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RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 5, Number 7

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 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.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 59, No. 60 (Special Edition) (1979-4-16), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

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.

The Nearly Forgotten Blacks On Last Chance Gulch, 1900-1912, William L. Lang

History Faculty Publications and Presentations

Contemporary residents of the state capital of Montana are usually surprised to learn that at one time over 400 Afro-Americans made their homes in the city. A boomer mining camp in the 1860s, a financial and transportation center by the 1870s, the seat of territorial and state government. and reputedly the richest city per capita in the nation in 1911, Helena has a colorful past that is familiar to many; but few people know about the blacks on Last Chance Gulch. This essay examines the development of Helena's Afro-American community during the prosperous years after the turn of the century.

Rain: Journal Of Appropriate Technology, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 5, Number 6

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.”

Scalar‐Wave Approach For Single‐Mode Inhomogeneous Fiber Problems, Lee W. Casperson, Cavour W. Yeh, W. P. Brown

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

It has generally been accepted that accurate results may be obtained using the scalar‐wave approach to solve problems dealing with inhomogeneous multimode guided‐wave structures. The problem of the applicability of the scalar‐wave approach to obtain wave propagation characteristics in single‐mode fiber or integrated optical circuit guides with inhomogeneous index profiles is examined in this paper. It is shown that if certain limiting conditions are satisfied, the scalar‐wave approach will yield valid results for single‐mode structures. These limiting conditions are usually satisfied by many practical single‐mode inhomogeneous fibers or IOC structures.

South Park Blocks Task Force Report, Discussion Draft, April 1979, Mary Ann Burki, Brad Post

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 59, No. 46 (1979-3-23), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Report Of Project Status For Public Review, Donald J. Stastny

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

J. David Hunt To Doug Wright, David J. Hunt

Ernie Bonner Collection

No abstract provided.

Portland State Perspective; March 1979, Portland State University

Portland State Perspective

A quarterly alumni newsletter. In this issue: storage and space problems at the library; degree opportunities expand; campaign against disco music.

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

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

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

An Evaluation Of A Data-Based Sex Education Training Program For Mentally Retarded Adults, Patricia Ann Riley

Dissertations and Theses

The study determined that twenty-three mildly to moderately retarded adults living within the community increased their sexual knowledge after attending a twelve month, data-based sex education training program. The Lane Community College-Adult Basic Education (LCC-ABE) Pre/Post Test was administered to each subject when he/she began and finished the training program. The Intermittent Probe Tests were administered to each subject after instruction in each of thirteen topic areas in the curriculum. The main conclusions were that: (a) the subjects significantly increased their sexual knowledge after training; (b) class, sex, ability level, age, type of residence, and length of time in that …

The Federal Writers' Project In Oregon, 1935-1942: A Case Study, Thomas James Ptacek

Dissertations and Theses

The Federal Writers’ Project was created in 1935 as part of the Works Progress Administration. This project represented an example of the highest evolution of work relief philosophy of the New Deal during the depression of the 1930's. Unlike previous work relief programs, the Federal Writers' Project sought to employ people in their chosen profession. This task was accomplished with the establishment of writers' projects in each state under the guidance of a national office. The major goal of these individual projects was to research, write and edit a state guidebook. This current study surveys previous research on this program …

Rain: Journal Of Appropriate Technology, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 5, Number 5

Inside: X-Ray, X-Ray Read All About It!; Hazel Henderson: The Informal Economy

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 February 1979, Portland State University Faculty Senate

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

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

City Club Of Portland Bulletin Vol. 59, No. 34 (Special Issue) (1979-1-2), City Club Of Portland (Portland, Or.)

City Club of Portland

No abstract provided.

Rain: Journal Of Appropriate Technology, Eco-Net

RAIN: Journal of Appropriate Technology

Volume 5, Number 4

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.”

