodges (Thesis)
Oregon's Marines: A Regional History of the United States Marine Corps, Michael Coleman Howard (Thesis)
Adaptive Notch Filter, Yuchen Huang (Thesis)
An Analysis of Approaches to Efficient Hardware Realization of Image Compression Algorithms, Kamran Iravani (Thesis)
Interfacing a Computer to a Scanning Tunneling Microscope, Markus Jarasch (Thesis)
Intertextualidad en la Novela Tinisima de Poniatowska, Maria Elena Jimenez (Thesis)
A Music Therapy Model for Counseling Corrections Clients, Karen Lee Kahle (Thesis)
Language Learning Strategies of Russian-Speaking Adult ESL Learners, Minerva E. Renee Kalenandi (Thesis)
Case Study: How an East European Student Learns to Compose in English, Ruth Steinfeld Katon (Thesis)
Magmatic Evolution and Eruptive History of the Granitic Bumping Lake Pluton, Washington: Source of the Bumping River and Cash Prairie Tuffs, John Frederick King (Thesis)
Performance Evaluation Tools for Interconnection Network Design, Anna Kolinska (Thesis)
Decentralization of Urban Service Activities: an Empirical Study, Wonseon Kyung (Dissertation)
The R-Stick Appliance as a Device to Facilitate the Phoneme /r/, Rosemary LeBlanc (Thesis)
Lexico-Semantic Influence in Interlingual Transfer, Guy-Luc Levesque (Thesis)
The Role of the Chinese News Media in the 1989 Pro-democracy Movement, Mei Liao (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Linked-pulse in Steady-state Free Precession in MRI, Fang Li (Thesis)
ERP Analysis Using Matched Filtering and Wavelet Transform, Xueming Lin (Thesis)
Studies on the Role of Cellular Factor, YY1, in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Late Gene Expression, Xuehui Liu (Thesis)
Source rock geochemistry of the southern Tyee Basin, southwest Oregon, David E. Long (Thesis)
"Self was Forgotten": Attention to Private Consciousness in the Diaries of Three Mormon Frontier Women, Genevieve Jane Long (Thesis)
A Bootstrapped Regression Model of Psychological Predictors of Success in Naturopathic Medical School, Christa Claire Louise (Thesis)
Investigations of Factors Affecting the Transcriptional Regulation of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 βγ (Leaky-Late) Genes, Rosemary Ann Lown (Thesis)
Case Studies of the Structure, Dynamics, and Outcomes of Interdisciplinary Team Organization in Oregon Middle Schools, Gail Lyon (Dissertation)
Hermann Hesses Unterm Rad: Identitätssuche eines Jugendlichen, Martina Mangan (Thesis)
The Feminine as Salvific in Hildegard von Bingen's Letters, Marie Theresa Maurer (Thesis)
Solubility Studies of Iron(III) Oxides and Hydroxides, Victor L. Menting (Thesis)
Portland's Multifamily Recycling Program: a Study of Coproduction Policy Implementation and Citizen Involvement, William Barry Messer (Dissertation)
The Anabaptist Contributions to the Idea of Religious Liberty, Barbara Monette (Thesis)
"I Don't Speak My Own Language": Ethnicity Among the Malayalees of Singapore, David L. Moore (Thesis)
Homoeroticism and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Thomas Winston Morgan (Thesis)
English Language Teaching and Curricula in the People's Republic of China, Kirsten Nadia Ngan (Thesis)
The Effects of Type of Child Care Arrangement and Satisfaction with Care on Employee Job Satisfaction and Absenteeism, Hanh Hong Nguyen (Thesis)
Persistence Influences on the Minority Student Attending a Predominantly White Postsecondary Urban Institution: the Student Perspective, Annmarie O'Brien (Dissertation)
An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon, Sabrina Oesterle (Thesis)
High Level Preprocessor of a VHDL-based Design System, Karthikeyan Palanisamy (Thesis)
A Simultaneous Route-level Transit Patronage Model: Demand, Supply, and Inter-route Relationship, Zhongren Peng (Dissertation)
A Study of Understory Plant Recovery After a Forest Fire in the Columbia River Gorge, Mark Alan Pittsenbarger (Thesis)
The Origins and Development of the Defense Forces of Northern and Southern Rhodesia from 1890 to 1945, Eugene Peter Jarrett Pomeroy (Thesis)
A Comparison of Neutrophil Migration in the Mouse in Response to Infection with Three Species of Trichinella, Jon Darin Prulhiere (Thesis)
Strategies in Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire to Resolve the Division Between the Material and the Spiritual, Claas Riese (Thesis)
The Mediation of U.S. American Culture in the ESL Classroom, Steven Fredolph Roberts (Thesis)
Logic Synthesis with High Testability for Cellular Arrays, Andisheh Sarabi (Dissertation)
A Study of Japan's Foreign Policy Behavior: The Discrepancy between Japan's Foreign Policy and Its Voting Behavior in the United Nations General Assembly, Atsuko Sato (Thesis)
Electrophoretic Studies of Ion Adsorption to Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and Phosphatidylcholine Membranes, Andreas Schilling (Thesis)
The Tumult of Amboise and the Importance of Historical Memory in Sixteenth-Century France, Trevor Charles Schmitz-Thursam (Thesis)
Women Who Worship Alone: The Relationship Between Marital Status and Loneliness in the Church, Judith Ann Schwanz (Thesis)
Causal Attributions for Teen Problem Drinking, Barbara J. Seatter (Thesis)
The Decision and Rationale Which Led to Construction on High-risk Land After the 1964 Alaska Earthquake: Analysis of Risk-based Cultural Dissociation, Sheila Ann Selkregg (Dissertation)
The Effects of Phonological Processes on the Speech Intelligibility of Young Children, Susanne Shotola-Hardt (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Cohesion in the Expository Discourse of the Optimally-Healthy Young-Old and the Optimally-Healthy Oldest-Old, Penni Gay Siemens (Thesis)
Planning for Academic Success: Survey of University Professors' Assessments of Non-native Students' Language Skill Needs, Carol BonDurant Sloan (Thesis)