This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1982
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)
An investigation of cadmium and sulfur reactions in dimethylsulfoxide, Howard W. Hogle (Thesis)
Impacts of environmental design on residential crowding, Ed Tieh-yeu Huang (Dissertation)
Kinetics of proton transport in lipid membranes induced by some chlorinated phenols, Ananda Ranjith Jayaweera (Dissertation)
Structure and influence of the Tillamook Uplift on the stratigraphy of the Mist area, Oregon, Moinoddin Murtuzamiya Kadri (Thesis)
Developing a Test of Communicative Competence for English as a Second Language Students at the College Level, Kristen Kern (Thesis)
The articulation of formal and informal helping: the influence of organizational context on relationships between professional and lay caregivers, Priscilla J. Kimboko (Dissertation)
A Comparison of Two Language Screening Instruments in Two Populations, Karen Kumpula-Lacey (Thesis)
Iron acquisition by cyanobacteria: siderophore production and iron transport by Anabaena, Peter James Lammers (Dissertation)
Anuran Activity Energetics, Scott R. Landrey (Thesis)
Adolescent chemical substance use and abuse : environmental and personal determinants, and a proposed model for group intervention, Lindy Louise Low LeCoq (Thesis)
Germany, Mexico, and the United States, 1911-1917, John Joseph Leffler (Thesis)
The Descriptive Function of Language: Changes with Age and Pressure to Inform, Eve Susan Liebman (Thesis)
The red-tailed hawk on Sauvie Island, Oregon, Kevin J. Lien (Thesis)
The copper complexation properties of dissolved organic matter from the Williamson River, Oregon, Charles Russell Lytle (Dissertation)
The acquisition of obligatory-do, Bernadette Maresh-Ericksen (Thesis)
Development of an operational system for monitoring the changes in urban subarea residential housing status: a spatial analytic application of the formulations of neighborhood filtering and neighborhood dynamics, Harold Chike Mba (Dissertation)
Hydroxide binding equilibrium in hemerythrin, John David McCallum (Thesis)
An Empirical Analysis of the Shift/Share Technique for Employment Forecasting, Larry McCord (Thesis)
The Effect of Parent-Child Interaction on the Language Development of the Hearing-Impaired Child, Arla J. Melum (Thesis)
The Effects of Overt and Covert Observation on the Clinical Behavior Emitted by Untrained Clinicians, Carol L.K. Middleton (Thesis)
A Change in Pass/Fail Criterion on the Mini-Screening Language Test for Adolescents, Denice Lynn Palmer Milholland (Thesis)
Feeding and food selection in the Japanese oyster Crassostrea gigas, Rickey D. Moore (Thesis)
Attitudes of Mental Health Professional Groups Toward Mental Health Treatment Modalities as Measured by the Semantic Differential Technique, Gene Stanley Morrill (Thesis)
The Relationship of Role Organization and Role Deprivation to Nurses' Views toward the Requirement for Entry into Professional Practice and its Related Issues, Paula G. Morton (Dissertation)
Proverbs : tools for world view studies : an exploratory comparison of the Bemba of Zambia and the Shona of Zimbabwe, Larry L. Niemeyer (Thesis)
Temporal and phenomenological aspects of social behavior in captive wolves (Canis lupus L.), Paul C. Paquet (Thesis)
Developing an attitude test to predict treatment outcome in depressed and anxious outpatients : an exploratory study, Kathryn Ainslie Paris (Thesis)
Burt Brown Barker: His Role in Historic Preservation in Oregon, Mark Fredric Peterson (Thesis)
Post-Mazama aboriginal settlement/subsistence patterns : Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon, Frances Marie Philipek (Thesis)
A study of the effects of active participation in instruction upon learning, Jerry D. Pratton (Dissertation)
A study of the personality characteristics of tinnitus patients, Gloria E. Reich (Thesis)
Marital interaction and spousal health and well-being, Ralph Arthur Schmoldt (Thesis)
