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Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A survey of work facilities and rehabilitation services available to the handicapped in the United States, Morgan William Dickerson (Thesis)
Die Gestaltung des Raumes in den Dramen Ernst Barlachs, Dieter Helmut Engelhardt (Thesis)
The propagation of light in a turbulent atmosphere, Karl-Hans Gunther Engert (Thesis)
Systems reliability using the flow graph, Kenneth Edward Farrier (Thesis)
Cubist Painting Related to the Culture From Which It Came and Its Validity Today in the High School Curriculum, Virginia K. Fenton (Thesis)
Factors in Assessing Effectiveness of Orientation Programs for Public Welfare Caseworkers, Clyde Ferguson (Thesis)
A Follow-up study of families with children labeled retarded, Connie Finley, Kay Jernigan, Bonnie Hogan, Effrosini Rotous, and Daryle Steffen (Thesis)
A study an analysis of stochastic linear programming, Chamberlain Lambros Foes (Thesis)
Income distribution effects of the urban property tax with emphasis on the reappraisal lag: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the Multnomah Couny experience, Michael Steven Fogarty (Thesis)
A survey of hearing loss in the special education classrooms of Vancouver School District 37, Richard C. Folsom (Thesis)
Religious commitment and attitudes toward deviant behavior, Donald Alban Gibbs (Thesis)
Studies on the distribution and habitat of Demodex folliculorum, Michael James Gimbol (Thesis)
Donation of Organs for Transplantation: An Investigation of Attitudes and Behavior, Courtney Weldon Goodmonson (Thesis)
The influence of tradition on the process of organizational change; a study of two Oregon child care centers: Edgefield Lodge, Troutdale, and St. Mary's Home for Boys, Beaverton, Helen Paula Grant (Thesis)
Post-Divorce Visitation of Minor Children; An Exploratory Study, Barbara Griffith, Gladys Hack, Eileen Murphy, Allison Wieman, Adam Williams, Earl VanLydegraf, and Vincent Glaudin (Thesis)
The Effect of Perceptual-Motor Training on Maladaptive Behaviors of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Julia Frances Hall (Thesis)
Versuch einer ästhetischen Wertsetzung: zur Kunsttheorie von Benn und Nietzsche, Kathryn M. Horváth (Thesis)
A demographic study based upon income, age and education variables as related to the willingness or unwillingness to accept foster children, John Hughes, Linda A. Kaeser, Susan E. Norman, Lillian Rinderknecht, and John Wills (Thesis)
The European Powers in Africa: Can the Obstacles to National Unity Be Attributed to Them? Nigeria, a Test Case, Bassey John Ituen (Thesis)
The great debate : an examination of conflicting views regarding American defense policies, 1950-1951, Glen J. Jackson (Thesis)
Die Gestalt der Frau in ausgewählten Dramen George Kaisers, Wolfgang H. Justen (Thesis)
A study of the effects of professional authority on the attitude change of high school sophomores, Sandra Lee Kelley and Lane Alan Myers (Thesis)
Viet-Nam business education; a proposal for development, Hoang Ngoc Khiem (Thesis)
A translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (The description of the land of Kamchatka) by E.A.P. Crownhart Vaughan, Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov (Thesis)
Validation of the orthogonal dimensions underlying the ICL and the octant constellations assumed to be their measure, Donald Edward Lange (Thesis)
Non-linearities in galvanomagnetic effects in bismuth at low temperatures, David Lawrence Luce (Thesis)
Comparison of Amounts of Verbal Response Elicited by a Speech Pathologist in the Clinic and a Mother in the Home, Joan Mathis (Thesis)
Councils of Governments: a Study Focusing on Membership, Representation and Voting, Jerry Alan Matson (Thesis)
Women in professions and status inconsistency, Miriam Grace McClure (Thesis)
Attitudes of Youth Toward Social Institutions: a Comparative Study, Connie McGonigle and James F. Bakke (Thesis)
An Electromyographic Comparison of Muscle Action Potentials of Listeners Presented Time-Compressed and Normal Speech Stimuli, Barbara S. Moon (Thesis)
Greece: the colonels' Puritan revolution, Nikolaos E. Mpras (Thesis)
Investigation of the alpha-sub-gamma phase in alnico 6, Cortez Samuel (Thesis)
