This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Mechanism of Calcium Release from Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum, Edmond Buck (Dissertation)
An Analysis of Conceptual Metaphor in Marital Conflict, Anne Elizabeth Burgermeister-Seger (Thesis)
A Limnological Analysis of Ten Mountain Lakes, Gary Wayne Burns (Thesis)
Detecting Chaotic Signals with Nonlinear Models, Qin Cai (Thesis)
Geochemistry, Alluvial Facies Distribution, Hydrogeology, and Groundwater Quality of the Dallas-Monmouth Area, Oregon, Rodney R. Caldwell (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study of Student Retention in Kindergarten and Grade One and the Associated Decision Making Processes as Perceived by Principals and Teachers, Doris Cameron-Minard (Dissertation)
The Political Reception of Erich Maria Remarque's Im Westen Nichts Neues in the Late Weimar Republic, Richard Jay Cogburn (Thesis)
Correlations Between the School Situations Questionnaire-Revised and Speech and Language Disorders, Geraldine Teresa Comerford (Thesis)
The Culture of an Alternative Education Program: A Participant Observational Study, Dian Dee Connett (Dissertation)
Second Language Use in the Workplace: A Case Study of a Dental Hygienist, Gina L. Crocetti (Thesis)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Investigation of the Interaction of Heme Binding Proteins with SnIVprotoporphyrin IX and Heme: Structure and Conformational Changes of Myoglobin and Hemopexin, Ruba Saba Deeb (Dissertation)
The Effects of Airline Deregulation on Airline Safety: An Econometric Analysis, William Charles De Jager (Dissertation)
The Effect of Color on Character Recognition: A Study of the Oregon License Plate, Frank R. Dennis (Thesis)
A Validation Study of Components Necessary for the Professional Development of School Business Officials, William Henry Dierdorff III (Dissertation)
An Analysis of the Involvement of Ten High Schools in Scholastic Aptitude Testing Student Preparation, Elaine Drakulich (Dissertation)
Environmental and Institutional Characteristics and Academic Strategic Action Variables in Small Private Colleges, and their Relationship to Enrollment Changes in the 1980s, Johnnie Ray Driessner (Thesis)
The Voices I Never Hear: Communication Apprehension and Associated Nonverbal Behaviors in the Primary School Child, Linda Dunn (Thesis)
Development of High-technology Industries in the Portland/Vancouver Metropolitan Area: an Analysis of Regional and Intraregional Factors Affecting High-tech Firm Locations, Ulf Eichner (Thesis)
Explorations into the Characteristics, the Determinants of Production, and the Impact of Land Policies on the Informal Housing Sector in Alexandria, Egypt, Mostafa Morsi El Araby (Dissertation)
Hidden Hills, Hidden Meanings: A Neighborhood Study, Terri Ewing (Thesis)
Quasi-Static Deflection Compensation Control of Flexible Manipulator, Jingbin Feng (Thesis)
The Complexities of Translation: Theories and Practicalities, Alice Ferguson (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Semantic Mapping on Reading Comprehension, Sharon Fredricks (Thesis)
This Looks Like an Old Point: Time and Projectile Points in the Tualatin Valley, Oregon, Linda Lani Freidenburg (Thesis)
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Upward Compliance-Gaining Strategies: U.S.A. and Japan, Miyoko Fuse (Thesis)
Vertex Ordering for a Partitioning-based Fitting Algorithm for an EPLD Device, Tongjun Gao (Thesis)
Mit Lachen die Wahrheit zu sagen Entwicklungsgeschichte und Autorintention des Barockromans Simplicissimus, Ralf Genske (Thesis)
The Effects of Perceived Work Schedule Flexibility, Number of Hours Worked, and Type of Work Schedule on Work-Family Conflict, Tenora Dianne Grigsby (Thesis)
Designing and Simulating a Multistage Sampling Rate Conversion System Using a Set of PC Programs, David Joesph Hagerty (Thesis)
Designing and Simulating a Multistage Sampling Rate Conversion System Using a Set of PC Programs, David Joseph Hagerty (Thesis)
