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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Selected attitudes and perceptions of adolescents at the Hood River, Oregon, attention home, Marilyn Czerwinski and Linda Olson
Counseling Problems that Accompany the Diagnosis of Mental Retardation, Betty Daggett, Shirley H. Durkheimer, and Abigail M. Lawton
The sasswood ordeal of the west Atlantic tribes of Sierra Leone and Liberia: an ethnohistoriographic survey, Sarah Louise Davies
A Descriptive Follow-up Study of 21 Children from Parry Center, Paul Duke
Synthesis of Uranium Fluorosulfates and the Group VI B Difluorophosphates, Larry McCain Emme
Recent Developments in the Use of Precast Concrete Units for Buildings in the United States and Iran, Khosrow Ebadi Farshchi
Indians and Criminal Justice in Early Oregon, 1842-1859, John Samuel Ferrell
Two Delivery System Contexts for the Elderly:The "Institutional" Approach and the "Community" Approach., Mary Sarita Freer
Identifying and Defining Natural Service Delivery Systems, James R. Garrison and William J. Teverbaugh
Biostratigraphy of the Type Yamhill Formation, Polk County, Oregon, Larry R. Gaston
A Follow-up Attitudinal Study of Selected Groups in the City of the Dalles Toward the Community Attention Home, Landon Gilstrap, Joyce Larson, and Janice Page
Sickle Cell Anemia : a Psychosocial Study of Attitudes and Effect, Sharon Ann Goddard and Marian Genita Gilmore
An Evaluation of a Graduate Social Work Training Program at John Adams High School, George E. Hall and Guy H. Lutz
A study of the effect of drug use on the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory, Mary Ellen Hammons
Communication Barriers Between White Social Work Students and Black and Chicano Clients, Robert Hight, Joyce B. Smith, Evelyn F. Maxwell, and Carol G. White
Parental attitudes toward, and knowledge of open-space schools, Brian Hines
Predicting and Detecting First Grade School Adjustment, Julie D. Holmes and Janice L. Bartlett
A reexamination of the effects of prismatic displacement on pointing straight ahead, Anastasia Houndoumadi
Group Experience with Parents of Preschool Children with Seizure Disorders, George R. Jacobsen, Grant R. Kane, and Joan Sacia
A Study of the Problems of Translation, Rhetorical Analysis, and Translation of a Speech of Mohammed Mossedeq, Gholamhosain Janati-Ataie
A program of school social work, Phyllis Marie Jaszkowiak
Seven Pairs, Anne Griffin Johnson
Increasing Visual Sensitivity in Urban School Students: a Strategy for Involving Students in Aesthetic Concerns, Harold Louis Johnson
Transactional Analysis Jargon in Time Limited Groups, Diane Jones, Earl Eyre, and Joan Logan
The Random Sequence Closing Control System, Henri Bernard Joyaux