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Theses/Dissertations from 1983
Breeding Success and Nest Site Characteristics of the Western Bluebird on Parrett Mountain, Marcia Diane Sims
A Comparison of the Effects of Ordinary Prose and Left-hand Right-hand Practice Upon the Development of Keystroking Skills, Bonnie Sue Smith
Liquid transmission line pulser circuit for laser excitation, Carl Stultz
An exploratory functional-structural analysis of American urban traditional and alternative secondary public schools, Mary Ellen Sweeney
An Analysis of Women's Jobs in the Middle East, 610 A.D.-1982, Malakeh Taleghani
The Japanese/American interface : a crosscultural study on the approach to discourse, Hitomi Tamura
Images from the Horse Heavens, David Thornock
Origin of human trisomy 21 mosaicism, Diane Dusenbery Waggoner
Metropolitan school administrators: work values, role perceptions and burnout, Jacqueline Conner Waggoner
The Expressive Acquisition of Locative and Directional Prepositions by Severely-To-Profoundly Hearing Impaired Children, JoAnn Warlick
An investigation of the reliability, subscale intercorrelations, and validity of the Administrator role perception inventory, Anne Skirven Wax
A population study of three iris (iridaceae) species native to the Siskiyou Mountains in southwestern Oregon and adjacent California, Carol Anne Wilson
Causes and consequences of divorce in late life, Keren Brown Wilson
Derivation and Test of Predictions of a Discrete Latent State Model for Signed Number Addition Test Performance, Kentaro Yamamoto
Polish foreign policy and the development of the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, Keijiro Yasui
Life satisfaction of elderly parents and parent-child relationships in old age, Tehchou Yeh
Submissions from 1982
Sullivan's Gulch: Problems, Issues and Strategies, Abbas Alhashim, Pat deGarmo, Suzanne Flynn, Linda Goffredi, Jean Harrison, Jeanne Harrison, Marge Johnson, Dawn Marie Marineau, Susan McPherson, Iloba Odum, Jessica Richman, Chuck Robbins, and Michael Winston
The pursuit of form, Robert Allen Anderson
Factors Affecting Thyrotropin Secretion in Superfused Rat Anterior Pituitary Cells, Frederick Scott Bartlow
Geology and Hydrothermal Alteration, Glass Buttes, Southeast Oregon, Dulcy Annette Berri
Investigation of blood pressure measurement using a hydraulic occlusive cuff, Kusha R. Bhattarai
Investigation of the contribution of aquatic humus to the transport of DDT in the environment, Dan Philip Blunk
The Geology of the Floras Creek Area, Curry County, Oregon, Jon Dudley Bounds
One-third octave band augmented speech discrimination testing for normal hearing listeners, Nancy Marie Bowen
The Effect of Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium americanum) Upon a Portion of the Carbon Budget of Lodgepole Pine (Pinus contorta), Nancy Ellen Broshot