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Theses/Dissertations from 1989
Relationships Between Teacher Perceptions of Principal Support and Teacher Allocation of Time, Betty Hutchinson Flad (Dissertation)
Cultural Value Differences in Arguments Between Presidents Ronald Reagan and Oscar Arias, Juan Carlos Flores (Thesis)
Chinese Voices: Towards an Ethnography of English as a Second Language, Diane Niblack Fox (Thesis)
The preparation and involvement of Oregon speech-language pathologists in dysphagia, Christine Marie Gaynor (Thesis)
Slope stability as related to geology at Rainier, Columbia County, Oregon, James Douglas Gless (Thesis)
Intercultural Adjustment Problems of Costa Rican Students in the United States, Patricia Gonzalez (Thesis)
A Study of Oxygen Precipitation in Heavily Doped Silicon, Robert Kurt Graupner (Dissertation)
Reading comprehension in dementia of the Alzheimer's type : factual versus inferential, Donna Jensen Graville (Thesis)
An Approach to Pattern Recognition of Multifont Printed Alphabet Using Conceptual Graph Theory and Neural Networks, Ihab A. Harb (Thesis)
Hourly Fluctuation of Middle Ear Pressure as a Function of Age in School-Age Children, Susan Hogue Henry (Thesis)
A Study of the Identification and Referral Components of Substance Abuse Intervention Programs in Washington State's Public High Schools, Todd C. Herberg (Dissertation)
Revisiting the Rediviva : first mate Robert Haswell's account of the Columbia Rediviva's activities in China and on the return journey during the second voyage, Lucinda Joy Herrick (Thesis)
Teacher Perceptions of Evaluation as an Agent for Teacher Growth and Improvement of Instruction, Beverly Ann Hobson (Dissertation)
Literaturproduktion in der DDR : "Vom Entstehen und Sterben" Erich Loests Es geht seinen Gang und vom Entstehen und Gedeihen Christa Wolfs Nachdenken über Christa T., Gudrun Hommel-Ingram (Thesis)
Parallel architectures for solving combinatorial problems of logic design, Phuong Minh Ho (Thesis)
A Comparison of Assistant Principal and Principal Perceptions of the Assistant Principalship as a Training Ground in the Secondary School, Patricia Ann Howell (Dissertation)
Nitrogen and iron interactions in filamentous cyanobacteria, David Allen Hutchins (Thesis)
An analysis of the inhibitory effects of linolenic acid upon photosystem II of higher plants, Mark Edward Iven (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Maladaptive Behaviors of Normal, Language Delayed, and Late Talking Toddlers, Denise Elaine James (Thesis)
Staff Development and the Process of Teacher Change: A Case Study, Christene Kay Jones (Dissertation)
A multivariate test of evolutionary stasis in Homo sapiens, Jon Geoffrey Kleckner (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Performance of Various Image Analysis Methods for Dimensional Inspection with Vision Systems, Ralf Heinrich Koeppe (Thesis)
Comparisons of Current Practices of Computer Use and Training by Industry Type of Small Businesses in the Portland Area, Don Gregory Langenhorst (Thesis)
Social construction of sexual equality in distilled beverage advertising, Kathleen Dianne LeCoe-Cannucci (Thesis)
Adults as Students: Ego Development and the Influence of the Academic Environment, Shannon Moon Leonetti (Dissertation)
Invariant pattern recognition algorithm using the Hough Transform, Duwang Li (Thesis)
The role of episcopal theology and administration in the implementation of the settlement of religion, 1559-c. 1575, Caroline J. Litzenberger (Thesis)
A finite state machine synthesizer, Jiuling Liu (Thesis)
Factors Affecting persistence of Non-Traditional Students in a Non-Traditional Baccalaureate Degree Program, Dixie Lee Lund (Dissertation)
Ultrashort Pulse Production in Synchronously Pumped Mode-Locked Dye Laser Systems, Duncan Leo MacFarlane (Dissertation)
Study of photolytic interference on HO measurements by LIF-FAGE, Carmen Ivette Martinez (Thesis)
The Degree of Assimilation of the Second and Third Generation of Japanese Americans in the Portland Area, Hisako Matsuo (Thesis)
