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Theses/Dissertations from 1972
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)
Coping Patterns of Those Denied Public Assistance -1970, Robert A. Turcotte and Anita L. Wahl (Thesis)
Effects of Certain Linguistic Parameters Upon the Responses of Preschool Subjects to Specific Dichotic Listening Tasks, Peggy J. Weber (Thesis)
Social Desirability and the Interpersonal Check List, Deborah Jean Wheeler (Thesis)
The Monopoly study of authority, Micheale Hall Williams (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Continuance vs. Discontinuance in Family Counseling, Katherine Anderson, Alice Dudley, and Mayetta Rocks (Thesis)
An Exploratory Study of Children’s Mental Health Needs in the Pact Target Area of Southeast Portland, Richard L. Bossardt and Clifford G. Larsen (Thesis)
Predictors of placement from a juvenile detention facility, Diane C. Brock, Anneva E. Lenz, Ann C. Houston, Richard R. Munn, and David F. Parks (Thesis)
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot: an intellectual approach, Elbert Hardy Cave (Thesis)
Residential child care manpower and training needs, Song K. Cho (Thesis)
The Effect of Antibiotics on Thermophilic Blue-Green Algae, Erleen Blanche Christenson (Thesis)
A series of paintings which investigate and present volume experience as an aspect of spatial tension with hue variations as a prime agent, Carl B. Clapp (Thesis)
Teaching social studies from a global viewpoint, Janet Hays Clemmer (Thesis)
How women are made: a look at the issues of the women's liberation movement, Lenore Jan Coffey (Thesis)
Post-divorce visitation of minor children; development of a questionnaire, Viola Cotter, Lorraine Goldenberg, and Terry McGill (Thesis)
Life styles of methadone treatment patients: agreement of self report and informant report, Richard Cox and Gary West (Thesis)
Effects of Insulin, Sodium and D-Glucose on Amino Acid Absorption in the Intestine of Rats, Andre-Gerard Craan (Thesis)
Lactic dehydrogenase isozyme isolation by disc electrophoresis in eight species of fringillid birds, Michael Edwin Darling (Thesis)
The Effects of Sociological Theories of Poverty on Job Training Programs, Michael Richard DeShane (Thesis)
Age, Emotional Maturity and the Decision to Marry, Patricia Ann Duclos, David F. Thomas, and Joanne Zusman (Thesis)
Foreign policy decisions which led to United States military occupation of the Dominican Republic, Bert Lewis Junior Farrar (Thesis)
A study of families with stress related to the care of children with myelomeningocele, Janet L. Ferguson and Russel Tweed (Thesis)
The Environmental Crisis: The Effects of Ecology Courses on High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher (Thesis)
Title I Evaluation System, Maple Lane High School, Terrence A. Green (Thesis)
An interactional approach to weight reduction, Carole T. Gygi (Thesis)
A demographic study of transracial adoptive parents, Patricia Lee Hall (Thesis)
The Effectiveness of Environmental Control in Modifying Problem Behaviors in Mother-Child Interaction, Thomas Whalen Hamilton (Thesis)
Behavioral Changes Due to Overpopulation in Mice, James Robert Hammock (Thesis)
Patrick J. Hurley and China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy (Thesis)
The rhetoric of Sir Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in original work and dramatic portrayal, Robert C. Harvey (Thesis)
Teaching Sculpture in High Schools, Richard Henry Helzer (Thesis)
Variations in a color-line aftereffect due to color adaptation during inspection of the inducing stimuli, Joyce Hirsch (Thesis)
Hipólito Irigoyen's second administration: A study in administrative collapse, Herman John Hobi (Thesis)
Schedule interactions and stimulus control, Andrew Louis Homer (Thesis)
Computer Solution to Inverse Problems of Elliptic Form: V²U(x,y) = g(a,U,x,y), Frederick Alvin Jeter (Thesis)
An Attempt to Find Predictor Variables Which Will Discriminate Between Those Patients Who Seek Aftercare Treatment and Those Who Do Not Seek Aftercare Treatment Upon Discharge From a Psychiatric Ward, Nena V. Johnstone, William D. Lynch, Philip M. Baldwin, and John C. Kemp (Thesis)
A postulated alternative to current Oregon marital statute (ORS 106.71): a frankly revisionist analysis of the concrete situation, Ken Jones, Ray Kendall, Jan Nolley, and Jill Weeden (Thesis)
Interorganizational Coalitional Decision-making: an Exploratory Investigation, Dennis Brian Keenan (Thesis)
Ames Trapezoid Illusion: A New Model, Daniel Robert Kelly (Thesis)
Differences in the Attitudes of Church-Attending Catholics Toward Changes in Religious Beliefs and Practices Correlated with Age and Education, Cletus Michael Kirkpatrick (Thesis)
Anxiety Level of Graduate Students in Social Work, Sophia Kouidou-Giles and George Albert McKee (Thesis)
Day Care Centers' Manpower Elements and Training Needs, Philip Kwakuvi Kudiabor (Thesis)
An Investigation of the Airflow Characteristics of Pulmonary Air Expulsion During Esophageal Speech, Alfred S. Lavorato, (Thesis)
Communicative Abilities: an Analysis of the Interactions of Reticent and Non-reticent Task Groups, Myron W. Lustig (Thesis)
"Follow through" Services for Child Abuse Cases, Marguerite Matusak (Thesis)
Life history of Philophthalmus megalurus (Cort, 1914) in western Oregon, Toni Anne McMillan (Thesis)
Die Prostituierte in Frank Wedekinds Dramen, Philip A. Mellen (Thesis)
The political role of religious pacifism during the inter-war years, Ancil K. Nance (Thesis)
Assessing the Convenience Factor in Relocating a Day Care Center, Barbara Ann Dauterman Norton and Terry Roger Horton (Thesis)
