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Theses/Dissertations from 1976
Effects of Verbal and Pantomime Stimulus Input on the Short Term Sequential Recall of Aphasic Adults, Lauryl Suzanne Ivers Grotting
A Comparative Study of Aristotle's Poetics and Ezra Pound's ABC of Reading, Michael P. Hagensick
Mary's River Kalapuyan: A Descriptive Phonology, Yvonne P. Hajda
Evaluation of the Institute of Transportation Engineers Program for School Pedestrian Crossing, Nabil Shafiq Hamadeh
A Survey of Myths Concerning the Crime of Rape, Marilyn Hammon, Joyce Jerabek, and Michèle Mairesse
The History of Gun Control in America, Gary W. Hansen
The Nature and Distribution of Turf-banked Terraces in the Olympic Mountains, Washington, Katherine Jane Hansen
The Negative Effects of Divorce on the Behavior of Children, David Hawkins and Karen Lloyd
Clinical Application of the Midi-Mult, Barbara Hendricks
The Effect of Visual Feedback on Vocal Pitch Matching, Anita R. Herron
The Baldwin Sheep & Land Company, 1873-1910, Dorothy D. Hirsch
Some Aspects of the Ecology of the Virginia Opossum (Didelphis virginiana virginiana Kerr 1792) in an Urban Environment, David Hopkins
An Examination of the Relationship Between Population Density, Density Related Social Factors, and Physical Morbidities, Douglas King Huebner
A qualitative assessment of Clark County's mental health delivery system, John L. Hutchison
Social problems and collaborative planning: toward a theory and model of social planning, Marjorie M. Ille
Chlorine Distribution in the Idaho Batholith, Laurence Stewart Istas
The Chromosome Constitutions of a Hybrid Salmonid and its Parental Types: Salmo Gairdneri and Salmo Clarki, Peter Bruce Valentine Jacky
An Investigation of the Performance of Black Children Age 3.6 to 6.0 on Three Subtests of the Illinois Test of Psycholinguistic Abilities, George Edward James
An Aspect of the Process of School Desegregation: the Effects of Reading Ability Grouping on Social Attractiveness and Peer-Perceived Success, David A. Johnson
A Test of Conservation for Continuous and Discontinuous Quantity in the Very Young Child, Nancy Patrick Kaye
A Study of Requests for Voluntary Admission to Oregon State Hospital, Julie Kern, Jeanne Miller, and Alice Plummer
Attitudes of Women Toward World Hunger, Judith L. Kidd
A Survey of Small Mammals on Islands in the Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Gayle Kirk
The Columbia River as a Barrier to Gene Flow in the Vagrant Shrew, Sorex vagrans vagrans Baird, James J. Kirk
Reapportionment : an Oregon history and a critique of Baker vs Carr, Ann Frissell Lackey