Urban Service Delivery System and Federal Government Bureaucracy: A Structural Analysis of Spatial Distribution of Water Supply in a Suburban Community of Metropolitan Lagos, Michael Udochukwu Mbanaso (Dissertation)
An Analysis of the Relationship Between Learning Style Perceptual Preferences and Attitudes Toward Computer-Assisted Instruction, Mary Brambilla McFarland (Dissertation)
The use of auditory brainstem responses in determining the maximum outputs of hearing aids, Kathryn Jean Merry (Thesis)
A Model of Suicidal Behavior In Latency Age Children Based on Developmental Object Relations Theory, Stephen Henry Michaelis (Thesis)
An Estimation of Relatedness Within Two Oregon Populations Using Isonymy Analysis, Maria Michalczyk (Thesis)
Fluorinated [beta]-sultones as Precursors to Fluorinated Sulfonic Acids, and New Fluorosulfonyl Containing Monomers/Polymers, Javid Mohtasham (Dissertation)
Resource Allocation Patterns at U.S. Community Colleges: An Evaluation of Priorities, Efficiency and the Historical Mission 1981-82 Through 1986-87, Douglas B. Morrison (Dissertation)
Frequency responses of hearing aids coupled with FM auditory trainers, Robert Bruce Morrison (Thesis)
Speech reception via bone conduction, Sherry G. Morris (Thesis)
A Correlational Study of Cognitive Style Measured by the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and the Witkin Group Embedded Figure, Leith Wood Muessle (Thesis)
Exploratory Study: Preparation by Japanese Parents in the U.S. for Their Children's Reentry to Japan from an Intercultural Communication Perspective, Noriko Nakagawa (Thesis)
Designing an Instructor's Manual for Introducing Cultural Concepts in the Medical School Curriculum, Barbara C. Nicodemus (Thesis)
The Use of Efficient Information Systems for Information Acquisition by the Hearing Impaired: A Case Study, William L. Nicolay (Dissertation)
Correlation of Preschoolers' Performance on Three Language Comprehension Tests, Alissa Clare Nordlund (Thesis)
A survey of Treaty Oak Community College students enrolled in a program of study from 1986-1989 and of businesses located in the Treaty Oak Community College service area, Kathleen Marie O'Brien (Thesis)
Commercial Activities and the Geography of Movement in a West African Urban Market: A Study of Market-Stall Traders in Onitsha with Implications for Transport Policy, Krys Chukwuma Ochia (Dissertation)
Disfluencies in Normal Four-Year-Old Alaska Native and Caucasian Children, Annette Cameron O'Connell (Thesis)
Intercultural training and international exchange : an exploratory study of the association of intercultural training with hosting goals of American families, Jan Marie Oehlschlaeger (Thesis)
In situ measurements of two amplified and one acoustic stethoscope, Sara Ruth Ann Oliver (Thesis)
An Analysis of US/Soviet Arms Control: Adding a Subsystem Perspective, Peter Millard Olson (Thesis)
The Formation and Expansion of High Technology Firms in Metropolitan Areas, Oliver Ikeotuonye Orjiako (Dissertation)
The European Neutrals in World War II, Jerrold Michael Packard (Thesis)
Preferred perceptual learning styles of Chinese students, Alex Albert Pia (Thesis)
Energy Cost of Resistive Exercise, Jan A. Polychronis (Thesis)
Enhanced Realism in the Development of My Painting, Zifen Qian (Thesis)
Types of phonological processes occurring in normal Black English speakers, Eileen Rella (Thesis)
U.S.-Soviet interchange : an examination of the underlying assumptions of U.S. peace organizations sponsoring contact with Soviet citizens, Hyla Rosenberg (Thesis)
Endless State-of-Polarization Control for Coherent Optical Communication Systems Using Nematic Liquid Crystal, Scott H. Rumbaugh (Thesis)
The Longterm Psychosocial Impacts of Caregiving on the Caregivers of Persons with Stroke, Alice Updike Scannell (Dissertation)
The Congress of Berlin of 1878: Its Origins and Consequences, Kenneth Allen Shafer (Thesis)
Persistence of New Full-Time Students: A Study in a Community College, Janet Stephine Stennick (Dissertation)
Analysis of Mitochondrial DNA Restriction Fragment Patterns in Killer Whales, Orcinus Orca, Tracy Alison Stevens (Thesis)
The Effect of a Video Presentation and Reference Guide Manual of Helicopter Safety Instruction on the Knowledge Base of Medical Transport Nurses, K. Linda Stickney (Thesis)
