This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
New evidence supporting the assignment of glutamic acid as an iron ligand in hemerythrin, Patricia M. Gormley (Thesis)
An Analysis of Sex Role Bias in Clinician's Evaluations of Client Behavior, Shari Paula Greenberg (Thesis)
Germination, respiration and photosynthesis in seeds of dwarf mistletoe (Arceuthobium), Steven Wayne Gustafson (Thesis)
An investigation of arsenic(V)-catechol complexes, Ronald P. Haak (Thesis)
An Exploration Into the Field of Hospital Social Work, Timothy D. Haley (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Persons Completing and Not Completing an Alcoholism Treatment Clinic's Group Intake Process, Timothy W. Hallinan and Eric J. Huelshoff (Thesis)
Intelligence and nonintelligence factors contributing to scores on the Rorschach prognostic rating scale, Anneke P. Hathaway (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Perceptual Ratings and Fundamental Frequency in Female and Male Esophageal Voices, Anne Terese Heinrich (Thesis)
Political activities of professional social workers residing in Portland, Oregon, Connie May Henes (Thesis)
A research project on the developmentally disabled adult, Randi Lynn Hillinger (Thesis)
Upton Sinclair and the 1934 California gubernatorial election, Patricia Lucy Hill (Thesis)
Relationship of auditory short-term memory and articulation ability of eight-year-olds, Winona Eugenia Hoffinger (Thesis)
Social behavior in a group of captive bobcats : a study in the sociability of felids, Lon W. House (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study Into the Financial Situations of Elderly Wards of the Public Guardian and Conservator of Multnomah County, Ruth D. Hudson (Thesis)
Paraprofessionals in Oregon: an exploratory study of the status of associate degree human service workers, Richard William Hunter (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Communication Style in Japan and the United States as Revealed Through Content Analysis of Television Commercials, Noriko Huruse (Thesis)
Petrology of the Bull-of-the-Woods intrusive complex, James Streshley Jackson (Thesis)
An instrument for determination of the polarization of fluorescence, George Irwin Johnston (Thesis)
A Comparison Between a Clinical Sample of Parents and Non-parents, as Reflected by Their Scores on the MMPI, Thomas Kearney and Casey Wegner (Thesis)
Trace Metal Ion Activities From Liquid-Liquid Partitioning Measurements, John Michael Kennish (Dissertation)
Stratigraphy and petrography of the Selah member of the Ellensburg formation in south-central Washington and north-central Oregon, Mavis Hensley Kent (Thesis)
Historical development and application of the conceptual approach in teaching, Louise A. Knoll (Thesis)
An Explorative Study of Parents' Ability to Predict Representative Feelings of Their Children, Kathleen Marie Koudele (Thesis)
Developmental Tasks of Older People: Implications for Group Work Practice, Mitchell Alan Lang (Thesis)
The minorities of Czechoslovakia and Poland : of treaties and human nature, Bryant L. Larson (Thesis)
A Consumer Evaluation of the Clackamas County Family Court Service, Barbara E. Lee and Patricia E. Watne (Thesis)
Small mammal dissemination of dwarf mistletoe seeds, Daniel Eugene Lemons (Thesis)
Empathetic Reactions Derived Through Abstract Sculptured Forms, Bruce Frederick Literal (Thesis)
Outcome evaluation of medical care utilizing Goal attainment scaling, Bonnie G. Little (Thesis)
A Tale of Two Cities: Public Housing and Municipal Revenue Policymaking in San Jose, Costa Rica and San Salvador, El Salvador, Paul Barrett MacDougall (Dissertation)
Program evaluation: a model for evaluating group homes for the developmentally disabled, Michael J. Maley (Thesis)
The history of mutual support organizations among the Chinese in Portland, Oregon, Scott Manchester (Thesis)
Personality, counseling and the cancer patient, Janet March and Ann Maxwell (Thesis)
