This combined collection includes dissertations and theses from the School of Earth, Environment and Society (SEES), which includes the departments of Anthropology, Environmental Science and Management, Geography, Geology and Complex Systems. Dissertations from the Ph.D. program in Earth, Environment and Society are also included in this collection.
Theses/Dissertations from 1985
Preliminary investigation for underground storage of pipeline gas in the Bruer and Flora pools, Mist gas field, Columbia County, Oregon, Paul Joseph Townley
Theses/Dissertations from 1984
The relation of economic diversity to levels, growth rates, and stability of unemployment and income, Mohsen Attaran
Effects of Urbanization on the Hydrologic Regime of Johnson Creek, Portland, Oregon, William Vandewater Clement
Geology, Alteration and Mineralization of a Silicic Volcanic Center, Glass Buttes, Oregon, Michael James Johnson
Incest: A Study in Networking in Multnomah County, Oregon, Joanne McClarty
Enhancing impact assessment with extrapolative fiction, Ruth-Ellen Miller
Forecasting interest rates using pattern recognition techniques, John S. Pearson
Quaternary volcanology of the West Crater-Soda Peaks area, southern Washington Cascade Range, David R. Polivka
You don't have to have a high school education to work here : an ethnography of a chainstore, Caroline Yvonne Princehouse
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Paleogene arkosic and volcaniclastic strata, Johnson Creek-Chambers Creek area, southern Cascade Range, Washington, Warren Jon Winters
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
A descriptive predictive model for the employment of computer-based management information systems for the government of a developing country: case, Iran, Hossein Bidgoli
Tillamook Indian basketry : continuity and change as seen in the Adams Collection, Ailsa Elizabeth Crawford
The distribution of the trade effects of the Arab Common Market, Rami Khalaf
Formation and Zonation of Ferruginous Bauxite Deposits of the Chapman Quadrangle, Oregon, Richard Charles Marty
Holocene Geologic History of the Clatsop Plains Foredune Ridge Complex, David Karl Rankin
The paleolimnology of Bull Run Lake: disruption and stability in a natural system, Richard Brian Raymond
A computer decision support system to assist in providing equality of educational opportunity, Porter Sexton
The relationship between Romanes and English as spoken by the Portland Gypsies, Margaret Anne Sharp
Theses/Dissertations from 1982
The Geology of the Floras Creek Area, Curry County, Oregon, Jon Dudley Bounds
Log structures : criteria for their description, evaluation and management as cultural resources, Margaret L. Glover
Kinetics of proton transport in lipid membranes induced by some chlorinated phenols, Ananda Ranjith Jayaweera
Proverbs : tools for world view studies : an exploratory comparison of the Bemba of Zambia and the Shona of Zimbabwe, Larry L. Niemeyer
Post-Mazama aboriginal settlement/subsistence patterns : Upper Klamath Basin, Oregon, Frances Marie Philipek
Theses/Dissertations from 1981
FORTEL, a telecommunications forecasting system, James Leslie Black
Explorations in the development of a descriptive model of strategic business planning, Laura Williamson Doyle
Henna: Uses of It in the Middle East and North Africa, Diane M. Humphrey-Newell
Preliminary inventory of lifeline systems and evaluation of seismic hazards in Reno and Sparks, Nevada, Barbara Priest
Approximate reasoning, logics for self-reference, and the use of nonclassical logics in systems modeling, Daniel Guy Schwartz
The Determination of a Relative Chronology for a Surface Archeological Site Using the Obsidian Hydration Dating Method, Scott Preston Thomas
The perinatal regionalization policy: a study in form and development, Linda Umbdenstock
The Biogeography of Oregon White Oak (Quercus garryana) in Central Oregon, Robert Allen Voeks
Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Patterns of information system growth in community mental health centers, Linda J. Bellerby
Aboriginal clay figurines from the upper Rogue Valley in southwestern Oregon, Lyman Patrick Deich
Late Pleistocene and recent archaeology and geomorphology of the south shore of Harney Lake, Oregon, Keith Donald Gehr
Public transit and student choice : a survey with Portland State University students, Sheku Gibril Kamara
Harney Area Cultural Resources Class I Inventory, Ruth McGilvra Bright
The parcelization of the open range, a conflict in land use : grazing rights versus residential and recreation land sales in Klickitat County, Washington, Dennis A. Olson
Components Integral to the Consumer's Decision-Making Process Regarding the Regional Shopping Centers of Portland, Oregon, James A. Swanson
