This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1995
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)
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)