This collection contains both Doctoral Dissertations and Masters Theses.
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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The Distribution of the Deer Mouse, Peromyscus maniculatus, on the Oregon Side of the Columbia River Gorge, Ronald P. Neilson (Thesis)
What Indians think an Indian is : a study of personal and educational attitudes, Susan W. Oliver and Christine L. Peterson (Thesis)
Validation of the Preschool Speech and Language Screening Test, Susan Jane Packouz (Thesis)
Pretesting a questionnaire at the Solo Center on the impact of divorce on children and parents, Shirley Anne Paetzhold (Thesis)
Biochemical Description of a Lava Tube Lake in Southeast Oregon, John Edward Palmer (Thesis)
A Biochemical Analysis of Viscin from Arceuthobium tsugense, Peter J. Paquet (Thesis)
Lesbian Marriage, Sandi Parks (Thesis)
A Cross Validation of Leary's Level I-M Assessment Method, Bruce Leroy Purvine (Thesis)
The Development of Four English Inflections in the Speech of Educable Mentally Retarded Adolescents, Nancy Barton Richard (Thesis)
Charles E. Borden: his formulation and testing of archaeological hypotheses, Ellen Wallace Robinson (Thesis)
Course Demands of Students in Teacher Education at Portland State University as Demonstrated by an Induced Course Load Matrix, Elinore Janet Rogers (Thesis)
Managing human services, Betsy W. Romain (Thesis)
Martin Luther King, Jr. and his times: A multi-media script, Robert D. Rosenkranz (Thesis)
The Paraguayan War and the Platine Balance of Power, Robert H. Schaefer (Thesis)
Recent role changes made by women and the effect these changes have had on marital adjustment, Nancy L. Scolar (Thesis)
Hegel and the Concept of Religion in Greek Tragedy, Barbara Scot (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Five Child Day Treatment Centers, Virginia Spurkland and Joyce Edwards (Thesis)
The Relative Social Acceptability of Three Types of Alaryngeal Speech, Kathleen Dawn Stewart (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Effects of Individual Counseling and Group Process Techniques Upon the Behavior of Children in a Juvenile Detention Facility, Robert Arthur Struble (Thesis)
Moving toward integration: a study of theory and practice in feminist therapy, Susan Amelia Thomas (Thesis)
Social Workers in the Community Mental Health Field A Delphi Forecast of Training Priorities, William Boyce Thomas and Mark L. Clay (Thesis)
Verbal models provided for mentally retarded children by parents, Lance Tsugawa (Thesis)
Britain's Colonial Administrations and Developments, 1861-1960: An Analysis of Britain's Colonial Administrations and Developments in Nigeria, Efiong Isaac Utuk (Thesis)
Parliament and the London Corresponding Society, Reed Joseph Vandehey (Thesis)
A Study of the Relationship Between Self-Concept, Public Image, and Consensus Rorschach Performance, Dale Sherman Walhood (Thesis)
The American President as Legislative Leader: Historical Development of the Role, Patricia Mathews Walhood (Thesis)
The Development of Attitudes Toward Work Through "Career Education", Lonnie Fred McDonough Wheeler (Thesis)
"Kubla Khan" and its Critics, Allen Dale Widerburg (Thesis)
The United States Military in the Cuban Missile Crisis, Frank Joseph Wikenheiser (Thesis)
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)
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 Exploratory 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 (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)