Selective reflection of light at a solid-gas interface and its application, Fumihide Takeda
Stability and resilience in business systems, Donald Bard Wilcox
Theses/Dissertations from 1979
The Bureau of Land Management and Cultural Resource Management in Oregon, William James Cannon
A method for analyzing census data from small populations : developed, tested and applied to a 1958 census of Suba barrio, Paoay, Ilocos Norte, the Philippines, Stephen Aulick Million
Performance theorems for the resource scheduling functions of a multiprocessing system, George Arthur Nicol
Performance theorems for the resource scheduling functions of a multiprocessing system, George Arthur Nicol
Functional Analysis of Great Basin Projectile Points, Roger Wiggin
Theses/Dissertations from 1978
Recent and contemporary foraging practices of the Harney Valley Paiute, Marilyn Dunlap Couture
Prehistoric mobile stone sculpture of the lower Columbia River valley: a preliminary study in a southern Northwest Coast culture subarea, Marilyn Sargent Peterson
Planning for regional environmental quality : the case of Japan's National Capital Region, Duane E. Roberts
Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Effect of Declining Timber Supplies and Productivity Increases in the Forest Products Industries Upon Employment in Douglas County, Oregon, Patrick L. Burden
An Investigation Into the Elasticity of Demand for Motor Gasoline, Samy Fouad El-Iskandarany
Netarts Bay, Oregon: an assessment of human impact on an estuarine system, Larry D. McCallum
The statistical manipulation of Delphi statements, Bradley William Nelson
The Effects of a Political Boundary Running Through a Metropolitan Area: A Case Study of the Establishment and Functioning of the Jantzen Beach Shopping Center, Rose Romaine Reed
lntercultural Adjustment in an Academic Enrichment Program, Mary Frances Samuel Ricks
An Improved Approach for "Optimization" of Multiple Policy Objectives, Perihan Soliman Tawfik
CHANCE: a probabilistic model for electrical energy planning, Wayne William Wakeland
Theses/Dissertations from 1976
A methodology for determining mass movement susceptibility for land-use planning, Vern Walter Cimmery
Mary's River Kalapuyan: A Descriptive Phonology, Yvonne P. Hajda
The Nature and Distribution of Turf-banked Terraces in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, Katherine Jane Hansen
Theoretical studies in cooperative phenomena and population ecology, Shripad Tuljapurkar
The Geology of the Castle Rock Area, Grant, Harney and Malheur Counties, Oregon, John David Wood
Bayesian Inquiry: an Approach to the Use of Experts, King G. Yee
Contributions to Tualatin Ethnography: Subsistence and Ethnobiology, Henry B. Zenk
Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Charles E. Borden: his formulation and testing of archaeological hypotheses, Ellen Wallace Robinson
Analysis of the Port of Portland Facility Hinterlands, Timothy D. Wilson
The Ethnohistory of Baker Cabin, a Clackamas County Pioneer Site, V. Claire Woodward
Theses/Dissertations from 1974
A Spectrographic Analysis of Bahasa Indonesia Vowel Phonemes Under Primary Stress in CVC Words, Ingrid T. Hanna
A study of the physiological factors affecting the biological conversion of arsenite to arsenate, Shirley E. Phillips
Strategies and the management of a portfolio of business units, Donald Leland Pope
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Spatial variations in the intra-urban response to a noise source, Wilbur David Conder
The sasswood ordeal of the west Atlantic tribes of Sierra Leone and Liberia: an ethnohistoriographic survey, Sarah Louise Davies
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
The Characteristics and Genesis of Stone Stripes in North Central Oregon, John Baine Pyrch
A new inquiring system for technology transfer and its role in planning and policymaking, Kishandutt Jaydayal Sharma
A test of the simple recessive hypothesis for the inability to taste phenyl-thio-urea: a family study, Susan I. Wolf
A Cross-Class Survey of Synaesthesia in High School Students and its Biocultural Implications, Ina Jane Wundram
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
The women's liberation movement and identity change : an urban pilot study, Molly M. Doeneka
Complex Systems and the Price-Resource Directive Coordination Procedure, Chamberlain Lambros Foes
A Functional Interpretation of Pottery from Batan Island, Philippines, Joanne M. Laetsch
Continuity of a Traditional Social Pattern: the "Man-Patron" Relationship in Contemporary Northeast Brazil, Patricia Ellen Thorpe
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
An Exploration Into the Applicability of a Psychological Technique for Anthropological Research, Gwendolyn Marie Harris Pierce