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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Knowledge and Use of Social Services in Gervais, Oregon, Elizabeth Lewis, Abby Maier, and Lajuana J. Morton
The Recognition, Investigation, Interpretation, and Treatment of Landslides in the Pacific Northwest, Harry Ludowise
A study of ambulance transportation in relation to public welfare policy, Gary Jules Lutz
Partisan Voting in the Oregon Legislature, Tom Lee Mason
Infection of smallmouth bass and goldfish by two species of Saprolegnia, Cheryl A. McGinley
A historiography of the Elizabethan poor laws: late XIXth and XXth century historians, Susan C. McNaught
An Attitudinal Study of Secondary School Teachers Toward School Social Workers, Raymond Merritt and Dwayne McNannay
Rainer Maria Rilkes Musik der Kräfte (Rainer Maria Rilke's Music of the Forces), Lilly E. Moore
Physiological and Behavior Studies of Thelepus Crispus and its Commensal Halosydna Brevisetosa, John B. Morgan
An Application of a Token Economy in a Residential Treatment Center for Pre-adolescent and Adolescent Girls, Eileen M. Moriarty
Social Action as Social Change Through a Process of Insulation, Leonard Siegfred Nelson
Lingual discrimination of two normal-speaking populations, Janice Ellen Gould Nesbitt
Intelligibility of Speech Compared Through Two Limiter Compression Circuits, Lee M. Odell
The Effect of Attending Behavior Training Upon Learning, Martha Sue Peden
The Effects of Pentachlorophenol on the Electrical Conductivity of Lipid Bilayer Membranes, William Harvey Perman
A study of the physiological factors affecting the biological conversion of arsenite to arsenate, Shirley E. Phillips
The impact of college speech classes on listening skills of students., Candice Piazza
Strategies and the management of a portfolio of business units, Donald Leland Pope
A Follow-up Study of Community Organization Concentrators, Hedy-Jo Huss Powell
A preliminary investigation of the predictive and evaluative capacity of the PARS scale in a community mental health clinic, Judith M. Ritter
Interaction Patterns in the Campground, Dennis Lee Rockwood
State response to the civil right issue, 1883-1885, Robert Lionel Rowe
The historical imagination of Francesco Petrarch: a study of poetic truth and historical distortion, Sally Scholz
The Correlation Between Specific Curiosity and Intelligence in Adults, Charles R. Schwenk
A Comparison Between Sources of Student Anti-Hunting Sentiment and Wildlife Information Sources of a Sample of Oregon Adults, Ronald E. Shay