This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Lifespring's Basic Seminar: An Evaluation Study, Patricia A. Percival (Thesis)
Structural Geology of the Northeast Quarter of the Dutchman Butte Quadrangle, Southwest Oregon, Rauno K. Perttu (Thesis)
Aging and the Semantic Differential: Semantic Stability in the Measurement of Social Evaluation, Marilyn Diane Petersen (Thesis)
A Specialized Child Protective Service Unit, Paul O. Powers and Bonnie J. Vance (Thesis)
The use of dance as a tool for personality integration, Barbara Throckmorton Rankin (Thesis)
A Series of Sculptures, John Redman (Thesis)
Medical and Nursing Students: Concepts of Self and Ideal Self, Typical and Ideal Work Partner, Ingrid Rein (Thesis)
Exploring Collaboration: A Program Evaluation of a Mental Health Intervention in a Public Elementary School, Joy Rhodes (Thesis)
The Androgenic Glands of the Pacific Crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus trowbridgii Stimpson, 1859, Larry L. Sanders (Thesis)
Theoretical Differences in Kissinger and Schlesinger's Models of the International System, Wayne Alan Schroeder (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Oregon Literacy Tutors in Multnomah County, Marva Schwiebert and Kathleen Whittle (Thesis)
A Study Describing the Counseling Practices of the Pastors in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church, Jere' Slingerland Howell (Thesis)
Biostratigraphy of the Snowshoe Formation (Jurassic) in the Izee area, Grant County, Oregon, Paul Lawrence Smith (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Thai Nonverbal Communication, Suriya Smutkupt (Thesis)
The Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Leclanché Cell, Walter Edward Socha (Thesis)
An Examination of the Interrelationship Between Caregiver Behaviors, Infant Temperament and Perceptual-Cognitive Development, Anita E. Stauffer (Thesis)
Some Coyote Food Habitat Patterns in the Shrub-Steppe of South-central Washington, Peter Frederick Stoel (Thesis)
Does Urban Noise Represent a Hazard to Health?, Frances J. Storlie (Dissertation)
Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed adolescents, Rosemary Brown Sutherland (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Articulation Management Approaches, Cindy Sue Sykes (Thesis)
Mammals of the Bull Run, Edward M. Thatcher (Thesis)
Social work continuing education needs assessment study, Mary Lou Timme (Thesis)
Political Development in Oregon: The Provisional Government 1843-1849, James M. Tompkins (Thesis)
The PCI Resurgent: 1943-1945, Karen Adele Tosi (Thesis)
Theoretical studies in cooperative phenomena and population ecology, Shripad Tuljapurkar (Dissertation)
The Circulation of Elites in Twentieth Century American History: The New Deal as Case Study, Diane Theresa Volk (Thesis)
A Numerical Solution For The Ultimate Strength of Tubular Beam-Columns, Arnold L. Wagner (Thesis)
The Addition of SF5Br to Unsaturated Systems, Qui-Chee Wendy Wang (Thesis)
The Role of American Diplomacy in the Louisiana Purchase, Rebecca Warren (Thesis)
Coordination in Social Service Systems: the Area Agency on Aging as a Case Study, Terrie Todd Wetle (Dissertation)
Male Client Expectations of Female Therapists, Phyllis Whitman Heims and Susan Annette Ofstad (Thesis)
The Effect of Natural Childbirth Classes on Anxiety in Pregnant Women, Kitty M. Wilkinson (Thesis)
A Validity Study of Select Symbol-Referent Relationships Using Semantic Differential Ratings, Stephen Willard (Thesis)
Influence of light on algal growth in the lower Willamette River, Stephen Arthur Wille (Thesis)
The Proposed Community Involvement Activities of the Multnomah County Department of Public Safety : a Descriptive Study, Vertis Williams and Leearthur Madison (Thesis)
The Geology of the Castle Rock Area, Grant, Harney and Malheur Counties, Oregon, John David Wood (Thesis)
A Holistic Approach to Social Work Education, Lynda M. Wright (Thesis)
