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Theses/Dissertations from 1978
A Study of Partner Attitudes Related to Male Involvement in Contraception at Planned Parenthood, Portland, Oregon, Patricia Long Burnet, Rhonda Lee Jack, and Kathleen Margaret Leeson
Sightings, Kenneth Butler
The American Efforts to Modernize the Egyptian Army Under Khedive Ismail, Robin Joy Love Buxton
The Effect of Background Noise on Children's Selective Listening Behavior, Cathryn A. Chartier
Toward a model of interorganizational fields : a case study of a social service federation, Ralph Cherry
Organizational decision making and participation in an interorganizational service network, Vinod Valji Chohan
An Assessment of the Transmission Electron Microscope for the Study of Aerosol-Gas Interactions: Direct Observations of Sodium Chloride Hydration Phenomena, Antony David Clarke
Alpine Vegetation of Steens Mountain, Paul Collins
Recent and contemporary foraging practices of the Harney Valley Paiute, Marilyn Dunlap Couture
Working with Natural Helpers: a Handbook for Social Workers, Lorraine Crawford, Pamela Smith, and Karen Lynn
The Foundations and Social Change, Helen M. Dalton
Invasions of personal space : a field experiment, Lisa Demian
Aspekte des Charakterbegriffs im Werk von Bertolt Brecht, Brigitte DeWolfe
A study to determine if service workers want additional training regarding Black issues, Patricia Dickerson and Diane S. Whalen
Long-term effects of rape : a literature review and exploratory questionnaire, Kathleen June Elsner
Public Education Finance: Urban Rural Tax Burden Distribution, Omer S. Ertur
Memory for crossed and nested classifications, John Ernest Garwood
The Defense System in Libya During the I-VI Centuries A.D., Ramadan A. Geddeda
A Comparison of the Articulatory Proficiency Between Stutterers and Nonstutterers While in a State of Oral Sensory Deprivation, Clifford Saul Goldman
New evidence supporting the assignment of glutamic acid as an iron ligand in hemerythrin, Patricia M. Gormley
An Analysis of Sex Role Bias in Clinician's Evaluations of Client Behavior, Shari Paula Greenberg
Germination, Respiration and Photosynthesis in Seeds of Dwarf Mistletoe (Arceuthobium), Steven Wayne Gustafson
An investigation of arsenic(V)-catechol complexes, Ronald P. Haak
An Exploration Into the Field of Hospital Social Work, Timothy D. Haley
A Comparative Study of Persons Completing and Not Completing an Alcoholism Treatment Clinic's Group Intake Process, Timothy W. Hallinan and Eric J. Huelshoff