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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
A survey and critical analysis of current literature on the post audit of capital expenditure, Gene Albert Katke
A Comparative Study of the Reponses by Varying Socioeconomic Groups on General Knowledge and Categorization Tasks, Margo I. Keller
The Application and Evaluation of Goal Attainment Scaling to the Janis Drug Treatment Program, Steven W. Kilber and Carol E. Swanson
A Descriptive Study of Previously Institutionalized Educable Mentally Retarded Adults Residing in Multnomah County, Oregon, Susan J. Kiley, Jeffrey D. Sher, and Richard C. Sunshine
Recovery from Stuttering in a Sample of Elementary School Children, Carol Deno Kimball
Effects of Antifibroblast Antiserum on Cells Derived from Fibroblast Outgrowth of Human Prostatic Tissues, Eva Shang-Lian King
Performance of adolescent autistic males on the Michigan picture language inventory, Marcia Sharril Kline
Marital Status as a Discriminator and Treatment Variable among Female Alcoholics, James C. Knapp
Truman's election in 1948, Mary Peter Kump
The Effects of Low, Moderate, and High Self-Disclosure on Electromyographic, Psychogalvanic, and Attitudinal Response, Jonathan I. Lange
A Voice Incidence Study: Portland, Oregon, Ann Lynn Laskey
Computer Aided Design for Fluidic Sequential Circuits of Fundamental Mode, Yau-Hwang Lee
Freedom and Necessity in the Development of Marx's Thought, Isa Maria Leib
An Identification of Important Management, Administrative, and Planning Skills and Knowledge Essential to Middle-managers Present Positions in a Variety of Urban and Rural Social Welfare Settings in Oregon, Patricia Victoria Leonard
A Functional Analysis of the Effects of a Token Economy Program on Attending Behavior in Children and Subsequent Test Performance, Kay Delores Lillig Cotter
A Conditioning Model for the McCollough Effect, Andreas D. Lord
Counseling Needs of Mastectomy Patients: Reach to Recovery Program, Elaine Lowe
A program to teach awareness of stress, Catherine Collins Lu
Teaching language to hearing impaired children who have had no previous language experience, Catherine Collins Lu
An Exploration of the Feelings and Attitudes of Women Separated From Their Children Due to Incarceration, Dorothy Lundberg, Ann Sheekley, and Therese Voelker
Toward a theory of child abuse: a review of the literature, Marc F. Maden
Role exits among the aged, Nancy Whitelaw Mancini
Towards the integration of the historical and structural theories of urban form, David Tilford Martin
Alternative Methods for the Analysis of Curves, Randi Christine Martin
The Development of an Evaluational Process for the Group Home Project of the Northeast Multnomah District of Childrens' Service Division, Lucinda E. McKitrick, Richard S. Barasch, and Lon J. Lembert