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A Qualitative Analysis Of Nine Nonverbal Communications Texts, Edward J. Cavin

Dissertations and Theses

Throughout the past decade, numerous texts have been published which claim to be ideally suited for use in a basic, introductory nonverbal communication course. Many authors state that their text will comprehensively cover all aspects of the field of nonverbal communication. Unfortunately, many of the texts cover only a portion of the concepts which have been deemed as essential for inclusion in a beginning nonverbal communication course.

With the plethora of material relating to this topic on the market, there is a need for a comprehensive evaluation form by which an elevator could determine the specific method of layout (manner …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 1981, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 1981 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 1981.

The Determination Of A Relative Chronology For A Surface Archeological Site Using The Obsidian Hydration Dating Method, Scott Preston Thomas

Dissertations and Theses

This methodological study is an attempt to develop relative chronologies for surface archaeological sites from the obsidian hydration analysis of waste flake samples. Two sites in southeastern Oregon were selected and their surface components sampled. The results of the obsidian hydration analysis indicate, that with the use of random sampling methods and general geochemical control, a fairly accurate representation of the history of an archaeological surface site can be obtained.

Portland State Perspective; Fall 1981, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: urban campus life; tougher admission requirements; Mt. Hood Kiwanis Camp; feature on Andries Deinum; lake research.

1981 Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 1980-89

The program for the Portland State University 1981 Spring Commencement ceremony, held at Memorial Coliseum on June 7, 1981, in Portland, Oregon.

Opening remarks by Edward C. Harms, Jr., Oregon State System of Higher Education, and Jill Kremen, Class of 1981.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet June 1981, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The June 1981 Monthly packet includes the June agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held May 1981.

Henna: Uses Of It In The Middle East And North Africa, Diane M. Humphrey-Newell

Dissertations and Theses

Since gradually replacing red ochre as a dye in ancient Egypt, henna has been cultivated throughout the Middle East and North Africa. Traditional uses dealing with body art and medicine were associated with traits commonly connected with the color red, the dichotomies of life and death, good and evil. Today, these traits have all but disappeared while henna's use as a cosmetic dye, an embellishment, has remained prevalent in some regions. There can be no doubt that many uses and symbolisms attached to uses have gone unrecorded, been forgotten, and are irretrievable. The purpose of this research was to preserve …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 1981, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 1981 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 1981.

The Perinatal Regionalization Policy: A Study In Form And Development, Linda Umbdenstock

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this research was to demonstrate one way in which the analytical and creative components of policy can complement one another to provide insight for understanding emergent (developmental) and cooperative systems. As a case study, this research examined a perinatal regionalization project--a new health care delivery system--to determine how it might develop from this point in its history, i.e., what form it might take. The key questions were: how do we design a workable and significant system? How much is science; how much art? Given the emergent social nature of the system, a twofold approach was required. The …

An Observational Study Of The Workday Of The Urban High School Assistant Principal, Penny S. Mcdonald

Dissertations and Theses

The central problem of the study was to determine the nature of the workday of the urban high school assistant principal. Specific questions guiding the investigation were as follows: (1)What are the workday activities of an assistant principal? (2)How long is this day? (3)How might the pace of the workday be described? (4)With whom does an assistant principal interact? How? Why? (5)To what extent is daily work proactive? Reactive? (6)Do the workdays of the various urban high school assistant principals differ? The investigator, in the nonparticipant observor role, employed five data-collection techniques: field notes; structured interview; review of written materials; …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet December 1980, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The December 1980 Monthly packet includes the December agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held November 1980.

Harney Area Cultural Resources Class I Inventory, Ruth Mcgilvra Bright

Dissertations and Theses

This document presents the Cultural Resources Overview for the Harney Area in southeastern Oregon. The Harney Area combines three of the four planning units in the Burns Bureau of Land Management District. Most of the land in the Harney Area is located in Harney County, although a few parcels are just outside the county line in Lake and Malheur Counties. Almost all of Harney County is included. There are approximately 3,320,000 acres of Bureau administered public land within the Harney Area, as well as other public and private lands.

1980 Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 1980-89

The program for the Portland State University 1980 Spring Commencement ceremony, held at Memorial Coliseum on June 8, 1980, in Portland, Oregon.

Opening remarks by Edith Green, Oregon State System of Higher Education, and Reynold Dale Richwine, Class of 1980.

Portland State Perspective; April 1980, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: students' spirit sparks alumni pledges; and an update on capital construction projects

Components Integral To The Consumer's Decision-Making Process Regarding The Regional Shopping Centers Of Portland, Oregon, James A. Swanson

Dissertations and Theses

The research problem that the thesis is concerned with is the definition of the components of the "attractiveness" of a regional shopping center as they pertain to the decision-making process of the consumer. In addition, variations among the shopping patterns of male and female shoppers and among income groups are examined.

Portland State Perspective; February 1980, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: 'PSU Week' proclaimed by Governor Vic Atiyeh and Portland Mayor McCready; heart attack dangers studied; PSU celebrates 25 years of progress.

