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Theses/Dissertations from 1988

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Voltage controlled resistance model for MOS transistors, Joey Zong-yi Jia (Thesis)

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Analysis of Ferredoxin and Flavodoxin in Anabaena and Trichodesmium Using Fast Protein Liquid Chromatography, Karen Lorraine Jones (Thesis)

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A Comparative Study of the Characteristics of High Technology Start-Up Firms, Sandra J. Kiehl (Dissertation)

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Effects of Feedback and Goal Setting on Job Attitudes and Productivity: A Field Study, Stephen Kildahl (Thesis)

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Two dimensional and three dimensional path planning in robotics, Hyun Suk Kim (Thesis)

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The Effects of Oral Conferencing and Written Comments on the Writing and Revisions of ESL Students, Ann Louise Kirk (Thesis)

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Pupil Mobility and Its Effect on Basic Skills Achievement Growth Rates and the Educational Program, Daniel P. Klee (Dissertation)

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The Socialization of CPEP Teachers: Implications for Administration, Jim L. Kuhlmann (Dissertation)

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Double Cross: Agriculture and Genetics, 1930 to 1960, Tracy Scott Lebenzon (Thesis)

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A new general purpose systolic array for matrix computations, Hai Van Dinh Le (Thesis)

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Holocene Fluctuations of the Coe Glacier, Mount Hood, Oregon, Karl Douglas Lillquist (Thesis)

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Occupational patterns of three generations of Taishan Chinese : a reconsideration of middleman minority theory, Wei Wei Lou (Thesis)

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A CMOS Circuit Generator Using Differential Pass Transistors for Implementing Boolean Functions, Rabe'eh Mahooti (Thesis)

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"Gewalt gegen Gerechtigkeit" : reality and morality in Heinrich Böll's Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum, Michelle Elizabeth Manicke (Thesis)

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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)

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Limited horizons on the Oregon frontier : East Tualatin Plains and the town of Hillsboro, Washington County, 1840-1890, Richard P. Matthews (Thesis)

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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)

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Metasomatism between amphibolite and metaultramafic rocks during upper amphibolite facies metamorphism, Tobacco Root Mountains, southwest Montana, William Robert McCulloch (Thesis)

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A fractal analysis of diffusion limited aggregation, Cliff Myers (Thesis)

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Intercultural factors in business negotiation between Japanese and Americans, Yuko Nagatomo (Thesis)

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Theodor Fontanes Darstellung der Berliner Gesellschaft in seinen Romanen Effi Briest und Irrungen Wirrungen, Ronald Kent Nelson (Thesis)

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Logic design using programmable logic devices, Loc Bao Nguyen (Thesis)

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The Tensile Strength of Liquid Helium Four, Joel Alan Nissen (Dissertation)

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Gibbon classification : the issue of species and subspecies, Erin Lee Osterud (Thesis)

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The Trunk A Network in Nigeria: The Issues of Connectivity and Accessibility, Owen Richard Owen (Dissertation)

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John Chrysostom, On the statues : a study in crisis rhetoric, Douglas B. Radke (Thesis)

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Direct and Indirect Costs of Tinnitus: Factors for Decisionmaking, Gloria E. Reich (Dissertation)

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The study of national character in the post war era : the work of Erich Fromm, David Riesman, and David Potter, Adam Rittenberg (Thesis)

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The American Naval Nightmare: Defending the Western Pacific, 1898-1922, Carlos R. Rivera (Thesis)

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Fluorinated esters : synthesis and identification, Jilla Schaff (Thesis)

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Eating Disorders: The Correlation of Family Relationships with an Eating Disorder Continuum, Jana Schweitzer (Thesis)

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Identifying pedophiles with the MMPI, Margaret M. Seits (Thesis)

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Safety related model and studies of Trojan Nuclear Power Plant electrical distribution system, Hamidreza Sharifnia (Thesis)

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A Comparison of Communication Intentions in Toddlers Between Sixteen and Thirty-Four Months of Age, Mary Elaine Shiffer (Thesis)

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An Empirical Assessment of the Center-Periphery Hypothesis in International Economic Relations, Fazlollah Bonakdar Shirazi (Dissertation)

