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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
The Effect of Labeling Disfluencies as 'Stuttering' and Contingent and Yoked "Wrong" on the Disfluencies of Normal Speakers, Dennis Ray Staines
Mössbauer studies of stable interstitial and substitutional sites of cobalt in gold, Charles Freeland Steen
Totiusque ecclesiae suae sanctae; a comparison of the ecclesiologies of St. Augustine and Hans Kung, Edward J. Sullivan
Direct Design of a Portal Frame, Angel Fajardo Ugaz
The Lair Hill Park neighborhood on examination of the phenomenon of community creation, Joseph S. Uris
Evidence for the Existence of Two Stable Sites for Cobalt Impurity Atoms in Aluminum, Arun Venkatachar
Adsorption of Sulfur Dioxide on Douglas Fir Woodchips, Uen-Ping David Wang
An Analysis of the Ability and Achievement of Business Education Students Compared to Non-Business Education Students, William B. Warberg
A Conceptual Model for a Human Resource Center for Voluntarism, Helen L. Warbington
Vocalizations of the Townsend chipmunk (Eutamias townsendii), Greig Michael Warner
A Study of the Willingness of Elderly People to Live With Each Other, Joanne Welander and Marvin Clifford
The Effects of Marihuana Extract Distillate on Eating Behavior of Rats, Terrie Wetle
A regional approach: city-county consolidation as a method of local governmental reorganization, Anthony Gene White
Identities in gay drinking places, Sharon Gertrude White
A Behavioristic Approach to the Design of a Digital Model of Human Communication, George Eugene Whitley
Implications of an oral-gestural training program in the acquisition of speechreading skills, Mary Lu Wood
Comparative Study of Lightweight and Normal Weight Concrete in Flexure, Mohammad Zareh
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The 1958 Good Offices Mission and Its Implications for French-American Relations Under the Fourth Republic, Lorin James Anderson
Life drawing in the secondary classroom, Marilyn Jean Anderson
Nutritional requirements for protease production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ps-1C, Richard Myer Avedovech
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Systematic Relaxation Training of Chronically-Anxious Subjects on the Communication Variable of Closed-Mindedness, La Ray M. Barna
Changing the Custody of Children Whose Parents Have Been Divorced: A General View of the Process, Dorothy E. Bateman, Michael A. Comte, Kathryn S. Curry, Robert M. Fry, Patricia J. Sims, and Elva J. Terry
Automated Information Retrieval Systems for Legal Research, Robert G. Baylor
A study of the role of acrylic paints in the secondary and junior high school art curriculum, Alice Atkinson Benski
Attitudes Toward Supervision, Job Satisfaction, and Risk-Taking Behavior and the Relationship to Accident Frequency Ratios, Richard Everett Boggs