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Theses/Dissertations from 1983
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)
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)