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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
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)
Water Quality Within East Portland Terraces, Fouad Mohamed Tawfik (Thesis)
Differential Measurement of a Language Concept Presented via Video Tape Playback to First Grade Students, Richard Warren Trullinger (Thesis)
Effects of the Nerve During the Dedifferentiative Phase of Limb Regeneration in the Mexican Axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, Roberta Gail Wald (Thesis)
Alumina-Catalyzed Cope Rearrangement, Paul Jhy-Shing Wang (Thesis)
An investigation of the development of the phonemes /t/and /k/ in the speech of preschool children., Glenn Douglas Weybright (Thesis)
Masking patterns of high frequency pure tones, Judith Eide Widen (Thesis)
Hiring Practices: A Study of the Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon, Carol Williams Bryant (Thesis)
Designing and Evaluating Workshop "Bridges": a Training Project to Upgrade Social Services in Long Term Care Facilities, Corrine C. Williams (Thesis)
Siblings and sex roles: A comparison between male and female graduate students with regard to sibling sex and ordinal position, Anita Witt (Thesis)
The Frequency of Retroflex /r/ Production in Elementary School Children, Vicki Barna Wood (Thesis)
The rate of return on the investment in registered nurse education as related to the supply of registered nurses, Barbara Zuern (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Meaning of Work for Women, Susan Ackerman (Thesis)
A Comparison of Two Methods of Instruction in Office Skills: Classroom-Laboratory and Classroom-Laboratory with Cooperative Work Experience, Barbara Swanson Anderson (Thesis)
Granulometric Analysis of Recent Sediments of Tillamook Bay, Oregon, Gennaro William Avolio (Thesis)
Black Content in Schools: a Model of Black Content in a School of Social Work's Curriculum, Dorothy L. Baker, Alexander Richberg, and Isaac White (Thesis)
Purification and characterization of dihydroorotase from Clostridium oroticum, a zinc-containing metalloenzyme, William Edward Balch (Thesis)
French-Indian Relations (1672-1701): An Economic, Political and Military Study, James Duncan Biggs (Thesis)
Die Einwirkung des Jugendstils auf Rilkes Frühwerk, Linda Collins Blumenthal (Thesis)
Thomas Hardy : a Study; Suffering, Human Will, and Grace in the Major Novels, Russell E. Borland (Thesis)
Between Words and Actions: the Problem of Motivation in Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Scott Broadhead (Thesis)
Effects of Semantic Associational Strength and Verbal Sequence Length on the Auditory Comprehension of Aphasic Adults, Laurel J. Brown (Thesis)
The abolition of capital punishment: a comparative study, Michael L. Call (Thesis)
Family Variables Which Are Associated With Achievement of Community Tenure by Persons Released From Psychiatric Hospitalization, Thomas Mack Chambers (Thesis)
An Investigation of Handedness and its Relationship to the Site of Contact Ulcers, Colleen S. Colleary (Thesis)
Student Perceptions of the Chemawa Alcohol Education Center, Carol Colley (Thesis)
Spatial variations in the intra-urban response to a noise source, Wilbur David Conder (Thesis)
A Descriptive Analysis of a Metropolitan Foster Parent Population as an Indicator for Recruitment, Elizabeth Connet (Thesis)
Color Perception in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels, Robert F. Cooley (Thesis)
Selected attitudes and perceptions of adolescents at the Hood River, Oregon, attention home, Marilyn Czerwinski and Linda Olson (Thesis)
Counseling Problems that Accompany the Diagnosis of Mental Retardation, Betty Daggett, Shirley H. Durkheimer, and Abigail M. Lawton (Thesis)
