This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1976
The History of Gun Control in America, Gary W. Hansen (Thesis)
The Nature and Distribution of Turf-banked Terraces in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, Katherine Jane Hansen (Thesis)
The Negative Effects of Divorce on the Behavior of Children, David Hawkins and Karen Lloyd (Thesis)
Clinical Application of the Midi-Mult, Barbara Hendricks (Thesis)
The Effect of Visual Feedback on Vocal Pitch Matching, Anita R. Herron (Thesis)
The Baldwin Sheep & Land Company, 1873-1910, Dorothy D. Hirsch (Thesis)
Some Aspects of the Ecology of the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr 1792) in an Urban Environment, David Hopkins (Thesis)
An Examination of the Relationship Between Population Density, Density Related Social Factors, and Physical Morbidities, Douglas King Huebner (Thesis)
A qualitative assessment of Clark County's mental health delivery system, John L. Hutchison (Thesis)
Social problems and collaborative planning: toward a theory and model of social planning, Marjorie M. Ille (Dissertation)
Chlorine Distribution in the Idaho Batholith, Laurence Stewart Istas (Thesis)
The Chromosome Constitutions of a Hybrid Salmonid and its Parental Types: Salmo Gairdneri and Salmo Clarki, Peter Bruce Valentine Jacky (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Performance of Black Children Age 3.6 to 6.0 on Three Subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, George Edward James (Thesis)
An Aspect of the Process of School Desegregation: the Effects of Reading Ability Grouping on Social Attractiveness and Peer-Perceived Success, David A. Johnson (Thesis)
A Test of Conservation for Continuous and Discontinuous Quantity in the Very Young Child, Nancy Patrick Kaye (Thesis)
A Study of Requests for Voluntary Admission to Oregon State Hospital, Julie Kern, Jeanne Miller, and Alice Plummer (Thesis)
Attitudes of Women Toward World Hunger, Judith L. Kidd (Thesis)
A Survey of Small Mammals on Islands in the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Gayle Kirk (Thesis)
The Columbia River as a Barrier to Gene Flow in the Vagrant Shrew, Sorex vagrans vagrans Baird, James J. Kirk (Thesis)
Reapportionment : an Oregon history and a critique of Baker vs Carr, Ann Frissell Lackey (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study of the Effects of Parenting Relationships on Children's School Adjustment, Raymond M. Lappin, Lisa J. Posner, and Marcia S. Smith (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Participants in the Evergreen Community Organization, Douglas Edward Lehrman and Janet R. Abrams (Thesis)
Mental illness among Chinese in the United States: myth or reality?, Alex C. N. Leung (Thesis)
International Variation in Metropolitanism: National Integration into an International System of Countries as an Important Consideration, Michael Lee Lindsay (Thesis)
A Study on the Stabilization of a Floating Platform, Waldo Lizcano (Thesis)
The Analysis of the Deflection and Containment of a Hot Plume by Side Draft Exhaust Hooding, Douglas H. MacGowan (Thesis)
Deviant Self-Concept Among Marijuana Dealers: Examining the Applicability of Labeling Concepts, Cynthia Madaris (Thesis)
Strategies for Reducing Recidivism of Mental Patients in Region I, Ellen Magaziner, Kathleen McCarthy, and Reyn Staffel (Thesis)
The utilization of preventive health care services by low income members of a comprehensive prepaid health plan : the impact of outreach services, Linda Elmlund Mahoney (Thesis)
Design of a Microprocessor Controlled Telecommunication System, George J. Maroutsos (Thesis)
A study of the relationship between the adolescents' knowledge of laws and their attitudes towards the police, Barbara McCallum (Thesis)
The Evolution of the Birth Control Movement in the United States, Linda B. McMahan (Thesis)
A Historical Analysis of the Traditional Japanese Decision-Making Process in Contrast with the U.S. System and Implications for Intercultural Deliberations, Shoji Mitarai (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Eleven Parent Conferences in a Child Development Center, Yolanda A. Moser (Thesis)
Differential Adherence to Community Mental Health Ideology Among First Year Social Work Students, Leo Munter (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study Concerning Reasons Given for Termination of Provision of Foster Care, Linda Ann Nelson (Thesis)
Securing Services for the Older Population : a Training Manual for I and R Workers, Catherine M. Nemmert (Thesis)
Leadership Styles and Staff Satisfaction in Four Nursing Homes: Implications for Service Delivery, Carol Nightengale (Thesis)
Volunteers in Portland Schools: Initial Planning and Early Development, Mary B. Norville (Thesis)
A profile of women volunteers, Vana O'Brien (Thesis)
H. S. Chamberlain and the Bayreuth Kulturkreis: A Study in Ideology, David George Otness (Thesis)
A Comparison Study of the Syntactical Language Skills of Children in the Monterey Language Program with Children Not in a Formal Language Program, Bonnie Lucille Owens (Thesis)
Isolation and characterization of two sterols from the green alga, Selenastrum capricornutum, Raymond Mark Owings (Dissertation)
A Development of Natural Forms in Multiple Glass Shapes, Anthony Parker (Thesis)
The Impact of SSI on the Social Security Administration: An Intraorganizational Study with Interorganizational Ramifications, Patricia A. Parker (Thesis)
Der Verfremdungseffekt von Brecht bis Handke, Brigitte Patrick (Thesis)
Electrical Conductivity of Thin Lecithin-cholesterol Membranes Due to 2,4-D, 2,4-DB, 2,4,5-T and 2,4-DCP, Malkanthi Paulis (Thesis)
An Exploration of the Familiar and Nostalgic, Laura Paul (Thesis)
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)