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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
An Analysis of the Ability and Achievement of Business Education Students Compared to Non-Business Education Students, William B. Warberg
A Conceptual Model for a Human Resource Center for Voluntarism, Helen L. Warbington
Vocalizations of the Townsend chipmunk (Eutamias townsendii), Greig Michael Warner
A Study of the Willingness of Elderly People to Live With Each Other, Joanne Welander
The Effects of Marihuana Extract Distillate on Eating Behavior of Rats, Terrie Wetle
A regional approach: city-county consolidation as a method of local governmental reorganization, Anthony Gene White
Identities in Gay Drinking Places, Sharon Gertrude White
A Behavioristic Approach to the Design of a Digital Model of Human Communication, George Eugene Whitley
Implications of an oral-gestural training program in the acquisition of speechreading skills, Mary Lu Wood
Comparative Study of Lightweight and Normal Weight Concrete in Flexure, Mohammad Zareh
Theses/Dissertations from 1970
The 1958 Good Offices Mission and Its Implications for French-American Relations Under the Fourth Republic, Lorin James Anderson
Life drawing in the secondary classroom, Marilyn Jean Anderson
Nutritional requirements for protease production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Ps-1C, Richard Myer Avedovech
An Empirical Study of the Effect of Systematic Relaxation Training of Chronically-Anxious Subjects on the Communication Variable of Closed-Mindedness, La Ray M. Barna
Changing the Custody of Children Whose Parents Have Been Divorced: A General View of the Process, Dorothy E. Bateman
Automated Information Retrieval Systems for Legal Research, Robert G. Baylor
A study of the role of acrylic paints in the secondary and junior high school art curriculum, Alice Atkinson Benski
Attitudes Toward Supervision, Job Satisfaction, and Risk-Taking Behavior and the Relationship to Accident Frequency Ratios, Richard Everett Boggs
A Comparative Analysis of the Untrained Lip Reading Ability of Mothers of Young Hard of Hearing Children Versus Mothers of Young Normal Hearing Children, Janet Andrews Boileau
A study of eighty-one sexual offenders at Oregon State Hospital, Eugene Fletcher Booth
Madrona movers; a sociological analysis of a work group as a process of harmony and dissent, John Vance Cannucci
The Correlation of Factors Relating to the Selection and Retention of Student Teachers at Portland State University, Michael E. Carl
Italy 1830-1848: the role of the press and the theatre in the formation of the national spirit, Albert Louis Cereghino
Factors in Evaluation of Student Performance in a Graduate School of Social Work, Sharon J. Copeland and Gerald E. Warner
A survey of work facilities and rehabilitation services available to the handicapped in the United States, Morgan William Dickerson