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Theses/Dissertations from 1990
Goal-directed imagining : the effect of suggestions of warmth and coolness on blood flow to the hand, John Mark Dilworth (Thesis)
Translation as interpretation : Siegfried Lenz' "Motivsuche", John F. Disterheft (Thesis)
Comparison of Two Behavioral Models in Obesity Treatment, Nina Lucille Dominy (Thesis)
Finite Element Analysis of Thermal Stresses in Semiconductor Devices, Joachim Karl Wilhelm Duerr (Thesis)
An Evaluation of the Academic Success of Students Who Participated in the English for Non-native Residents Program at Portland State University, Linda Carol Andrews Dunn (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Relationship Between Training in Cooperative Learning and Teacher Job Satisfaction, Margaret Maloy Dutton (Dissertation)
The Duration of Tinnitus in an Aging Population, Mary Engel (Thesis)
Geochemical Evolution of Ferruginous Bauxite Deposits in Northwestern Oregon and Southwestern Washington, Joseph Michael Fassio (Thesis)
Burns'eko etxekoandreak: Basque Women Boarding House Keepers of Burns, Oregon, Paquita Lucia Garatea (Thesis)
Elementary Teachers' Perceptions of Their Instructional Styles in the Teaching of Conflict Resolution, Marcia Gregor Garrick (Dissertation)
A Comparison of an Acoustic Stethoscope and an Amplified Stethoscope in White Noise and Cafeteria Noise During Cardiac Auscultation, Lynda Lynell Gigstad (Thesis)
Terrain disturbances by winter roads in the lower and central Mackenzie River Valley, N.W.T., Canada, Christoph Gnieser (Thesis)
Students' orientations toward dreams and the development of scales for their measurement, John Philip Governale (Thesis)
A Study of Washington Secondary Principals' Perceptions of Effective Dropout Prevention Policies and Programs, Susan Lindsley Greenwood (Dissertation)
Prediction of posttreatment level of functioning from performance in a leveled token economy for emotionally disturbed adolescents, Peter Arden Scott Grover (Thesis)
Nurses' attitudes toward patients with AIDS examined by hours of AIDS education, Teresa Grove (Thesis)
Speechreading ability in elementary school-age children with and without functional articulation disorders, Barbara L. Habermann (Thesis)
HPLC analysis of myoglobin tryptic peptides from selected species of cetaceans, David Lawrence Hayteas (Thesis)
The relationship between reading comprehension and self-esteem in low level reading adults, Judy Rosen Heumann (Thesis)
Instrumentation for Multi-Electrode Voltammetry, I-Pin Ho (Dissertation)
A Comparison of the Phonological Skills of Late Talking and Normal Toddlers, Patricia Joan Jennings (Thesis)
The Relationship Between School Integration and Student Attitude Toward Residential Racial Integration, David Allen Johnson (Dissertation)
High Frequency Acoustic Reflexes in Cochlea-Impaired and Normal Ears, Karen Elizabeth Jones (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Methods for Measuring the Attenuation Provided by Insert-Type Hearing Protection Devices, Brenda Barrett Kabat (Thesis)
Comparison of the Modal Frequency Levels of Nonsmoking and Cigarette Smoking White Females Between the Ages of Forty and Fifty Years, Janis Mae Kaufman (Thesis)
Cross-Cultural Differences in Written Discourse Patterns : A Study of Acceptability of Japanese Expository Compositions in American Universities, Hiroko Kitano (Thesis)
Reading comprehension of literal, translational, and high inference level questions in aphasic and right hemisphere damaged adults, Ute Kongsbak (Thesis)
The Effect of a Parent Training Program on Language Delayed Children, Lynn Krupa (Thesis)
Communication Stress and Coping Strategies Among Japanese University Students in the United States, Atsuko Kurogi (Thesis)
Density Currents in Circular Wastewater Treatment Tanks, David M. LaLiberte (Thesis)
Audiological in-service regarding hearing impairment and its impact on communication in the geriatric population, Marie Barlow Lassell (Thesis)
