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Theses/Dissertations from 1976
A Specialized Child Protective Service Unit, Paul O. Powers and Bonnie J. Vance
The use of dance as a tool for personality integration, Barbara Throckmorton Rankin
A Series of Sculptures, John Redman
Medical and Nursing Students: Concepts of Self and Ideal Self, Typical and Ideal Work Partner, Ingrid Rein
Exploring Collaboration: A Program Evaluation of a Mental Health Intervention in a Public Elementary School, Joy Rhodes
The Androgenic Glands of the Pacific Crayfish, Pacifastacus leniusculus trowbridgii Stimpson, 1859, Larry L. Sanders
Theoretical Differences in Kissinger and Schlesinger's Models of the International System, Wayne Alan Schroeder
A Descriptive Study of Oregon Literacy Tutors in Multnomah County, Marva Schwiebert and Kathleen Whittle
A Study Describing the Counseling Practices of the Pastors in the Pacific Northwest Conference of the Free Methodist Church, Jere' Slingerland Howell
Biostratigraphy of the Snowshoe Formation (Jurassic) in the Izee area, Grant County, Oregon, Paul Lawrence Smith
A Descriptive Study of Thai Nonverbal Communication, Suriya Smutkupt
The Effect of a Magnetic Field on the Leclanché Cell, Walter Edward Socha
An Examination of the Interrelationship Between Caregiver Behaviors, Infant Temperament and Perceptual-Cognitive Development, Anita E. Stauffer
Some Coyote Food Habitat Patterns in the Shrub-Steppe of South-central Washington, Peter Frederick Stoel
Does Urban Noise Represent a Hazard to Health?, Frances J. Storlie
Residential treatment of emotionally disturbed adolescents, Rosemary Brown Sutherland
A Comparison of Two Articulation Management Approaches, Cindy Sue Sykes
Mammals of the Bull Run, Edward M. Thatcher
Social work continuing education needs assessment study, Mary Lou Timme
Political Development in Oregon: The Provisional Government 1843-1849, James M. Tompkins
The PCI Resurgent: 1943-1945, Karen Adele Tosi
Theoretical studies in cooperative phenomena and population ecology, Shripad Tuljapurkar
The Circulation of Elites in Twentieth Century American History: The New Deal as Case Study, Diane Theresa Volk
A Numerical Solution for the Ultimate Strength of Tubular Beam-Columns, Arnold L. Wagner
The Addition of SF5Br to Unsaturated Systems, Qui-Chee Wendy Wang