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Theses/Dissertations from 1983
A Rhetoric Of Movements: A Dramatistic Analysis of the Open Convention Movement, Gunnar Neil Farevaag (Thesis)
SCL-90 characteristics of the borderline personality disorder in a day treatment setting, Jeananne Theresa Feagan (Thesis)
The health policy gap: income, health insurance and source of care effects on utilization of and access to dental, physician and hospital services by Oregon households, Constance Hall Fitzgerald (Dissertation)
Institutional environments as perceived by the faculty and administrators at six small liberal arts Christian colleges, Jeffrey Thomas Fouts (Dissertation)
The sovereign people, minority rights and state judiciaries : an historical study of Tocqueville's majoritarian thesis, Erica Goodwin (Thesis)
Teaching visual awareness to general education students, Larry Edward Gross (Thesis)
Dance Therapy and Self-Concept Change in Psychiatric Patients, Cheryl Jeanne Hall (Thesis)
Femininity and self-esteem in professional women, Shirley Ellen Harper (Thesis)
Serial cardiovascular adaptations during pregnancy, Mark Vincent Hart (Thesis)
Development of an MMPI Scale to Predict Therapeutic Response to Lithium Carbonate, Neal Allen Hayden (Thesis)
One-third octave band augmented speech discrimination testing for cochlear impaired listeners, Dianne Heath (Thesis)
The Effects of a Combined Weight Training and Running Program on Body Composition in College Males, Robert L. Hesslink Jr. (Thesis)
Sex differences in the language development rates of two-year olds, Laurel A. Hickman (Thesis)
An internal review of a discipline: journal editors' opinions of paradigm development within speech communication, Laurie A. Houghton (Thesis)
Analytical and Experimental Stresses in Concrete Pavements and Unbonded Overlays, Ahmad Jaber (Thesis)
Stratigraphic relationships of the Tillamook Volcanics and the Cowlitz Formation in the upper Nehalem River-Wolf Creek area, northwestern Oregon, Michael Keith Jackson (Thesis)
A study of the diagenesis of the overburden between the Badger and School Coal Seams, Dave Johnston Coal Field, Converse County, Wyoming, Rebecca K. Jaffer (Thesis)
Adult oral diadochokinesis rates : preliminary normative data, Carol Kafton-Minkel (Thesis)
Parameters of mental rehearsal, Timothy K. Kelly (Thesis)
The distribution of the trade effects of the Arab Common Market, Rami Khalaf (Dissertation)
The work values of secondary teachers : a comparative study by teaching assignment, Charlotte Marie Klampe (Thesis)
Level of aspiration and the Type A coronary-prone pattern in children, Wendy L. Kliewer (Thesis)
The Career Decision, Donna Marie Klover (Thesis)
The absence of extrachromosomal DNA in methanogenic bacteria, Nancy Ann Kurkinen (Thesis)
Comprehension of Abstract and Concrete Commands by High and Low Level Aphasic Subjects : Effects of Presentation Mode, Karen Jaruckis Lambrecht (Thesis)
Image development through process, Jean Handwerk Lee (Thesis)
Pragmatic deficits in normal, articulation disordered, and language delayed samples, Karen Jean Lucas (Thesis)
The Effects of Various Chemical Treatments on the Surface Area of Coals, Maria Margaret Ludvig (Thesis)
Geophysical strain and tilt : measurement methodology and analysis of data, Robert MacKay (Thesis)
Formation and zonation of ferruginous bauxite deposits of the Chapman quadrangle, Oregon, Richard Charles Marty (Thesis)
A study of the modification of teachers' attitudes toward the hearing-impaired using two different types of treatment workshops, Anita Bell McClain (Dissertation)
The placement information base: its utility and meaning for nursing home placement decisions, Darlene Schroedl McKenzie (Dissertation)
Audiological Characteristics of the Monge Family of Costa Rica, Christine Moulton (Thesis)
Crime as a Routine Activity: an Investigation, Donna Scott Munroe (Thesis)
Preliminary study : the effects of instrumentation on the air intake times of the esophageal speaker, Sandra I. Pasak Neuburger (Thesis)
Pragmatic conversational skills of young adults in normal, EMR, and TMR classrooms, Jane Nicholson (Thesis)
The impact of tourism on the pattern of economic activity in Portland, Oregon, Alphaeus O. Ohakweh (Dissertation)
Global awareness of administrators in higher education in the State of Oregon, Elizabeth Marsh O'Malley (Dissertation)
American-Yugoslav relations, 1941-1946, John Robert Oreskovich (Thesis)
Nineteenth century French and German interpretations of the early medieval Germanic invasions, James N. Owens (Thesis)
A translation into English of the German novel Jakob der Lügner by Jurek Becker, Harriet Passell (Thesis)
Holocene geologic history of the Clatsop Plains foredune ridge complex, David Karl Rankin (Thesis)
The paleolimnology of Bull Run Lake: disruption and stability in a natural system, Richard Brian Raymond (Dissertation)
A harmony of opposites, Patricia Reppenhagen (Thesis)
Career Supports and Career Mentors: an Analysis of Their Prevalence and Their Relation to Career Success and Satisfaction Among a Group of Women Lawyers, Sandra Lee Riley (Thesis)
The Distribution and Morphology of Fucus distichus in an Estuarine Environment and the Effect of Selected Ions on the Uptake of Inorganic Carbon and Nitrate, Dale Howard Robinson (Thesis)
Role conflict and role ambiguity and their perceived relationships to substitute teaching effectiveness, Castilla Jack Ryan (Dissertation)
The German-Oregonians, 1850-1918, Roberta Lee Schmalenberger (Thesis)
The needs of older people as seen by themselves and support providers, Sarah Movius Schurr (Thesis)
Toward a phenomenological-based perspective of acculturation with application to Scottish immigrants, Dorothy M. Sermol (Thesis)
A computer decision support system to assist in providing equality of educational opportunity, Porter Sexton (Dissertation)
