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Theses/Dissertations from 1982
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 (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 (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)
The Portland, Oregon ASAP: an Evaluation of Treatment Effectiveness, Joan M. Wildebush Berry (Thesis)
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 (Thesis)
A History of the Portland Waterfront Between Southwest Clay and Washington Streets, Its Land Use and Legal Problems, Jeffrey Gerald 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 (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 (Thesis)
The Influence of Halloysite Content on the Shear Strength of Kaolinite, Reka Katalin Gabor (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)
A Comparison of Boone-Prescott Content and Sequence Analysis Data of Poorly and Highly Rated Clinician-Client Interactive Skills, Kathleen M. Noonan (Thesis)
Factorial Structure of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Kevin Page O'Brien (Thesis)
The assessment of service providers' attitudes toward working with older clients in an urban social service system, Marilyn Diane Petersen (Dissertation)
An investigation of observer evaluation accuracy of clinical sessions, Douglas Scott Peterson (Thesis)
Preliminary inventory of lifeline systems and evaluation of seismic hazards in Reno and Sparks, Nevada, Barbara Priest (Thesis)
Experimental Determination of Post-buckling Performance of Steel Angles, Rupasiri Purasinghe (Thesis)
The French Connection in Early Oregon, Gregory Charles Rathbone (Thesis)
Reconstructions : humor through the use of ambiguous images and color, Karl J. Ross (Thesis)
Citizen advocacy groups, an intervention strategy: a case study of the Community Coalition for School Integration in Portland, Oregon, Patricia J. Rumer (Dissertation)
The Bungalow Aesthetic: the Social Implications of a Nationwide Phenomenon Viewed from the Perspective of a Small Town, Janice Williams Rutherford (Thesis)
Factor Structure and Reliability of the Revised Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales, Carol A. Sadler (Thesis)
Isolation and characterization of frullanolide from Frullania franciscana (Howe), Marshall Stuart Sass (Thesis)
Work personality as a factor in evaluating the work potential of the mentally retarded, Janet L. Scally (Thesis)
Approximate reasoning, logics for self-reference, and the use of nonclassical logics in systems modeling, Daniel Guy Schwartz (Dissertation)
A Comparison of Two Articulation Carry-Over Techniques, Robyn Schwartz (Thesis)
A study of Leslie model under stochastic environments, Kamran Shaukat (Thesis)
Cadmium and Zinc Levels in the Hair of Smokers and Nonsmokers, Neal R. Simonsen (Thesis)
Following the Drum: British Women in the Peninsular War, Sheila Simonson (Thesis)
Physical effects of 3-phenylindole on ion transport across bilayer lipid membranes, Barbara A. Sinha (Dissertation)
A Genetic and Physiological Study of an Arsenite Resistant, Uncoupled Mutant of Escherichia coli, Daniel Gordon Smiley (Thesis)
Transparent sculptures, lithographs, and watercolors : a personal response to the natural world, Stephan Spencer Soihl (Thesis)
Characteristics and Practices of Forensics Programs in Oregon Secondary Schools, Gregg T. Sylvester (Thesis)
Police patrol deployment in small urban centers: an application of integrated management decision-making, Robert Wayne Taylor (Dissertation)
The Determination of a Relative Chronology for a Surface Archeological Site Using the Obsidian Hydration Dating Method, Scott Preston Thomas (Thesis)
Stratigraphy, lithofacies and depositional environment of the Cowlitz Formation, T. 4 and 5N., R. 5W. Northwest Oregon, Dale M. Timmons (Thesis)
An analysis of environmental, social and personal dimensions and their relationship to psychological well-being in late life, Renee Tissue (Dissertation)
Plasmid-mediated resistance to arsenite and arsenate in Escherichia coli, Thomas Patrick Trezona (Thesis)
A Description and Evaluation of the Self-Help Information Service, Cathy Tuma and John Wadsworth (Thesis)
The perinatal regionalization policy: a study in form and development, Linda Umbdenstock (Dissertation)
Trouble in River City: An Analysis of an Urban Vice Probe, Joseph S. Uris (Dissertation)
Developmental Sentence Scoring Sample Size Comparison, Marilyn May Valenciano (Thesis)
The Biogeography of Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) in Central Oregon, Robert Allen Voeks (Thesis)
The stratigraphy and structure of the Columbia River basalt group in the Bull Run watershed, Multnomah and Clackamas Counties, Oregon, Beverly Frobenius Vogt (Thesis)
Revetment clearing, its influence on riparian mammal communities, Robert E. Willis (Thesis)
The Diffusion of a Controversial Innovation in the Alsea, Oregon Area, Steven K. Worden (Thesis)
The Effect of Early Handling on the Sexually Dimorphic Rate of Extinction of a Conditioned Taste Aversion in Rats, Rebecca Lee Yoder (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Multiple Impact Therapy: Evaluation and Design for Future Study, Jacqueline H. Abikoff (Thesis)
Stratigraphy and sedimentation of the Spencer Formation in Yamhill and Washington Counties, Oregon, Fathi Ayoub Al-Azzaby (Thesis)
The structure and stratigraphy of the Columbia River basalt in the Chehalem Mountains, Oregon, Abdul-Rahman Mohammed Al-Eisa (Thesis)
Succession to the caliphate in early Islam, Faisal H. al-Kathiri (Thesis)
Morphological and cytological studies on Arceuthobium (Viscaceae) in relationship to host phloem with studies on the healthy phloem in Pinus sabiniana (Pinaceae), Margaret Carol Alosi (Dissertation)
Individual Differences in Imaginal and Verbal Information Processing Abilities, Joan Marie Anderson (Thesis)
Interpersonal behavior and depression : an examination of self-descriptions on the Interpersonal check list, Douglas Steven Andrews (Thesis)
Surface area of coal as influenced by low temperature oxidation processes, Salvador Leon Arredondo (Thesis)
The effect of costs and constraints on the optimum employment combination of full-time and part-time faculty at urban community colleges, Zoe Annette Arrington (Dissertation)
The Effect of Residual Stress Distribution on the Ultimate Strength of Tubular Beam-Columns, Steven L. Barrett (Thesis)
Salem Teen Mother Program: A Follow-up Study, Frances L. Barton (Thesis)
An observational study of service provider client dyadic interactions, Joan Dayger Behn (Dissertation)