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Theses/Dissertations from 1986
Post-buckled performance of partially restrained and intermediately supported steel angles, Perumal Radhakrishnan
Elderly stroke patients and their partners: a longitudinal study of social support and well-being changes associated with a disabling stroke, Marie Therese Rau
Finding a New Voice: The Oregon Writing Community Between the World Wars, Karen Stoner Reyes
After the Sixties: Anthropology in Sixth Grade Social Studies Textbooks, Christine Skei Rossi
The Effect of Salinity on Habitat Selection of Two Oregon Chiton Species (Katharina Tunicata and Mopalia Hindsii), David Carl Rostal
Morphological aspects of seedling establishment in four temperate region Phorandendron spp., Beverlee M. Ruhland
Perceptual correspondence in the superior-subordinate work dyad, Lora Lee Sager
Analysis of problemsolving groups with feedback intervention using a systematic multiple level observation of groups, Donna Buchanan Schantz
MMPI discrimination of incest offenders : a validity study of the IC, SV, and PE subscales, B. Joann Scheck
Biostratigraphy of the Cowlitz Formation in the Upper Nehalem River Basin, Northwest Oregon, Neil B. Shaw
Synthetic and nitrogen-15 NMR studies of some heteroaromatic systems, Roger Martin Sheets
A groundwater flow model of the aquifer intercommunication area, Hanford site, Washington, Elizabeth Gail Simkover
A Multidimensional Analysis of Physical Attractiveness in the Formation of First Impressions, Jewel Marianna Smith Hunter
The Cognitive Learning Styles of International Students, Shelley L. Smith
Serving primary caregivers of persons with Alzheimer's disease : an integrated service delivery model, Greta Krahn Stapleton
Neutron activation analysis and chemical inference for the identification of Buena Vista ceramics, Daniel D. Sullivan
A stratigraphic-geochemical study of the Troutdale Formation and Sandy River Mudstone in the Portland basin and lower Columbia River Gorge, Rodney Duane Swanson
Modification of the western approach to intercultural communication for the Japanese context, Eiko Tai
Humor creation and appreciation as an indicator of intercultural communication effectiveness : toward a theoretical model, Richard D. Tavano
Networks for staff development in the state of Oregon, Vida Sumner Taylor
A Contextual Analysis of Selected Communication Strategies Associated With Dyadic and Situation Characteristics: A Field Study, Gisele Marie Tierney
Manipulation or education? : symbolic language, belief system and the Truman Doctrine, John Gunn Tilson
The Chemistry of Novel Chromium(IV) Systems and Fluorinated Hypochlorites, Joseph Onuorah Udeaja
Normative teacher and student role behaviors in the U.S. with a contrast to Japan, Kathleen Ulrich
Determinants of the variations in the presence of the subfamily in U.S. metropolitan areas, 1980, John Ossaiedeme Umude