This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1992
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)
Intergenerational Programming: A Confluence of Interests Between the Frail Elderly and Urban Youth, Doris Schindler (Dissertation)
A Comparative Media Study of How AIDS-Related News is Reported in Mainstream and Alternative Presses, Robert Eugene Schlick (Thesis)
Simulation Design, Role Identification and Attitude Change in a High Technology Culture, Terry Robert Schumacher (Dissertation)
Nonlinear dynamics in oscillating waterfalls, Michael Schumann (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of the Implementation of an Integrated Whole Language Approach at the Fifth Grade Level, Ardyth Shapiro (Dissertation)
Connected Painted Rectangles Experiments in Quantitative Shape and Contrasting Elements, Ann Shiogi (Thesis)
Communication Issues in the Management of a Multicultural Workforce, Deborah Margaret Sipe (Thesis)
State Industrial Policy and the Autonomy of State Leaders: Evidence from the Oregon Experience, Matthew I. Slavin (Dissertation)
Effective Middle School Teaching: Factors that Promote and Maintain It, Judith Ann Smith (Dissertation)
A Classroom Preferences Questionnaire Based on the Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Allyn Snider (Thesis)
Psychological Models and the Stock of Knowledge, David L. Sones (Thesis)
Compiling ACE for Distributed-Memory Machines, Jun Song (Thesis)
Minimization of Exclusive Sum of Products Expressions for Multiple-Valued Input Incompletely Specified Functions, Ning Song (Thesis)
The Impact of Organizational Climate on the Relationship Between Job Characteristics and Job Satisfaction: An Empirical Assessment of Public Sector Managers, Unsuk Song (Dissertation)
Intensive ESL Course Performance as a Predictor of Academic Success, Coleman South (Thesis)
Foreign Student Enrollment Planning in Five Oregon Institutions with English as a Second Language Programs, Maureen Denise Sprague (Thesis)
Perceptions of China and the Chinese People in the British Periodical and Newspaper Press, 1860-1900, William M. Stegemeyer (Thesis)
Flux Trapping in Superconducting Pellets, Andreas Straub (Thesis)
1989 Chinese Pro-democracy Movement and U.S. News Media, Jie Sun (Thesis)
Defusing a Rhetorical Situation through Apologia: Ronald Reagan and the Iran-Contra Affair, Roxane Yvonne Sutherland (Thesis)
Mapping Programs to Parallel Architectures in the Real World, Dezheng Tang (Thesis)
Applications of Digital Signal Processing with Cardiac Pacemakers, Merry Thi Tran (Thesis)
The Development of a Predictive Model of Pretrial Misconduct, Donald R. Trapp (Thesis)
Assessment: Authentic Strategies for Early Childhood Education, Gail Ann Hathaway Tupper (Thesis)
Cytogenetics of Delphinium (Ranunculaceae) Species Native to Oregon, Jill Yeatman Turner (Thesis)
How Gothic Influences and Eidetic Imagery in Eight Color Plates and Key Poems by William Blake Figuratively Unite Body and Soul by Dramatizing the Visionary Imagination, Honor Penelope Vallor (Thesis)
Soviet Pentecostal Refugees' Health and Their Religious Beliefs: An Exploratory Study, Dianne Fae Venable (Thesis)
A New Approach to the Decomposition of Incompletely Specified Functions Based on Graph Coloring and Local Transformation and Its Application to FPGA Mapping, Wei Wan (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Kindergarten Screening Instruments in One Population, Therese Marie Westrup (Thesis)
Narrative Painting, Gina Strecker Wilson (Thesis)
Urban Native American Educational Attitudes: Impact of Educational Background and Childhood Residency, Paul Adair Wood (Thesis)
Attitude Functions and Political Behavior: the Issue of Gay Civil Rights, Josephine Young (Thesis)
Developing Image Processing Tools in X Window System, Xin Zhang (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1991
The relationship of patients' perceptions of physicians' communication style to patient satisfaction, Lisa Diane Abramson (Thesis)
The Effect of Road Investment on Economic Development: A Case Study of the Oregon Counties, Ameer Mohammed Al-Alwan (Dissertation)
The Effect of Urbanization and Modernization on Family Structure in Oman, Sultan M. Al-Hashmi (Thesis)
The Role of Tourism in Development: A Case Study of Turkey, Habib Alipouraghtapeh (Dissertation)
Freeway Control Via Ramp Metering: Development of a Basic Building Block for an On-Ramp, Discrete, Stochastic, Mesoscopic, Simulation Model within a Contextual Systems Approach, Mohamed Yaser Alkadri (Dissertation)
The Foundation for Revolution: Educational Reforms in Late Ch'ing China, Andrea Asbell (Thesis)
Who's in Jail?: An Examination of Irwin's Rabble Hypothesis, John Allen Backstrand (Dissertation)
The Effect of Visual Memory Training on Spelling Achievement in the Classroom, Linda M. Baker (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Internal Organizational Conflict, Authority Structure, and the Social Environment, Mary Ann Barham (Thesis)
Identity formation : a comparison of adolescents adopted through agency versus private placements, Judith Kay Bentley (Thesis)
Metaphoric extension as a basis for vocabulary teaching in English as a second language, Dennis L. Bergmann (Thesis)