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Theses/Dissertations from 1977
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 and Renee Klisch (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 Natur: 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)
Purification and properties of lysozyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage 7v, Lynne Vernice McFarland (Thesis)
Toward a Phenomenology of Acculturation : An Investigation of Foreign Students' Perception of Competency Along Phenomenological Dimensions of Acculturation by Means of Guttman's Scalogram Analysis, Janet Metzger (Thesis)
Attitudes of Graduate Social Work Students Toward the Disabled: Use of Yuker's Disabled Persons Scale, Donna Meyer Weggenman (Thesis)
A Politically Appointed Task Force: Can It be Effective?, Randolph Latourette Miller (Thesis)
The Union Bimetallic Party of Oregon, 1896-1898, Ludger Mogge (Thesis)
Measurement of Ambiguity Tolerance (MAT-50): Further Construct Validation, Burl Mostul (Thesis)
An Experimental Investigation of Unbraced Reinforced Concrete Frames, Nourollah Samiee Nejad (Thesis)
The statistical manipulation of Delphi statements, Bradley William Nelson (Dissertation)
Background to the Second Amendment, John Thomas Nichols (Thesis)
Listening Rate Preferences of Language Disordered Children as a Function of Grammatical Complexity, Wendy Lee Orloff (Thesis)
Motivational Factors Behind Repetitive Abortions, Kelly Osmont and Ellen Wolfford (Thesis)
Citizen participation: individual political behavior and the Federal mandate, Rick R. Paulson (Dissertation)
Follow-up Study of the Child Diagnostic Center, Nancy Ann Peck and Krystal Angevine (Thesis)
Bat Homing, John Mark Perkins (Thesis)
Bird Use of Revetted Riverbanks in the Willamette Valley, Clifford Brian Perry (Thesis)
The Mentally Retarded's Right to Meaningful Treatment: A Review of Legal and Psychological Literature, Susan Katherine Peters (Thesis)
The Development and Testing of a Fluidic/Pneumatic Position Servo, David Lyle Portin (Thesis)
Personal incidental fund: a study in policy making, Shirley Rackner (Thesis)
Choice and Success: The Evolution of a Modern Hero, Laurence W. Ranstead (Thesis)
The Effects of a Political Boundary Running Through a Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of the Establishment and Functioning of the Jantzen Beach Shopping Center, Rose Romaine Reed (Thesis)
Distribution and Behavior Study of Diurnal Tree Squirrels in Portland, Oregon, with Emphasis on the Western Gray Squirrel (Sciurus griseus griseus Ord) and the Western Fox Squirrel (S. niger rufiventer E. Geoffroy St.-Hilaire), Ira Young Rice III (Thesis)
lntercultural Adjustment in an Academic Enrichment Program, Mary Frances Samuel Ricks (Thesis)
Attitudes and Perceptions of Medical Social Workers Held by Primary Care Physicians in Private Practice, Defined as Family Practitioners, Internists, and Pediatricians, Rosemarie Rosenfeld (Thesis)
The Dispersal and Dispersion Patterns of Hydra Fusca in a Limited Environment, Faith E. Ruffing (Thesis)
A Demographic Study of Two Alcoholic Populations in a State Hospital, James John Schelot (Thesis)
An Evaluation System for Alcohol and Drug Programs, Michael J. Schrunk (Thesis)
A Quantitative Study Based on a Sonographic Examination of Four Vowel Sounds in Alaryngeal Speech, Cheryl Ann Schultz (Thesis)
The Influence of Age and Stimuli on the Explanations of "Same" and "Different" by Young Children, Pamela Callas Senders (Thesis)
Landscape Painting in the Secondary Classroom, Margaret Shirley (Thesis)
Disengagement of Older People in an Urban Setting, Melvina Somers (Dissertation)
Social work intervention and patients' utilization of the Kaiser health care system, Pegi Sten and Liz Swint Young (Thesis)
Assessment of Feasibility of Proposed Bolted Connections for Tubular Structures, John Henry Tausch (Thesis)
An improved approach for "optimization" of multiple policy objectives, Perihan Soliman Tawfik (Dissertation)