Mobility of physicians into prepaid group health practice; a case study, Ann Schroeder Sato (Thesis)
Electron Optical Study of a Secondary Electron Multiplier, Chang Min Shen (Thesis)
Die Idee der neuen Welt in Fritz von Unruhs Trilogie Ein Geschlecht, Paul Otto Soumokil (Thesis)
A Comparison of Object Dropping and Echoic Vocalizing as Response Modes to Pure Tone Stimuli Among Mentally Retarded Children, Elton L. Stewart (Thesis)
The sex offender in Oregon : fact and fallacy, Richard G. Storch and Virginia T. Peterson (Thesis)
A proposed guidance program for Vietnamese high schools, Tran Thi Thanh-Tan (Thesis)
Pear polyphenolase, Mary Ellen Tracy (Thesis)
Werner Bergengruens Erzählung Das Beichtsiegel als Seelendrama, Viola Maija Udris (Thesis)
Distribution of the Sum of Independent Unity-Truncated Logarithmic Series Variables, Russell James Wayland (Thesis)
The Chemistry of Trifluorothiolacetic Acid, Patricia Diane Weeks (Thesis)
An Analysis of Geographical Concepts and Characteristics of Maps in Selected Textbooks, Helen Elizabeth Wittke (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1969
An analysis of children's drawings of policemen, Jess A. Armas and Linda L. Simonitch (Thesis)
Some interrelationships between a community work and training program and selected indices of family functioning, Audrey K. Arnst, Laszlo Dezsofi, James R. Friesen, Gary P. Heer, Bennett Holt, Courtney L. Linkous, and Edna S. Watson (Thesis)
An Examination of Disengagement Among Elderly People in a Low Income Public Housing Facility, Linda Bennion, Marion Paradis, and Sheila Petrie (Thesis)
Measuring trainee comprehension of casework relationship in a public welfare orientation program, Margaret Berweger, Glen R. Dugger, Dennis C. Florendo, Patricia Harmony, Jerry L. Juve, Sherien E. Plant, Richard C. Schiessl, and Oma W. Singer (Thesis)
The Complaint Process in Protective Services for Children, William L. Carey, Joann Day Delong, Barbara Lee Harris, Thomas E. Hogan, Ann Nelson, and Jeannette Ruth Staebler (Thesis)
Acetate as a Fine Arts Medium, Catherine Lynette Chisholm (Thesis)
Cyclization Studies Involving the Synthesis of 5-Substituted-1-Naphthol, Clark Keelock Chow (Thesis)
The City, Lee Merriwether Clark (Thesis)
The Far East Agreements of the Yalta Conference of February 4-11, 1945, and the Sino-Soviet Agreements of August, 1945, Robert Harold Davidson Jr. (Thesis)
Judging development and sexual identity in children's art, Susan Lathrop Dietsche, Helen Lieberman Fenske, Robert A. Jones, Robert D. Loy, and Robert L. Smith (Thesis)
A general study of tests and testing with special emphasis on concepts, controversy, and teaching ideas applicable at the first grade level, Jean I. Dimick (Thesis)
Evaluation of the Role of Neighborhood Health Coordinators in a Comprehensive Neighborhood Health Services Project, Sharron Faye Easley, John Collins Flanagan, Janet Fredricksen, Linda Janice Johnson, and Beatrice Hays Young (Thesis)
Value orientation in relation to emphasis in the process of diagnosing the family in state of crisis, Bradford Lynn Everson (Thesis)
An Exploration Into Aspects of Broken Color as Exemplified in the Works of the Impressionists and Neo-Impressionists and the Application of These Theories Within Painting Experiences of the Adolescent Student, Frank Edwin Handy (Thesis)
A Comparison of the Effects of Fluoride and Chloride Ions Upon the Activity of Yeast Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Ellen J. Hannan (Thesis)
The Maroons and freedom in Jamaica, Lennon Claude Henry (Thesis)
The view from the future; the self-fulfilling prophecy as an element in historical causation, William Welker Lenon (Thesis)
An Experimental Study of the Effects of Personal Proximity Upon Selected Aspects of Conversational Content, Ronna S. Loewen (Thesis)
The paper stencil method of silk screen printing, Niles Brian Martens (Thesis)
A theoretical and experimental study of the hyperbolic electron mirror, Michael Stewart Mauck (Thesis)
A quantification and analysis of verbal interaction between clinician and client in a public school setting, Norma C. McAleer (Thesis)
Verbal accessibility and authoritarian family ideology: a study of 50 graduate social work students and their spouses, Linda Louise Metz, George Nathan Henderson, Kathleen Sue Powell, David Allen Wolfington, and Sally Wong (Thesis)