Determinants of Elite Athletes' Commitment to Sport: Examination of the Sport Commitment Model in the Professional Sport Domain, Tammy Kay Hall (Thesis)
Atmospheric Hydrocarbon Analysis, Dawei Han (Thesis)
Waveform Estimation with Jitter Noise by Pseudo Symmetrical Probability Density Function, Wei-Da Hao (Thesis)
Investigation of Solution Space of Trees and DAGs for Realization of Combinational Logic in AT 6000 series FPGAs, Philip Ho (Thesis)
Common Security: a Conceptual Blueprint for an Israeli-Palestinian Political Settlement, Robert Arthur Horenstein (Thesis)
A Case Study of the Acceptance of the Tacoma-Pierce County Needle Exchange Program by Three Diverse Groups: Law Enforcement Personnel, Health Department Officials, and Program Clients (i.e., Intravenous Drug Users), Lauren Sue Ibrahim (Dissertation)
Urbanization in a Peripheral Capitalist State: A Guyana Case Study, Wazir Ahmad Ishmael (Dissertation)
Walt Whitman's Poetics of Labor, David Janssen (Thesis)
Dynamics of Ultrashort Pulse Generation and Amplification in Dye Lasers, Shuanghua Jiang (Dissertation)
The United States-Japan Security Treaty of 1951: An Essay on the Origins of Postwar Japanese-American Relation, Christopher S. Johnson (Thesis)
A Study of the Narrative Skills in 6-year-olds with Normal, Impaired, and Late Developing Language, Karen Elaine Johnson (Thesis)
Measurement Techniques for Noise Figure and Gain of Bipolar Transistors, Wayne Kan Jung (Thesis)
Gravity Sedimentation: A One-Dimensional Numerical Model, Joanna Robin Karl (Thesis)
Central America: An Attempt at Modern Economic Growth, Richard Kibbey (Dissertation)
The Influence of Trichinella Spiralis Infection on Heat Shock Protein 72 Production in MRL++ Mouse Intestinal Cells, Lisa Ann Kilejian (Thesis)
Cognitive Development of Bilingual Korean-Americans in an Oregon School District, Kimiko Okada King (Thesis)
A Model to Predict Recycling Behaviors: Reusing Ajzen's Model One More Time, Kathleen L. Kiwala (Thesis)
Modeling of Flow and Water Quality in Henry Hagg Lake near Forest Grove, Oregon, Michael T. Knutson (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Cognitive Skills Measured by Piagetian Tasks at Age 2 and Linguistic Skills Measured by an Expressive Language Test at Age 4 in Normal and Late Talkers, Rebecca Jayne LaPlante (Thesis)
Smart Memory: An Inexact Content-Addressable Memory, Jack Lee (Thesis)
Automatic Tuning of Integrated Filters Using Neural Networks, Lutz Henning Lenz (Thesis)
The Study of Malaysian Learners' Strategies while Studying a Second Language, Phoebe Christina Leong (Thesis)
Women's Interracial Friendships: Nonlocal Determinants of Everyday Experiences, Stephanie A. Limoncelli (Closed Thesis)
Ethnic Identity Changes Among Hong Kong Chinese Americans, Pui-Lam Lo (Thesis)
The Identity in Crisis: A New Approach to the Culture Shock Experience of University Exchange Students, Christina Maria Luther (Thesis)
Unified Bias Analysis of Subspace-Based DOA Estimation Algorithms, Yang Lu (Thesis)
Difficulties Experienced Procedural Programmers Encounter When Transferring to an Object-oriented Programming Paradigm, Scott Andrew MacHaffie (Thesis)
The Soldiers of Spain's California Army, 1769-1821, Barrie Earl Malcolm (Thesis)
Police Stress: A Literature Study on Police Occupational Stressors and the Responses in Police Officers to Stressful Job Events, Katarina Ahlstrom Mannheimer (Thesis)
A Cognitively Motivated System for Software Component Reuse, Michael Joseph Mateas (Thesis)
Comparative Scores of Hearing-Impaired and Normally Hearing Children Given the Carolina Picture Vocabulary Test, Barbara Ann McComb (Thesis)
The Public Persona of Nelson R. Mandela: A Study of U.S. Print Media Narratives, Molly Jeane McVey (Thesis)
Comparison of Ion Adsorption to Phophatidylcholine/Phosphatidylserine and Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Membranes, Martin Mense (Thesis)
A Survey of Aural Rehabilitation Services Provided to Hearing Impaired Clients in the Private Sector, Alison Metcalf (Thesis)