Policy into Practice: A Study of Legislative Impact on Administrative Practice in Washington Schools, James Carter Leffler (Dissertation)
Communication Stressors and Coping Strategies Among Chinese Students in the United States, Qiu Lu Liang (Thesis)
Study of referential and display questions and their responses in adult ESL reading classes, Susan Lindenmeyer (Thesis)
Subsurface and geochemical stratigraphy of northwestern Oregon, Olga Berenice Lira (Thesis)
Social support for the frail elderly at two kinds of retirement communities, Qiaoming Liu (Thesis)
Otitis media and language development in late talkers, Timothy Forest Lynn (Thesis)
Identification of entry-level clerical/secretarial skills and competencies and utilization of hardware and software applications in Clark County businesses, Phyllis A. Maki (Thesis)
John Rawls, the conception of a liberal self, and the communitarian critique, Johnathan Edward Mansfield (Thesis)
Job Satisfaction of Classified Employees in a Public Suburban School District, Jeradean Emma Rehm Masciocchi (Dissertation)
Torso as ceramic vessel, Richard Garrett Masterson (Thesis)
Resolution and Reconstitution of the Photosystem I Reaction Center: Structure and Function of the Terminal Electron Acceptor FA/FB Polypeptide, Tetemke Mehari (Dissertation)
Nietzsche's "woman" : a metaphor without brakes, Kathleen Merrow (Thesis)
Comparative Impact of Selected Group Input Variables on Self-Assessments of Group Process Skills in Interdisciplinary Health Care Teams: a Field Study, R. Michael Mitchell (Thesis)
The creation of a core vacabulary for initial lexicon selection for nonspeaking preschool children, Lillian May More (Thesis)
Macroinvertebrate drift abundance below Bonneville Dam and its relation to juvenile salmonid food habits, William Douglas Muir (Thesis)
Performance analysis of a distributed file system, Meenakshi Mukhopadhyay (Thesis)
Investigation of techniques for high speed CMOS arbitrary waveform generation, Albert Henry Nehl (Thesis)
When older mothers work : adult children's perceptions of maternal employment effects Christine B. Nelson, Christine B. Nelson (Thesis)
GIS Address-Matching and Transportation Analysis, James D. Orrell (Thesis)
Politics and Education: The Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade, Teresa Squires Osborne (Thesis)
Creating the Paradox in Form, Dennis A. Peterson (Thesis)
The Relationship Between a Private Voluntary Organization and the Government of a Developing Country in the Delivery of Public Education: A Case Study in Rural Guatemala, Timothy John Peterson (Dissertation)
Distribution of Sand Within Selected Littoral Cells of the Pacific Northwest, Don Joseph Pettit (Thesis)
Phrasal verbs in academic lectures, Robert D. Pierce (Thesis)
The Assessment of Phonological Processes : A Comparison of Connected-Speech Samples and Single-Word Production Tests, Susan A. Pinkerton (Thesis)
Decomposition of Measured Contours into Geometric Features for Dimensional Inspection, Devaraj Rajkumar (Thesis)
Employment Decline in the Douglas-fir Region's Lumber and Plywood Industries: An Analysis of Structural and Cyclical Factors, Majid Rasoolzadeh (Dissertation)
Intergenerational relations in the workplace : older women and their younger women co-workers, Julie Suzanne Reynolds (Thesis)
Intelligibility of spondees via bone conduction at elevated presentation levels, Pamela S. Ritchie (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of an Educational Service District's Programs and Services as Perceived by Various Educator Groups, Thomas Joseph Rockefeller (Dissertation)
A Comparison of Two Vocabulary Tests Used with Normal and Delayed Preschool Children, Lynn Safadi (Thesis)
A study in the language acquisition styles of language delayed toddlers, Shelly Saunders (Thesis)
An Effective Cube Comparison Method for Discrete Spectral Transformations of Logic Functions, Ingo Schäfer (Thesis)
