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Theses/Dissertations from 1970
A survey of hearing loss in the special education classrooms of Vancouver School District 37, Richard C. Folsom
Religious commitment and attitudes toward deviant behavior, Donald Alban Gibbs
Studies on the distribution and habitat of Demodex folliculorum, Michael James Gimbol
Donation of Organs for Transplantation: An Investigation of Attitudes and Behavior, Courtney Weldon Goodmonson
Post-Divorce Visitation of Minor Children: An Exploratory Study, Barbara Griffith
The Effect of Perceptual-Motor Training on Maladaptive Behaviors of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Julia Frances Hall
Versuch einer ästhetischen Wertsetzung: zur Kunsttheorie von Benn und Nietzsche, Kathryn M. Horváth
The European Powers in Africa: Can the Obstacles to National Unity Be Attributed to Them? Nigeria, a Test Case, Bassey John Ituen
The Great Debate: An Examination of Conflicting Views Regarding American Defense Policies, 1950-1951, Glen J. R. Jackson
Die Gestalt der Frau in ausgewählten Dramen George Kaisers, Wolfgang H. Justen
A study of the effects of professional authority on the attitude change of high school sophomores, Sandra Lee Kelley and Lane Alan Myers
Viet-Nam business education; a proposal for development, Hoang Ngoc Khiem
A translation of Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov's Opisanie zemli Kamchatki (The description of the land of Kamchatka) by E.A.P. Crownhart Vaughan, Stepan Petrovich Krasheninnikov
Validation of the orthogonal dimensions underlying the ICL and the octant constellations assumed to be their measure, Donald Edward Lange
Non-linearities in galvanomagnetic effects in bismuth at low temperatures, David Lawrence Luce
Comparison of Amounts of Verbal Response Elicited by a Speech Pathologist in the Clinic and a Mother in the Home, Joan Mathis
Councils of Governments: a Study Focusing on Membership, Representation and Voting, Jerry Alan Matson
Women in professions and status inconsistency, Miriam Grace McClure
Attitudes of Youth Toward Social Institutions: a Comparative Study, Connie McGonigle and James F. Bakke
An Electromyographic Comparison of Muscle Action Potentials of Listeners Presented Time-Compressed and Normal Speech Stimuli, Barbara S. Moon
Greece: The Colonels' Puritan Revolution, Nikolaos E. Mpras
Investigation of the alpha-sub-gamma phase in alnico 6, Cortez Samuel
Mobility of physicians into prepaid group health practice; a case study, Ann Schroeder Sato