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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
Alumina-Catalyzed Cope Rearrangement, Paul Jhy-Shing Wang
An investigation of the development of the phonemes /t/and /k/ in the speech of preschool children., Glenn Douglas Weybright
Masking patterns of high frequency pure tones, Judith Eide Widen
Hiring Practices: A Study of the Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon, Carol Williams Bryant
Designing and Evaluating Workshop "Bridges": a Training Project to Upgrade Social Services in Long Term Care Facilities, Corrine C. Williams
The Frequency of Retroflex /r/ Production in Elementary School Children, Vicki Barna Wood
The rate of return on the investment in registered nurse education as related to the supply of registered nurses, Barbara Zuern
Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Meaning of Work for Women, Susan Ackerman
A Comparison of Two Methods of Instruction in Office Skills: Classroom-Laboratory and Classroom-Laboratory with Cooperative Work Experience, Barbara Swanson Anderson
Granulometric Analysis of Recent Sediments of Tillamook Bay, Oregon, Gennaro William Avolio
Black Content in Schools: a Model of Black Content in a School of Social Work's Curriculum, Dorothy L. Baker, Alexander Richberg, and Isaac White
Purification and characterization of dihydroorotase from Clostridium oroticum, a zinc-containing metalloenzyme, William Edward Balch
French-Indian Relations (1672-1701): An Economic, Political and Military Study, James Duncan Biggs
Die Einwirkung des Jugendstils auf Rilkes Frühwerk, Linda Collins Blumenthal
Thomas Hardy : a Study; Suffering, Human Will, and Grace in the Major Novels, Russell E. Borland
Between Words and Actions: the Problem of Motivation in Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Scott Broadhead
Effects of Semantic Associational Strength and Verbal Sequence Length on the Auditory Comprehension of Aphasic Adults, Laurel J. Brown
The abolition of capital punishment: a comparative study, Michael L. Call
Family Variables Which Are Associated With Achievement of Community Tenure by Persons Released From Psychiatric Hospitalization, Thomas Mack Chambers
An Investigation of Handedness and its Relationship to the Site of Contact Ulcers, Colleen S. Colleary
Student Perceptions of the Chemawa Alcohol Education Center, Carol Colley
Spatial variations in the intra-urban response to a noise source, Wilbur David Conder
A Descriptive Analysis of a Metropolitan Foster Parent Population as an Indicator for Recruitment, Elizabeth Connet
Color Perception in Golden Mantled Ground Squirrels, Robert F. Cooley