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Theses/Dissertations from 1980
Floral imagery, Vicki L. Clarke
A study of the crisis nature of the preparenthood period and implications for preventative social work practice, Julie Jean Colton
Aboriginal clay figurines from the upper Rogue Valley in southwestern Oregon, Lyman Patrick Deich
Cytologic Characterization of Human Constitutive Heterochromatin, Timothy Atchison Donlon
A Comparison of Three Measures of Waking Fantasy, Carey Sue Edney
Insertion loss values of earplugs, Michael Fairchild
The Degree of Acculturation and Success Patterns in Three Generations of the Japanese Americans in the Portland Area, Toshimasa Fujii
Late Pleistocene and recent archaeology and geomorphology of the south shore of Harney Lake, Oregon, Keith Donald Gehr
Social resources of the elderly as correlates of life satisfaction, Silvana Rigo Hale
Comparisons of Videotape Observation to Direct Observation, John W. Hanlan
The production of culture on the Oregon Federal Arts Project of the Works Progress Administration, Carolyn Howe
A study of the photolysis of O-methyl podocarpinitrile oxide, Dianne Marie Hunter
A Generalist Approach to Social Work Practice: Model and Synthesis, Chuck H. Johnson, Paul S. Knight, Michael W. Krumper, and John H. Rademaker
Paintings and drawings, Anita M. Jones
Public transit and student choice : a survey with Portland State University students, Sheku Gibril Kamara
Electrostatic TEM Studies of Magnetic Domains in Thin Iron Films, Hideaki Karamon
Community impacts on organizational interaction, Frederick Dalton Keast
Geochemical and Biogeochemical Interactions in a Hot Spring, William Delis Knox
Buddhistische Elemente in Hermann Hesses Siddhartha, Sawitree Kunapongsiri
Comparison of Two Receptive Language Tests (PPVT and TACL) Used with the Developmentally Delayed, Paul H. Lamb
An impact evaluation of home improvement loans on neighborhood decline: the case of Portland, Oregon, Geri Larkin
A Cognitive-Behavioral Approach to the Control of Dream Content, Gary Nick Dean Lehto
Homemaker and Former Clientele Evaluation of the Homemaker Service of Lane County, Marcia A. Leonard
The Ductuli Efferentes in Macaca mulatta: Electron Microscopic Evaluation of Changes After Vasectomy, Loyal Douglas Marsh
Toward a test for ethnocentrism and ethnorelativism based upon reference group orientation, James C. Mayer