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Speech Intelligibility As A Function Of The Propositionality Of Background Noise, Gail Swanstrom

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to measure the ability of young normal hearing listeners to perceive speech in the presence of a background noise which varies in the relative intensity of its semantic content. The Speech Perception in Noise test was mixed with a two-component competing noise complex in which the narrative-to- speech noise ratio varied in 2 dB increments from -2 dB Na/SpN to +8 dB Na/SpN. These stimuli were presented at an overall +8 dB signal-to-noise ratio to thirty young normal hearing adults through the soundfield system. The differences between the mean error scores and standard deviations …

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 …

The Measurement Of Economic Diversification With Reference To Regional Unemployment, Adil H. El-Haimus

Dissertations and Theses

Over the past four years, considerable attention has been focused on the problems of high unemployment in the State of Oregon. The percentage of jobless continued to be higher than that of the nation. The depressed housing market, caused by high interest rates, coupled with an increase in the import of Canadian timber managed to reduce the demand for Oregon lumber and wood products drastically. This has resulted in an abnormally high unemployment rate in many of Oregon's counties which are dependent on the wood industry; for example, the 1980 jobless rate in Harney County reached a record high of …

A Study Of The Personality Characteristics Of Tinnitus Patients, Gloria E. Reich

Dissertations and Theses

A short form of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory was administered to 146 clinical patients who suffered from either tinnitus or a hearing disorder or both. Patients were assigned to four groups on the basis of their subjective complaint and their audiometric report: patients with tinnitus only, patients with tinnitus and a hearing loss where the tinnitus was the primary complaint, patients with tinnitus and a hearing loss where the hearing loss was the primary complaint, and patients who had a hearing loss but no tinnitus. The purpose of the study was to determine whether there were certain measurable personality …

One-Third Octave Band Augmented Speech Discrimination Testing For Normal Hearing Listeners, Nancy Marie Bowen

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of a 500 Hz and 3150 Hz one-third octave band augmentation on the speech discrimination ability of normal hearing listeners and whether such effects vary with signal presentation level. The augmented portion of monosyllabic words was systematically varied from 5-55dB above the intensity level of the unfiltered version of the words and presented simultaneously to one ear.

The Formation Of A Professional Identity, Richard H. Dana

Regional Research Institute for Human Services

This paper explores the author's formation of a professional identity from undergraduate work to development of training materials.

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 Coming Of The Birdman: The Aviator's Image In Oregon, 1905-1915, Patrick John Harris

Dissertations and Theses

Between 1905 and 1915 the aeroplane was tested at exhibitions and became a practical machine. Some observers, however, greeted this technological marvel with ambivalence. Skeptics felt that if the aeroplane could alter common perceptions about natural laws, it might also challenge time honored ideals and attitudes about the nature of man.

In response, newspapers and magazines fashioned the aviator's image. The aviator was daring yet responsible, romantic yet reasonable.

Some writers and reporters believed that an aviator's self-confidence and high moral character contributed to control in the air. By controlling the aeroplane with mastery and grace, an aviator remained master …

A Comparison Of Two Articulation Carry-Over Techniques, Robyn Schwartz

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the comparative effectiveness of two articulation carry-over techniques. It was hoped that through this comparison answers regarding carry-over results could be ascertained for purposes of aiding public school clinicians currently spending the majority of management time on carry-over. If one technique was found to be superior, its use among speech pathologists might aid in changing this time allocation trend.

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

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

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

Rain, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 8, Number 2

Inside: Tree Enterprise; Letter From El Salvador; PURPA People Heater

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

Banfield Light Rail Project: Conceptual Design Information For The City Of Portland, Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

Portland Advocate-November 1981

Portland Advocate

Publisher

Black United Front

Editor

[not available]

Address

P.O. Box 3976

A History Of The Portland Waterfront Between Southwest Clay And Washington Streets, Its Land Use And Legal Problems, Jeffrey Gerald Carter

Dissertations and Theses

Between 1845 and 1980 the Portland waterfront between southwest Washington and Clay Streets, east of Front Street, metamorphosed from wilderness to trade center, to highway, to inner-city vacant lot. No place in Portland has more graphically illustrated the rapidly changing forces of the modern age in which the city has grown.

For much of its history this stretch of waterfront was mired in law suits. The struggles centered on public versus private ownership. Originally dedicated as public property, but left unimproved by the city, the waterfront was usurped by private investors. Eventually, private owners allowed their property to decay prompting …

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RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 8, Number 1

Inside: Index to the First Seven; Pollyanna Power Policy; Life Before Doomsday

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

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

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The October 1981 Monthly packet includes the October agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meetings held June and August 1981.

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.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 62, No. 24 (Special Edition) (1981-11-9), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Portland Advocate-September & October 1981

Portland Advocate

Publisher

Black United Front

Editor

[not available]

Address

P.O. Box 3976

Trouble In River City: An Analysis Of An Urban Vice Probe, Joseph S. Uris

Dissertations and Theses

This dissertation is an historical case study of a highly publicized investigation of vice and official corruption which took place in Portland, Oregon from 1954 to 1958. Three major relevant areas of social science literature are reviewed. These are: historical material on American reform and corruption, criminology and political science. This literature suggests both the ubiquity and usefulness of vice and corruption in the urban situation.

A set of propositions regarding vice, corruption and reform was developed from these works. These propositions were then examined in terms of the vice probe and political situation in Portland, Oregon.

The triangulation method …

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RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 7, Number 10

Inside: Lost Latin Ecotopia; The Values of Waste

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

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RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 7, Number 9

Inside: Home Built Wind Systems; Involuntary Self-Reliance; Born Again Indian Wars

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

Civil Engineering Agreement For Preliminary Update And Basis For Design Between Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District And Bechtel Civl And Materials, Inc., Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District Of Oregon, Bechtel Civil And Minerals, Inc.

TriMet Collection

No abstract provided.

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.

The Determination Of Normal Bone Conducted Speech Results Utilizing A Radioear B-72 Bone Oscillator, Roger Edwin Lundberg

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study was to establish a normal, bone conducted intensity level for the speech reception threshold (SRT) and obtain a normal performance intensity function by bone conduction from 0 dB SL (threshold) through the maximum output level of the standard audiometer. All bone conducted speech test materials consisted of pre-recorded W-2 spondiac words and NU-6 monosyllabic speech discrimination word lists.

Rain, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 7, Number 8

Inside: Coyote Questions; Recycling Ghettos; Lovins on Lemon Socialism

RAIN began in October 1974 as a publication of ECO-NET, an environmental education network funded by the Hill Foundation and an Environmental Education grant. Its office was based in the Environmental Education Center at Portland State University. With a focus on the Pacific Northwest, particularly Oregon, RAIN originally described itself as a “bulletin board” with an “emphasis on environmental/energy related and communications kinds of information” and interested in “the evolutionary possibilities of inter-disciplinary connections.”

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.

Portland Advocate-June 1981

Portland Advocate

Publisher

Black United Front

Editor

[not available]

Address

P.O. Box 3976

Report On Oregon Voters' Pamphlet, City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Characteristics And Practices Of Forensics Programs In Oregon Secondary Schools, Gregg T. Sylvester

Dissertations and Theses

Since 1943, six studies have been made of speech education in Oregon public schools. Several make reference to forensics, but none discuss this aspect of speech education in depth. As a result, the role of forensics in the schools has been assumed or denied. With the educational situation as it is, however, it is necessary that we have a greater understanding of the relationship between forensics and general speech education and language arts education.