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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
The predictive validity of a police officer selection program, Neil Bingham Davidson
Martin Luther's concept of the church : its implications for the layman, William W. Dean
An Analysis of Professional Roles & Career Patterns of Portland State University School of Social Work graduates, 1964-1973, B. Michael Des Camp and Howard H. Marshack
Criteria and Outcome of C. S. D. Foster Home and Residential Placements of Court-referred Adolescents, Joan Dickey
Private pensions and the free market, John Louis Dobra
Effects of Colors, Noun Position, and Verb Proximity on the Acquisition of Direct Objects, Ronald M. Dohr
National efficiency and social planning in Britain, 1914-1921, Norman Richard Eder
A Methodology for Evaluating the Efficacy of the Placement Procedures of The Dalles Community Attention Home, Marion Elliott
The relationship between self-concept and responses of others during a marital crisis, Kathryn Ann Farr
Drop-out study, Chemawa Indian School, Terry Farrow and Gordon Oats
The relationship between the housing environment and the child's behavior: strategies for adapting to multi-family housing, Anthony J. Filipovitch
The treatment-moral career of clients in a community based treatment program, Charles Edward Forster Jr.
A preliminary evaluation of the Independent Living Subsidy Program in the Model Cities area, W. Patrick Frawley and Mary Goodwin Gossart
Attendance at Out-Patient Clinics as a Function of Risk Taking for Alcoholics, John Ketcham Fryer
A Descriptive Study Regarding Perceptions of Sex Roles in Cooperative Households, Emily Fultz and Billie Huntwork
Interactions in the Frequencies of Electric Organ Discharge by Eigenmannia Virescens (Sternopygidae, Pisces) During Social Behavior, Philip Gaddis
Sentencing: a study of the effects of presentence report recommendations upon the sentencing practices of judges in Multnomah County, Oregon, John George Gardin II
A Comparison of Responses Between Two Different Socioeconomic Groups on the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, Teri Jones Geist
The role of zinc in dihydroorotase, Pamela S. Gilchrist
A Study of the Career Education Program at Mountain View Intermediate School, Beaverton School District #48, Beaverton, Oregon, William Calvin Greene
Exteroceptive Influence on a Marihuana Induced Conditioned Taste Aversion, Albert William Greenwood
The Use and Evaluation of Gestalt Techniques in a Program for the Parents of Handicapped Children, Richard Roy Hammond and Robert E. Phillips
An Evaluative Study of Yellow Brick Road, Cherry Hartman and Nan Narboe
Mixed Media Drawings with Emphasis on Ceramic Materials, Timothy Jopseph Harvey
Construction and Implementation of an Individualized Math Program for Sixth Graders, Lynda Sylvia Hatch