This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Effects of an Innovative Curriculum on the Attitudes of "Educationally Disadvantaged" Freshman College Students, Julius William Wilkerson (Thesis)
Analysis of the Port of Portland Facility Hinterlands, Timothy D. Wilson (Thesis)
The Ethnohistory of Baker Cabin, a Clackamas County Pioneer Site, V. Claire Woodward (Thesis)
Close Supervision Program: an Analysis of a Human Services Program, Thomas Wright Jr. and V. Henderson Trotman (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Attitudinal Survey of Children's Services Division Workers Regarding the Louise Home, John Adsit, Wendy Bays Heinz, and George Nagel (Thesis)
Enzyme Reactions Using Ureidosuccinate as a Substrate During Pyrimidine Biosynthesis and Degradation in Cl. oroticum, Penny Amy (Thesis)
Eutamias minimus and E. amoenus: Morphological Cluster Analysis, Sandra Elaine Anderson (Thesis)
Heat Transfer Across Carbon-Liquid Helium I Interface, Constantine Antonopoulos (Thesis)
Sharing information about the child with adoptive parents, Barbara Ashmun, Beverly McKinney Erickson, and Bente Roberts Parker (Thesis)
A study of the relationship between attitudes toward woman's roles and career choices of women graduate students, Barbara Backstrand (Thesis)
Assessment of Course Impact on Child Care Worker Orientation: Worker Concerns Versus Child Concerns, Helen M. Banaka (Thesis)
Teaching hearing-impaired children language through the use of musical rhythm, Naomi Anne Banducci (Thesis)
Personality characteristics, work practices, and error rates among welfare assistance workers at East Multnomah County Public Welfare Branch, Roy Dale Beams, Mike David Gotesmen, and Howard Wayne Knytych (Thesis)
An investigation of possible relationships between sex-role orientation, the motive to avoid success and the inhibition of aggression in women, Joan Dayger Behn and Barbara McDuffee Mecca (Thesis)
Danish Day Care as a Social Institution, Albert Sessions Belais and Ellane L. Kibel (Thesis)
A study of RNA bacteriophage 7s infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Deanne Benson (Thesis)
Curanderismo and Health Delivery Services, Jean Margaret Blaesser (Thesis)
Oregon and the Blue Eagle: a Study of the Response of Oregonians to the National Recovery Administration, John Craig Bledsoe (Thesis)
The Urban Indian Program in Portland, Oregon, Lyndon Earl Bohanan (Thesis)
The Value of Color Systems in Education, Shirley Jo Brehm (Thesis)
James Butler and the Royalist cause in Ireland, 1641-1650, Monica A. Brennan (Thesis)
Police Discretion with Respect to the Juvenile Offender, Department of Public Safety, Multnomah County, Oregon, Muriel Bridges and Monty Merritt (Thesis)
A theory of the perception of character, Donna C. Brown (Thesis)
The Department of Family Services, Court of Domestic Relations, Portland, Oregon : a report of its history, function, and future, George Brune, John Hart, and Sandra Smith (Thesis)
The Positive Aspects of a Program of Participation in a Retirement Center, Yvonne Burke (Thesis)
The Development of a Questionnaire for Use by the Clackamas County Children's Services Division, Nancy Lee Cable (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Influence of Dialectal Interferences on the NSST Scores Obtained by Portland Black Children, Margaret J. Callahan (Thesis)
Probability driven heuristic nets, Lynn Robert Carter (Thesis)
Maturity of adolescent unwed mothers, Sarah L. Claiborne (Thesis)
A Comparison and Item Analysis of Responses between Black Children and Language Delayed White Children on the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test, Kevin N. Cole (Thesis)
Colored Light: a Brief Study of Stained Glass Windows, Including a Self-Guided Tour of Stained Glass in West Portland, L. Jean Connors (Thesis)
Social Upheaval and Social Change in England, 1381-1750, Sarah J. Cooney (Thesis)
