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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
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
Die Gestaltung des Raumes in den Dramen Ernst Barlachs, Dieter Helmut Engelhardt
The propagation of light in a turbulent atmosphere, Karl-Hans Gunther Engert
Systems reliability using the flow graph, Kenneth Edward Farrier
Cubist Painting Related to the Culture From Which It Came and Its Validity Today in the High School Curriculum, Virginia K. Fenton
Factors in Assessing Effectiveness of Orientation Programs for Public Welfare Caseworkers, Clyde Ferguson
A Follow-up Study of Families with Children Labeled Retarded, Connie Finley
A study an analysis of stochastic linear programming, Chamberlain Lambros Foes
Income distribution effects of the urban property tax with emphasis on the reappraisal lag: a theoretical and empirical analysis of the Multnomah Couny experience, Michael Steven Fogarty