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From 'The Help of Grave and Modest Women' to 'The Care of Men of Sense': The Transition from Female Midwifery to Male Obstetrics in Early Modern England, Karen L. Smith Adams (Thesis)

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Communication and Socialization Profiles in Toddlers with Expressive Language Delay, Shawn Spangle-Looney (Thesis)

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Syntactic complexity, error and the holistic evaluation of ESL student essays, John S. Sparks (Thesis)

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Landscape and change in three novels by Theodor Fontane, Jane Ellen Speerstra (Thesis)

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The Development of a Social Network following Geographic Relocation, Joan E. Starker (Dissertation)

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An Analysis of Kindergarten Children's Use of a Word Processor in Their Print Literacy Development, Paul Steger (Dissertation)

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A Lagrangian for a system of two dyons, Rainer Georg Thierauf (Thesis)

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Off-axis multimode light beam propagation in tapered lenslike media including those with spatial gain or loss variation, Anthony Alan Tovar (Thesis)

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Modification of the Ca²⁺ Release System of Skeletal Muscle Sarcoplasmic Reticulum Vesicles via Sulfhydryl Oxidation and Tryptic Proteolysis, Jonathan Lee Trimm (Dissertation)

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The influence of work station architecture on work perceptions and work behavior, Connie L. True (Thesis)

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Beyond Difference Scores: Testing Models of Speed of Information-Processing Using Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Gary A. Uhland (Thesis)

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An Experiment Testing the Bolinger Principle to Teach Gerunds and Infinitives, Juliet Rosemarie Vawser (Thesis)

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An investigation of the effect of using varying stimuli to assess normal children's comprehension of five locative prepositions, Kathleen Gray Versteeg (Thesis)

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Rock slope stability studies in Siskiyou National Forest, Greg Visconty (Thesis)

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A Comparative Study of Chinese EFL Reading Instruction and American ESL Reading Instruction, Changhua Wang (Thesis)

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A Critical Study of Communications in Land Use Hearings, Douglas J. Warren (Dissertation)

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Effects of Flat Panel Display Parameters Across Three Application Areas Upon Similarity Judgments, Novia Weiman (Thesis)

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Geochemical stratigraphy of the Dooley rhyolite breccia and Tertiary basalts in the Dooley Mountain quadrangle, Oregon, David Neale Whitson (Thesis)

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Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Mo: Self and Close-Other Selection of Personality Test Interpretations, Sheela Word (Thesis)

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Script effects and reading strategies : ideographic language readers vs. alphabetic language readers in ESL, Minglang Zhou (Thesis)

Theses/Dissertations from 1987

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Determinants of the Spatial Distribution of Peri-Urban to Rural Agriculture in the United States, Ibrahim Amin Abdel-Karim (Dissertation)

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An Analysis of the Shift of Employment Toward Multi-Sectoral Services Industries in California, 1960-1980, Ayalew Adamu (Dissertation)

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The role of iron nutrition in regulating patterns of photosynthesis and nitrogen metabolism in the green alga Scenedesmus quadricauda, Dennis Raymond Ades (Thesis)

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German-Czech conflict in Cisleithania : the question of the ethnographic partition of Bohemia, 1848-1919, Nicholas Aldorde (Thesis)

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Discontinuities in Normal 30 to 36 Month Old and 54 to 60 Month Old Female Children, Shelley Louise Arnold-Cockburn (Thesis)

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A Comparison of Principal and Teacher Perceptions of Principal Leadership Skills, Alan Mark Carlton (Dissertation)

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A Case Study of a Nationally Recognized Middle School's Decentralized Participatory Governance Structure, Donna Lynn Carman (Dissertation)

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The Effects of a Course in American Jokes on a Class of Intermediate Level ESL Students, John Randolph Carruthers (Thesis)

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Disfluencies in Normal Three-Year-Old and Five-Year-Old Male Children, Pamela Paguia Christianson (Thesis)

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Hugo Grotius and the liberal tradition, Karen Diane Csajko (Thesis)

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An analysis of the eastern margin of the Portland basin using gravity surveys, Steven Allen Davis (Thesis)

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The Effects of a Thank-You Letter and/or Phone Call to First-Time Volunteer Blood Donors, Larkey Sheldon De Neffe (Thesis)

