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Theses/Dissertations from 1981
The structure, geologic evolution and regional significance of the Bethel Creek-North Fork area, Coos and Curry counties, Oregon, Carl Fredrick Gullixson
The Effects of Public Progress Charts Upon Self-Pacing in a PSI Course in Social Studies in a Traditional Middle School, Lynnette Hager-Godat
Characterization of gram-positive bacterial isolates from burn victims, Trisha A. Hannan
The Coming of the Birdman: the Aviator's Image in Oregon, 1905-1915, Patrick John Harris
The Effects of Correctional Education on Recidivism, William L. Hiser
A stratigraphic and geochemical investigation of ferruginous bauxite deposits in the Salem Hills, Marion County, Oregon, Charles William Hoffman
Anna Held: A Biography, Michael Owen Hoffman
The Development and Effects of an Educational Audiovisual Presentation on Female Masturbation Upon the Attitudes and Masturbatory Behavior of College Females, Catherine Ann Hogan
Portland Youth Advocates' contact center program (1970-79): an idiographic study, Michael Horowitz
Toward improvisation, Sandra Janeen Howe
Henna: Uses of It in the Middle East and North Africa, Diane M. Humphrey-Newell
Chemistry of Chromium Oxyfluorides and Group VIB Perfluoroglutarates, Bruce Michael Johnson
The prosecutors of Socrates and the political motive theory, Thomas Patrick Kelly
Stratigraphy, lithofacies, and environment of deposition of the Scappoose formation in central Columbia County, Oregon, Kevin Blair Kelty
Advanced Decorative Ceramics Techniques for High School Students, Deborah Ann Kent
Variation in branch growth characteristics of Pinus contorta infected with Arceuthobium americanum, Lynn Anne Larsen
Fruit and Flower: the History of Oregon's First Day Care Center, Danielle Louise Larson
Affective Perspective-Taking and Sympathy in Young Children, Mary Driver Leinbach
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