Bayesian Inquiry: an Approach to the Use of Experts, King G. Yee (Dissertation)
Contributions to Tualatin Ethnography: Subsistence and Ethnobiology, Henry B. Zenk (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
House Bill 1302 : An Armistice in the Fish War on the Columbia, Emery Lewellyn Albertson (Thesis)
Effect of Stressful and "Neutral" Moving Images and Still Images on Dreaming, Elizabeth Anne Anderson (Thesis)
Articulation Error Rates for Oral Reading Tasks in Children with Developmental Apraxia of Speech, Kenneth Jerry Arkell (Thesis)
A Comparison of Socialization and the Current Attitudes Towards Personal and Feminist Issues of Women Over 65, Gayle Austin and Anna Belle Sime (Thesis)
Is there a case for in-kind income transfers?: an analysis of the low-income housing and food stamp programs, Judy Barmack (Dissertation)
Evaluation of the Admissions Process at Portland State University School of Social Work: Prediction and Performance, Paula Bates Mike, Nancy J. Sharff, and Barbara Lynn Wolochow (Thesis)
A Study of the Relationship Between Overt Behavior and: I) TAT Fantasy Aggression and the Stimulus Properties of Selected TAT Cards, II) Self-Report Measures of Aggression and Guilt, III) TAT Fantasy Aggression, Self-Report Measures and Personal Data, Christine Ruth Bauman and David James Leitner (Thesis)
A study of battered children in Santa Barbara, California, Carol Lynne Beastrom (Thesis)
Self and Ideal-Self Concepts in a Prison Population: (1) Self and Ideal-Self Patterns of Violent and Non-Violent Offenders, (2) Self and Ideal-Self Concepts in Relation to Time Served Within a Prison, Alison Prince Berman and James W. Kushmuk (Thesis)
The teaching of history in the secondary schools of Australia, Richard Townley Blaine (Thesis)
New Odessa, 1882-1887: United we stand, divided we fall, Helen E. Blumenthal (Thesis)
Studies in transition metal chemistry, Steven David Brown (Thesis)
The Effect of Human Activity on the Middle Course of the Tualatin River, Oregon, Lolita M. Carter (Dissertation)
Contrasting Cultural Orientations among the Indian, Chinese, and Euro-American Peoples and Some Effects on Intercultural Communication, Gregory See-Chay Chan (Thesis)
A Study of Student Clinicians' Behaviors in Response to Feedback from the Analysis of Behaviors of the Clinician (ABC) System, Susan Kay Clare (Thesis)
Shaping of Marital Interaction: a Clinical-Research Approach, Cynthia Luders Clay (Thesis)
A study of runaways from six residential treatment agencies, Loris Colbath, Carolyn Krugel Graf, Carol McKinnon, and Jean NewComb (Thesis)
A Study to Differentiate Between Runaways and Non-runaways Among Juveniles Reported Missing, Neil E. Crannell and Patricia A. Hoffman (Thesis)
Obesity : Two Behavioral Approaches to Weight Reduction, Albert Blake Davidson (Thesis)
The predictive validity of a police officer selection program, Neil Bingham Davidson (Thesis)
Martin Luther's concept of the church : its implications for the layman, William W. Dean (Thesis)
An Analysis of Professional Roles & Career Patterns of Portland State University School of Social Work graduates, 1964-1973, B. Michael Des Camp and Howard H. Marshack (Thesis)
Criteria and Outcome of C. S. D. Foster Home and Residential Placements of Court-referred Adolescents, Joan Dickey (Thesis)
Private pensions and the free market, John Louis Dobra (Thesis)
Effects of Colors, Noun Position, and Verb Proximity on the Acquisition of Direct Objects, Ronald M. Dohr (Thesis)
National efficiency and social planning in Britain, 1914-1921, Norman Richard Eder (Thesis)
A Methodology for Evaluating the Efficacy of the Placement Procedures of The Dalles Community Attention Home, Marion Elliott (Thesis)
The relationship between self-concept and responses of others during a marital crisis, Kathryn Ann Farr (Thesis)
Drop-out study, Chemawa Indian School, Terry Farrow and Gordon Oats (Thesis)
