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Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Toward a behavioral analysis of attentiveness as a style of communication, Ray Alan Coker
The Combined Effect of Cu and Zn on Selenastrum capricornutum, Helmer Colonia-Roque
Tillamook Indian basketry : continuity and change as seen in the Adams Collection, Ailsa Elizabeth Crawford
The Correlation Between Expressive Language Delay in Children and Their Motor Abilities, Gail G. Cunningham
Psychometric properties of the Group process questionnaire, Lucia Igou Eakins
A Rhetoric Of Movements: A Dramatistic Analysis of the Open Convention Movement, Gunnar Neil Farevaag
SCL-90 characteristics of the borderline personality disorder in a day treatment setting, Jeananne Theresa Feagan
The health policy gap: income, health insurance and source of care effects on utilization of and access to dental, physician and hospital services by Oregon households, Constance Hall Fitzgerald
Institutional environments as perceived by the faculty and administrators at six small liberal arts Christian colleges, Jeffrey Thomas Fouts
The sovereign people, minority rights and state judiciaries : an historical study of Tocqueville's majoritarian thesis, Erica Goodwin
Teaching visual awareness to general education students, Larry Edward Gross
Dance Therapy and Self-Concept Change in Psychiatric Patients, Cheryl Jeanne Hall
Femininity and Self-Esteem in Professional Women, Shirley Ellen Harper
Serial cardiovascular adaptations during pregnancy, Mark Vincent Hart
Development of an MMPI Scale to Predict Therapeutic Response to Lithium Carbonate, Neal Allen Hayden
One-third octave band augmented speech discrimination testing for cochlear impaired listeners, Dianne Heath
The Effects of a Combined Weight Training and Running Program on Body Composition in College Males, Robert L. Hesslink Jr.
Sex differences in the language development rates of two-year olds, Laurel A. Hickman
An internal review of a discipline: journal editors' opinions of paradigm development within speech communication, Laurie A. Houghton
Analytical and Experimental Stresses in Concrete Pavements and Unbonded Overlays, Ahmad Jaber
Stratigraphic relationships of the Tillamook Volcanics and the Cowlitz Formation in the upper Nehalem River-Wolf Creek area, northwestern Oregon, Michael Keith Jackson
A study of the diagenesis of the overburden between the Badger and School Coal Seams, Dave Johnston Coal Field, Converse County, Wyoming, Rebecca K. Jaffer
Adult oral diadochokinesis rates : preliminary normative data, Carol Kafton-Minkel
Parameters of mental rehearsal, Timothy K. Kelly
The distribution of the trade effects of the Arab Common Market, Rami Khalaf