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Theses/Dissertations from 1994
Portland's Multifamily Recycling Program: a Study of Coproduction Policy Implementation and Citizen Involvement, William Barry Messer (Dissertation)
The Anabaptist Contributions to the Idea of Religious Liberty, Barbara Monette (Thesis)
"I Don't Speak My Own Language": Ethnicity Among the Malayalees of Singapore, David L. Moore (Thesis)
Homoeroticism and Thomas Mann's Death in Venice, Thomas Winston Morgan (Thesis)
English Language Teaching and Curricula in the People's Republic of China, Kirsten Nadia Ngan (Thesis)
The Effects of Type of Child Care Arrangement and Satisfaction with Care on Employee Job Satisfaction and Absenteeism, Hanh Hong Nguyen (Thesis)
Persistence Influences on the Minority Student Attending a Predominantly White Postsecondary Urban Institution: the Student Perspective, Annmarie O'Brien (Dissertation)
An Empirical Assessment of the Gentrification Process in Northwest Portland, Oregon, Sabrina Oesterle (Thesis)
High Level Preprocessor of a VHDL-based Design System, Karthikeyan Palanisamy (Thesis)
A Simultaneous Route-level Transit Patronage Model: Demand, Supply, and Inter-route Relationship, Zhongren Peng (Dissertation)
A Study of Understory Plant Recovery After a Forest Fire in the Columbia River Gorge, Mark Alan Pittsenbarger (Thesis)
The Origins and Development of the Defense Forces of Northern and Southern Rhodesia from 1890 to 1945, Eugene Peter Jarrett Pomeroy (Thesis)
A Comparison of Neutrophil Migration in the Mouse in Response to Infection with Three Species of Trichinella, Jon Darin Prulhiere (Thesis)
Strategies in Theodore Dreiser's Trilogy of Desire to Resolve the Division Between the Material and the Spiritual, Claas Riese (Thesis)
The Mediation of U.S. American Culture in the ESL Classroom, Steven Fredolph Roberts (Thesis)
Logic Synthesis with High Testability for Cellular Arrays, Andisheh Sarabi (Dissertation)
A Study of Japan's Foreign Policy Behavior: The Discrepancy between Japan's Foreign Policy and Its Voting Behavior in the United Nations General Assembly, Atsuko Sato (Thesis)
Electrophoretic Studies of Ion Adsorption to Sarcoplasmic Reticulum and Phosphatidylcholine Membranes, Andreas Schilling (Thesis)
The Tumult of Amboise and the Importance of Historical Memory in Sixteenth-Century France, Trevor Charles Schmitz-Thursam (Thesis)
Women Who Worship Alone: The Relationship Between Marital Status and Loneliness in the Church, Judith Ann Schwanz (Thesis)
Causal Attributions for Teen Problem Drinking, Barbara J. Seatter (Thesis)
The Decision and Rationale Which Led to Construction on High-risk Land After the 1964 Alaska Earthquake: Analysis of Risk-based Cultural Dissociation, Sheila Ann Selkregg (Dissertation)
The Effects of Phonological Processes on the Speech Intelligibility of Young Children, Susanne Shotola-Hardt (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Cohesion in the Expository Discourse of the Optimally-Healthy Young-Old and the Optimally-Healthy Oldest-Old, Penni Gay Siemens (Thesis)
Planning for Academic Success: Survey of University Professors' Assessments of Non-native Students' Language Skill Needs, Carol BonDurant Sloan (Thesis)
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)