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Interorganizational Coalitional Decision-Making: An Exploratory Investigation, Dennis Brian Keenan

Dissertations and Theses

This study is one of four exploratory studies concerned with coalitions of organizations that are formed to plan and develop social welfare programs within the local community. Although each study was conducted independently, taken together, their major purpose was to develop some insights and knowledge into the behavior of organizations and the ways in which they interact as they work together to develop community programs. They are then, exploratory studies of interorganizational behavior.

Clarion Defender-December 23, 1971

Clarion Defender

Publisher

Bob Hughes

Editor

Jimmy "Bang Bang" Walker

Address

319 N.E. Wygant

Adsorption Of Sulfur Dioxide On Douglas Fir Woodchips, Uen-Ping David Wang

Dissertations and Theses

In recent years, people have raised their alertness to the hazard of air pollution. Sulfur dioxide is one of the most dangerous chemical compounds among those air pollutants. A study on removing sulfur dioxide from an air stream by adsorption using wood chips as the adsorbent is presented in this thesis. The reason for using wood as an adsorbent is that wood is a porous material and possesses a large surface of cell cavities which can hold a great amount of moisture. As sulfur dioxide gas is passed through the wood bed, it would be either condensed in the cell …

An Exploration Into The Applicability Of A Psychological Technique For Anthropological Research, Gwendolyn Marie Harris Pierce

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis purports to explore and describe the types of information that would be obtainable to the anthropological researcher if he used the minimally structured small group (MDMS-SG) technique with members of a selected ethnic group. The approach was tried on Japanese Portland State University students and also on Saudi Arab Portland State University students for six sessions each. They were told that a graduate anthropology student wanted to get to know them and learn what they thought she should know about their countries.

The sessions were taped and notes written after each session. This corpus of material was analyzed …

A Regional Approach: City-County Consolidation As A Method Of Local Governmental Reorganization, Anthony Gene White

Dissertations and Theses

City-county consolidated governments are examined to isolate factors important to the success of the consolidation process, and are measured against objective and subjective criteria for the operation of such governments. Data are obtained through survey techniques and statistical analysis of demographic information. Results indicate that such success-oriented consolidation factors inherent in city-county governments do exist and can be interrelated in a mathematical model. Consolidated governments appear to improve their ability to handle urban problems, and officials of consolidated governments are more confident of their ability to handle these problems than are officials of other metropolitan governments reorganized in different manners.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 52, No. 29 (1971-12-10), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Areawide Housing Policy: A View From The Trenches, Norman Krumholz

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Project "Foresight": First Phase, Unknown

Portland Regional Planning History

Project "Foresight" at this time is concentrating on two major objectives: (1) the development of the first phase of a Willamette Valley Environmental Protection Plan, and (2) refine and sustain a process for resolving intergovernmental, interregional, and interagency conflicts.

The primary responsibility of accomplishing this task has been given to the Executive Department's Local Government Relations Division. Three intergovernmental task forces have been formed, for Economic Policy, Transportation, and Natural Resources; and state, local government, and Federal personnel are members. Task force leadership is being provided by the State Department of Transportation, Assistant to the Governor for Economic Development Office, …

The Environmental Crisis: The Effects Of Ecology Courses On High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher

Dissertations and Theses

It is a basic premise of this thesis that an environmental crisis exists in the world today and has been worsening at least since World War II. The crisis is evident in the population explosion, the deteriorating air and water quality, and the depletion of our natural resources. With the feeling that all persons must become aware, concerned, and involved with the environmental crisis if the trend is to be reversed, this study is concerned with one segment of the population – high school students.

Sociologists, and especially human ecologists, have not been concerned professionally with the environmental crisis, but …

Computer Solution To Inverse Problems Of Elliptic Form: V²U(X,Y) = G(A,U,X,Y), Frederick Alvin Jeter

Dissertations and Theses

One important aspect of our present age of monolithic high speed computers is the computer's capability to solve complex problems hitherto impossible to tackle due to their complexity. This paper explains how to use a. digital computer to solve a specific type of problem; specifically, to find the inverse solution of a in the elliptical equation V²U(x,y) = g(a,U,x,y), with appropriate boundary conditions. This equation is very useful in the electronics field. The knowns are the complete set of boundary values of U(x,y) and a set of observations taken on internal points of U(x,y). Given this information, plus …

A Profile Of The People Who Live In Downtown Portland, Holly A. Cornell, Jim Howland, Fred Merryfield, Burke Hayes

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Social And Economic Profile Of Downtown Residents: Background Data And Analysis, Portland (Or.). City Planning Commission

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Portland State Perspective; December 1971, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: budget issues; dwarf mistletoe studied by University botanists; review of PSU research on sickle cells in elk.

The Lair Hill Park Neighborhood On Examination Of The Phenomenon Of Community Creation, Joseph S. Uris

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is a study of a community in physical isolation. The first chapter describes the methodology used. Short form questionnaires and in-depth interviews were gathered. Three sets of historical maps were drawn from documented sources. A film describing the life style and beliefs of some community residents was made. The second chapter is an evaluation of some of the literature on the neighborhood. This chapter details the hypothesis that external pressures and externally created needs tended in the case of the Lair Hill area to produce a Gemeinschaft-like situation which proves stronger than the many factors making for heterogeneity …

"China In Crisis: The Chinese People And The Communist Political System", Robert A. Scalapino

Special Collections: Oregon Public Speakers

Presented in a series with Hinton, W., "The Chinese Domestic Scene"

Famous Fiscal Crisis Memo, Norman Krumholz

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Toward A Work Program For An Advocate Planning Agency, Ernest Bonner

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Report By The Boards Of Governors On The Admission Of Women To The City Club Of Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Portland State Perspective; October 1971, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: national thinking on child care centers; a look at foreign students who are hosted by local families; Rene Dubos speaks on campus.

