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Theses/Dissertations from 1975
Indian Alcoholism on Reservations, Cleora E. Jackson
A Comparative Study of the Relative Incidence of Various Vocal Parameters Among Black and White College Females, Barbara Kuhl Jacobs
Marx on population: a critical review including a comparison to Malthus and a new perspective on Marx, David Orval Jermain
Assessment of Short Term Behavioral Changes in Emotionally Handicapped Children Enrolled in a Special Education Program, James S. Johnston and Karen Shilling
Reconciliation and reunion, Myron K. Jordan
Implications of American Missionary Presence in 19th and 20th Century Iran, Linda Colleen Karimi
The Dynamics of an HCP Crystal with a Substitutional Defect, Pramod C. Karulkar
A survey and critical analysis of current literature on the post audit of capital expenditure, Gene Albert Katke
A Comparative Study of the Reponses by Varying Socioeconomic Groups on General Knowledge and Categorization Tasks, Margo I. Keller
The Application and Evaluation of Goal Attainment Scaling to the Janis Drug Treatment Program, Steven W. Kilber and Carol E. Swanson
A Descriptive Study of Previously Institutionalized Educable Mentally Retarded Adults Residing in Multnomah County, Oregon, Susan J. Kiley, Jeffrey D. Sher, and Richard C. Sunshine
Recovery from Stuttering in a Sample of Elementary School Children, Carol Deno Kimball
Effects of Antifibroblast Antiserum on Cells Derived from Fibroblast Outgrowth of Human Prostatic Tissues, Eva Shang-Lian King
Performance of adolescent autistic males on the Michigan picture language inventory, Marcia Sharril Kline
Marital Status as a Discriminator and Treatment Variable among Female Alcoholics, James C. Knapp
Truman's election in 1948, Mary Peter Kump
The Effects of Low, Moderate, and High Self-Disclosure on Electromyographic, Psychogalvanic, and Attitudinal Response, Jonathan I. Lange
A Voice Incidence Study: Portland, Oregon, Ann Lynn Laskey
Computer Aided Design for Fluidic Sequential Circuits of Fundamental Mode, Yau-Hwang Lee
Freedom and Necessity in the Development of Marx's Thought, Isa Maria Leib
An Identification of Important Management, Administrative, and Planning Skills and Knowledge Essential to Middle-managers Present Positions in a Variety of Urban and Rural Social Welfare Settings in Oregon, Patricia Victoria Leonard
A Functional Analysis of the Effects of a Token Economy Program on Attending Behavior in Children and Subsequent Test Performance, Kay Delores Lillig Cotter
A Conditioning Model for the McCollough Effect, Andreas D. Lord
Counseling Needs of Mastectomy Patients: Reach to Recovery Program, Elaine Lowe
A program to teach awareness of stress, Catherine Collins Lu