An Observational Study Of Service Provider Client Dyadic Interactions, Joan Dayger Behn

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation reports on the evolution of an observation instrument designed to examine a series of dyadic interactions between service providers and elderly clients. The encounters took place in the physical context of the client's home and under the auspices of two different kinds of urban service agencies. Staff members and elderly clients of In-home Nursing and Interaction agencies participated in the study. The coding system (Service Provider/Client Dyadic Interaction Coding System or SP/CDICS), is comprised of 28 carefully defined and described behavioral categories. The categories were developed through literature reviews and a series of preliminary observations conducted in agencies …

Disability And Monstrosity: Further Comments, Hanoch Livneh

Counselor Education Faculty Publications and Presentations

The author discusses possible explanations for stereotypical and negative reactions toward physically disabled persons in literature and society. Cited are examples of physical deformity, animalism, and monstrosity. The reminder of mortality and fallibility produced by disability is considered.

Late Pleistocene And Recent Archaeology And Geomorphology Of The South Shore Of Harney Lake, Oregon, Keith Donald Gehr

Dissertations and Theses

The present study was a response to the discovery of two artifacts found in a ditch wall near Harney Lake, Oregon. These were lying on a buried lake floor that appeared to be of late Pleistocene or early Recent age. Other sediments exposed in the ditch seemed to relate to at least some of the phases of the pluvial lake sequence in the Harney Basin. Three problems were considered: (1) the geomorphology and dating of the pluvial lake stillstands, (2) whether the original artifacts were part of a larger early site, and (3) whether there was any relationship between archaeological …

Aboriginal Clay Figurines From The Upper Rogue Valley In Southwestern Oregon, Lyman Patrick Deich

Dissertations and Theses

A study of 80 clay figurines from aboriginal sites in the upper Rogue River Valley in southwestern Oregon fails to reveal any connection with other figurines found in the Pacific Northwest and northern California. A preference for animal rather than human representations is demonstrated. The temporal distribution of the figurines is not known, but spatial distribution appears roughly coextensive with territories occupied by the upland Takelma at the time of Euro-American contact during the second quarter of the nineteenth century.

Functional Analysis Of Great Basin Projectile Points, Roger Wiggin

Dissertations and Theses

This paper presents a refined methodology for distinguishing the stone points of arrows from the stone points of spear thrower darts in archaeological assemblages from the Great Basin. The methodology was developed from a sample of 111 complete stone points collected during the archaeological reconnaissance and testing of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, Harney County, Oregon, 1971-1974. The points were measured for five metric variables and frequency histograms of each variable were generated by computer. The effectiveness of each variable as an index of functional class (i.e., arrow point vs. dart point) was judged on the basis of the apparent …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet November 1979, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The November 1979 Monthly packet includes the November agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held October 1979.

Portland State Perspective; September 1979, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: returning female students lauded; PSU's 25th anniversary celebrated; Gordon Dodds receives faculty excellence award.

Institutional Economics And Urban Political Economy, Forrest Clinton Blodgett

Dissertations and Theses

The emergence of a complex and highly urbanized industrial society has inspired great study of urbanization and urban phenomena by social scientists. Unfortunately, most social scientists study urbanology within the relatively narrow confines of their particular disciplines. Sociologists concentrate on urban phenomena arising out of human-group relationships, while political scientists concentrate on units of urban government and intergovernmental relations. Likewise, economists study urbanology from a market perspective while geographers tend to concentrate on urban location theory and historians are concerned about the history of urbanization. Moreover, urban planners and research specialists are principally practitioners who receive and attempt to apply …

1979 Commencement Program, Commencement

Commencement Archives 1970-79

The program for the Portland State University Spring commencement ceremony held June 10, 1979 at 3:00 p.m. at Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon.

Portland State Perspective; June 1979, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: master plan charts PSU's future; women engineers; anniversary of Vanport flood noted.

The Bureau Of Land Management And Cultural Resource Management In Oregon, William James Cannon

Dissertations and Theses

This thesis is an examination and description of the United States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management's program for the management of cultural resources in the State of Oregon. The author has worked for the Bureau from March, 1975 to the present as a District cultural resource specialist.

The major emphasis of the thesis is a description and explanation of the Bureau's cultural resource management program and its major problems in relation to the taxpayer and archaeologists.

Cultural Values, Educational Methods And Small Group Communicator Styles In The United States And The People's Republic Of China, Lynda Lee Densem

Dissertations and Theses

The increasing contact between countries in today’ shrinking world indicates an urgent need for effective communication between cultures. Fundamental to satisfying this need is an understanding of cultural value systems--what factors have created them and how they interact within society. This paper addresses the value systems of two countries that recently have found themselves in positions of expanding contact, the United States (US) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). The value systems of the cultures are traced from their transference to the young of the cultures through formal educational systems to their effect on learning and perceptual sets. General …

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet May 1979, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The May 1979 Monthly packet includes the May agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held April 1979.

Faculty Senate Monthly Packet April 1979, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The April 1979 Monthly packet includes the April agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held March 1979.