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Theses/Dissertations from 1977
The Divorce Experience and its Impact on the Father-Child Relationship, Susan Coffman, Ellen Lane, and Erika Worth
Women in menopause: a study of gynecologist's perceptions, Zadell Cogan and Sharon Kennedy
Program planning for community residents who have been released from mental institutions, Joseph D. Condon and Margaret Ann Drackert
Gladstone Comprehensive Policy Plan, Gary Cook, Colleen Greer Acres, Richard Givens, Thiam Kamara, Richard Pearson, and Larry Smith
A Survey of Neighborhood Attitudes Toward the Mentally Retarded and Community Group Homes, Fred T. Cooprider
Grassroot Organizations in the Black Community in Portland, Danny B. Copeland
A One Case Study of a Fifteen Year Old Boy in Residential Treatment in the State of Oregon, Edward S. Cote
Error Codes in Digital Data Communication Systems, Robert Hadley Cravens
Social Profile of the Portland-Vancouver Metropolitan Area, Terry L. Cross
A Descriptive Study of Some Problems of Widows in Portland, Oregon, Kathleen Marsha Davis and Gail Petchesky
The Chemistry of SF₅Br and SF₅CF=CF₂ - Addition Reactions, Robin J. DeBuhr
The Effects of Urban-Rural Life Histories of the Aged on Urban Adaptation, Michael R. DeShane
The attitudes of youth workers on delinquency and delinquency programs, Gary Lee Dominick, Carol Swartz, and Michael Orval Taylor
The Study of the Differential Effects of Visual and Auditory Presentation on Logical Reasoning, Jacob Lauterstein Driesen
An investigation into the elasticity of demand for motor gasoline, Samy Fouad El-Iskandarany
A Study of Home Range in Two Neotoma Fuscipes Colonies in Klamath County, Oregon, Brent D. Frazier
A Behavioral Study of a Small Group of Pikas (Ochotona Princeps) On MT. Hood, Oregon, Nancy A. Ewen Frazier
Limit Design of Unbraced Reinforced Concrete Frames, Thomas Joseph Gavin
Retrospective Study of Participants in Preorgasmic Women's Groups : Looking for Life Changes, Barbara Geiger
Unwiederbringlich und Effi Briest : Eine Studie zu Theodor Fontanes Erzählweise, Christine Gentzkow
Effects of Types 1 and 2 Herpes Simplex Viruses on Several Fish Tissue Culture Systems, Raymond Charles Harry
A Follow-Up Study of the Graduates in the Academic Track at WSSB, Linda Heider and Renee Klisch
Psychiatric Emergency Services in Oregon, Maren L. Hersrud, Karalee Kiser, and Catherine M. Knox
Self-esteem and the Elderly : an Exploratory Study of a Residential Population in a Home for the Aged, Vernon E. Hoffer