Welfare Stigmatization And The Elderly: The Case Of The Supplemental Security Income Program, Peter Jic-Leung Man

Dissertations and Theses

Policy-makers and others historically have assumed that welfare programs should give assistance to the poor and carry stigma. This attitude in part developed from the English Poor Laws tradition in which poverty was considered a negative condition. Labeling theory has often been used to explain the process of welfare stigmatization. Once an individual is labeled as a deviant, such as a welfare recipient, a self-fulfilling prophecy is initiated. Others perceive and respond to the individual as a deviant and the individual also internalized the stigma attached to such a role. The stigma attached to public dependency becomes an outcome of …

Pioneer Courthouse Square Project Status, Donald J. Stastny

Portland City Archives

No abstract provided.

Urban Growth Boundary Findings, Metro (Or.)

Metro Collection

No abstract provided.

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

Faculty Senate Monthly Packets

The January 1979 Monthly packet includes the January agenda and appendices and the Faculty Senate minutes and attachments from the meeting held December 1978.

Public Sector Collective Bargaining And Impasse Resolution: An Analysis Of The Oregon Fact-Finding Process, Martin David Haney

Dissertations and Theses

The topic of this dissertation is the fact-finding stage of Oregon's public sector impasse resolution procedure. The use of fact-finding has dramatically increased because of the recent and rapid growth in public sector collective bargaining, and the resulting increase in public sector strikes. Beginning in 1962 with John F. Kennedy's Executive Order 10988, a series of federal and state laws were passed granting and expanding collective bargaining rights to public employees. Many of the state laws resemble the private sector model provided under the Labor Management Relations Act of 1947 (Taft-Hartley); however, the use of the strike as a weapon …

The Portland Boundary Commission: A Case Study, Marvin James Price

Dissertations and Theses

By the late 1960s, the literature of state and local government had been long dominated by what might now be termed a "traditional" approach, although the "public choice" paradigm was challenging it successfully. Those who took the traditional approach saw America's metropolitan areas to be in a crisis state, to be suffering from a variety of social, cultural and economic ills which were making these areas virtually uninhabitable. Exacerbating these difficulties was a system of local governmental organization which the traditionalists characterized as fragmented, overlapping, and duplicative, a system incapable of providing an areawide governmental structure to respond to areawide …

The Cusp Catastrophe And The Laws Of Dialectics, Martin Zwick

Complex Systems Faculty Publications and Presentations

The three classical "laws" of dialectics of Hegel and Engels, ( 1) the transformation of quantity into quality, (2) the interpenetration of opposites, and (3) the negation of the negation, can be given precise meanings in terms of the Catastrophe Theory of Rene Thom and E. C. Zeeman. This suffices to counter the charge that dialectics is scholasticism or empty metaphysics, but does not support claims of universality for the dialectical principles, nor guarantee the validity of any particular application of these principles.

The First Years Of Life: A Comparative Analysis Of British And American Parent Education, Deborah Anne Smith Guisti, Ellen Turner Jurevic, Jane Elizabeth Mozena, David W. Pedersen

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of our study is to analyze a British parent education program called "The First Years of Life" and compare it with some programs and educational services of similar content in America. We hope to ascertain whether "The First Years of Life," as presented by the Open University, affords a better means of providing information than some programs now existent in the United States offering prenatal and parent education.

Assessment Of The Health And Social Service Needs Of The Elderly Of The Confederated Tribes Of Warm Springs, Bruce K. Cannon, Jan C. Goslin

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to examine what the elderly of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs reported as their health and social service needs in the Tribal Health and Social Service Needs Assessment. It will also review the elderly's concerns and those of the general population in regards to future planning of services for the elders.

Some Observations Of The Swedish Psychiatric System, Gunnar Robert Almgren

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this report is to introduce the reader to the system of psychiatric services in Sweden. The format of this report is a brief summary of the economic, political and value context of the Swedish welfare state, a review of the essential services available to the Swedish citizen under present Swedish social welfare policy, and then an overview of Sweden's psychiatric system. The overview of the system itself includes a discussion of general characteristics as well as an examination of the system as it operates in one particular region.

Raindex: How To Pursue And Find Things In Rainbook And Vol. 1-4 Of Rain Magazine, Lane Demoll, Linda Sawaya

Raindex, Rainbook, and Other Related Publications

An alphabetical index by subject, group name, personal name, and article or book title to RAINBOOK and volumes 1 through 4 of RAIN magazine.