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Molecular cloning of spinach chloroplast DNA isolated by alkaline lysis, Robert Gray Drager (Thesis)

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Gun Running in Arabia: The Introduction of Modern Arms to the Peninsula, 1880-1914, James W. Fiscus (Thesis)

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Normative study of phonological process patterns of preschool children as measured by the Assessment of phonological processes, revised, Lori Jean Griffith (Thesis)

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Interregional Competition in the Wood Products Industry: An Econometric Spatial Equilibrium Approach, M. Hossein Haeri (Dissertation)

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A Comparison of the Expressive Speech of Profoundly Hearing-Impaired Children : "Hearing Aids On" Versus "Hearing Aids Off", James Allen Henry (Thesis)

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Repetitions in the speech of normal two year old males, Stephanie Herrick (Thesis)

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Segment Congruence Analysis: An Information Theoretic Approach, Jamshid Hosseini-Chaleshtari (Dissertation)

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The Impact of Physical Environment on the Social Climate of Two Jails, James G. Houston (Dissertation)

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Numerical solutions of continuous wave beam in nonlinear media, Jeffrey Huang (Thesis)

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The philosophy of William James as related to Charles Renouvier, Henri Bergson, Maurice Blondel and Emile Boutroux, Peggy Lyne Hurtado (Thesis)

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Classifying Oregon Lake-Watershed Ecosystems for Regional Water Resources Assessment, Randall Alan Jones (Thesis)

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Threshold characteristics of multimode laser oscillators, Mehdi Khoshnevissan (Thesis)

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Modeling cadastral spatial relationships using an object-oriented information structure, Daniel Kjerne (Thesis)

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Worker perceptions of the fast-food giant : interviews with and class comparisons of teenagers working at McDonalds, Joyce A. Korshgen (Thesis)

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The politics of disestablishment : Gladstone and the Fenians, Robert Emmett Lanxon (Thesis)

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Friendship between women : the influence of incest, Laurie Lockert (Thesis)

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The Effect of Cold Acclimation on the Temperature Preference of the Goldfish, Carassius auratus, and the Brown Bullhead, Ictalurus nebulosus, Alfred Lord (Thesis)

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American Foreign Policy: The Utility of Force as an Influence, Bargaining, or Coercive Force in the Caribbean Basin, Susan M. Marandas (Thesis)

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Stratigraphic model of the southern portion of the Jim Bridger coal field, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, Paul S. Maywood (Thesis)

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A finite difference soil-structure interaction study of a section of the Bonneville Navigation Lock buttress diaphragm wall utilizing pressuremeter test results, Thomas C. McCormack (Thesis)

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El Sindicato de las Costureras 19 de Septiembre: The Impact of the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake on Social Process, Margaret McCrea (Thesis)

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An Analysis of a Washington State Policy on the Appraisal of School Administrators by Certificated Subordinates, Curtis Alan Miller (Dissertation)

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The Stochastic Behavior of Soil Moisture and Its Role in Catchment Response Models, Nangantani Davies Godfrey Mtundu (Dissertation)

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Comparisons of Total Factor Productivity in the U.S. Electric Industry, Maya Myoga (Dissertation)

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A Descriptive Study of an Alternative Process of "Learning-To-Teach", Nancy Terry Nagel (Dissertation)

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A seismic refraction study of a portion of the northeastern margin of the Tualatin Valley, Oregon, David John Nazy (Thesis)

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The expression of politeness in Japan : intercultural implications for Americans, Emiko Tajikara Nelson (Thesis)

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Hyperbolic soil parameters for granular soils derived from pressuremeter tests for finite element programs, Dieter Neumann (Thesis)

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Explosion structures in Grande Ronde basalt of the Columbia Riverbasalt group, near Troy, Oregon, Leonard Lee Orzol (Thesis)

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The Effect of Body Temperature on Arteriovenous Oxygen Difference During Rest and Activity in the Toad, Bufo Marinus, Wayne Bryant Palioca (Thesis)

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Decrease in Selected Temperature After Intracranial Dopamine Injections in Goldfish, Hercules Theodore Panayiotides-Djaferis (Thesis)

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Seven dyads, Donovan Peterson (Thesis)

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Bronze Casting by the Lost Wax Method Employing Mixed Media, Donna M. Pickett (Thesis)