Issues for Professionals Working with Cerebral Palsied Individuals, Joan Marquis, Beth Thompson, and Wendy Girdlestone (Thesis)
A study of the perceptual parameters of voice in aging females, Barbara Ann Mathers (Thesis)
An Analysis of Staggered Spondaic Word Test Performances of Dyslexic Children and Their Parents, Nancy Jane Maxwell (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Short-Term Auditory Memory Span and Sequence of Language/Learning Disabled Children and Normal Children, Kathleen M. McCausland (Thesis)
The resilience of the child as a factor in successful adjustment to permanent placement, Lani Maureen McDonald (Thesis)
Material-specific processes in tactile short-term memory, Christina Anne Meyers (Thesis)
Indications of feminist influence on contemporary social work practice, Clara Elizabeth Miller (Thesis)
The Threat Index and two forms of resistance to the concept of death, Henry E. Miller Jr. (Thesis)
A Validation Study of the Family Environment Scale: Family Incongruence Score, Linda Joanne Neale (Thesis)
Stephen Crane's ironic vision, Michael J. O'Bryant (Thesis)
Perceptions of Indian tribal leaders regarding the Indian self-determination act (Public law 93-638), Ramona O'Connor (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Social Service Needs and Demographic Characteristics of Selected Emergency Room Patients, Anne K. Parker (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of Language Deficits of Reservation and Urban Indian Children, Lezlie Kaye Pearce (Thesis)
The Relationship Between Social Isolation and Child Abuse: A Critical Literature Review, Ann A. Pederson (Thesis)
The Evaluation of a Title XX Training Grant in Child Care Treatment, Gilbért Louis Peña (Thesis)
Prehistoric mobile stone sculpture of the lower Columbia River valley: a preliminary study in a southern Northwest Coast culture subarea, Marilyn Sargent Peterson (Thesis)
Washington County Mental Health Program Year End Report for Fiscal Year 1976-1977, Jennifer Dee Pockel (Thesis)
Human services AA degree programs, Ken Price (Thesis)
The Effect of Developmental Temperature on Morphology, Energy Metabolism, Growth Hormone and Thyroid Stimulating Hormone in Long-Evans Rats, Dana Elizabeth Quinn (Thesis)
A study of the incidence of divorce, religious conflict, and need and potential utilization of marital/family services among Seventh-Day Adventist couples in the North Pacific Union Conference, Fern M. Ringering (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Resettlement Status of Indochinese Refugees in Portland, Rosalynn R. Ringor, Chareundi Van-Si, and Steven Hernandez (Thesis)
A survey of reading-readiness skills and their application to the late reader, Gail E. Robbins (Thesis)
Planning for regional environmental quality : the case of Japan's National Capital Region, Duane E. Roberts (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of the Relationship Between Age and Problems Expressed by Women Seeking Out-Patient Mental Health Services, Linda M. Rodgers and Joyce Carey (Thesis)
The Development of a Grassroots Citizen Action Organization, Mary Runge (Thesis)
Assertion Training of Nursing Home Residents, Roberta Saul (Thesis)
Job seeking patterns of vocational rehabilitation clients, Sandra Marie Schneider (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Expressive Preposition Usage of Educable Mentally Retarded Children and Normals, Marie Deon Shope (Thesis)
Social Work with Minority Clients : an Attitudinal Survey, Twila Jeanne Souers (Thesis)
Günter Kunert: The artistic development of a writer of the German Democratic Republic, Jutta Southwell (Thesis)
Aspects of the ecology of the common raven in Harney Basin, Oregon, Richard B. Stiehl (Dissertation)
Native American Social Work Symposium : an evaluation, Lou Stone (Thesis)
Bronze Sculptures: a Thesis Report, Michael T. Story (Thesis)
Medical social workers' attitudes toward death and related matters, Lon M. Stratton (Thesis)