A study of prospective entrepreneurs' perceptions of knowledge required for success : and its implications for curriculum development and revision, Vickie Lynn Schray (Thesis)
The German exile journal Das Wort and the Soviet Union, James W. Seward (Thesis)
HyperCard-based learning environment for DIADES, Ali A. Shamsapour (Thesis)
The Effect of Hot Dense Hydrogen and Argon in a Ballistic Compressor on the Structure and Composition of Pure Iron, David Samuel Silver (Thesis)
Snake River : a personal search, Eva Havas Slinker (Thesis)
A theoretical and experimental study of the three-ring electrostatic electron lens, Thomas Anthony Sommer (Thesis)
The Least preferred co-worker scale as a predictor of leadership behavior in work settings, Jenell Arlene Streeter (Thesis)
The Knowledge Systems Transfer Project: A Multiple Perspective Investigation into the Integration of a New Technology within a Business Unit, Steven Craig Tarr (Dissertation)
Differentially Diagnosing Stuttering in Young Children Using the Stuttering Severity Instrument, Brenda Pekkola Teich (Thesis)
An Exploration of Some Aspects of Mystery, Terry Foster Thompson (Thesis)
Facing Both Ways: Yan Fu, Hu Shi, and Chen Duxiu -- Chinese Intellectuals and the Meaning of Modern Science, 1895-1923, Niobeh Crowfoot Tsaba (Thesis)
A History of the Sisters of St. Mary of Oregon's Mission in Tamshiyacu, Peru 1966-1973, Sister Pauline Rose Walbel (Thesis)
Optimization and Thermodynamic Performance Measures of a Class of Finite Time Thermodynamic Cycles, Joseph D. Walters (Dissertation)
Conformity, Attitude Toward Authority, and Social Class, Alison Carol Welter (Thesis)
Immunology and archaeology : blood residue analysis of three sites, Shirley Jo Barr Williams (Thesis)
Pragmatic conversational skills of children identified as emotionally disturbed, Deidre Winder (Thesis)
Chemistry of Pentafluorothio (SF5) Alkyl Derivatives, Rolf Walter Winter (Dissertation)
The Enigmatic Founder: Liberalism, Republicanism and the Thought of James Madison, John S. Witherow (Thesis)
Spatial manipulation as a covariant of mental practice, Vincent James Wolff (Thesis)
The Unified Speech Period of a Bilingual Child, Gary Frank Wood (Thesis)
Identification of dyspraxic characteristics in children with moderate and severe articulation disorders, Gail Woodward (Thesis)
The object-oriented design of a hardware description language analyser for the DIADES silicon compiler system, Lian Yang (Thesis)
Determinants of 2000 Meter Rowing Ergometer Performance, Jeff C. Young (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Sediment dynamics on the shore slopes of the Puget Island reach of the Columbia River, Oregon and Washington, Timothy Abbe (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Time Taken to Administer and Analyze Phonologic and Phonetic Tests, Beverly Alexander (Thesis)
Spanish expeditions to the Northwest Coast during the Bucareli administration, 1771-1779, Mark Cronlund Anderson (Thesis)
Subsistence variability on the Columbia Plateau, Ricky Gilmer Atwell (Thesis)
Something old, something new : marriage customs among the Druze in the Shouf Mountains of Lebanon, Nancy Scarlette Beaini (Thesis)
The output of compression hearing aids with a transient input signal, Michael Andrew Berg (Thesis)
Self-Concept Competency of National Aeronautics and Space Administration Research and Development Managers, Mark A. Beymer (Dissertation)
Collective Bargaining for Educational Administrators: Oregon and Washington Principals' Perceptions of Working Conditions, Patricia Ann Boles (Dissertation)
Women of the Tudor court, 1501-1568, Carol De Witte Bowles (Thesis)
Toward predicting completion of substance abuse treatment, Rebecca Lee Bragg (Thesis)
Some visual issues of painting : an exploration of the painting process, Barbara Leedy Branham (Thesis)
Portland Student Services, Inc. : the establishment of student-run housing in Portland, Oregon, 1969-1971, Michael Keith Brewin (Thesis)
Normative data on the Auditory memory test battery for ages 9 through 13 years, Elisabeth Y. Carter (Thesis)