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Theses/Dissertations from 1972
An Analysis of Change in Girls Released From Villa Saint Rose, H. Marie Ades
The Impact of Coordination by a Child Abuse Committee on Community Services to Battered Children, Grace Jackson Anders and Rebekah M. Burton
The transition to Nazism, the history of the German town of Pfungstadt, 1928 to 1935, David E. Arns
Entropy Reduction of English Text Using Variable Length Grouping, Vincent Norman Ast Jr.
A Scale of Verbal Accessibility in Mild and Borderline Retarded Adults, Keith Baker
Postcensal Population Estimates for Oregon Counties: An Evaluation of Selected Methods, Guy Jeffrey Barnes
A Survey of non-white social service personnel in the State of Oregon, Phillis Benton, Patricia Riley, Cynthia Southwell, and Dennis Wong
Kinetics of the Cope rearrangement of 3,4-diphenylhexa-1,5-diene, Harlan Albert Jerome Berg
Measurements of the Mössbauer Fraction in Chromium, B. Frederick Brace Jr.
The Effects of Perceptual-Motor Training on the Perceptual-Motor Skills of Emotionally Disturbed Children, Karen R. Brown
Simulation of Brain Damage on Bender-gestalt Test by College Subjects, Arnold Rahn Bruhn
A Descriptive Study of Educational Background, Contraceptive Knowledge, and Choice of Agency Among Selected Girls 18 Years Old and Under Seeking an Abortion at the University of Oregon Medical School, Carol A. Carter, Lititia J. Kirk, and Jane F. Ogier
The Relationship of Written Expression to Self Concept in Primary Children, Anna Lou Case
A Gold Dream in the Blue Mountains: A Study of the Chinese Immigrants in the John Day Area, Oregon, 1870-1910, Chia-lin Chen
An attitudinal study of selected groups in the city of The Dalles toward the Community Attention Home, David Clitheroe and Garrett Long
An Approach to the Decentralization of Health Care Services in Multnomah County, Oregon, Stephen L. R. Cook and Roger George Philippi
A taxonomic study of two nominal subspecies of pikas (Ochotona princeps) in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon, Richard M. Coots
Johann Adam Moehler: The Method of Historical Theology, Christina Maria Crose
Lesson for America? England's development areas, Thomas G. Current
The 1972 cigarette tax referendum: a mass communication campaign, Gwendolyn Moore Danielson
Black Studies as an Agent of Social Change on the Structural Level at Selected Colleges and Universities, Vincent Van Davis
The Rhetoric of Garner Ted Armstrong, Stephen George Dick
Nursing: a Profession in Process, Mary Elizabeth Dilling Rambousek
The women's liberation movement and identity change : an urban pilot study, Molly M. Doeneka
Testing of a Design for Client Evaluation of a Conciliation Service, James A. Dudley, James C. Euler, Peter Njoroge, and Richard Streissguth