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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Life styles of methadone treatment patients: agreement of self report and informant report, Richard Cox and Gary West
Effects of Insulin, Sodium and D-Glucose on Amino Acid Absorption in the Intestine of Rats, Andre-Gerard Craan
Lactic dehydrogenase isozyme isolation by disc electrophoresis in eight species of fringillid birds, Michael Edwin Darling
The Effects of Sociological Theories of Poverty on Job Training Programs, Michael Richard DeShane
Age, Emotional Maturity and the Decision to Marry, Patricia Ann Duclos, David F. Thomas, and Joanne Zusman
Foreign policy decisions which led to United States military occupation of the Dominican Republic, Bert Lewis Junior Farrar
A study of families with stress related to the care of children with myelomeningocele, Janet L. Ferguson and Russel Tweed
The Environmental Crisis: The Effects of Ecology Courses on High School Students, Carol C. Fletcher
Title I Evaluation System, Maple Lane High School, Terrence A. Green
An interactional approach to weight reduction, Carole T. Gygi
A demographic study of transracial adoptive parents, Patricia Lee Hall
The Effectiveness of Environmental Control in Modifying Problem Behaviors in Mother-Child Interaction, Thomas Whalen Hamilton
Behavioral Changes Due to Overpopulation in Mice, James Robert Hammock
Patrick J. Hurley and China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy
The rhetoric of Sir Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in original work and dramatic portrayal, Robert C. Harvey
Teaching Sculpture in High Schools, Richard Henry Helzer
Variations in a color-line aftereffect due to color adaptation during inspection of the inducing stimuli, Joyce Hirsch
Hipólito Irigoyen's second administration: A study in administrative collapse, Herman John Hobi
Schedule interactions and stimulus control, Andrew Louis Homer
Computer Solution to Inverse Problems of Elliptic Form: V²U(x,y) = g(a,U,x,y), Frederick Alvin Jeter
An Attempt to Find Predictor Variables Which Will Discriminate Between Those Patients Who Seek Aftercare Treatment and Those Who Do Not Seek Aftercare Treatment Upon Discharge From a Psychiatric Ward, Nena V. Johnstone, William D. Lynch, Philip M. Baldwin, and John C. Kemp
A postulated alternative to current Oregon marital statute (ORS 106.71): a frankly revisionist analysis of the concrete situation, Ken Jones, Ray Kendall, Jan Nolley, and Jill Weeden
Interorganizational Coalitional Decision-making: an Exploratory Investigation, Dennis Brian Keenan
Ames Trapezoid Illusion: A New Model, Daniel Robert Kelly
Differences in the Attitudes of Church-Attending Catholics Toward Changes in Religious Beliefs and Practices Correlated with Age and Education, Cletus Michael Kirkpatrick