This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
The Design of High-Frequency Continuous-Time Integrated Analog Signal Processing Circuits, Pan Wu (Dissertation)
Solution-State Proton Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) Spectroscopic Studies of the Active Site of Myoglobins in Various Ligated States: Models for Macromolecule-Substrate Binding and Advancement of Paramagnetic NMR Techniques, Sidney Yee (Dissertation)
A Retarding-potential Analyzer for Measuring Energy Distributions in Electron Beams, Li Zhou (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1992
A Comparison of Grammatical Morpheme Usage by Four Year Olds With Normal, Impaired, and Late Developing Language, Sally Alforde (Thesis)
Factors affecting the repatriation of the Afghan refugees, Todd Trowbridge Ames (Thesis)
The morphology, physiology, and fine structure of a toluene-oxidizing strain of Pseudomonas putida, Barry Clayton Anderson (Thesis)
Battle for the Boulevard, Patricia Luann Antoine (Thesis)
Perceptions of teacher and student roles : views of Japanese businessmen, John Walter Armbrust (Thesis)
John F. Kennedy : a political biography on education, David Eugene Armontrout (Thesis)
A Comparison of Expressive Vocabulary Produced by Nonambulatory, Speaking Preschool Children and Ambulatory Speaking Preschool Children, Kim Denise Baker (Thesis)
The Concept of "Communication Skills" in the Discipline of Speech Communication, Lynn Bales (Thesis)
L'être et le Paraître à travers cinq romans de Raymond Queneau, Mireille J. Balland (Thesis)
Probabilistic Determination of Failure Load Capacity Variations for Lattice Type Structures Based on Yield Strength Variations including Nonlinear Post-Buckling Member Performance, Leander Anton Bathon (Dissertation)
A gaze-addressing communication system using artificial neural networks, Gabriel Baud-Bovy (Thesis)
Opinions about sex offenders' progress in therapy, Laren Bays (Thesis)
Personal Values, Work Values, and Job Interests of Nursing Students, Stella Beach Bellarts (Thesis)
Word retrieval behaviors of aphasic adults in conversational speech : a preliminary study, Priscilla Jane Blake (Thesis)
Adsorption of halogenated phenolate ions to egg-phosphatidylcholine vesicles, Andreas Blochel (Thesis)
Teacher Adjustments to Multiple and Continuous Change, Cheryll Brounstein (Dissertation)
Brainstem Auditory Evoked Potentials in Anuran Amphibians, Marc Brandon Carey (Thesis)
Speaker Preferences of Listening Behaviors that Lead to Perceived Listening : A Pre-condition of Perceived Understanding, Christine M. Carpenter (Thesis)
Spontaneous coherent pulsations in standing-wave laser oscillators : stability criteria, Pitak Chenkosol (Thesis)
A Study of the Association Among the Diagnosis of Speech-Language Impairments and the Diagnoses of Learning Disabilities and/or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, Pamela E. Cogswell (Thesis)
Working It Out: ESL Literacy Skills, Strategies, and Systems in the Workplace, Mary Louise Cohn (Thesis)
People, Programs, and Politics: Two Case Studies of Adult Literacy Classes, Rita Collins (Dissertation)
Gender differences in conversational style : an experiment in interpersonal communication, Constance M. Cooper (Thesis)
Democratic Ideology, the Frontier Ethos, Medical Practice and Hospital Culture: Pacific Northwest Health-Seekers, Community Health and the Sisters of Providence, Vancouver, WA 1856 - 1879, Susan T.L. Courtney (Thesis)
International Education in the Public Community Colleges of Oregon and Washington, Stephan Ernest Cragg (Dissertation)
The Use of Laboratory Testing to Understand the Behavior of Collapsible Soil Upon Wetting, Martha H. Denham (Thesis)
Multidimensionality of Power Use in Organizations and its Correlates, Weizhong Dong (Thesis)
The Effects of Rapid Heating and Cooling on the Composition, Structure, and Superconducting Properties of Bi-Sr-Ca-Cu-O Compounds, Qing Duan (Dissertation)
Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers: The Transition from Home Care to Formal Care, Marie Theresa Duncan (Dissertation)
