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Theses/Dissertations from 1984
Stratigraphy and sedimentology of Paleogene arkosic and volcaniclastic strata, Johnson Creek-Chambers Creek area, southern Cascade Range, Washington, Warren Jon Winters
Effects of Dehydration on Hemoglobin Oxygen Affinity and Blood Cell Volume in Two Anurans, Andrew Christopher Zygmunt
Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Rating life events : the effect of experience and point of reference, Richard John Alden
The utility of alternate theoretical conceptualizations of "urban environment" in explaining variation in attitudes and behaviors, John Conrad Allen III
A mechanistic study of the electrochemical formation of CdS CdSe semiconducting films, Mario Aparicio-Razo
The introduction of European and Asian cultural materials on the Alaskan and Northwest coasts before 1800, Herbert Kyle Beals
A descriptive predictive model for the employment of computer-based management information systems for the government of a developing country: case, Iran, Hossein Bidgoli
Secondary stresses in bowstring timber trusses, John F. Bradford
Teacher attitude toward composition instruction at the postsecondary level: identification and formation, Jane B. Braunger
Enrollment decline: the uses and disposition of excess space in 106 Oregon public school districts, Marjorie Brothers
Justice Brennan and the Bill of Rights, David B. Brownhill
Depositional Model of the Antelope Coal Field, Wyoming, Christine M. Budai
A study of single angle compression members, James Robert Callaway
Short-term wellness program for a school staff comparing levels of support, Wynferd Ray Chilton
Effect of Tinnitus Maskers on Speech Discrimination Among Those Wearing Tinnitus Maskers, John Alexander Chonka
Effect of copper on cell division, nitrogen metabolism, morphology, and sexual reproduction in the life cycle of Closterium moniliferum (Chlorophyceae), Erleen Svihovec Christenson
The Application of Exact Electrodiffusion Theory to Ion Transport Across Lipid Bilayer Membranes, Scott Cohen
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