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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
A study of the relationship between attitudes toward woman's roles and career choices of women graduate students, Barbara Backstrand
Assessment of Course Impact on Child Care Worker Orientation: Worker Concerns Versus Child Concerns, Helen M. Banaka
Teaching hearing-impaired children language through the use of musical rhythm, Naomi Anne Banducci
Personality characteristics, work practices, and error rates among welfare assistance workers at East Multnomah County Public Welfare Branch, Roy Dale Beams, Mike David Gotesmen, and Howard Wayne Knytych
An investigation of possible relationships between sex-role orientation, the motive to avoid success and the inhibition of aggression in women, Joan Dayger Behn and Barbara McDuffee Mecca
Danish Day Care as a Social Institution, Albert Sessions Belais and Ellane L. Kibel
A study of RNA bacteriophage 7s infection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Deanne Benson
Curanderismo and Health Delivery Services, Jean Margaret Blaesser
Oregon and the Blue Eagle: a Study of the Response of Oregonians to the National Recovery Administration, John Craig Bledsoe
The Urban Indian Program in Portland, Oregon, Lyndon Earl Bohanan
The Value of Color Systems in Education, Shirley Jo Brehm
James Butler and the Royalist cause in Ireland, 1641-1650, Monica A. Brennan
Police Discretion with Respect to the Juvenile Offender, Department of Public Safety, Multnomah County, Oregon, Muriel Bridges and Monty Merritt
A theory of the perception of character, Donna C. Brown
The Department of Family Services, Court of Domestic Relations, Portland, Oregon : a report of its history, function, and future, George Brune, John Hart, and Sandra Smith
The Positive Aspects of a Program of Participation in a Retirement Center, Yvonne Burke
The Development of a Questionnaire for Use by the Clackamas County Children's Services Division, Nancy Lee Cable
An Investigation of the Influence of Dialectal Interferences on the NSST Scores Obtained by Portland Black Children, Margaret J. Callahan
Probability driven heuristic nets, Lynn Robert Carter
Maturity of adolescent unwed mothers, Sarah L. Claiborne
Colored Light: a Brief Study of Stained Glass Windows, Including a Self-Guided Tour of Stained Glass in West Portland, L. Jean Connors
Social Upheaval and Social Change in England, 1381-1750, Sarah J. Cooney
The politics of general revenue sharing: the new federalism in urban perspective, John C. Daley
Characterization of Zinc-containing Metalloproteins by Resonance Raman Spectroscopy, Robert Edward Derry