Verbal fluency performance of normal elderly subjects, Molly Secrest (Thesis)
Extraversion-introversion and sensitivity to nonverbal cues, Virginia Seiser (Thesis)
Aspects of Anuran Metabolism: Effects of Chronic Hypoxia on Maximal Oxygen Uptake Rates and the Fate of Lactic Acid, Thomas Charles Solberg (Thesis)
Speech intelligibility as a function of the propositionality of background noise, Gail Swanstrom (Thesis)
Acoustical and Perceptual Correlates of Vocal Effort in Normal Hearing and Hearing-Impaired Children, Corinne A. Thomas-Kersting (Thesis)
The stratigraphic relationships of the Columbia River Basalt Group in the lower Columbia River Gorge of Oregon and Washington, Terry Leo Tolan (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Effects of Non-operant and Operant Carryover Techniques for /l/, Michelle Ann Tremblay (Thesis)
Adjustable systems in wood, James Richard True (Thesis)
Teaching figure drawing to adolescents within the context to [i.e. of] imaginative compositions, as a means of increasing artistic confidence and abilities, Christine Flavell Turner (Thesis)
Role-taking and behavior, Jane Wynne Uphoff (Thesis)
An investigation of the effects of self-disclosing communication on attraction-to-group in the small group setting, Pamela Walker Vredevelt (Thesis)
The Effect of Causal Attribution and Self-Evaluation on Mood, William N. Werner (Thesis)
Congressional Power and Presidential Prerogative: The War Powers Question, Gerald Michael Worley (Thesis)
Pragmatics: the verbal expression of feelings, Ann Paula Zimmerman (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Place of Arminianism in Protestantism, Ottathengil E. Abraham (Thesis)
Non-work-related services at the workplace : an exploratory study, William Roland Adix, Elizabeth March Christie, James J. Christrup, Carol M. Kaulukukui, Jennifer Idris Lenway, Cynthia A. Nelson, Linda S. Rielly, Steven Sorlien, Kathleen A. Sweeney-Easter, Lynn Campbell Tate, Patricia Jones Warman, and Donn C. Warton (Thesis)
Mission of protest : General John Armstrong's response to the continental system, 1806-1810, Thom M. Armstrong (Thesis)
Assessment of Needs of Adolescent Mothers in Washington County, John L. Arnold, Jean C. Austin, Gary L. Brink, Jane Hall, Patricia C. Hanson, Valerie A. Ivey, April A. Moran, John P. Pank, Mark J. Skolnick, James A. Tarr, and Roberta B. Vaughn (Thesis)
Nordic immigrants in Portland, 1870-1920 : the first fifty years, Janet Lynn Baisinger (Thesis)
Success expectancy in depressives, Marilyn Frances Barnowe-Meyer (Thesis)
Organizational innovation in a professional school: a case study, Marie Streng Berger (Dissertation)
Dream Therapy in Counseling, Deborah Ann Karr Black (Thesis)
FORTEL, a telecommunications forecasting system, James Leslie Black (Dissertation)
Stone sculpture, Laura P. Bogdan (Thesis)
Psychodrama and the terminal patient : concepts and application, Marilyn Jacobs Bohan (Thesis)
Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and the realism of the supernatural, Regina Berrit Braker (Thesis)
An introduction to black and white lithography : two alternatives to the stone, Carolyn Brookhart (Thesis)
Environmental and Psychological Factors Surrounding Children of Cancer Patients: An Exploratory Study, Joan Strong Buell (Thesis)
The metabolic cost of behavioral thermoregulation of body temperature in the northern alligator lizard Gerrhonotus coeruleus, and how it affects the classical concept of eurythermality, James Dudley Campbell (Thesis)
Burnout: Multi-Dimensional Study of Alienation Among Social Service Workers in the Willamette Valley, Sally Carignan, John Deihl, Judy Harris, Jay Jones, Bonnie Rothman, Sabrina Ullmann, Beth Weinberg-Gordon, Phyllis Weter, Patricia Whitty, and Loretta Wilson (Thesis)
A history of the Portland waterfront between southwest Clay and Washington streets, its land use and legal problems, Jeffrey G. Carter (Thesis)
Comparison of scores obtained on the PPVT and the PPVT-R, Jennie L.M. Choong (Thesis)