The politics of general revenue sharing: the new federalism in urban perspective, John C. Daley (Dissertation)
Characterization of Zinc-containing Metalloproteins by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, Robert Edward Derry (Thesis)
An Automatic Rinse Tank Controller for Industrial Applications, Aliasghar Emami (Thesis)
Negotiation within the therapist-client interview, Rhoda Elaine Estep (Thesis)
An Investigation of Tympanometric Measurements on an Older Adult Population, Marguerite Ann Fine (Thesis)
An Evaluation of Direct Services of Delaunay Institute for Mental Health, Jeanette Anderson Finley and Gary W. Smith (Thesis)
Hermann Lietz and the Landerziehungsheime, John Daniel Flanagan (Thesis)
Occupational Prestige Among Chinese in the San Francisco Area, Linda Fong (Thesis)
A Beginning Investigation into the Language Development of the Deaf Child Compared to that of the Hearing Child: Some Problems and Solutions in Data Collection, Sallie Ann Frye (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Systems Used in the Electro-Acoustic Evaluation of Hearing Aids, Sallie Ann Frye (Thesis)
An Investigation of Infection Mechanisms of Arceuthobium Campylopodum, Annabella Jaramillo Garcia (Thesis)
Biostratigraphy of the Type Yamhill Formation, Polk County, Oregon, Larry R. Gaston (Thesis)
The Children's Schedule of Recent Experiences as a Predictive Test of Behavior Problems of Children Entering First Grade, Alcie Anne Griffith (Thesis)
Development of a Teacher Rating Instrument: Methodological Implications, Carole Gygi (Dissertation)
Survey on Dropouts from Graduate Schools of Social Work, 1970-1972, William J. Hadley, Vard R. Miller, and Michael C. Prange (Thesis)
An exporatory study of depression in adolescents placed in residential treatment centers, Shirley D. Hale, Kermit C. Jeffrey, and Gerald J. Moneke (Thesis)
Validation of the Oregon school entrance speech screening test, Patricia Ann Hamilton (Thesis)
A Spectrographic Analysis of Bahasa Indonesia Vowel Phonemes Under Primary Stress in CVC Words, Ingrid T. Hanna (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study to Assess Client Expectancy of Counseling Gain, William W. Hanselman (Thesis)
Optimization of single- and double-flash cycles and space heating systems in geothermal engineering, Talal Hussein Hassoun (Thesis)
Re-evaluation Co-counseling and the Treatment of Peptic Ulcers, Jack Justin Heims (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Mental Health Services Available to the Elderly Within Oregon: Using Multnomah County as a Special Case Study Area, Joan Nadine Hoss (Thesis)
A phytochemical investigation of liverwort Frullania franciscana Howe, Timothy Ta-E Huang (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Interrelationship Between the Oregon School Law of 1922, the Press of Oregon, the Election of Walter Pierce and the Ku Klux Klan, Robin Huffman (Thesis)
Age, Intelligence, and Socioeconomic Status Variance in Preposition Acquisition by Children, Georgie Hustead (Thesis)
Adjustment Problems of Chinese College Students in the United States, Terry Shu-Fang Hu (Thesis)
A Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of the Ferruginous Bauxite Deposits in Columbia County, Oregon, and Wahkiakum County, Washington, Ronald Laverne Jackson (Thesis)
Systematic Planning Toward Implementation of a State Protective Services Program for the Developmentally Disabled, Bernie J. Johnson (Thesis)
Rainer Maria Rilkes Begriff der besitzlosen Liebe : Probleme und Interpretationen, Kenn Allen Johnson (Thesis)
The Development of an Arsenic(V) Selective Electrode, Sandra Gee Kang (Thesis)
Irish families in Portland, Oregon, 1850-1880 : an immigrant culture in the Far West, Michael Kazin (Thesis)
Survey of Parental Attitudes Towards Health Services in the Beaverton Schools, Nancy M. King, Lee B. Maxey, Nancy M. Stegen, and Lesley D. Unthank (Thesis)