Comment On Electron Scattering In The Image Potential Well, Pavel Smejtek, M. Silver

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Comments are made on the model of electron injection into SiO₂ proposed by Berglund and Powell. Their assumptions on electron scattering, disregarding the change of the escape cone with the distance from the emitter, lead to serious underestimation of the injected current. Two alternative models of electron injection, based solely on elastic scattering are discussed and do not predict the experimental results. We suggest that observed field dependence of the injected current into SiO₂ indicates that energy relaxation associated with the injected electrons is responsible for the voltage dependence of the current.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 52, No. 17 (1971-9-17), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Ames Trapezoid Illusion: A New Model, Daniel Robert Kelly

Dissertations and Theses

Current explanations for the Ames Trapezoid Illusion are based upon the the absence of cues: the illusion is said to occur at chance. A review of recent literature showed that: (a) the illusion varies in frequency as a function of target shape (b) that the dominant cue to reduce the frequency of the illusion is the variant in retinal height. Based upon the dominance of this cue a new model was presented. Following this model it was hypothesized that observers viewing partial rotation when the target produces the greatest difference in the retinal height of the ends would determine the …

Portland Downtown Plan: Inventory And Analysis, Portland (Or.). City Planning Commission, Cornell, Howland, Hayes, And Merryfield, Deleuw, Cather & Company

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Police Response To Calls For Assistance: A Major Community Problem, Unknown

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Vocalizations Of The Townsend Chipmunk (Eutamias Townsendii), Greig Michael Warner

Dissertations and Theses

This study describes and analyzes the vocalizations of the Townsend chipmunk (Eutamias townsendii) in Oregon. Tape recordings of calls were collected primarily from Forest Park in Portland (Oregon) during 1970 and 1971, and sonograms of these recordings were produced. Findings were compared with those of Brand (1970) who investigated E. townsendii vocalizations in California. The prominent calls in the vocal repertoire of townsendii are the quist, the quirt, and the chipper. These calls all appear to be warning calls. The quist note is a a chevron-shaped (A) figure representing a sound which begins at a low frequency (1-2 KC), sharply …

Evidence For The Existence Of Two Stable Sites For Cobalt Impurity Atoms In Aluminum, Arun Venkatachar

Dissertations and Theses

Using Fe⁵⁷Mössbauer spectroscopy, two alternative sites occupied by cobalt (10^-4 at. % ) impurity atoms in aluminum have been isolated. The substitutional site A is the stable position after annealing the sample above 840 K, followed by a rapid quench. The impurity atoms in site A are characterized by a single line Mössbauer spectrum (indicative of a cubic environment), a room-temperature f = 0.502 (r. m. s. displ. 0.071 A) and an I. S. (reI. to Fe) = -0.421 mm/sec. For anneals below 770 K the cobalt atoms migrate to site B, which is characterized by a …

On The Molecular Theory Of Dielectric Polarization In Rigid‐Dipole Fluids, John D. Ramshaw

Physics Faculty Publications and Presentations

A molecular theory is developed for the polarization P(r) produced by a weak position‐dependent external electric field E₀(r) in a finite fluid system, of arbitrary shape, composed of rigid polar molecules. The theory differs from earlier work in that no assumption is made concerning the form of the electrostatic constitutive relation. [The usual assumption in this regard is that P(r) = (ε–1) E(r) / 4π, where E(r) is the total Maxwell electric field. The “dielectric constant” ε is well defined only if the relation between P(r) and E(r) …

The Effectiveness Of Environmental Control In Modifying Problem Behaviors In Mother-Child Interaction, Thomas Whalen Hamilton

Dissertations and Theses

An experiment was designed to test the effectiveness of using standard laboratory environments in producing a broad class of problem behaviors which defined Mother-Child (M-C) interaction difficulties. The effects of four environments, free-time (X), child's game and rules (B), mother's game and rules (C), and clean-up (Z), on the frequency of eight criteria behaviors were tested on 12 M-C pairs over three days of baseline data collection. It was predicted that the frequency of problem behaviors would decrease as a function of environment (X) and increase as a function of environments (B), (C), and (Z). A two factor …

Report On Urban Renewal In Portland, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Crystal Structure Determination Of Β-Lactoglobulin From Electron Micrographs, Richard Roeter

Dissertations and Theses

Often electron micrographs exhibit a repeating structure. Sometimes this repeating structure satisfies the definition of a crystal in that it has a three dimensional repeating structure. If the unit cell structure of this repeating structure can be determined it can be used to help categorize different sections of a particular sample. In some cases, the use of optical diffraction analysis of electron micrographs with repeating structure is a method of determining the unit cell structure.

Samples of β-Lactoglobulin were prepared for viewing in the electron microscope using both the crystalline material and carbon replicas of the crystal surface. Because the …