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Theses/Dissertations from 1974
A preliminary investigation of the predictive and evaluative capacity of the PARS scale in a community mental health clinic, Judith M. Ritter
Interaction Patterns in the Campground, Dennis Lee Rockwood
State response to the civil right issue, 1883-1885, Robert Lionel Rowe
The Historical Imagination of Francesco Petrarch: A Study of Poetic Truth and Historical Distortion, Sally Scholz
The Correlation Between Specific Curiosity and Intelligence in Adults, Charles R. Schwenk
A Comparison Between Sources of Student Anti-Hunting Sentiment and Wildlife Information Sources of a Sample of Oregon Adults, Ronald E. Shay
The Digital Multifunction Power Measuring System, Ralph Warren Shoemaker
Vibration Damping Characteristics of Typical Harpsichord Strings, Jack Lee Simmons
Labor Violence: the Centralia Case, the IWW and its Enemies, Lawrence C. Skoog
An Evaluation of Latch Key Day Care, Barbara Garrett Skorney
Chicanos in Oregon: An Historical Overview, Richard Wayne Slatta
The Effectiveness of Induced Location of Manufacturing Industry as a Means of Fostering Sustained Economic Growth in Less Developed Regions of Oregon, Leland F. Smith
The politics of education -- An analysis of selected cases and controversies in American education, Lawrence Robert Stoffel
The Background and Development of the 1871 Korean-American Incident: A Case Study in Cultural Conflict, Robert Ray Swartout Jr.
Some correlates of morale among nursing home residents, Gail Olmsted Sydnor and Patricia Mears Wold
Water Quality Within East Portland Terraces, Fouad Mohamed Tawfik
Differential Measurement of a Language Concept Presented via Video Tape Playback to First Grade Students, Richard Warren Trullinger
Effects of the Nerve During the Dedifferentiative Phase of Limb Regeneration in the Mexican Axolotl, Ambystoma mexicanum, Roberta Gail Wald
Alumina-Catalyzed Cope Rearrangement, Paul Jhy-Shing Wang
An investigation of the development of the phonemes /t/and /k/ in the speech of preschool children., Glenn Douglas Weybright
Masking patterns of high frequency pure tones, Judith Eide Widen
Hiring Practices: A Study of the Port of Portland, Portland, Oregon, Carol Williams Bryant
Designing and Evaluating Workshop "Bridges": a Training Project to Upgrade Social Services in Long Term Care Facilities, Corrine C. Williams
The Frequency of Retroflex /r/ Production in Elementary School Children, Vicki Barna Wood