The sasswood ordeal of the west Atlantic tribes of Sierra Leone and Liberia: an ethnohistoriographic survey, Sarah Louise Davies (Thesis)
A Descriptive Follow-up Study of 21 Children from Parry Center, Paul Duke (Thesis)
Synthesis of Uranium Fluorosulfates and the Group VI B Difluorophosphates, Larry McCain Emme (Thesis)
Recent Developments in the Use of Precast Concrete Units for Buildings in the United States and Iran, Khosrow Ebadi Farshchi (Thesis)
Indians and Criminal Justice in Early Oregon, 1842-1859, John Samuel Ferrell (Thesis)
Two Delivery System Contexts for the Elderly:The "Institutional" Approach and the "Community" Approach., Mary Sarita Freer (Thesis)
Identifying and Defining Natural Service Delivery Systems, James R. Garrison and William J. Teverbaugh (Thesis)
Biostratigraphy of the Type Yamhill Formation, Polk County, Oregon, Larry R. Gaston (Thesis)
A Follow-up Attitudinal Study of Selected Groups in the City of the Dalles Toward the Community Attention Home, Landon Gilstrap, Joyce Larson, and Janice Page (Thesis)
Sickle Cell Anemia : a Psychosocial Study of Attitudes and Effect, Sharon Ann Goddard and Marian Genita Gilmore (Thesis)
An Evaluation of a Graduate Social Work Training Program at John Adams High School, George E. Hall and Guy H. Lutz (Thesis)
A study of the effect of drug use on the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, Mary Ellen Hammons (Thesis)
Communication Barriers Between White Social Work Students and Black and Chicano Clients, Robert Hight, Joyce B. Smith, Evelyn F. Maxwell, and Carol G. White (Thesis)
Parental attitudes toward, and knowledge of open-space schools, Brian Hines (Thesis)
Predicting and Detecting First Grade School Adjustment, Julie D. Holmes and Janice L. Bartlett (Thesis)
A reexamination of the effects of prismatic displacement on pointing straight ahead, Anastasia Houndoumadi (Thesis)
Group Experience with Parents of Preschool Children with Seizure Disorders, George R. Jacobsen, Grant R. Kane, and Joan Sacia (Thesis)
A Study of the Problems of Translation, Rhetorical Analysis, and Translation of a Speech of Mohammed Mossedeq, Gholamhosain Janati-Ataie (Thesis)
A program of school social work, Phyllis Marie Jaszkowiak (Thesis)
Seven Pairs, Anne Griffin Johnson (Thesis)
Increasing Visual Sensitivity in Urban School Students: a Strategy for Involving Students in Aesthetic Concerns, Harold Louis Johnson (Thesis)
Transactional Analysis Jargon in Time Limited Groups, Diane Jones, Earl Eyre, and Joan Logan (Thesis)
The Random Sequence Closing Control System, Henri Bernard Joyaux (Thesis)
Selected Attitudes and Values of Young Adults in Northern Sierra Leone, Fatu Y. Kamara (Thesis)
The Siletz Indian Reservation, 1855-1900, William Eugene Kent (Thesis)
Diaries and Reminiscences of Women on the Oregon Trail: A Study in Consciousness, Amy Kesselman (Thesis)
A study of a token economy program initiated at Oregon State Hospital, Helenjane R. Kudelko (Thesis)
Evaluating "Peer Mobilization" Films as a Tool in Altering Self Concept, Leslie Larson and Mary Morton (Thesis)
An Investigation of Vocational Rehabilitation Among Northwest Laryngectomees, Susan L. Leonti (Thesis)
The rights of students in public high schools, Keith James Lindahl (Thesis)
The Bedrock Geology of the Southwest Part of the Kachess Lake Quadrangle, Washington, David Carl Lofgren (Thesis)
A Preliminary Investigation of the Land Use Limitations of the Major Landforms Along a Portion of the Lincoln County Coast, Oregon, Richard Kent Mathiot (Thesis)
A theory of the creativity-intelligence interaction: an environmental suppressor variable, Lynda L. McDonald (Thesis)
Differences Between Supervisor and High and Low-Rated Employees' Perceptions of Job Performance Ratings and Importance of Job Factors, Harvey Edward McGowan (Thesis)
