This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Soil Properties and Behavior of Earthflows in the Mt. Hood National Forest, Oregon, Douglas Andrew Smith (Thesis)
Recovery of Marsh Vegetation at Malheur Lake Following an Extended Flood, Sherry Vlasta Spencer (Thesis)
Facilitating Independent Communication for an Adult with Severe, Nonfluent Aphasia Using a Voice Output Communication Aid, Jane Mary Stayer (Thesis)
Peer Correction by Non-native Speakers of English in Oral Group Work, Bill Stevenson (Thesis)
A Study of the Meaning Found in the References to Space in Selected Plays of Athol Fugard, Heather Halm Stueve (Thesis)
A Comparison Between Trained Ear Estimation and Orthographic Transcription When Measuring Speech Intelligibility of Young Children, Nancy Kay Sugarman (Thesis)
Characteristics of Marginally Achieving Secondary Students and the Nature of their School Experience, Aeylin Summers (Dissertation)
The Concepts of Mother in Children's Stories in Translation from Print to Visual Media: A Content Analysis, Karen Martin Tanski (Thesis)
Extracellular Matrix Proteins of the Nurse Cell Capsule in Trichinella spiralis Infections, Mary Louise Taylor (Thesis)
Children's Conception of the Social and Moral Dilemmas Associated with Drug Use, Nancy Lynn Thayer (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Effects of Different Video Imagery Upon Adult ESL Students' Comprehension of a Video Narrative, Scott Alan Thompson (Thesis)
The Family and Women in the Fifteenth Century: A Case Study of the Pastons, Diana Thurman (Thesis)
Women who Select Naturopathic Health Care During the Menopausal Transition: A Study in Grounded Theory, Dorothy S. Tibbetts (Thesis)
Theory and Poetry: John Ashbery's "Self-portrait in a Convex Mirror", Jeffrey Wayne Timmons (Thesis)
Existencialismo en La Lucha por La Vida, Juan Andres Amigo Torrubia (Thesis)
The Schooling of Vietnamese-American High School Students in Oregon: Their Perspectives, Minh Van Tran (Dissertation)
The Determinants of Women's Work: A Case Study from Three Urban Low-income Communities in Amman, Jordan, Taghrid Khuri Tubbeh (Dissertation)
Synthesis and Characterization of some Flourine-containing Lithium Alkyl Sulfonates: Flourinated Sulfonates and SF5-containing Sulfonates, Steven A. Ullrich (Thesis)
Laser Resonators Using Tiered Fresnel Mirrors, Bruce Dale Ulrich (Thesis)
Familiality of Early Expressive Language Delay: A Sibling Study, Carol Lynn Unkefer (Thesis)
The Impact of Enterprise Zones on Employment, Terry William Van Allen (Dissertation)
Illness and the Treatment Response: The Patient's View, Nina Patricia Van Es (Thesis)
Interactions of Ruthenium Red with Phospholipid Vesicles, Dirk Voelker (Thesis)
Changing Values: A Study of the Shift in Cultural Values and Perceptions of U.S. High School Students Following Orientation and Exposure to Russian Culture, Linda Sue Warnock (Thesis)
Nonlinguistic Cognitive Performance and Expressive and Receptive Language Scores in Children with Expressive Language Delay, Deborah Kay Warren (Thesis)
Soviet Evangelical Students in Adult ESL Classes: A Case Study, Patricia Ann Wiggins (Thesis)
The Spatial Distribution of Ground Stone Tools as a Marker of Status Differentials in a Chinookan Plank House on the Lower Columbia River, John William Wolf (Thesis)
On Modeling of a Mobile Multipath Fading Channel, Heng Xiao (Thesis)
High-frequency Analog Voltage Converter Design, Ping Xu (Thesis)
China's policies toward the Soviet Union and the United States before and in the Korean War, Ji Bao Yan (Thesis)
Temporal Characteristics of Words Surrounding a Moment of Stuttering, Janice Kaye Young (Thesis)
Minimization of Generalized Reed-Muller Expansion and Its Sub-class, Xiaoqiang Zeng (Thesis)
Predicting Solute Transport in Natural Streams - A Stochastic Approach, Xueqing Zhou (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1993
Comparative Analysis of Resettlement Policies in Third World Countries, Abrahim Jawad Al-Khalisi (Thesis)
An Examination of the Relationship Between Work Involvement and Family Involvement and Work-Family Conflict in Dual-Career Families, Elizabeth Jean Allen (Thesis)
Cities and Automobile Dependence: An Empirical Examination of Density and Automobile Dependence Relationship and Their Underlying Factors, Musaad Abdullah Al-Mosaind (Dissertation)
Assessing the Impact of an ESL/Bilingual Program by Means of Instrumental Variable Estimation, John Akanbi Babatunde (Thesis)
The Concepts of Capitalism and Democracy in Implied Power Relations: Fractionation Philosophy and Theory, Randy Baker (Thesis)
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Study of Antigen-Antibody Complexes, Including Sequence Specific Assignments and Structural Analysis of Neurophysin as an Antigen Model, Elisar Jamil Barbar (Dissertation)
Urban Regimes and Downtown Planning in Portland, Oregon and Seattle, Washington, 1972-1992, Mark Richard Bello (Dissertation)
Perceived Administrative Support for Teachers of Urban At-risk Students, Betsy Bennet-Costi (Dissertation)
Water Quality Modeling of the Tualitin River, Christopher John Berger (Thesis)
Occurrence of Phonological Processes Within Two Pragmatic Categories in Normal and Speech-Delayed Children, Betsy Ann Bergman (Thesis)
Comprehension of Literate Programs by Novice and Intermediate Programmers, Christopher Forrest Bertholf (Thesis)
The Liberal-Communitarian Debate and the Development of a Political Conception of the Person, Kenneth Howard Biggs (Thesis)
A Study of Differences between Social/HMO and Other Medicare Beneficiaries Enrolled in Kaiser Permanente under Capitation Contracts Regarding Intermediate Care Facility Use Rates and Expenditures, Lynn Allen Boose (Dissertation)
Sentence Discrimination in Noise and Self-assessed Hearing Difficulty, Dianna W. Brainerd (Thesis)
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)