Gutzkows Novelle Der Sadduzäer von Amsterdam Verglichen mit Seinem Drama Uriel Acosta, und Eine Englische Übersetzung der Novelle, Clarice Solberg Kitteleson (Thesis)
Female Alcoholism: the Relationship of Marital Status to Personality Disorganization, Julene B. Knapp (Thesis)
Knowledge and Use of Social Services in Gervais, Oregon, Elizabeth Lewis, Abby Maier, and Lajuana J. Morton (Thesis)
The Recognition, Investigation, Interpretation, and Treatment of Landslides in the Pacific Northwest, Harry Ludowise (Thesis)
A study of ambulance transportation in relation to public welfare policy, Gary Jules Lutz (Thesis)
Partisan Voting in the Oregon Legislature, Tom Lee Mason (Thesis)
Infection of smallmouth bass and goldfish by two species of Saprolegnia, Cheryl A. McGinley (Thesis)
A historiography of the Elizabethan poor laws: late XIXth and XXth century historians, Susan C. McNaught (Thesis)
An Attitudinal Study of Secondary School Teachers Toward School Social Workers, Raymond Merritt and Dwayne McNannay (Thesis)
Rainer Maria Rilkes Musik der Kräfte (Rainer Maria Rilke's Music of the Forces), Lilly E. Moore (Thesis)
Physiological and Behavior Studies of Thelepus Crispus and its Commensal Halosydna Brevisetosa, John B. Morgan (Thesis)
An Application of a Token Economy in a Residential Treatment Center for Pre-adolescent and Adolescent Girls, Eileen M. Moriarty (Thesis)
Social Action as Social Change Through a Process of Insulation, Leonard Siegfred Nelson (Thesis)
Lingual discrimination of two normal-speaking populations, Janice Ellen Gould Nesbitt (Thesis)
Intelligibility of Speech Compared Through Two Limiter Compression Circuits, Lee M. Odell (Thesis)
The Effect of Attending Behavior Training Upon Learning, Martha Sue Peden (Thesis)
The Effects of Pentachlorophenol on the Electrical Conductivity of Lipid Bilayer Membranes, William Harvey Perman (Thesis)
A study of the physiological factors affecting the biological conversion of arsenite to arsenate, Shirley E. Phillips (Dissertation)
The impact of college speech classes on listening skills of students., Candice Piazza (Thesis)
Strategies and the management of a portfolio of business units, Donald Leland Pope (Dissertation)
A follow-up study of community organization concentrators, Hedy-Jo Huss Powell (Thesis)
A preliminary investigation of the predictive and evaluative capacity of the PARS scale in a community mental health clinic, Judith M. Ritter (Thesis)
Interaction Patterns in the Campground, Dennis Lee Rockwood (Thesis)
State response to the civil right issue, 1883-1885, Robert Lionel Rowe (Thesis)
The historical imagination of Francesco Petrarch: a study of poetic truth and historical distortion, Sally Scholz (Thesis)
The Correlation Between Specific Curiosity and Intelligence in Adults, Charles R. Schwenk (Thesis)
A Comparison Between Sources of Student Anti-Hunting Sentiment and Wildlife Information Sources of a Sample of Oregon Adults, Ronald E. Shay (Thesis)
The Digital Multifunction Power Measuring System, Ralph Warren Shoemaker (Thesis)
Vibration Damping Characteristics of Typical Harpsichord Strings, Jack Lee Simmons (Thesis)
Labor Violence: the Centralia Case, the IWW and its Enemies, Lawrence C. Skoog (Thesis)
An Evaluation of Latch Key Day Care, Barbara Garrett Skorney (Thesis)
Chicanos in Oregon: An Historical Overview, Richard Wayne Slatta (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Induced Location of Manufacturing Industry as a Means of Fostering Sustained Economic Growth in Less Developed Regions of Oregon, Leland F. Smith (Thesis)
The politics of education -- An analysis of selected cases and controversies in American education, Lawrence Robert Stoffel (Thesis)
The Background and Development of the 1871 Korean-American Incident: A Case Study in Cultural Conflict, Robert Ray Swartout Jr. (Thesis)
Some correlates of morale among nursing home residents, Gail Olmsted Sydnor and Patricia Mears Wold (Thesis)