Chemical Modification of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Vesicles: A Study of Calcium Permeability, Janice F. Stuart (Dissertation)
An Analysis of the Effect of State Regulation of Commercial Income Tax Preparers on the Quality of Income Tax Returns, Jeanie Grace Sumner (Dissertation)
The Characteristics of the Teacher Evaluation Process as Perceived by Elementary Teachers and Principals, Peter H. Taylor (Dissertation)
The Chemistry of Sulfonyl Fluorides: SF5 and/or SO2F Containing Compounds as Precursors to Sulfonic Acids, Robin Joyce Terjeson (Dissertation)
Seasonal trailing behavior and corticosterone levels in male red-sided garter snakes (Thamnophis sirtalis parietalis), Pamela Kay Thinesen (Thesis)
Development of Morphological Forms in Four-Year-Old Children, Catherine Anderson Thompson (Thesis)
Cultural relativism in intercultural communication theory : a descriptive and heuristic study, Ellen Linnea Trygstad (Thesis)
The Effect of Media on the Listening Comprehension Scores of Intermediate ESL Students, Marian Tyson (Thesis)
The Application of the Ordered List Method and the Dynamic Programming to the Unit Commitment, Hoang Uong (Thesis)
Awareness of Biculturalism in Families of Intercultural Marriage, Eleesabeth Carol-Therese Vieira (Thesis)
The physiology and biochemistry of isolated skeletal muscle mitochondria : a comparative study, Mark Lowell Wagner (Thesis)
Application of Hough Transformation to Detect Ovulatory Patterns in Cervical Mucus Images, Shiliang Wang (Thesis)
Traditional College-Age Students' Attitudes Toward Arnold's Seven Building Blocks Decision-Making Strategy, Mary Ellen Wernow (Dissertation)
Every Man Crying Out: Elizabethan Anti-Catholic Pamphlets and the Birth of English Anti-Papism, Carol Ellen Wheeler (Thesis)
A Preliminary Analysis of Beneficiary Discharge Status and Post-Hospital Placement Before and After the Implementation of Medicare's Prospective Payment System, Anne Marguerite Wilkinson (Dissertation)
Attitudes of Control and Weight Management, Carolyn Lee Edwards Wright (Thesis)
The Effects of Bandwidth Limiting Tuning Elements on a Synchronously Pumped Mode-Locked Dye Laser, Bahram Zandi (Dissertation)
Dynamic Behavior of CO₂ Lasers, Li Zhang (Thesis)
A new approach to state minimization of finite state machines, William Yue Zhao (Thesis)
The interaction of stimulus rate and polarity effects on the auditory brainstem response, Michelle Ann Nielsen Ziegler (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1988
Hedonic analysis of gasoline retailing, Soleman A. Al-Bassir (Dissertation)
DC-excited cw CO₂ Metal Waveguide Laser, Fahad Saleh Al-Mashaabi (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Fiction Versus Nonfiction in Teaching Reading to ESL Students, Becky Kay Appley (Thesis)
Boudica: an Illustrated Narrative, Robin A. Ator (Thesis)
Analysis of Error Type, Source, and Gravity in the Writing of Arabic ESL Students in U.S.A. Colleges, Fadel Mohammed Na'im Bader (Thesis)
Grace Wick : portrait of a right-wing extremist, June Melby Benowitz (Thesis)
The People's Soul Engineers: A Study of Secondary Teachers in the People's Republic of China, Nancy Benson (Dissertation)
Population Determinants of Social Change: An Analysis of the Age composition of the United States from 1920 to 1983, Guy Norman Burkhardt (Dissertation)
A geochemical study of the Eagle Creek Formation in the Columbia River Gorge, Oregon, Rachel Ann Carlin (Thesis)
A Study of Successful Management Teams in Oregon Public School Systems, James R. Carnes (Dissertation)
Adolescent Shoplifting and Situational Stimuli, James A. Chambers (Dissertation)
Effects of Graded and Steady Exercise and Self-Confidence on Stress, Kristine M. Clarke (Thesis)
Determination of Homology Between the Arsenic Resistance Plasmids R45 and R773 in Escherichia Coli, Joshua T. Clark (Thesis)
The Distribution of Zooplankton in Selected Oregon Lakes, Mary Elizabeth Claska (Thesis)
A study of the capability of the computerized Visi-Pitch when investigating prosodic features of motherese, Denise Leslie Clemens (Thesis)