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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Community Vocational Success of Institutionalized Mental Retardates as a Function of Coping Style, Jane C. Schilling
Growth of Selenastrum capricornutum Printz in Natural Waters Treated with Copper Sulfate, Gerald Eugene Schulz
A new inquiring system for technology transfer and its role in planning and policymaking, Kishandutt Jaydayal Sharma
Agonistic Behavior and Dominance in Townsend's Chipmunks (Eutamias townsendii), Paul Evan Sherman
The grim security of the past: the historiography of Henry Cabot Lodge, Claude Singer
Chinese Attitudes and Knowledge Concerning Social Services: a Survey of the Portland Chinese Community, Laura Lum Sing, Wendy Po-Kow Chan, and Peter Tau-Ping Wang
A Survey for Leucocytozoon Simondi Mathis and Leger (1910) in Canada Geese of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, John Val Snively
Ernst Cassirer and the Synthesis of the Past: a Paradigm in the History of Ideas, Mart Stewart
The origin of property in land: Paul Vinogradoff and the late XIXth century English historians, Caroline Phillips Stoel
History of Al-Hijaz (1520-1632), Farouk M. Taufik
Changes in Personality Traits and Identification in Adolescent Female State School Residents, as a Function of Length of Residence, Mary L. Thompson
The Doctrine of Experience in the Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, Puritan Divine, Joseph S. Trachtenberg
Aspects of the physiology and diseases of the North American elk, Yvonne Bernard Weber
Der Gebrauch des Todesmotivs in den Deutschen Poemata von Paul Fleming, Paul Ancil Wolf
A test of the simple recessive hypothesis for the inability to taste phenyl-thio-urea: a family study, Susan I. Wolf
The World of Women: Portland, Oregon, 1860-1880, Mary C. Wright
A Cross-Class Survey of Synaesthesia in High School Students and its Biocultural Implications, Ina Jane Wundram
Possible Avian Influences in the Distribution of Dwarf Mistletoe, Paul James Zilka
Theses/Dissertations from 1972
An Analysis of Change in Girls Released From Villa Saint Rose, H. Marie Ades
The Impact of Coordination by a Child Abuse Committee on Community Services to Battered Children, Grace Jackson Anders and Rebekah M. Burton
The transition to Nazism, the history of the German town of Pfungstadt, 1928 to 1935, David E. Arns
Entropy Reduction of English Text Using Variable Length Grouping, Vincent Norman Ast Jr.
A Scale of Verbal Accessibility in Mild and Borderline Retarded Adults, Keith Baker
Postcensal Population Estimates for Oregon Counties: An Evaluation of Selected Methods, Guy Jeffrey Barnes