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Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Forecasting interest rates using pattern recognition techniques, John S. Pearson (Dissertation)
Quaternary volcanology of the West Crater-Soda Peaks area, southern Washington Cascade Range, David R. Polivka (Thesis)
You don't have to have a high school education to work here : an ethnography of a chainstore, Caroline Yvonne Princehouse (Thesis)
Body Weight Changes Throughout the Menstrual Cycle and Their Effect Upon the Components of Body Composition, Lovina M. Query (Thesis)
An investigation of the relationship between biographical characteristics and job satisfaction among middle school teachers in four suburban school districts, Susan Scott-Miller (Dissertation)
The Effect on Culture-Bound Evaluation by the Intercultural Communication Workshop (ICW) at Portland State University, Marion Franc Sørensen (Thesis)
Load flow and contingency analysis in power systems, Kianfar Sorooshian (Thesis)
Retirement satisfaction and the timing of the retirement age: an analysis of retirees and older workers from a Fortune 500 firm, Donna Elaine Stuteville (Dissertation)
Effective acquisition of basic skills: an elementary schools program, Linda L. Terhark (Dissertation)
A validation study of the screening test for developmental apraxia of speech, Deborah L. Thorsen (Thesis)
Intercultural communication problems of Nigerian students in the Portland Metropolitan Area : a comparative study of a review of literature and personal interviews, Sam Tugba (Thesis)
Determination of Systemic Blood Pressure via Autospectral Analysis of Oscillometric Data, Eugene Elie Warner (Thesis)
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Paleogene arkosic and volcaniclastic strata, Johnson Creek-Chambers Creek area, southern Cascade Range, Washington, Warren Jon Winters (Thesis)
Effects of Dehydration on Hemoglobin Oxygen Affinity and Blood Cell Volume in Two Anurans, Andrew Christopher Zygmunt (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Rating life events : the effect of experience and point of reference, Richard John Alden (Thesis)
The utility of alternate theoretical conceptualizations of "urban environment" in explaining variation in attitudes and behaviors, John Conrad Allen III (Thesis)
A mechanistic study of the electrochemical formation of CdS CdSe semiconducting films, Mario Aparicio-Razo (Dissertation)
The introduction of European and Asian cultural materials on the Alaskan and Northwest coasts before 1800, Herbert Kyle Beals (Thesis)
A descriptive predictive model for the employment of computer-based management information systems for the government of a developing country: case, Iran, Hossein Bidgoli (Dissertation)
Secondary stresses in bowstring timber trusses, John F. Bradford (Thesis)
Teacher attitude toward composition instruction at the postsecondary level: identification and formation, Jane B. Braunger (Dissertation)
Enrollment decline: the uses and disposition of excess space in 106 Oregon public school districts, Marjorie Brothers (Dissertation)
Justice Brennan and the Bill of Rights, David B. Brownhill (Thesis)
Depositional Model of the Antelope Coal Field, Wyoming, Christine M. Budai (Thesis)
A study of single angle compression members, James Robert Callaway (Thesis)
External dependence and national urban development policy: a structural analysis of graduate unemployment in Nairobi, Kenya, Fantu Cheru (Dissertation)
Short-term wellness program for a school staff comparing levels of support, Wynferd Ray Chilton (Dissertation)
Effect of Tinnitus Maskers on Speech Discrimination Among Those Wearing Tinnitus Maskers, John Alexander Chonka (Thesis)
Effect of copper on cell division, nitrogen metabolism, morphology, and sexual reproduction in the life cycle of Closterium moniliferum (Chlorophyceae), Erleen Svihovec Christenson (Dissertation)
The Application of Exact Electrodiffusion Theory to Ion Transport Across Lipid Bilayer Membranes, Scott Cohen (Thesis)
Toward a behavioral analysis of attentiveness as a style of communication, Ray Alan Coker (Thesis)
The Combined Effect of Cu and Zn on Selenastrum capricornutum, Helmer Colonia-Roque (Thesis)
Tillamook Indian basketry : continuity and change as seen in the Adams Collection, Ailsa Elizabeth Crawford (Thesis)
The Correlation Between Expressive Language Delay in Children and Their Motor Abilities, Gail G. Cunningham (Thesis)
Psychometric properties of the Group process questionnaire, Lucia Igou Eakins (Thesis)
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)