Community Structure on the Urban Frontier: the Jews of Portland, Oregon, 1849-1887, Robert Scott Cline (Thesis)
Alternative Agencies: An Exploratory Study, Linda Crane, Carolyn M. Curnane, Mike Echols, Mary Ann Hanson, Susan Kouns, Richard Ono, Mark Pierman, Susan K. Rademacher, Sara Weisberg, and Bea Zizlavsky (Thesis)
Reliability and validity of a scale to measure prosocial behavior in young children, Susan Davis (Thesis)
Explorations in the development of a descriptive model of strategic business planning, Laura Williamson Doyle (Dissertation)
An Alumni survey of the School of Social Work, Portland State University, Stephen R. Fishack, Robert A. Forlenza, Susan D. Fredd, Gigi Gandy, William P. Goldsmith, Thomas L. Grier, and Sheila K. Lehto (Thesis)
The influence of halloysite content on the shear strength of kaolinite, Reka Katalin Gabor (Thesis)
A geochemical study of the Rhododendron and Dalles formations in the area of Mount Hood, Oregon, Marshall W. Gannett (Thesis)
Geology of a volcanic complex on the south flank of Mount Jefferson, Oregon, Brian Lee Gannon (Thesis)
Louis de Potter and the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Karen N. Groth (Thesis)
The structure, geologic evolution and regional significance of the Bethel Creek-North Fork area, Coos and Curry counties, Oregon, Carl Fredrick Gullixson (Thesis)
The Effects of Public Progress Charts Upon Self-Pacing in a PSI Course in Social Studies in a Traditional Middle School, Lynnette Hager-Godat (Thesis)
Characterization of gram-positive bacterial isolates from burn victims, Trisha A. Hannan (Thesis)
The Coming of the Birdman: the Aviator's Image in Oregon, 1905-1915, Patrick John Harris (Thesis)
The Effects of Correctional Education on Recidivism, William L. Hiser (Thesis)
A stratigraphic and geochemical investigation of ferruginous bauxite deposits in the Salem Hills, Marion County, Oregon, Charles William Hoffman (Thesis)
Anna Held: A Biography, Michael Owen Hoffman (Thesis)
The Development and Effects of an Educational Audiovisual Presentation on Female Masturbation Upon the Attitudes and Masturbatory Behavior of College Females, Catherine Ann Hogan (Thesis)
Portland Youth Advocates' contact center program (1970-79): an idiographic study, Michael Horowitz (Dissertation)
Toward improvisation, Sandra Janeen Howe (Thesis)
Henna, Uses of it in the Middle East and North Africa, Diane M. Humphrey-Newell (Thesis)
Chemistry of Chromium Oxyfluorides and Group VIB Perfluoroglutarates, Bruce Michael Johnson (Thesis)
The prosecutors of Socrates and the political motive theory, Thomas Patrick Kelly (Thesis)
Stratigraphy, lithofacies, and environment of deposition of the Scappoose formation in central Columbia County, Oregon, Kevin Blair Kelty (Thesis)
Advanced Decorative Ceramics Techniques for High School Students, Deborah Ann Kent (Thesis)
Variation in branch growth characteristics of Pinus contorta infected with Arceuthobium americanum, Lynn Anne Larsen (Thesis)
Fruit and Flower : the history of Oregon's first day care center, Danielle Louise Larson (Thesis)
Affective Perspective-Taking and Sympathy in Young Children, Mary Driver Leinbach (Thesis)
The Determination of Normal Bone Conducted Speech Results Utilizing a Radioear B-72 Bone Oscillator, Roger Edwin Lundberg (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Relationship Between the Degree of Maintained Fluency Improvement of Former Portland State University Stuttering Clients and the Overall Language Themes They Used, Karen F. Mathew (Thesis)
An observational study of the workday of the urban high school assistant principal, Penny S. McDonald (Dissertation)
The political and constitutional significance of the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-1681, Susan Diane Meyer-Strom (Thesis)
Coping with stress following a natural disaster: the volcanic eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Shirley Ann Murphy (Dissertation)