Binary Mixtures Near Surfaces, Patrick Dunn (Thesis)
Studies of ecological factors that affect the population and distribution of the western gray squirrel in northcentral Oregon, Susan Ann Foster (Dissertation)
Modeling Techniques for Water Supply Forecasting in the Western United States, David Charles Garen (Dissertation)
Identifying Quality Function Deployment's Variables, Outcomes, Their Relationships, and Guidelines for Practitioners in the American Automotive Industry, Geoffrey Paul Gilmore (Dissertation)
Proteolytic modification of the Ca²-release mechanism of sarcoplasmic reticulum in skeletal muscle, Ute Goerke (Thesis)
A partitioning-based approach to the fitting problem in special architecture EPLDs, Steffan Goller (Thesis)
Semiconductor P-N Junction Space Charge Region Capacitance, Mohammad Humayun Habib (Thesis)
Theoretical and experimental evaluation of hysteresis in atmospheric chemistry, Theodore Alan Haigh (Thesis)
Hawthorne Boulevard: Commercial Gentrification and the Creation of an Image, Rachel Ann Hardyman (Thesis)
The synthesis and chemistry of N-chlorosulfenylaziridines, Michael Claude Hare (Thesis)
Intercultural confrontation styles of culturally homophilous and culturally heterophilous Japanese and U.S. college students, Toyoko Hattori (Thesis)
Sojourner Adjustment : A Diary Study, Susan Elizabeth Hemstreet (Thesis)
Improved I/O pad positions assignment algorithm for sea-of-gates placement, Shyang-Kuen Her (Thesis)
Preparation of electron donor and acceptor molecules for porphyrin derivatization, Christoph Hoefler (Thesis)
Hegemony in two mainstream Oregon newspapers : the war on poverty era vs. the post-Reagan era, Marcia R. Hood-Brown (Thesis)
The relationship between the use of graphophonic strategy and the success in English vocabulary learning for Chinese students, Ching-chih Christine Huang (Thesis)
The Tensile Strength of Liquid Nitrogen, Jian Huang (Dissertation)
Effects of Parents' Health Attitudes and Beliefs on Children's Preventive Care Utilization, Weiming Hu (Thesis)
Student attitudes and feelings about standardized tests and parent observations of behavior during testing : a survey of third grade students and their parents, Candace Ann Iseminger (Thesis)
A New Method for Calculating the Economic Benefits of Varying Degrees of Power Factor Correction for Industrial Plant Loads, Mohammed Ishaque (Thesis)
Adult student perceptions of traditionally sex-typed toys, Shelly Lynn Jackson (Thesis)
The percentage consonants correct and intelligibility of normal, language delayed, and history of language delayed children, Randi Jartun (Thesis)
An Examination of Moral Boundaries Associated With Legal and Social Changes in Response to the Aids Epidemic, Lauri Sue Johnson (Thesis)
Race, aggravated murder, and the death sentence in Multnomah County, Oregon, 1984-1990 : a descriptive analysis and review, Patrick Arthur Jolley (Thesis)
Residential Mobility and Revitalization in Portland Between 1970 and 1980: A Study of the Urban Structural Impacts on Neighborhood Revitalization, Sheka Gassimou Kamara (Dissertation)
Multiple Code Switching in an Okinawan Speech Community: An Ethnographic Perspective, Izumi Kawamitsu (Thesis)
The English Crown's foreign debt, 1544-1557, Wayne M. Kline (Thesis)
Three Dimensional Mammalian Skull Morphology, Suzanne Louise Krippaehne (Thesis)
Peer Response Groups in the ESOL Classroom : A Study, Karin Dorothy Krueger (Thesis)
Perception of stressors by 9th and 12th grade students utilizing the Youth adaptation rating scale, Michael James Krummel (Thesis)
Geographic Data in City Planning Departments: The Volume and Use Related to Advancements in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Technology, Fawzi Saeed Kubbara (Dissertation)
Effects of Task Difficulty on Naming Performance of Aphasic Subjects, Susan Kay Kucera (Thesis)
Efficacy of a Cycling Approach for the Treatment of Developmental Verbal Dyspraxic Preschoolers, Janet Rose Lambert (Thesis)
