This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1992
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 Chʻing 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)
Computer-Based Parameter Visualization and Decision Making for the Detection and Prediction of Ovulation: the Ovulo-Computer, Omar Rodolfo Bermudez (Thesis)
Uncertainty analysis of runoff estimates from runoff-depth contour maps produced by five automated procedures for the northeastern United States, Gary D. Bishop (Thesis)
The Effects of Negligence and Causation Information on Jurors' Determination of Liability, David K. Blanchard (Thesis)
A Comparative Analysis of U.S. Foreign Policy in Iran and the Philippines, Christina M. Blumel (Thesis)
English Housewives in Theory and Practice, 1500-1640, Lynn Ann Botelho (Thesis)
Indirect intervention for preschool stutterers, Prudence Ann Bowers (Thesis)
The function of phrasal verbs and their lexical counterparts in technical manuals, Brock Brady (Thesis)
Reciprocating transformations, Joyce A. Bryerton (Thesis)
The Burnett Site: a Cascade Phase Camp on the Lower Willamette River, Robert M. Burnett (Thesis)
Psychology, Culture and Female Texts: Brigitte Schwaiger's Wie kommt das Salz ins Meer, Julienne Eden Busic (Thesis)
Development of an Advisory System for Indoor Radon Mitigation, Patricia Hiromi Byrne (Thesis)
A retrospective study of the Clinical evaluation of language functions elementary screening test (CELF-S), Tamara Lynn Caldwell (Thesis)
The spatial patterning of residential differentiation in metropolitan community : the case of Kaohsiung City in Taiwan, 1982, Chih-Jen Chen (Thesis)
Late Holocene Paleoseismicity along the Northern Oregon Coast, Mark Edward Darienzo (Dissertation)
A Study of Qualitative Miscue Analysis Scoring Systems for Identification of Instructional Reading Levels, Sylvia Estelle Dean (Dissertation)
The importance of phonological practice and other strategies for vocabulary recall and comprehension, Kristi Allyn DuBois (Thesis)
Neural network character recognition with a 2-D Fourier transform preprocessor, Daqiao Du (Thesis)
An Analysis of the pH Tolerance and Substrate Preference of Isolated Skeletal Muscle Mitochondria from Bufo marinus and Rana catesbeiana, Jeffrey Mark Duerr (Thesis)
Low to medium level image processing for a mobile robot, Cecilia H. Espinosa (Thesis)
A Structural Model and Test of the Antecedents and Outcomes of Organizational and Professional Commitment, Mary Ann Evans (Dissertation)
Spectral Methods for Boolean and Multiple-Valued Input Logic Functions, Bogdan Jaroslaw Falkowski (Dissertation)
Public restoration of the fallen religious leader : a rhetorical perspective, David Fleer (Thesis)
ParPlum : a system for evaluating parallel program optimization methods, Jingsong Fu (Thesis)
Development of a Direct, Low Pressure, Laser-Induced Fluorescence Measurement Technique for NO2., Ambient Measurements and Urban NOx Chemistry, Linda Acha George (Dissertation)
A practical parallel algorithm for the minimization of Krönecker Reed-Muller expansions, Paul John Gilliam (Thesis)
Creative Drama as an Instructional Strategy in Adult Christian Education, Darlene Richards Graves (Dissertation)
Output of compression hearing aids with transient and continuous input stimuli, Carol Ann Gregory (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Vocabulary Needs of Speaking and Nonspeaking Twins, Dana Lynette Hamburg (Thesis)
An Examination of the Long-Term Effects of Authorized Training Programs on Injured Workers in the State of Oregon, Grace Alice Han (Thesis)
The Process of Neighborhood Development: The Role of Restrictive Covenants in the Development of Residential Neighborhoods, Eric David Hart (Thesis)
A study of the perceptual learning style preferences of Japanese students, Elizabeth Ann Hoffner (Thesis)
Intercultural communication competence and intercultural adjustment of Japanese business sojourners and their spouses, Muneo Hotta (Thesis)
A Comparison of Socio-Political Attitudes of Older Urban Women: The 1910-1924 Cohorts, Elizabeth Slack Ikehara (Dissertation)
Analysis of English articles used by Japanese students, Noriko Iwasaki (Thesis)
Principal Vision, Environmental Robustness, and Teacher Sense of Autonomy in High Schools, Daniel Nordwall Johnson (Dissertation)
The quest according to Julien Gracq : a study of the search for the beyond in Gracq's three novels and his play Le roi pêcheur, Mary Joanne Johnson Wolter (Thesis)
The judicial message in Seneca's Apocolocyntosis, Sylvia Gray Kaplan (Thesis)
An investigation of English spelling problems of Arabic-speaking students, Deborah Georgette Keim (Thesis)
Limnology of two new lakes, Mount St. Helens, WA, Valerie Jean Kelly (Thesis)
Associative Processing Implemented with Content-Addressable Memories, Luis Sergio Kida (Thesis)
The Small Business Development Center Program: From a Small Business Growth Stage and Adult Learning Perspective, Roy Otis Kruger (Dissertation)
Chinese Women as Cultural Participants and Symbols in Nineteenth Century America, Tina Michele Landroche (Thesis)
The Dimension of a Chaotic Attractor, Roslyn Gay Lindquist (Thesis)
The Effects of Captioned Videotapes on the Listening Comprehension Test Scores of ESL Students, Yuan-Chyuan Andy Lin (Thesis)
Chinese Intellectual Dissidents, Meiru Liu (Closed Thesis)
Reentry shock in the corporate environment, Steven A. Locke (Thesis)
The Effect of Otitis Media on Articulation in Expressive Language-Delayed Children, Marla Lohr-Flanders (Thesis)
Hispanic migrant labor in Oregon, 1940-1990, Colleen Marie Loprinzi (Thesis)
Food and females : the taming of the Oregon palate?, Peggy Ann Lutz (Thesis)
Waitperson/customer interaction as an example of community, Patricia Louise MacAodha (Thesis)
Interpretation of the thermal behavior of groundwater in an alluvial terrace : Bonneville Dam, Columbia Gorge, Oregon, Richard Stephen Malin (Thesis)
An assessment of behavior associated with reproduction and infant caretaking in a captive family group of Saguinus midas midas, Melissa Elizabeth Martenson (Thesis)
Effects of Conalbumin Bound Iron on the Growth of Salmonella paratyphi B and Salmonella thompson, John Nicholas Mason (Thesis)