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Theses/Dissertations from 1972
Mutual exclusion between Salmonberry and Douglas-fir in the Coast Range of Oregon, Kenneth Ray Still
Interpolated Activity Effects in Distributed Practice, Ramond King Stout
Die Intrigantin in ausgewählten frühen Werken Gerhart Hauptmanns, Sidney Thomas Stuller
An Alienation Measurement and Observed Behavior: A Study of Forty-Two Male Seniors in a Technical High School, Jack Leo Terzenbach
A Study of the Legal Aid Family Law Center and its Clients, by Cynthia Ann Thomas [and] Susan Marie Vail, Cynthia Ann Thomas and Susan Marie Vail
Continuity of a Traditional Social Pattern: the "Man-Patron" Relationship in Contemporary Northeast Brazil, Patricia Ellen Thorpe
Coping Patterns of Those Denied Public Assistance -1970, Robert A. Turcotte and Anita L. Wahl
Effects of Certain Linguistic Parameters Upon the Responses of Preschool Subjects to Specific Dichotic Listening Tasks, Peggy J. Weber
Social Desirability and the Interpersonal Check List, Deborah Jean Wheeler
The Monopoly study of authority, Micheale Hall Williams
Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Continuance vs. Discontinuance in Family Counseling, Katherine Anderson, Alice Dudley, and Mayetta Rocks
An Exploratory Study of Children’s Mental Health Needs in the Pact Target Area of Southeast Portland, Richard L. Bossardt and Clifford G. Larsen
Predictors of Placement from a Juvenile Detention Facility, Diane C. Brock
François Pierre Guillaume Guizot: An Intellectual Approach, Elbert Hardy Cave
Residential child care manpower and training needs, Song K. Cho
The Effect of Antibiotics on Thermophilic Blue-Green Algae, Erleen Blanche Christenson
Teaching social studies from a global viewpoint, Janet Hays Clemmer
How women are made: a look at the issues of the women's liberation movement, Lenore Jan Coffey
Post-divorce visitation of minor children; development of a questionnaire, Viola Cotter, Lorraine Goldenberg, and Terry McGill
Life styles of methadone treatment patients: agreement of self report and informant report, Richard Cox and Gary West
Effects of Insulin, Sodium and D-Glucose on Amino Acid Absorption in the Intestine of Rats, Andre-Gerard Craan
Lactic dehydrogenase isozyme isolation by disc electrophoresis in eight species of fringillid birds, Michael Edwin Darling
The Effects of Sociological Theories of Poverty on Job Training Programs, Michael Richard DeShane
Age, Emotional Maturity and the Decision to Marry, Patricia Ann Duclos, David F. Thomas, and Joanne Zusman