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Theses/Dissertations from 1977
An Assessment of the Impact of Public Housing on the Low Income Elderly Residents of the Burnside Community, Timothy C. Jacobs
Characterization of Trace Iron Species in Natural Water, James Robert Johnson
Behavioral Temperature Regulation in the Turtle Pseudemys scripta elegans, Michael H. Johnston
A Study of Behavior Changes Among Children Who Have Left the Children's Psychiatric Day Treatment Center, Julia A. Jones and Larry G. Pederson
Analysis of a Gravity Traverse South of Portland, Oregon, Terry Dean Jones
Quality of life assessment of chronic hemodialysis patients at the Artificial Kidney Unit of Good Samaritan Hospital and Medical Center, Karen Jones Whittle, Michael Tripp, and Bruce De Young
The Effect of Two Levels of Δ9 THC on State-Dependent Learning in Rats, Roy Katzen
Children with Porencephaly: A Study of Services, Dana Kaufman and Elisabeth Mason
A Direct and Behavioral Travel Demand Model for Prediction of Campground Use by Urban Recreationists, Andre Kimboko
Partisans, godmothers, bicyclists, and other terrorists: women in the French resistance and under Vichy, Rayna Kline
Speech Improvement as an Aid to Language Development, Marilyn Gould Knauf
Office Simulation Survey with Plan of Implementation, Arlene B. Krause
The vertically-oriented organization : a theoretical perspective, Beth M. Kurren
An investigation of the consistency of judgments regarding successive approximations of /r/, Scott Robert Lane
The Petrology and Stratigraphy of the Portland Hills Silt, Rodney Thomas Lentz
The Maximum Duration of Phonation of /a/ in Children, Kerry Lewis
Lebendiger Klang der Natur: Herders Begriff des "Primitiven" in der Literatur, Judy A. Lorenz
The Effects of Prolonged Alcohol Use on Heart Rate During a Submaximal Workload and Other Selected Parameters, Gayle MacDonald
The disposition of reported child abuse, Marc F. Maden
International law, German Submarines and American Policy, Janet Marilyn Manson
Involuntarily and Voluntarily Committed Persons Compared Using Factor and Discriminant Function Analysis, Cheryl Marie Marrow
Netarts Bay, Oregon: an assessment of human impact on an estuarine system, Larry D. McCallum
An investigation of the combined effect of agency support and professional social workers' training on the type of family therapy practiced by agency-based social workers, Betsy Marsh McCartor and Margaret Labby
Analysis of the Two Word Stage of Language Development: An Ideographic Study, Lou Ann McCoy
Purification and properties of lysozyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage 7v, Lynne Vernice McFarland