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Theses/Dissertations from 1973
Some Aspects of the Water Economics of Townsend's Chipmunks, Ali Mokhtar Rahima
Lead Content of Hair of Urban and Rural Populations of Small Animals, Richard Brian Raymond
A reinterpretation of the Oregon school bill of 1922 : the concept of the common school in progressive America., Stephen Louis Recken
Environmental Geology of the Marquam Hill Area, Roger Alan Redfern
Response of orthotropic bridge decks to highway loadings, Harry Morris Rexin
An Experimental Study and Analysis of Saudi-Arabian - American Proxemic Behavior as Observed in Homogeneous and Heterogeneous Dyadic Interactions, Gary D. Robinson
Solid Casting in Aluminum and Concrete Using the Multiple-piece plaster mold: a method of introducing the Adolescent Student to the Indirect Method of Sculpture, Donald LeRoy Sandblast
Community Vocational Success of Institutionalized Mental Retardates as a Function of Coping Style, Jane C. Schilling
Growth of Selenastrum capricornutum Printz in Natural Waters Treated with Copper Sulfate, Gerald Eugene Schulz
A new inquiring system for technology transfer and its role in planning and policymaking, Kishandutt Jaydayal Sharma
Agonistic Behavior and Dominance in Townsend's Chipmunks (Eutamias townsendii), Paul Evan Sherman
The Grim Security of the Past: The Historiography of Henry Cabot Lodge, Claude Singer
Chinese Attitudes and Knowledge Concerning Social Services: a Survey of the Portland Chinese Community, Laura Lum Sing, Wendy Po-Kow Chan, and Peter Tau-Ping Wang
A Survey for Leucocytozoon Simondi Mathis and Leger (1910) in Canada Geese of the Malheur Wildlife Refuge, John Val Snively
Ernst Cassirer and the Synthesis of the Past: a Paradigm in the History of Ideas, Mart Stewart
The origin of property in land: Paul Vinogradoff and the late XIXth century English historians, Caroline Phillips Stoel
History of Al-Hijaz (1520-1632), Farouk M. Taufik
Changes in Personality Traits and Identification in Adolescent Female State School Residents, as a Function of Length of Residence, Mary L. Thompson
The Doctrine of Experience in the Philosophy of Jonathan Edwards, Puritan Divine, Joseph S. Trachtenberg
Aspects of the physiology and diseases of the North American elk, Yvonne Bernard Weber
A test of the simple recessive hypothesis for the inability to taste phenyl-thio-urea: a family study, Susan I. Wolf
The World of Women: Portland, Oregon, 1860-1880, Mary C. Wright
A Cross-Class Survey of Synaesthesia in High School Students and its Biocultural Implications, Ina Jane Wundram
Possible Avian Influences in the Distribution of Dwarf Mistletoe, Paul James Zilka