Attitudes of Income Maintenance Line Workers in the State of Oregon About the Causes and Amelioration of Poverty, Gene Lamar Stutzman (Thesis)
A readership study of Oregon wildlife magazine, Deborah C. Sullivan (Thesis)
Passage, Randal Sumner (Thesis)
An investigation of similarity of the value system of the American and Japanese college students, Hiroyoshi Taguchi (Thesis)
An Evaluation of HEW Grant 426, a Training Program for Foster Parents of Handicapped Foster Children, William McKee Thome (Thesis)
The use of track autoradiography to determine species-specific phytoplankton productivity, Ralph Martin Vaga (Thesis)
Menopause, Middle Age, and the Social Worker, Bonnie C. Vatter (Thesis)
The relationship of weight loss to self concept in the mentally retarded adult, Pauline Bunting Wall (Thesis)
A manual for emergency room social workers, Jack West (Thesis)
Social Control Theory and Delinquency, Michael David Wiatrowski (Dissertation)
Description and Analysis of the Public Guardian and Conservator Program in Multnomah County, Oregon, Dianne Wyers (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Relationship Between Personality Characteristics of Social Work Students and Choice of Social Work Practice Area, Linda A. Yegge and Francie E. Buktenica (Thesis)
Alternative Living Situation for Indian Youth, Colleen Lynn Langer Yost and Lloyd Blackstone Pinkham (Thesis)
Politics of land use : the lengthy saga of Senate bill 100, Kathleen Joan Zachary (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
An Exploratory Study of Adolescent Perceptions of Communication Behavior, Pat Adams and Marion Summers (Thesis)
Attitudes of Psychiatric Nurses and Aides at an Oregon State Hospital Toward Homosexuality, Don Andersen (Thesis)
Mystik und Pietismus in der deutschen Sprache, unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Wortes "Gelassenheit" (Mysticism and Pietism in the German Language with Special Emphasis upon the Word "Gelassenheit"), Clyde E. Antwine (Thesis)
Role Demands of Professional Women in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Soraya Wali El-Deen Assad (Thesis)
The Development of a Patient Satisfaction Evaluation System in a Family Practice Setting, Lynda Ater (Thesis)
Toward an understanding of men and masculinity: some dimensions of the social construction of knowledge in social work professional journals, Robert Bailey and Denny Patella (Thesis)
The Berrigans at Catonsville: a Case Study in Symbolic Behavior as Rhetoric, Susan Baker (Thesis)
English Renaissance Humanist Education, Lori Ann Bjornstad (Thesis)
Visual notes, fragments and allusions: drawing and painting thesis, Barbara Black (Thesis)
Self-Report of Illicit Adolescent Drug Use: a Methodological Discussion, Mario Bolivar, Judy Casey, Susan Goldsmith, and Stanley Hahn (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of the Pragmatic Issues in Obtaining an Abortion Among Sixty-five Women at Lovejoy Specialty Hospital, Portland, Oregon, Barbara E. Bordner, Wendy Green, and Susie Milberg (Thesis)
The Effect of Declining Timber Supplies and Productivity Increases in the Forest Products Industries Upon Employment in Douglas County, Oregon, Patrick L. Burden (Thesis)
A Follow-up Study of Children Released From Child Care Centers, Tamsel Tack Cabrera (Thesis)
Middle and upper Eocene biostratigraphy (Foraminifera) of the Cascade Head area, Lincoln and Tillamook Counties, Oregon, Arden D. Callender Jr. (Thesis)
Gender Roles in the Camping Situation, Carol Alice Carlson (Thesis)
An Evaluative Study of Client Satisfaction at a Mental Health Clinic, Dianne E. Carlton (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Clinician-Client Interactions in Urban Language and Stuttering Clinics, Teresa M. Carnese (Thesis)
A Concept Acquisition Project Comparing Receptive and Expressive Programs, Carol Paulson Carpenter (Thesis)
Determination of Mercury by Photoacoustic Spectroscopy, Robert Allen Cary (Thesis)