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Theses/Dissertations from 1989
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)
Fluorinated Esters: Synthesis and Identification, Jilla Schaff (Thesis)
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)
Simplified Framework Evaluation of Large Water Resource Project Impacts, Brian Woodbridge Clowes (Dissertation)
The influence of functional activities and specific curricular domains on choice in the curriculum for learners with severe handicaps, Mary Comfort DeBoer (Thesis)
Cheever's Signs : A Semiotic Approach to Thirteen Stories by John Cheever, Laurent Ditmann (Thesis)
Coverbal Behavior of Aphasic and Right Hemisphere Damaged Subjects in Conversation, Jill Duvall (Thesis)
Dynamics of Intermediate-Size Stream Outlets, Northern Oregon Coast, Ellen Eberhardt (Thesis)
The Test of written English : a statistical analysis of validity and reliability, Christina E. English (Thesis)
Career Satisfaction, Adult Development, Academic Preparation, and other Demographic Characteristics of Pastors of Churches Affiliated with Western Evangelical Seminary, James Allen Field (Dissertation)
Febrile Response and Activity in the Crayfish, Pacifasticus leniusculus trowbridgii, Kenneth A. Fletcher (Thesis)
MMPI and the juvenile sex offender Russell Funk, Russell Funk (Thesis)
A Comparison of Three Methods for Measuring the Attenuation Provided by Insert-Type Hearing-Protective Devices, Lois Jeanne Gaier (Thesis)
Intestinal granules found in the parasitic nematodes Ancylostoma caninum, and Oesophagostomum radiatum, Alan Joseph Gianotti (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of a Teacher Evaluation Process as Perceived by Teachers and Building-level Administrators, David Stewart Halstead (Dissertation)
A Case Study of Instructional Improvement through Peer Observation in a Suburban High School, Helen Jean Hanna (Dissertation)
The St. Josephs-Blatt, 1896-1919, Steven Wayne Harmon (Thesis)
Patterns in creativity : an examination of Viennese culture and politics at the turn of the century, Allen Nolan Hauser (Thesis)
The Unveiling, Elizabeth Heron (Thesis)
Die Rolle der Hexe in den Märchen der Brüder Grimm und Ludwig Bechsteins, Karin Ulrike Herrmann (Thesis)
A contextualized grammar proficiency test using informal spoken English, Sally Wellenbrock Hinrich (Thesis)
Advertising in Restrooms, Karsten C. Hofmann (Thesis)
A Study of Principals' Leadership Behavior in One Suburban School District, Darleen Huber-Dilbeck (Dissertation)
Implementing ray tracing algorithm in parallel environment, Tjah Jadi (Thesis)
Fractional Representation Design of Dynamic Output Controllers for Multiple Time Scale Systems, Robert Stephen Jaffe (Dissertation)
Voltage controlled resistance model for MOS transistors, Joey Zong-yi Jia (Thesis)
Analysis of Ferredoxin and Flavodoxin in Anabaena and Trichodesmium Using Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, Karen Lorraine Jones (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Characteristics of High Technology Start-Up Firms, Sandra J. Kiehl (Dissertation)
Effects of Feedback and Goal Setting on Job Attitudes and Productivity: A Field Study, Stephen Kildahl (Thesis)
Two dimensional and three dimensional path planning in robotics, Hyun Suk Kim (Thesis)
The Effects of Oral Conferencing and Written Comments on the Writing and Revisions of ESL Students, Ann Louise Kirk (Thesis)
Pupil Mobility and Its Effect on Basic Skills Achievement Growth Rates and the Educational Program, Daniel P. Klee (Dissertation)
The Socialization of CPEP Teachers: Implications for Administration, Jim L. Kuhlmann (Dissertation)
Double Cross: Agriculture and Genetics, 1930 to 1960, Tracy Scott Lebenzon (Thesis)
A new general purpose systolic array for matrix computations, Hai Van Dinh Le (Thesis)
Holocene Fluctuations of the Coe Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon, Karl Douglas Lillquist (Thesis)
Occupational patterns of three generations of Taishan Chinese : a reconsideration of middleman minority theory, Wei Wei Lou (Thesis)
A CMOS Circuit Generator Using Differential Pass Transistors for Implementing Boolean Functions, Rabe'eh Mahooti (Thesis)
"Gewalt gegen Gerechtigkeit" : reality and morality in Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Michelle Elizabeth Manicke (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Current Practice of Teacher Evaluation in Saudi Arabian Universities and the Development of a Teacher Evaluation Program Based on This Study, Sana Ahmed Mansour (Dissertation)
Limited horizons on the Oregon frontier : East Tualatin Plains and the town of Hillsboro, Washington County, 1840-1890, Richard P. Matthews (Thesis)
The relationship of the perception of choice and positive behavior change in adolescent residential treatment with future success in the community, Rita Harding McClellan (Thesis)
Metasomatism between amphibolite and metaultramafic rocks during upper amphibolite facies metamorphism, Tobacco Root Mountains, southwest Montana, William Robert McCulloch (Thesis)
A Fractal Analysis of Diffusion Limited Aggregation, Cliff Myers (Thesis)
Intercultural factors in business negotiation between Japanese and Americans, Yuko Nagatomo (Thesis)
Theodor Fontanes Darstellung der Berliner Gesellschaft in seinen Romanen Effi Briest und Irrungen Wirrungen, Ronald Kent Nelson (Thesis)
Logic design using programmable logic devices, Loc Bao Nguyen (Thesis)
The Tensile Strength of Liquid Helium Four, Joel Alan Nissen (Dissertation)
Gibbon classification : the issue of species and subspecies, Erin Lee Osterud (Thesis)