This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
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)
The Influence of Ben Jonson on the Poetry of Yeats, Wayne Kenneth Chapman (Thesis)
The Fatty Acid Composition of Some North American Dwarf Mistletoe, Hwa Chen (Thesis)
The Use of Discrediting Labels in the Maintenance of Socially Constructed Reality, Nathan Church (Thesis)
Modification of an anterior lisp using myofunctional therapy and traditional speech therapy techniques, Charlene E. Clark (Thesis)
Involvement of Hemerythrin Sulfhydryl Groups in Heavy Atom Binding and Subunit Interactions, Suzanne Elizabeth Clarke (Thesis)
The Divorce Experience and its Impact on the Father-Child Relationship, Susan Coffman, Ellen Lane, and Erika Worth (Thesis)
Women in menopause: a study of gynecologist's perceptions, Zadell Cogan and Sharon Kennedy (Thesis)
Program planning for community residents who have been released from mental institutions, Joseph D. Condon and Margaret Ann Drackert (Thesis)
A Survey of Neighborhood Attitudes Toward the Mentally Retarded and Community Group Homes, Fred T. Cooprider (Thesis)
Grassroot Organizations in the Black Community in Portland, Danny Bernard Copeland (Thesis)
A One Case Study of a Fifteen Year Old Boy in Residential Treatment in the State of Oregon, Edward S. Cote (Thesis)
Error Codes in Digital Data Communication Systems, Robert Hadley Cravens (Thesis)
Social Profile of the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area, Terry L. Cross (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Some Problems of Widows in Portland, Oregon, Kathleen Marsha Davis and Gail Petchesky (Thesis)
The Chemistry of SF₅Br and SF₅CF=CF₂ - Addition Reactions, Robin J. DeBuhr (Thesis)
The Effects of Urban-Rural Life Histories of the Aged on Urban Adaptation, Michael R. DeShane (Dissertation)
The attitudes of youth workers on delinquency and delinquency programs, Gary Lee Dominick, Carol Swartz, and Michael Orval Taylor (Thesis)
The Study of the Differential Effects of Visual and Auditory Presentation on Logical Reasoning, Jacob Lauterstein Driesen (Thesis)
An investigation into the elasticity of demand for motor gasoline, Samy Fouad El-Iskandarany (Dissertation)
A study of home range in two Neotoma fuscipes colonies in Klamath County, Oregon, Brent D. Frazier (Thesis)
A Behavioral Study of a Small Group of Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) On MT. Hood, Oregon, Nancy A. Ewen Frazier (Thesis)
Limit Design of Unbraced Reinforced Concrete Frames, Thomas Joseph Gavin (Thesis)
Retrospective Study of Participants in Preorgasmic Women's Groups : Looking for Life Changes, Barbara Geiger (Thesis)
Unwiederbringlich und Effi Briest : Eine Studie zu Theodor Fontanes Erzählweise, Christine Gentzkow (Thesis)
Effects of Types 1 and 2 Herpes Simplex Viruses on Several Fish Tissue Culture Systems, Raymond Charles Harry (Thesis)
A Follow-Up Study of the Graduates in the Academic Track at WSSB, Linda Heider (Thesis)
Psychiatric Emergency Services in Oregon, Maren L. Hersrud, Karalee Kiser, and Catherine M. Knox (Thesis)
Self-esteem and the Elderly : an Exploratory Study of a Residential Population in a Home for the Aged, Vernon E. Hoffer (Thesis)
Localization of neurosecretory cells within the cerebral ganglia of Amphiphorus imparispinosus Griffin, 1898 (Hoplonemertea) and their possible regulatory role in the annual reproductive cycle, Gail H. Jacobson (Thesis)
An Assessment of the Impact of Public Housing on the Low Income Elderly Residents of the Burnside Community, Timothy C. Jacobs (Thesis)
Characterization of Trace Iron Species in Natural Water, James Robert Johnson (Thesis)
Behavioral Temperature Regulation in the Turtle Pseudemys scripta elegans, Michael H. Johnston (Thesis)
A Study of Behavior Changes Among Children Who Have Left the Children's Psychiatric Day Treatment Center, Julia A. Jones and Larry G. Pederson (Thesis)
Analysis of a Gravity Traverse South of Portland, Oregon, Terry Dean Jones (Thesis)
Quality of life assessment of chronic hemodialysis patients at the Artificial Kidney Unit of Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center, Karen Jones Whittle, Michael Tripp, and Bruce De Young (Thesis)
The Effect of Two Levels of Δ9 THC on State-Dependent Learning in Rats, Roy Katzen (Thesis)
Children with Porencephaly: A Study of Services, Dana Kaufman and Elisabeth Mason (Thesis)
A Direct and Behavioral Travel Demand Model for Prediction of Campground Use by Urban Recreationists, Andre Kimboko (Dissertation)
Partisans, godmothers, bicyclists, and other terrorists: women in the French resistance and under Vichy, Rayna Kline (Thesis)
Speech Improvement as an Aid to Language Development, Marilyn Gould Knauf (Thesis)
Office Simulation Survey with Plan of Implementation, Arlene B. Krause (Thesis)
The vertically-oriented organization : a theoretical perspective, Beth M. Kurren (Thesis)
An investigation of the consistency of judgments regarding successive approximations of /r/, Scott Robert Lane (Thesis)
The Petrology and Stratigraphy of the Portland Hills Silt, Rodney Thomas Lentz (Thesis)
The Maximum Duration of Phonation of /a/ in Children, Kerry Lewis (Thesis)
Lebendiger Klang der Natura Herders Begriff des "Primitiven" in der Literatur, Judy A. Lorenz (Thesis)
The Effects of Prolonged Alcohol Use on Heart Rate During a Submaximal Workload and Other Selected Parameters, Gayle MacDonald (Thesis)
The disposition of reported child abuse, Marc F. Maden (Dissertation)
International law, German Submarines and American Policy, Janet Marilyn Manson (Thesis)
Involuntarily and Voluntarily Committed Persons Compared Using Factor and Discriminant Function Analysis, Cheryl Marie Marrow (Thesis)
Netarts Bay, Oregon: an assessment of human impact on an estuarine system, Larry D. McCallum (Thesis)
An investigation of the combined effect of agency support and professional social workers' training on the type of family therapy practiced by agency-based social workers, Betsy Marsh McCartor and Margaret Labby (Thesis)
Analysis of the Two Word Stage of Language Development: An Ideographic Study, Lou Ann McCoy (Thesis)