A standardization of the "Children's Speechreading Test" on normal children, Lorna Helen Newcombe (Thesis)
Figure painting in the high school; experiments and recommendations, E. Leonora Perron (Thesis)
Aspects of the Åland Islands question, Elen Christine Sakshaug (Thesis)
The Biological Properties of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bacteriophage 7v, Shirley Phillips Schnider (Thesis)
The Causes of the Nez Perce War and the Prolonged Exile of the Captive Indians: An Analysis, Carole Jean Smolinski (Thesis)
A method of measuring the electron energy losses in transmission through thin films, John Patrick Stewart (Thesis)
Selected experiences of boys and girls entering the community of Ketchikan, Alaska from correctional schools, Marian L. Swain (Thesis)
Physical and kinetic properties of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase from Lactobacillus bulgaricus, Craig David Taylor (Thesis)
Directional Correlation of the 346-136 Kev Gamma-Gamma Cascade in Ta¹⁸¹, Robert Allan Wilson (Thesis)
The Attack on Bourgeois Society: an Introduction to Cultural Despair in the Late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century European Thought, with Four Illustrative Studies from Traditions of the European Intellectual Milieu, Craig Evan Wollner (Thesis)
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
Three basic stoneware glazes for cone six oxidation which may be changed in color or texture by the addition of common materials such as sand, clay soil, crushed gravel, or metal filings, Carol Hilda Balsiger (Thesis)
The library board and the conscientious objector : a study in war hysteria, Annette Martha Bartholomae (Thesis)
The Electronic Instrumentation for Atmospheric Laser Propagation Studies, Clyde Manford Brown Jr. (Thesis)
Selected factors in assessment of a group designated as school malperformers, Janet E. Bullock, Ronald M. Marshall, E. Frank Oliver, and Shizuko H. Sakai (Thesis)
Bacterial Degradation of Methyl Dehydroabietate, Burl C. Carter (Thesis)
Search for quantum oscillations in field emission current from bismuth., Donald Dean Casey (Thesis)
Theoretical calculations of kinetic isotope effects, Paul Chien-Wei Chang (Thesis)
Leisure, condition of man's freedom, Gerald H. Conrath (Thesis)
Assessment of Subjective Experiences of Boys Entering the Community From a Correctional School, Thomas W. DeJardin, Theresa F. Eubanks, Mary F. Hoyt, Steven J. Ickes, Carol W. Lane, and David F. Staat (Thesis)
Traits associated with choosing social work as a career, Helen Ellsworth, James B. Epley, Carolyn Hanson, Robert L. Morasch, Roberta Roth, Norma Rowe, Richard H. Stowell, Fredrick H. Swan, Joanna M. Wadsworth, and Aurita Zeigler (Thesis)
Children’s Drama Available for the Elementary School Children of Portland, Oregon, Margaret Othus Gender (Thesis)
Child Care Arrangements in Affluence and Poverty, Josephine Jeannette Gurrola, Joan Beck Hansen, Ruth Townsend Hardy, Donna Mae Landye, and Sandra Mae Poirier (Thesis)
Arturo Alessandri and the Chilean Presidential Elections of 1920: a thesis, Sally Ann Jones (Thesis)
The identification of the inorganic components in the calcareous corpuscles from Mesocestoides corti, Larry M. Kegley (Thesis)
A Comparison of Characteristics of Terminated AFDC Cases with Cases Remaining Active from the June 1966 AFDC Load in Linn County, Oregon, William Everett Lowther (Thesis)
Solving random walk problems using resistive analogues, Richard D. Morris (Thesis)
Precision measurements of the Mössbauer fraction of Fe⁵⁷ in Pt, Pd and Cu, Wilbur Lee Nees (Thesis)
A Clarification and Evaluation of Black Power, Beverly Jo Olson (Thesis)
Applications of Modified Wittig Reaction to Butatriene Synthesis, John Pearson (Thesis)
In-service education for teachers of family life education from a sociological viewpoint, Helen M. Running (Thesis)
Der Richter und der Gerechte in Dürrenmatts Dramen, Helga Schlichtherle (Thesis)
Investigation of attitudinal and behavioral changes of selected sixth grade students who attend an outdoor school, Robert R. Sesar (Thesis)
A series of paintings, both Oriental and Western, oriented toward a combination of the Western and Oriental styles in the use of mixed media, Young Hie Shin (Thesis)
Production of A thousand clowns, Clifford John Sowle (Thesis)