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Theses/Dissertations from 1981
Mission of protest : General John Armstrong's response to the continental system, 1806-1810, Thom M. Armstrong
Assessment of Needs of Adolescent Mothers in Washington County, John L. Arnold
Nordic immigrants in Portland, 1870-1920 : the first fifty years, Janet Lynn Baisinger
Success expectancy in depressives, Marilyn Frances Barnowe-Meyer
Organizational innovation in a professional school: a case study, Marie Streng Berger
The Portland, Oregon ASAP: an Evaluation of Treatment Effectiveness, Joan M. Wildebush Berry
Dream Therapy in Counseling, Deborah Ann Karr Black
FORTEL, a telecommunications forecasting system, James Leslie Black
Stone sculpture, Laura P. Bogdan
Psychodrama and the terminal patient : concepts and application, Marilyn Jacobs Bohan
Theodor Storm's Der Schimmelreiter and the realism of the supernatural, Regina Berrit Braker
An introduction to black and white lithography : two alternatives to the stone, Carolyn Brookhart
Environmental and Psychological Factors Surrounding Children of Cancer Patients: An Exploratory Study, Joan Strong Buell
The metabolic cost of behavioral thermoregulation of body temperature in the northern alligator lizard Gerrhonotus coeruleus, and how it affects the classical concept of eurythermality, James Dudley Campbell
Burnout: Multi-Dimensional Study of Alienation Among Social Service Workers in the Willamette Valley, Sally Carignan
A History of the Portland Waterfront Between Southwest Clay and Washington Streets, Its Land Use and Legal Problems, Jeffrey Gerald Carter
Comparison of scores obtained on the PPVT and the PPVT-R, Jennie L.M. Choong
Community Structure on the Urban Frontier: the Jews of Portland, Oregon, 1849-1887, Robert Scott Cline
Alternative Agencies: An Exploratory Study, Linda Crane
Reliability and validity of a scale to measure prosocial behavior in young children, Susan Davis
Explorations in the development of a descriptive model of strategic business planning, Laura Williamson Doyle
An Alumni Survey of the School of Social Work, Portland State University, Stephen R. Fishack
The Influence of Halloysite Content on the Shear Strength of Kaolinite, Reka Katalin Gabor
Geology of a Volcanic Complex on the South Flank of Mount Jefferson, Oregon, Brian Lee Gannon
Louis de Potter and the Belgian Revolution of 1830, Karen N. Groth