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Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The Determination of Normal Bone Conducted Speech Results Utilizing a Radioear B-72 Bone Oscillator, Roger Edwin Lundberg
An observational study of the workday of the urban high school assistant principal, Penny S. McDonald
The political and constitutional significance of the Exclusion Crisis of 1678-1681, Susan Diane Meyer-Strom
Coping with stress following a natural disaster: the volcanic eruption of Mt. St. Helens, Shirley Ann Murphy
A Comparison of Boone-Prescott Content and Sequence Analysis Data of Poorly and Highly Rated Clinician-Client Interactive Skills, Kathleen M. Noonan
Factorial Structure of the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression, Kevin Page O'Brien
The assessment of service providers' attitudes toward working with older clients in an urban social service system, Marilyn Diane Petersen
An investigation of observer evaluation accuracy of clinical sessions, Douglas Scott Peterson
Preliminary inventory of lifeline systems and evaluation of seismic hazards in Reno and Sparks, Nevada, Barbara Priest
Experimental Determination of Post-buckling Performance of Steel Angles, Rupasiri Purasinghe
The French Connection in Early Oregon, Gregory Charles Rathbone
Reconstructions : humor through the use of ambiguous images and color, Karl J. Ross
Citizen advocacy groups, an intervention strategy: a case study of the Community Coalition for School Integration in Portland, Oregon, Patricia J. Rumer
The Bungalow Aesthetic: the Social Implications of a Nationwide Phenomenon Viewed from the Perspective of a Small Town, Janice Williams Rutherford
Factor Structure and Reliability of the Revised Family Adaptability and Cohesion Scales, Carol A. Sadler
Isolation and characterization of frullanolide from Frullania franciscana (Howe), Marshall Stuart Sass
Work personality as a factor in evaluating the work potential of the mentally retarded, Janet L. Scally
Approximate reasoning, logics for self-reference, and the use of nonclassical logics in systems modeling, Daniel Guy Schwartz
A Comparison of Two Articulation Carry-Over Techniques, Robyn Schwartz
A study of Leslie model under stochastic environments, Kamran Shaukat
Cadmium and Zinc Levels in the Hair of Smokers and Nonsmokers, Neal R. Simonsen
Following the Drum: British Women in the Peninsular War, Sheila Simonson
Physical effects of 3-phenylindole on ion transport across bilayer lipid membranes, Barbara A. Sinha
A genetic and physiological study of an arsenite resistant, uncoupled mutant of Escherichia coli, Daniel Gordon Smiley