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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
An Analysis of the Mental Health Services Available to the Elderly Within Oregon: Using Multnomah County as a Special Case Study Area, Joan Nadine Hoss
A phytochemical investigation of liverwort Frullania franciscana Howe, Timothy Ta-E Huang
Age, Intelligence, and Socioeconomic Status Variance in Preposition Acquisition by Children, Georgie Hustead
Adjustment Problems of Chinese College Students in the United States, Terry Shu-Fang Hu
A Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of the Ferruginous Bauxite Deposits in Columbia County, Oregon, and Wahkiakum County, Washington, Ronald Laverne Jackson
Systematic Planning Toward Implementation of a State Protective Services Program for the Developmentally Disabled, Bernie J. Johnson
Rainer Maria Rilkes Begriff der besitzlosen Liebe : Probleme und Interpretationen, Kenn Allen Johnson
The Development of an Arsenic(V) Selective Electrode, Sandra Gee Kang
Irish families in Portland, Oregon, 1850-1880 : an immigrant culture in the Far West, Michael Kazin
Survey of Parental Attitudes Towards Health Services in the Beaverton Schools, Nancy M. King
Gutzkows Novelle Der Sadduzäer von Amsterdam Verglichen mit Seinem Drama Uriel Acosta und Eine Englische Übersetzung der Novelle, Clarice Solberg Kitteleson
Female Alcoholism: the Relationship of Marital Status to Personality Disorganization, Julene B. Knapp
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