This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1993
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)
Residential Options for the Institutionalized Chronically Mentally Ill: The Impact of Psychosis on Choice, Richard James Stanek (Thesis)
Matching Points to Lines: Sonar-based Localization for the PSUBOT, Kevin Blythe Stanton (Thesis)
Child Care Support and the Reduction of Women's Stress and Role Conflict at the Work-Family Interface, Frances Marx Stehle (Thesis)
Rapists and Their Parental Relationships, Yaeko Steidel (Dissertation)
Hydrogeochemical Characterization of the Alvord Valley Known Geothermal Resources Area, Harney County, Oregon, Anna Maria St. John (Thesis)
From the Middle East to the United States: Stressors and Coping Strategies of Members of a Sacred Culture Living in a Secular Culture, Angela J. Taha (Thesis)
This Crying Enormity: Impressment as a Factor in Anglo-American Foreign Relations, David Scott Thompson (Thesis)
The Times, Trial, and Execution of David McLane: The Story of an American Spying in Canada for the French in 1796-1797, Mark Allen Thorburn (Thesis)
Determining the Property Value Impact of Landfills, Okwuchukwu Gerald Uba (Dissertation)
Cross-cultural Training of Chinese Managers and Workers by U.S. Companies: a Comparative Cultural Analysis of the Problems Reported by U.S. Trainers, Linda Vick (Thesis)
William Smith Clark: A Study in Education, Christianity, and American-Japanese Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century, Brett L. Walker (Thesis)
The Intellectual Grounding of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance of 1851, Jon Jeffrey Walker (Thesis)
Anti-Bolshevism and the Advent of Mussolini and Hitler: Anglo-American Diplomatic Perceptions, 1922-1933, Lisa Kay Walker (Thesis)
Unadorned by Silence: Rereading Obedience in the Writing of Perpetua, Dhuoda, and Hildegard of Bingen, Rebecca Anne Walker (Thesis)
Towards Comprehensive Migration Modeling: A Meta-analytic Approach, Wamukota Francis Wambalaba (Dissertation)
Friendship Patterns of Chinese Students and Their Adjustment in the United States, Changhua Wang (Dissertation)
A New Approach to the Optimal Filtering of Differential Phase Measurements of GPS Signal in the Precision Survey, Shengan Wang (Thesis)
A Study of Gender and Personality Factors in Work-Family Conflict Models, Steven Donald Ward (Thesis)
Vision, Interpersonal Orientation and Personal Values in Elementary School Principals, Allan Leslie Weston (Dissertation)
One-Dimensional Computer Modeling of Thermal and Water Quality Characteristics of Coldwater Lake, WA, David Kevin Whitaker (Thesis)
State Policy and Public Administration Impacts on an Emerging Industry: The Wine Industry in Oregon and Washington, Anthony Gene White (Dissertation)
Adult ESL Students: Traits and Goals - A Case Study, David Miles Wilkinson (Thesis)
A Location Analysis of Vandalism to the Rock Art of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area, Julia J. Wilt (Thesis)
Minimization of Permuted Reed-Muller Trees and Reed-Muller Trees for Cellular Logic Programmable Gate Arrays, Lifei Wu (Thesis)
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)