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Theses/Dissertations from 1979
An Exploratory Analysis of the Response of Urban Police to Labor Radicalism, Dennis Earl Hoffman
A study of the relationship between visual short term memory and speechreading in hearing impaired geriatrics, Catherine Hollevoet
The Effects of Three Stress Modes on Error Productions of Children with Developmental Apraxia of Speech, Alan R. Horowitz
The Bender-Gestalt Test as a Measure of Creative Production, Craig Logan House
Construction-Sculpture, Kanetaka Ikeda
Effect of Phenoxy Acids and Their Derivatives on the Ionic Permeability of Bilayer Lipid Membranes, Malkanthi Paulis Illangasekare
Some physical and biological factors affecting red-tailed hawk productivity, Stewart Wayne Janes
The relationship of maternal childrearing practices to prosocial behavior and resistance to temptation in preschool children, Jennifer Anne Deck Jennings
The Design and Construction of a Flashlamp-Pumped Frequency-Doubled Dye Laser Applicable to Long Path Monitoring of Air Pollutants, Joel Craig Johnson
Clay, Roots, and Coexistence, Jeffery C. Johnston
Closedmindedness as a Predictor of Individual Decision-Making Behaviors, Annette I. Jolin
Stressful Life Events : a Comparative Study of Native American and Urban Samples, Sandra Ketcher
Modification of the Record-Keeping System of a Community Mental Health Agency, Karen Knight, Christine Neilsen, and Craig Schreiter
Stratigraphy and sedimentary petrology of the northwest quarter of the Dutchman Butte quadrangle, southwest Oregon, Thomas Edward Koler
Group Parent Training in Oregon, John Peter Kuzma
Industrial social work : a review of the literature and an evaluation of an employee assistance program, Gregory Mark Lee
Ascorbic Acid, Lipid Peroxidation, and Aging, Brian Evan Leibovitz
An Experimental Model Using Dance Training as Therapy for Women Over Thirty Five, Thelma J. Lofquist
Welfare stigmatization and the elderly: the case of the Supplemental Security Income program, Peter Jic-Leung Man
A Comparison of Dramatic Storytelling and Puppet Storytelling as a Means of Teaching Selected Nutritional Concepts, Edith M. Martin
The Geology and Geochemistry of the North Fork Stock, Northeastern Oregon, David Joseph Matty
An Electromyographic Comparison of Muscle Action Potentials of Adult Stutterers During Signalled Expectancy and Non-expectancy to Stutter, Catherine Ann Miller
A method for analyzing census data from small populations : developed, tested and applied to a 1958 census of Suba barrio, Paoay, Ilocos Norte, the Philippines, Stephen Aulick Million
Counseling in Allied Health Techniques of Instruction: A Career Process, Robert David Mills