Changing Western Images of Russia During the Reign of Catherine II, 1762-1796, Janet L. Menze (Thesis)
Personality correlates of interpersonal perception in a residential treatment center for adolescent girls, Raymond Paul Micciche and Terrell Lynn Eheler (Thesis)
Select Problems with Recreation, Tourist, and Vacation Oriented Businesses as Rural Economic Stabilizers: a Case Study of the Mid-Columbia Economic Development District, Morton I. Michelson (Thesis)
An Analysis of the Effects of Background Variables on Attitudes and Policy at the Bonneville Power Administration, Philip George Millam (Thesis)
Photosynthesis and Respiration of Arceuthobium Tsugense, James Roger Miller (Thesis)
A study of the speech philosophy of Alexander Campbell and the application of that philosophy, Rudy L. Morrow (Thesis)
Student Perceptions of the Teacher-Counselor Role at the Albina Youth Opportunity School, Florence M. Morton and Billie L. Smith (Thesis)
Digital Computer Solution of Electromagnetic Transients in Large Power Systems, Bijan Navidbakhsh (Thesis)
A Tectonic Study of a Part of the Northern Eagle Cap Wilderness Area, Northeastern Oregon, Kenneth Gordon Neal (Thesis)
Life Cycle, Additions to Biology, and New Hosts of Apophallus Donicus (Trematoda: Heterophyidae) in Oregon, Delbert Raymond Niemi (Thesis)
Characteristics of Arginase from the Terebellid Polychaete Pista pacifica Berkeley, Karen Laurel O'Malley (Thesis)
A study of open space schools, Carol Ormiston (Thesis)
Orestes A. Brownson: An American Traditionalist, Marianne Oswald (Thesis)
The Diplomatic Stalemate of Japan and the United States: 1941, David Hoien Overby (Thesis)
Contributions of Peter Pallas to Science and Exploration in Russia, Robert C. Parker (Thesis)
Self-awareness Testing for School of Social Work Students at Portland State University, Beverly Paull, Bette Schuman, and Dorothy Davis (Thesis)
Sculpture for the Secondary Level, Joanne Beckett Peekema (Thesis)
Effects of Speaker-Sex-Difference on Listeners' Perception of Vocal Roughness in Normal Vowel Productions, Patsy J. Phillips (Thesis)
The Characteristics and Genesis of Stone Stripes in North Central Oregon, John Baine Pyrch (Thesis)
A Study of the Adsorption of Some Atmospheric Gases on Soils of the Willamette Valley River Basin, Thomas R. Quale (Thesis)
Verbal Sequencing Ability as a Predictor of Reading Disability, Paul Elmer Quin (Thesis)
Some Aspects of the Water Economics of Townsend's Chipmunks, Ali Mokhtar Rahima (Thesis)
Lead Content of Hair of Urban and Rural Populations of Small Animals, Richard Brian Raymond (Thesis)
A reinterpretation of the Oregon school bill of 1922 : the concept of the common school in progressive America., Stephen Louis Recken (Thesis)
Environmental Geology of the Marquam Hill Area, Roger Alan Redfern (Thesis)
Response of orthotropic bridge decks to highway loadings, Harry Morris Rexin (Thesis)
An Experimental Study and Analysis of Saudi-Arabian - American Proxemic Behavior as Observed in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Dyadic Interactions, Gary D. Robinson (Thesis)
Solid Casting in Aluminum and Concrete Using the Multiple-piece plaster mold: a method of introducing the Adolescent Student to the Indirect Method of Sculpture, Donald LeRoy Sandblast (Thesis)
Community Vocational Success of Institutionalized Mental Retardates as a Function of Coping Style, Jane C. Schilling (Thesis)
Growth of Selenastrum capricornutum Printz in Natural Waters Treated with Copper Sulfate, Gerald Eugene Schulz (Thesis)
A new inquiring system for technology transfer and its role in planning and policymaking, Kishandutt Jaydayal Sharma (Dissertation)
Agonistic Behavior and Dominance in Townsend's Chipmunks (Eutamias townsendii), Paul Evan Sherman (Thesis)
The Grim Security of the Past: The Historiography of Henry Cabot Lodge, Claude Singer (Thesis)