The relationship between the housing environment and the child's behavior: strategies for adapting to multi-family housing, Anthony J. Filipovitch (Dissertation)
The treatment-moral career of clients in a community based treatment program, Charles Edward Forster Jr. (Thesis)
A preliminary evaluation of the Independent Living Subsidy Program in the Model Cities area, W. Patrick Frawley and Mary Goodwin Gossart (Thesis)
Attendance at Out-Patient Clinics as a Function of Risk Taking for Alcoholics, John Ketcham Fryer (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study Regarding Perceptions of Sex Roles in Cooperative Households, Emily Fultz and Billie Huntwork (Thesis)
Interactions in the Frequencies of Electric Organ Discharge by Eigenmannia Virescens (Sternopygidae, Pisces) During Social Behavior, Philip Gaddis (Thesis)
Sentencing: a study of the effects of presentence report recommendations upon the sentencing practices of judges in Multnomah County, Oregon, John George Gardin II (Thesis)
A Comparison of Responses Between Two Different Socioeconomic Groups on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, Teri Jones Geist (Thesis)
The role of zinc in dihydroorotase, Pamela S. Gilchrist (Thesis)
A Study of the Career Education Program at Mountain View Intermediate School, Beaverton School District #48, Beaverton, Oregon, William Calvin Greene (Thesis)
Exteroceptive Influence on a Marihuana Induced Conditioned Taste Aversion, Albert William Greenwood (Thesis)
The Use and Evaluation of Gestalt Techniques in a Program for the Parents of Handicapped Children, Richard Roy Hammond and Robert E. Phillips (Thesis)
An Evaluative Study of Yellow Brick Road, Cherry Hartman and Nan Narboe (Thesis)
Mixed Media Drawings with Emphasis on Ceramic Materials, Timothy Jopseph Harvey (Thesis)
Construction and Implementation of an Individualized Math Program for Sixth Graders, Lynda Sylvia Hatch (Thesis)
Chronological Age, Mental Age and Socioeconomic Status Variance in Expressive Preposition Acquisition of Young Children, Arthur J. Heckel (Thesis)
The morphology of the eye of the purple shore crab, Hemigrapsus nudus, Sharon E. Heisel (Thesis)
A Comparison of Concepts of the Basic Underlying Assumptions of the Introductory Speech Communication Course in the Oregon Community Colleges as Seen by Speech Communication Faculty and Self-Reported by Students, Vickie L. Hilgemann (Thesis)
Structure vs. Meaning in Subliminal Perception, Margaret Anne Callan Hoisington (Thesis)
Variations of the form and image of the modern hero, Lee Hunt (Thesis)
Social Workers' Attitudes About Poverty, Trudy Hussmann (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study of the Role of Research in Social Work at Portland State University, Jo Mackay Imeson and Audrey Englebardt Zalutsky (Thesis)
Indian Alcoholism on Reservations, Cleora E. Jackson (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Relative Incidence of Various Vocal Parameters Among Black and White College Females, Barbara Kuhl Jacobs (Thesis)
Marx on population: a critical review including a comparison to Malthus and a new perspective on Marx, David Orval Jermain (Thesis)
Assessment of Short Term Behavioral Changes in Emotionally Handicapped Children Enrolled in a Special Education Program, James S. Johnston and Karen Shilling (Thesis)
Reconciliation and reunion, Myron K. Jordan (Thesis)
Implications of American Missionary Presence in 19th and 20th Century Iran, Linda Colleen Karimi (Thesis)
The Dynamics of an HCP Crystal with a Substitutional Defect, Pramod C. Karulkar (Thesis)
A survey and critical analysis of current literature on the post audit of capital expenditure, Gene Albert Katke (Thesis)
A Comparative Study of the Reponses by Varying Socioeconomic Groups on General Knowledge and Categorization Tasks, Margo I. Keller (Thesis)
The Application and Evaluation of Goal Attainment Scaling to the Janis Drug Treatment Program, Steven W. Kilber and Carol E. Swanson (Thesis)