Expressive Communication and Socialization Skills of Five-Year Olds with Slow Expressive Language Development, Nicole Anne Midford (Thesis)
Language and Memory Development in the Three and Four Year Old, Caroline Prater Moffatt (Thesis)
The Theory and Practice of Community Policing: An Evaluation of the Iris Court Demonstration Project, Charles Moose (Dissertation)
Evaluating the Effectiveness of Certain Metrics in Measuring the Quality of End User Documentation, Ronald Morrison (Dissertation)
The Feminine Poetic Voice in the Rymes of Pernette du Guillet, Darcy Renee Murphey (Thesis)
Lola G. Baldwin and the Professionalization of Women's Police Work, 1905-1922, Gloria Elizabeth Myers (Thesis)
Performance Analysis of a Hierarchical, Cache-Coherent, Shared Memory Based, Multi-processor System, Raman Nayyar (Thesis)
Modeling and Simulation of Bipolar Transistor at Low Temperature, Swarupa Madhav Nerurkar (Thesis)
Data Dependence in Programs Involving Indexed Variables, Borislav Nikolik (Thesis)
Exact Modeling of Time-Interval-Modulated Switched Networks, Weihe Niu (Thesis)
Thermoregulation in Mice under the Influence of Ethanol, Candace Sharon O'Connor (Dissertation)
A Comparison of Ambient and Hearing Aid Output Noise Levels in Industrial and Non-industrial Settings, Jody Lynn O'Connor (Thesis)
Space, Consciousness, and Gender in Colette, William A. Parnell (Thesis)
The Assimilation and Integration Processes: A Study of the Commitment Patterns During Students' Entry into College, Suzanne M. Pastori (Thesis)
Evaluation of Information Resource Management: Measuring Change in a Federal Bureaucracy, Randolph D. Perrin (Thesis)
Distributed Economic Systems with Agents that Learn, Stanley Foster Perry (Dissertation)
An Intercultural Analysis of Differences in Appropriateness Ratings of Facial Expressions Between Japanese and American Subjects, Patricia Jean Peschka-Daskalos (Thesis)
Pattern Recognition and ERP Waveform Analysis Using Wavelet Transform, Hong Qi (Thesis)
Attitudes, Motivations and Expectations of Students and Instructors in an Intensive University ESL Summer Session, Ronald Andrew Ragsdale (Thesis)
Object Parallel Spatio-Temporal Analysis and Modeling System, David Bruce Rex (Dissertation)
The Natural Approach and the Audiolingual Method: A Question of Student Gains and Retention, Jeffrey Robert Richards (Thesis)
An Implementation Analysis of the Water Resources Development Act of 1986, James Joseph Rich (Dissertation)
Nucleation and Heat Transfer in Liquid Nitrogen, Eric Roth (Dissertation)
Certain Phonological Skills in Late Talkers, Catherine Marie Ryan-Laszlo (Thesis)
A Robust High Precision Algorithm for Sinewave Parameter Estimation, Kendall Ann Rydell (Thesis)
Modeling of the Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Effect for a Metal-Semiconductor (M-S) Junction at Elevated Temperatures, Erik De Jesus Sanchez (Thesis)
La Casa de los Espiritus: Destruccion de Oposiciones Binarias, Teresa M. Sánchez Soultaire de Lamothe (Thesis)
Predicting Seepage of Leachate from the St. Johns Landfill to Ground and Surface Water Systems, Kevin A. Schock (Thesis)
Novel Cylindrical Illuminator Tip for Ultraviolet Light Delivery, Hanqun Shangguan (Thesis)
Portland as a Divided City: Geographical Voting Patterns on Ballot Measures in the November 1990 Elections, Dmitry Sharkov (Thesis)
A Study of Spiking and Relaxation Oscillations in Nd:YAG Laser Using Measured Laser Parameters, Ramesh K. Shori (Thesis)
Satisfaction with Social Support Among Recent Widows, Rachael Ann Silverman (Thesis)
Job Attribute Preferences of the Workforce in Polish High Technology Enterprises, Florian Michael Sisavic (Dissertation)
Simulation of Switched Linear Networks, Dietmar Reinhard Skowronn (Thesis)
Communication and Gender: Interviews with Blue-collar Women, Jeri Lynn Sofka (Thesis)
Cultural Bias in the Assessment of Phonological Processes in Conjunction with the APP-R, Sharon Elise Soliday (Thesis)