A Cycle of Crisis and Violence : the Oregon State Penitentiary, 1866-1968, Joseph Willard Laythe (Thesis)
Seasonal Patterns of Melatonin, Cortisol, and Progesterone Secretion in Female Lambs Raised Beneath a 500-kV Transmission Line, Jack Monroe Lee Jr. (Dissertation)
Dynamic NMR Study of Bond Rotational Activation Parameters in Micelles, Dietmar A. Leitner (Thesis)
An improved formulation of the temperature dependence of the Gummel-Poon bipolar transistor model equations, Chorng-Lii Liou (Thesis)
Stratigraphy and structure of the southeast part of the Portland Basin, Oregon, Kenneth E. Lite Jr. (Thesis)
Performance analysis of DOA estimation algorithms using physical parameters, Hui Liu (Thesis)
A Qualitative Case Study of Chinese Teaching Assistants' Communication in the U.S. University Classroom, Lina Lu (Thesis)
Monitoring and management of psychiatric symptomatology in conditionally released insanity acquittees, Jo Mariah Mahler (Thesis)
Corporatism in American Foreign Policy Toward Germany Between the Wars, 1921-1936, William R. Martin (Thesis)
Tapered radio frequency transmission lines, Vincent D. Matarrese (Thesis)
Correction of Chromatic Aberration with an Electron Mirror, Michael Stewart Mauck (Dissertation)
An intelligent database for PSUBOT, an autonomous wheelchair, Dieudonne Mayi (Thesis)
Moving pictures, Melissa Ann McClure (Thesis)
A study of the narrative skills in kindergarten children with normal, impaired, and late developing language development, Lisa L. McFarland (Thesis)
The Metropolitan-Nonmetropolitan Turnaround in the Pacific States (California, Oregon, and Washington): Labor Migration Flows and Economic Deconcentration, Beverly Marie McLean (Dissertation)
"Staying" and "straying" : social reproduction and resistance to secularization, Lisa Graham McMinn (Thesis)
Effects of Participant Roles on Input Interactions and Comprehensible Output, Larry Douglas Morgan (Thesis)
Regional tectonic deformation of the northern Oregon coast as recorded by Pleistocene marine terraces, Richard Alan Mulder (Thesis)
Characterization of quantization noise in oversampled analog to digital converters, Eric W. Multanen (Thesis)
Improved Methodology for Limit States Finite Element Analysis of Lattice Type Structures using Nonlinear Post-Buckling Member Performance, Markus Ostendorp (Dissertation)
Effectiveness of Additive Correction Multigrid in Numerical Heat Transfer Analysis when Implemented on an Intel IPSC2, James D. Padgett (Thesis)
Multiplexed pipelining : a cost effective loop transformation technique, Satish Pai (Thesis)
Theoretical Studies of Atmospheric Water Complexes, Xiong Pan (Dissertation)
A Diagnostic Analysis of Elementary Principal' Practices Which Serve Youth At-Risk of School Failure, Rikki Kenneth Patrick (Dissertation)
Ignoring Interprocessor Communication During Scheduling, Chintamani M. Patwardhan (Thesis)
Painter's Wilderness, Eddie Peters (Thesis)
Parameter uncertainty and modeling of sludge dewatering in one dimension, Joseph H. Plaskett (Thesis)
Perceiving and Coping with Exclusion: The Socialization Experiences of Ethnic Minority Nursing Students, Sarah Porter-Tibbetts (Thesis)
Hypoid gear optimization, Selvaraj Ramachandran (Thesis)
Mineralogy, geochemistry, and dispersal of opaque oxides on the continental shelf of the Cascadia margin, Kommajosyula Subramanya Ravi (Thesis)
Early-Return-to-Work Programs: An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Program Policies and Practices on Organizational Outcomes, Lorrie L. Riat (Thesis)
A Comparison of Developmental Sentence Score Patterns in Three Groups of Preschool Children, Michelle Lynn Riback (Thesis)
Development of a Semi-synthetic Medium Supporting Adherent Growth in Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci, Abbas Sadeghi (Thesis)
Orthogonal and Nonorthogonal Expansions for Multi-Level Logic Synthesis for Nearly Linear Functions and their Application to Field Programmable Gate Array Mapping, Ingo Schafer (Dissertation)
Within and beyond boundaries in Henri Bosco's Le mas Théotime, Barbara Marguerite Schaff (Thesis)