Biostratigraphy of the Type Weberg Member, Snowshoe Formation, Grant County, Oregon, David G. Taylor (Thesis)
The Founding and Early Years of the National Association of Colored Women, Therese C. Tepedino (Thesis)
The Use of Telegraphic Reading Material by Aphasic Patients, Sylvia Diane Tovey (Thesis)
An Experimental Investigation of the Hole-Drilling Technique for Measuring Residual Stresses in Welded Fabricated Steel Tubes, Chau Mong Tran (Thesis)
Social impact assessment at the neighborhood level, William H. Triest (Thesis)
Predicting Synergy of Movement for Speech From Feeding Assessment or Diadochokinesis in Cerebral Palsied Children, Meredith Kathryn Van Bemmel (Thesis)
Genetic Transformation Among Azotobacter Species, Wayne H. Voth (Thesis)
CHANCE: a probabilistic model for electrical energy planning, Wayne William Wakeland (Dissertation)
Service delivery to deaf persons : a survey and proposal, Patrick F. Walsh (Thesis)
The Therapeutic Community: Treatment as Viewed by Former Addicts, Barbara Ward and Robert York (Thesis)
Educational, Sociocultural, and Phonological Obstacles for the Japanese Learner of English, David Howard Waterbury (Thesis)
A Model for Decision Making: A Systems Approach, Eleanor Weitman (Thesis)
In their hearts forever : the dynamics of Stalinism, James Seymour Wilson (Thesis)
Important counsels to kings and imams by Shaykh ʻAlwan (ʻAli Ibn ʻAttiyyah al-Hamawi) ; translation, with a historic introduction, the biography of the author and commentaries on the text, Abdullah S. Zaid (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
A Comparison of the Vocabulary Ability of Four- and Five-Year-Old Bilingual Mexican-American Children with That of Monolingual Anglo-American Children, Amparo Abila (Thesis)
Maternal and Child Health Training Assessment, Robert H. Abrams (Thesis)
Thermal Ecology and Movement in the Leopard Lizard, Gambelia Wislizeni, Baird and Girard, Marvin Lynn Abts (Thesis)
Figurative Painting and It's Reverberation in Pairs, Carol Crampton Adams (Thesis)
Polymerization of Amino Acids on Kaolinite, Z. Badri Adnani-Gleason (Thesis)
Effects of Increased Fuel Costs on Households in a Low Income Neighborhood in Portland, Oregon, Ora Allen and Betty Heald (Thesis)
Supergraphics in the Portland Environment, John Earl Allgood (Thesis)
A Study of Runaway Behavior and Other Factors Impeding Treatment at Albertina Kerr Center, a Residential Treatment Center for Girls, June Anderson, Mary Coleman, Kristi Kennen, and Tom Ross (Thesis)
Oregon's Struggle Toward a Comprehensive Plan for Children's Mental Health Services: A Historical and Political Process, Kristin Angell (Thesis)
Specialized Out-of-Home Care Project: An Outcome Study, Carol Teresa Arden, Bonnie Jean Braeutigam, Dennis Schilling, and Charlotte Mary Wellman (Thesis)
The No-fault dissolution of marriage act in Oregon: a study of its effect on selected factors, Dennis Arthur Armstrong (Thesis)
Economic Coping Patterns of Chinese Foreign Students in Portland State University, Kim Bik Au (Thesis)
William Dunbar: An Analysis of His Poetic Development, G. David Beebe (Thesis)
The Assessment of Interviewee Experience of the Expressive and Interpersonal Meanings of Interviewer Nonverbal Behavior, Carol Ann Bloom (Thesis)
An inter-rater reliability study on the Multi-dimensional outcome measure, Grace Boys (Thesis)
Homosexuality Among Women: Historical and Current Views in Psychology, Craig Bracy (Thesis)
A Study of the Relationship between Articulation Proficiency and Auditory Conceptualization Ability, Alana Fenwick Bradley (Thesis)
Verbal Strategies in Small Group Communication, Christine Marie Bunsick (Thesis)
Auditory Short-Term Memory Span and Sequence for Five Different Stimulus Types, Sandra L. Burford (Thesis)
Need assessment methodology, Gerald A. Burns and Janet S. Putnam (Thesis)
Listener Perception of Fluent, Breathy, and Imprecisely Articulated Speech of Stutterers, Diane Carol Campbell (Thesis)