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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
A Survey for Leucocytozoon Simondi Mathis and Leger (1910) in Canada Geese of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, John Val Snively (Thesis)
Ernst Cassirer and the Synthesis of the Past: a Paradigm in the History of Ideas, Mart Stewart (Thesis)
The origin of property in land: Paul Vinogradoff and the late XIXth century English historians, Caroline Phillips Stoel (Thesis)
History of Al-Hijaz (1520-1632), Farouk M. Taufik (Thesis)
Changes in Personality Traits and Identification in Adolescent Female State School Residents, as a Function of Length of Residence, Mary L. Thompson (Thesis)
The Doctrine of Experience in the Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, Puritan Divine, Joseph S. Trachtenberg (Thesis)
Aspects of the physiology and diseases of the North American elk, Yvonne Bernard Weber (Dissertation)
Der Gebrauch des Todesmotivs in den Deutschen Poemata von Paul Fleming, Paul Ancil Wolf (Thesis)
A test of the simple recessive hypothesis for the inability to taste phenyl-thio-urea: a family study, Susan I. Wolf (Thesis)
A Study Describing Pastoral Counseling Among the Christian Church ministers in Oregon, with special emphasis on the counseling Training That They Received at Northwest Christian College, Thomas O. Woodruff (Thesis)
The World of Women: Portland, Oregon, 1860-1880, Mary C. Wright (Thesis)
A Cross-Class Survey of Synaesthesia in High School Students and its Biocultural Implications, Ina Jane Wundram (Thesis)
Possible Avian Influences in the Distribution of Dwarf Mistletoe, Paul James Zilka (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
An Analysis of change in girls released from Villa Saint Rose, H. Marie Ades, Kathleen A. Christensen, Carol L. Parnell Bell, Shirley A. Groves, and Paul A. Murray (Thesis)
The Impact of Coordination by a Child Abuse Committee on Community Services to Battered Children, Grace Jackson Anders and Rebekah M. Burton (Thesis)
The transition to Nazism, the history of the German town of Pfungstadt, 1928 to 1935, David E. Arns (Thesis)
Entropy Reduction of English Text Using Variable Length Grouping, Vincent Norman Ast Jr. (Thesis)
A Scale of Verbal Accessibility in Mild and Borderline Retarded Adults, Keith Baker (Thesis)
Postcensal Population Estimates for Oregon Counties: An Evaluation of Selected Methods, Guy Jeffrey Barnes (Thesis)
A Survey of non-white social service personnel in the State of Oregon, Phillis Benton, Patricia Riley, Cynthia Southwell, and Dennis Wong (Thesis)
Kinetics of the Cope rearrangement of 3,4-diphenylhexa-1,5-diene, Harlan Albert Jerome Berg (Thesis)
Measurements of the Mössbauer Fraction in Chromium, B. Frederick Brace Jr. (Thesis)
The Effects of Perceptual-Motor Training on the Perceptual-Motor Skills of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Karen R. Brown (Thesis)
Simulation of Brain Damage on Bender-gestalt Test by College Subjects, Arnold Rahn Bruhn (Thesis)
A Descriptive Study of Educational Background, Contraceptive Knowledge, and Choice of Agency Among Selected Girls 18 Years Old and Under Seeking an Abortion at the University of Oregon Medical School, Carol A. Carter, Lititia J. Kirk, and Jane F. Ogier (Thesis)
The Relationship of Written Expression to Self Concept in Primary Children, Anna Lou Case (Thesis)
A gold dream in the Blue Mountains : a study of the Chinese immigrants in the John Day area, Oregon, 1870-1910, Chia-lin Chen (Thesis)
An attitudinal study of selected groups in the city of The Dalles toward the Community Attention Home, David Clitheroe and Garrett Long (Thesis)
An Approach to the Decentralization of Health Care Services in Multnomah County, Oregon, Stephen L. R. Cook and Roger George Philippi (Thesis)
A taxonomic study of two nominal subspecies of pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, Richard M. Coots (Thesis)