Observations on the establishment of seedlings of Phoradendron californicum on Prosopis juliflora, Richard L. Null (Thesis)
Demian: ein Weg zu "amor fati", Wayne D. Nuss (Thesis)
Nicholas N. Muraviev, conqueror of the black dragon, Eric E. Oulashin (Thesis)
Expanding the Visual Potential of Subject Matter Through Two-Dimensional Design, William Paul Paxton (Thesis)
Action-oriented group therapy for lower-socio-economic-status clients, Joan C. Peters (Thesis)
An Exploration Into the Applicability of a Psychological Technique for Anthropological Research, Gwendolyn Marie Harris Pierce (Thesis)
Inter-bureau power relations; a sociological analysis of an ideal type organizational model, Gerald Wayne Potterf (Thesis)
The structuring of procedures utilized in an adult stuttering treatment program, Sarah Jane Prichard (Thesis)
The Father's Role in Treatment: A Survey of Selected Social Service Programs, Joanne Robertson (Thesis)
The utilization of aides in public welfare; analysis, evaluation, and proposal, Leonard Mark Robinson and Shirley Ann Youngstrom (Thesis)
Rilke und Valéry: Eine Wahlverwandtschaft, Anne Marie Roehr (Thesis)
Crystal Structure Determination of β-Lactoglobulin From Electron Micrographs, Richard Roeter (Thesis)
Speechreading ability in children with functional articulation difficulty and in children with normal articulation, Mary Elizabeth Russell (Thesis)
Geophysical and geological analysis of a fault-like linearity in the lower Clackamas River area, Clackamas County, Oregon, Ronald Jay Schmela (Thesis)
Foster family care for the aged, Donald V. Sekora (Thesis)
Federal Reserve lending to commercial banks; effects on financial market stability and monetary control, David Allen Simantel (Thesis)
The Effect of Labeling Disfluencies as 'Stuttering' and Contingent and Yoked "Wrong" on the Disfluencies of Normal Speakers, Dennis Ray Staines (Thesis)
Mössbauer studies of stable interstitial and substitutional sites of cobalt in gold, Charles Freeland Steen (Thesis)
Totiusque ecclesiae suae sanctae; a comparison of the ecclesiologies of St. Augustine and Hans Kung, Edward J. Sullivan (Thesis)
Direct Design of a Portal Frame, Angel Fajardo Ugaz (Thesis)
The Lair Hill Park neighborhood on examination of the phenomenon of community creation, Joseph S. Uris (Thesis)
Evidence for the Existence of Two Stable Sites for Cobalt Impurity Atoms in Aluminum, Arun Venkatachar (Thesis)
Adsorption of Sulfur Dioxide on Douglas Fir Woodchips, Uen-Ping David Wang (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Ability and Achievement of Business Education Students Compared to Non-Business Education Students, William B. Warberg (Thesis)
A Conceptual Model for a Human Resource Center for Voluntarism, Helen L. Warbington (Thesis)
Vocalizations of the Townsend chipmunk (Eutamias townsendii), Greig Michael Warner (Thesis)
A Study of the Willingness of Elderly People to Live With Each Other, Joanne Welander and Marvin Clifford (Thesis)
The Effects of Marihuana Extract Distillate on Eating Behavior of Rats, Terrie Wetle (Thesis)
A regional approach: city-county consolidation as a method of local governmental reorganization, Anthony Gene White (Thesis)
Identities in gay drinking places, Sharon Gertrude White (Thesis)
A Behavioristic Approach to the Design of a Digital Model of Human Communication, George Eugene Whitley (Thesis)
Implications of an oral-gestural training program in the acquisition of speechreading skills, Mary Lu Wood (Thesis)
Comparative Study of Lightweight and Normal Weight Concrete in Flexure, Mohammad Zareh (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The 1958 Good Offices Mission and Its Implications for French-American Relations Under the Fourth Republic, Lorin James Anderson (Thesis)
Life drawing in the secondary classroom, Marilyn Jean Anderson (Thesis)
Nutritional requirements for protease production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ps-1C, Richard Myer Avedovech (Thesis)
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Systematic Relaxation Training of Chronically-Anxious Subjects on the Communication Variable of Closed-Mindedness, La Ray M. Barna (Thesis)
Changing the Custody of Children Whose Parents Have Been Divorced: A General View of the Process, Dorothy E. Bateman, Michael A. Comte, Kathryn S. Curry, Robert M. Fry, Patricia J. Sims, and Elva J. Terry (Thesis)
Automated Information Retrieval Systems for Legal Research, Robert G. Baylor (Thesis)
A study of the role of acrylic paints in the secondary and junior high school art curriculum, Alice Atkinson Benski (Thesis)
Attitudes Toward Supervision, Job Satisfaction, and Risk-Taking Behavior and the Relationship to Accident Frequency Ratios, Richard Everett Boggs (Thesis)
A Comparative Analysis of the Untrained Lip Reading Ability of Mothers of Young Hard of Hearing Children Versus Mothers of Young Normal Hearing Children, Janet Andrews Boileau (Thesis)
A study of eighty-one sexual offenders at Oregon State Hospital, Eugene Fletcher Booth (Thesis)
Madrona movers; a sociological analysis of a work group as a process of harmony and dissent, John Vance Cannucci (Thesis)
The Correlation of Factors Relating to the Selection and Retention of Student Teachers at Portland State University, Michael E. Carl (Thesis)
Italy 1830-1848: the role of the press and the theatre in the formation of the national spirit, Albert Louis Cereghino (Thesis)
Factors in Evaluation of Student Performance in a Graduate School of Social Work, Sharon J. Copeland and Gerald E. Warner (Thesis)