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Theses/Dissertations from 1991
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)
Empathy, Holonomic Brain Processes and Patanjali's Sutras: A Study of Western and Eastern Models of Perception as They Relate to Empathic Communication, Dana Ralston McCullough (Thesis)
Percentage of phonological process usage in expressive language delayed children, Sherri Lynn Miller (Thesis)
A Structural Analysis of Corporate Political Activity: An Application of Euclidean Modeling to the Study of Intercorporate Relations, Colleen Bridget Mullery (Dissertation)
Development and Applications of High Resolution Kinetic Atmospheric Pressure Ionization Mass Spectrometry in Atmospheric Chemistry, David Michael Myton (Dissertation)
Effects of Encouraging, Discouraging, and Neutral Instructions on Naming by Aphasic Subjects, Denise Marie Nelson (Thesis)
The Meaning of Controversial Policy to School Superintendents, Barbara Jean Nicoletti (Dissertation)
A Descriptive Study of the Oregon Mentorship Program, Gaynelle Louise Nolf (Dissertation)
Environmental and Age Differences in the Formation of Romantic Pairs and Self-Monitoring in Adolescents, Russell I. Oelheim (Thesis)
Behavior of an Ion in a Bubble in the Ground State, Joung Hoon Oh (Thesis)
Steady State Analysis of Tropospheric Chemistry, Wen Hsiung Pan (Dissertation)
Formation of Superhexagonal Chromium Hydride by Exposure of Chromium Thin Film to High Temperature, High Pressure Hydrogen in a Ballistic Compressor, Yi Pan (Dissertation)
Written narrative texts of language impaired and normal adolescents, Kevin Jon Penner (Thesis)
Solvent and Substituent Effects on the Redox Potentials of Several Substituted Tetraphenylporphyrins, Robert Arthur Ransdell (Dissertation)
Patterns of rhetoric/patterns of culture : a look at the English writing of Japanese students, Suzanne Raschke (Thesis)
The Relocation of North Bonneville, Washington, by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: A Policy Implementation Study, Cecil Eugene Reinke (Dissertation)
A Descriptive Study of Sexual Health Attitudes and Practices Among Adolescent and Young Adult Male County Health Department Clients, Russel Douglas Robbins (Thesis)
Internal-external locus of control and the life experiences of Soviet Pentecostal refugees in Portland, Oregon, Amy Roberts (Thesis)
The Angler as Environmentalist: Oregon Trout and the Fight to Save the Wild Salmon of the Columbia River, John P. Rosenberg (Thesis)
The Oregon Volunteers in the Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection : the annotated and edited diary of Chriss A. Bell, May 2, 1898 to June 24, 1899, James Stanley Rost (Thesis)
Transient heat transfer, Eric Roth (Thesis)
Analysis of a coordination framework for mapping coarse-grain applications to distributed systems, Linda Ruth Schaefer (Thesis)
An Experimental Investigation of the Finite Time Efficiency of a Peltier Refrigeration Device, Thomas Schneider (Thesis)
Exploiting and/or Parallelism in Prolog, Bankim Shah (Thesis)
Therapeutic group approaches for issues related to suicide, Ardis Sherwood (Thesis)
One woman, one child : the implications of the one-child-family policy for Chinese women, Tao Shi (Thesis)
Story retelling skills in 4-year-olds with histories of normal and delayed language development, Rita Louise Smith (Thesis)
Limits of limit equilibrium and finite element techniques applied to cracked debris dams on collapsing foundations, Stanley Soliday Jr. (Thesis)
The value of the SPI in forecasting chronic stuttering, Dena Diane Stork (Thesis)
The Concept of Self-disclosure in Initial Interaction Between Strangers in Japan, Hizuru Sugita (Thesis)
Telling Stories (Out of School) of Mother Tongue, God's Tongue, and the Queen's Tongue: An Ethnography in Canada, Joan Ratzlaff Swinney (Dissertation)
Spectral and Spatial Quantum Efficiency of AlGaAs/GaAs and InGaAs/InP PIN Photodiodes, Steven Alan Tabor (Thesis)
Resolving the Evaluator/Nurturer Role Conflict of the Elementary School Principal, Judith Elizabeth Drummond Taccogna (Dissertation)
The influence of the transition plan in developing communication programs, Yuki Tanaka (Thesis)
Stochastic Hydrologic Modeling in Real Time Using a Deterministic Model (Streamflow Synthesis and Reservoir Regulation Model), Time Series Model, and Kalman Filter, Philip Kwok Fan Tang (Thesis)
A new design approach for numeric-to-symbolic conversion using neural networks, Zibin Tang (Thesis)
Portfolios as developmentally appropriate assessment in early childhood education, Deborah Thompson (Thesis)
Development and Analysis of a Model for Change in the Workplace, Using Quasi-Experimentation with Computer Professionals in Northwestern Investor Owned Utilities, John Ronald Thompson (Dissertation)
Assessing the Intercultural Sensitivity of American Expatriates in Kuwait, Deborah Ann Turner (Thesis)
Evaluating the Role of Geogrids in the Rehabilitation of Cracked Dams via Numerical Techniques, Kelly Dean Uhacz (Thesis)
The Physiology and Molecular Biology of Iron Nutrition for Cyanobacteria, Nancy Walters Unsworth (Thesis)
A Multiple Coupled Microstrip Transmission Line Model for High-Speed VLSI Interconnect Simulation, Lawrence Stevan Uzelac (Thesis)
The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 1), Stephen Ariel Veal (Thesis)
The collapse of the German army in the East in the summer of 1944 (Volume 2), Stephen Ariel Veal (Thesis)
The Correlation Between Correct Verbal and Nonverbal Responses on an Intelligence Test and Expressive Language Test Score, Jeanie P. Wagener (Thesis)
An Exploratory Analysis of Certain Characteristics of Policewomen: A Second Look, Harry Oliver White Jr. (Dissertation)
The Development and Testing of an Instrument to Measure Client Satisfaction of Child Protective Service Families, James Michael White (Dissertation)
Early Identification of At-Risk Children in a Rural School District Using Multiple Predictor Variables, Richard Wayne Wilde (Dissertation)