Johann Adam Moehler: The Method of Historical Theology, Christina Maria Crose (Thesis)
Lesson for America? England's development areas, Thomas G. Current (Thesis)
The 1972 cigarette tax referendum: a mass communication campaign, Gwendolyn Moore Danielson (Thesis)
Black Studies as an Agent of Social Change on the Structural Level at Selected Colleges and Universities, Vincent Van Davis (Thesis)
The Rhetoric of Garner Ted Armstrong, Stephen George Dick (Thesis)
Nursing: a Profession in Process, Mary Elizabeth Dilling Rambousek (Thesis)
The women's liberation movement and identity change : an urban pilot study, Molly M. Doeneka (Thesis)
Testing of a Design for Client Evaluation of a Conciliation Service, James A. Dudley, James C. Euler, Peter Njoroge, and Richard Streissguth (Thesis)
Minority without a champion: the Kanaka contribution to the western United States, 1750-1900, Janice K. Duncan (Thesis)
Nigerian nationalism: a case study in southern Nigeria, 1885-1939, Bassey Edet Ekong (Thesis)
Moment-curvature-thrust relationships in hybrid members, Douglas Wrenn Fiala (Thesis)
Villa St. Rose Group Home Study, William H. Finkle, Robert M. Hooper, Barry A. Friedman, Donna L. Jacobs, and Julia C. Peterson (Thesis)
A review of "longitudinal study" in developmental psychology, Emily H. Finley (Thesis)
Complex Systems and the Price-Resource Directive Coordination Procedure, Chamberlain Lambros Foes (Dissertation)
Illusion und Verfremdung: Begriff, Form und Wirkung; Bezogen auf Bertolt Brecht: "Der gute Mensch von Sezuan,", Robert E. Folk (Thesis)
An Attitudinal Survey of Forty-Four Juvenile Court Counselors Regarding Due Process Standards in Juvenile Cases, Jerry Robert Franklin (Thesis)
Selection of practice models for social work, Linda Fritz (Thesis)
Factors affecting the population of raptorial birds on Sauvie Island, Oregon, Jeffry Gottfried (Thesis)
A study of the characteristics of runaways and their families in two social agencies, Susan G. Greer, Sarah J. Hertlein, and Stephen C. Regner (Thesis)
A case study of the Northwest District Association and Portland City planning staff, Jill Sally Haldeman and Kathryn Cynara Heisler (Thesis)
Reminiscence, Disengagement, and Morale in Old Age, Barbara Brown Hardy (Thesis)
Die Figur der Rebellen im Frühwerk Schillers: Die Räuber, Kabale und Liebe, Don Carlos, Edward E. Heyen (Thesis)
An Investigation of Temporary Threshold Shift Among Helmeted Motorcycle Riders, Alamander Hicks (Thesis)
Psycho-social Aspects of Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia in Children, Sally Myers Hingley and Judith Ann McKay (Thesis)
Studies of bistable fluid devices for particle flow control, Gerald H. Hogland (Thesis)
Children Without Futures: a Feasibility Study Comparing Characteristics of Families Who Have Children Placed in Long and Short-term Foster Care, Kaye Hutchins, Rose Mary McCarthy, Jim C. O'Neal, David Radke, and Richard Rankin (Thesis)
Das Motiv der Einschränkung in einigen Romanen Max Frischs, Leen J. Inghels (Thesis)
Application of Numerical Analysis to Root Locus Design of Feedback Control Systems, Steve William Justice (Thesis)
Catechol Effected Dissolution of Silicate Minerals, James Maurice Kelley (Thesis)
Acrylic Polymer Transparencies, Inez Allen Kendrick (Thesis)
The geology of the southeast quarter of the Bone Mountain quadrangle, Oregon, Richard Cortland Kent (Thesis)
An investigation of between-ear tympanometry measures in normal-hearing young adults, Barry Lynn Kimmel (Thesis)
Behavioral characteristics associated with accidental poisoning in childhood, Nancy Koroloff and Emily Tufts (Thesis)
A taxonomic study of the marine algae of Netarts Bay, Oregon, Charles Jerome Kunert (Thesis)
A functional interpretation of pottery from Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch (Thesis)
The Effect of Glucose on the Food Intake of Goldthioglucose Injected Mice, Janet Lahti (Thesis)
The pregnancy counseling group; an analysis of a sample of women served by Planned Parenthood Association, Portland, Oregon, Marcia Jean Lapham (Thesis)