The relationship between Romanes and English as spoken by the Portland Gypsies, Margaret Anne Sharp (Thesis)
Breeding Success and Nest Site Characteristics of the Western Bluebird on Parrett Mountain, Marcia Diane Sims (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Effects of Ordinary Prose and Left-hand Right-hand Practice Upon the Development of Keystroking Skills, Bonnie Sue Smith (Dissertation)
Liquid transmission line pulser circuit for laser excitation, Carl Stultz (Thesis)
An exploratory functional-structural analysis of American urban traditional and alternative secondary public schools, Mary Ellen Sweeney (Dissertation)
An Analysis of Women's Jobs in the Middle East, 610 A.D.-1982, Malakeh Taleghani (Thesis)
The Japanese/American interface : a crosscultural study on the approach to discourse, Hitomi Tamura (Thesis)
Images from the Horse Heavens, David Thornock (Thesis)
Origin of human trisomy 21 mosaicism, Diane Dusenbery Waggoner (Thesis)
Metropolitan school administrators: work values, role perceptions and burnout, Jacqueline Conner Waggoner (Dissertation)
The expressive acquisition of locative and directional prepositions by severely-to-profoundly hearing impaired children, JoAnn Warlick (Thesis)
An investigation of the reliability, subscale intercorrelations, and validity of the Administrator role perception inventory, Anne Skirven Wax (Dissertation)
A population study of three iris (iridaceae) species native to the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon and adjacent California, Carol Anne Wilson (Thesis)
Causes and consequences of divorce in late life, Keren Brown Wilson (Dissertation)
Derivation and Test of Predictions of a Discrete Latent State Model for Signed Number Addition Test Performance, Kentaro Yamamoto (Thesis)
Polish foreign policy and the development of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Keijiro Yasui (Thesis)
Life satisfaction of elderly parents and parent-child relationships in old age, Tehchou Yeh (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
The pursuit of form, Robert Allen Anderson (Thesis)
Factors affecting thyrotropin secretion in superfused rat anterior pituitary cells, Frederick Scott Bartlow (Thesis)
Geology and hydrothermal alteration, Glass Buttes, Southeast Oregon, Dulcy Annette Berri (Thesis)
Investigation of blood pressure measurement using a hydraulic occlusive cuff, Kusha R. Bhattarai (Thesis)
Investigation of the contribution of aquatic humus to the transport of DDT in the environment, Dan Philip Blunk (Dissertation)
The geology of the Floras Creek area, Curry County, Oregon, Jon Dudley Bounds (Thesis)
One-third octave band augmented speech discrimination testing for normal hearing listeners, Nancy Marie Bowen (Thesis)
The Effect of Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum) Upon a Portion of the Carbon Budget of Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), Nancy Ellen Broshot (Thesis)
Housing the low-income, urban elderly: a role for the single room occupancy hotel, Mary Ann Burki (Dissertation)
A study of age and sex-related differences in the perception of emotional stimuli, Nancy Mellor Canizio (Thesis)
Perspectives on speechlessness : a case study, Michelle Alexander Carlson (Thesis)
A qualitative analysis of nine nonverbal communications texts, Edward J. Cavin (Thesis)
Phonational frequency ranges in vocally untrained adults using different cardinal vowels, Lorie Renee Chambers (Thesis)
Laser induced hydroxyl radical fluoresence at atmospheric pressure, Cornelius Yuk-kwan Chan (Dissertation)
Realism in young adult literature : criteria and analysis, Maryjo Barnett Chinn (Thesis)
Toward a measure of correspondence in relational perceptions in marital dyads, Deborah Anne Coker (Thesis)
A preliminary investigation of the lithological characteristics of the Troutdale Formation in portions of the Camas, Sandy, Washougal, and Bridal Veil quadrangles, David Lee Cole (Thesis)
Effects on Electrolytic Cells of Magnetic Fields Applied to Single Electrodes, Craig Allen Cousins (Thesis)
Towards a measure of superior-subordinate perceptual correspondence and its relationship to the performance appraisal, Elizabeth Duane Vergeer Crist (Thesis)
Involvement, social class and attrition in higher education : the case of the stop out, Terrence Scott Daugherty (Thesis)
Hemisphere side of damage and encoding capacity, Margaret Ellen Davis (Thesis)
Social support and well-being in middle-aged and elderly spinal cord injured persons: a social-psychological analysis, Susan Dee Decker (Dissertation)
A study of art education in the elementary school curriculum as amplification of other academic subjects and as a promoter of creativity in the learning process, Jana Demartini-Svoboda (Thesis)
Correlates of Sophisticated Listener Judgments of Esophageal Air Intake Noise, Vincent Eccleston (Thesis)
The measurement of economic diversification with reference to regional unemployment, Adil H. El-Haimus (Dissertation)
The effect of chronic post-natal protein deprivation on the social interaction of the rhesus macaque, Gertrude Alice Fogle (Thesis)
A study of factors affecting cognitive style in Mexican-American children, Anne Kelter Gehrig (Thesis)
Log structures : criteria for their description, evaluation and management as cultural resources, Margaret L. Glover (Thesis)
Language development and visual-motor integration in the preschool child, Andrea Lynn Perry Graham (Thesis)
A geophysical study of the North Scappoose Creek, Alder Creek, Clatskanie River lineament, along the trend of the Portland Hills fault, Columbia County, Oregon, Nina Haas (Thesis)
Desertion of Elderly by Adult Children, Jill C. Harvey (Thesis)
The relationship of brain hemisphere orientation to WISC-R subscale scores, Robin Diane Thomas Hayden (Thesis)