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Theses/Dissertations from 1979
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
A Comparison of the Effects of Biofeedback and Meditation Treatment on Essential Hypertension, Thomas Lee Molatore
A Feasibility Analysis of a Directly Sun-Pumped Carbon Dioxide Laser in Space, Seiichi Morimoto
The systhesis and photolysis of 1-phenylcyclohexaneacetic acid azide, Jack P. Mourad
The Political Evolution of Cameroon, 1884-1961, Victor Julius Ngoh
The non-career ambassador in America's diplomacy : case study, Frederic Mosley Sackett, Ambassador to Germany, January, 1930-March, 1933, Stephen A. Nicholls
Performance theorems for the resource scheduling functions of a multiprocessing system, George Arthur Nicol
Performance theorems for the resource scheduling functions of a multiprocessing system, George Arthur Nicol
Variability in test-retest of maximum duration of sustained /a/ in children, Elena Diane Norwood
Consciousness, Neurons, and Laughing Gas, Dody Michelson Orendurff
Changes in Populations of Soil Acari During the First Year After Clearcutting, Sue Ellen Orlaske
Comparisons of the Habitual Activity Level of Selected Women to Performance on the Bruce Multistage Treadmill Test and the Cooper 12 Minute Run Test, Teresa Carver Owen