W. S. U'Ren and the Fight for Government Reform and the Single Tax: 1908-1912, David Elvin Lindstrom (Thesis)
Development of Guidelines for Using Office Simulation to Teach Office Practice in the Vietnamese Public High Schools, Thi Minh Chau Luu (Thesis)
Diagnostic congruence: a study on presentation of clinical information to parents and recall, Miriam Rae Maier (Thesis)
Report on faculty and student evaluation of instructors in direct service teaching at Portland State University Graduate School of Social Work, Janet Mansfield and James McDevitt (Thesis)
On the mechanism of the Diels-Alder reaction--dimerization of trans-phenylbutadiene, Michael Ward McNicholas (Thesis)
Guidelines for Agency Based Day Care Programs for Children Ages 0-3 years, Elizabeth H. Minifie (Thesis)
Degree of Depression in Women Preceding Abortion at the University of Oregon Medical School, William M. Nathe and Ike R. Lacefield (Thesis)
Comparison of Amounts of Verbal Response Elicited by a Speech Pathologist and a Mother in the Clinic, Sherry Lee Nelson (Thesis)
The Effects of Training at Two Specified Intensities Upon Heart Rate Response to Submaximal Exercise, Gordon LeVerne Noraine (Thesis)
Repression of β-galactosidase synthesis in Escherichia coli by salicylates, Joan Carlyn Olson (Thesis)
The life cycle of Lissorchis heterorchis, Macy and Krygier (1969), Brendan P. H. Onyejekwe (Thesis)
The Nixon "shocks": implications for Japan's foreign policy in the 1970's, Richard Douglas Partch (Thesis)
The use of junior historical fiction in the classroom, Darlene Pelinka (Thesis)
SADDAS; a self-contained analog to digital data acquisition system., Walter Anton Petersen (Thesis)
The Role of Social Work in Genetics Counseling, Diane Margaret Plumridge (Thesis)
Reaction of aqueous catechol solutions with minerals, Boonthong Poocharoen (Thesis)
The Portland State University Educational Center: a study of a new approach to off-campus education, Harvey L. Rice (Thesis)
Auditory and Visual Sensory Stores: a Recognition Task, James Barr Richardson (Thesis)
Proposals for the Establishment of Social Service Departments at St. John's Hospital and Cowlitz General Hospital, Longview, Washington, Beryl P. Robison (Thesis)
The Behavior of Coalitions as Interorganizational Structures: an Exploratory Study Using a Grounded Theory Approach, Elaine Marie Rothrock (Thesis)
Polychlorinated biphenyls: uptake by Daphnia and residues in crayfish from the Willamette River, John J. Salmon (Thesis)
The policy of containment and the Middle East, 1946-1958, Ahed George Samaan (Thesis)
Leben heisst Töten; die Kriegsdeutung Ernst Jüngers dargestellt an In Stahlgewittern und Der Kampf als inneres Erlebnis, Sabine Schroeder-Sherwin (Thesis)
Preschool Predication of First Grade Social and Emotional Adjustment, Benjamin Sherrill (Thesis)
Parental assessment of family life education content: analysis of one elementary school, William Richard Siefke (Thesis)
Euryhelmis cotti n. sp. (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) with Observations on Its Life Cycle, Michael Joseph Simon (Thesis)
An Exploratory Analysis of Developmental Sequences in Interorganizational Coalitions Involved in Community Planning, Clifford Albert Snyder (Thesis)
Mutual exclusion between Salmonberry and Douglas-fir in the Coast Range of Oregon, Kenneth Ray Still (Thesis)
Interpolated Activity Effects in Distributed Practice, Ramond King Stout (Thesis)
Die Intrigantin in ausgewählten frühen Werken Gerhart Hauptmanns, Sidney Thomas Stuller (Thesis)
An Alienation Measurement and Observed Behavior: A Study of Forty-Two Male Seniors in a Technical High School, Jack Leo Terzenbach (Thesis)
A Study of the Legal Aid Family Law Center and its Clients, by Cynthia Ann Thomas [and] Susan Marie Vail, Cynthia Ann Thomas and Susan Marie Vail (Thesis)
Continuity of a Traditional Social Pattern: the "Man-Patron" Relationship in Contemporary Northeast Brazil, Patricia Ellen Thorpe (Thesis)