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Theses/Dissertations from 1971
Title I Evaluation System, Maple Lane High School, Terrence A. Green
An Interactional Approach to Weight Reduction, Carole T. Gygi
A demographic study of transracial adoptive parents, Patricia Lee Hall
The Effectiveness of Environmental Control in Modifying Problem Behaviors in Mother-Child Interaction, Thomas Whalen Hamilton
Behavioral Changes Due to Overpopulation in Mice, James Robert Hammock
Patrick J. Hurley and China, 1944-1945, Robert T. Handy
The rhetoric of Sir Thomas More and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in original work and dramatic portrayal, Robert C. Harvey
Teaching Sculpture in High Schools, Richard Henry Helzer
Variations in a color-line aftereffect due to color adaptation during inspection of the inducing stimuli, Joyce Hirsch
Hipólito Irigoyen's Second Administration: A Study in Administrative Collapse, Herman John Hobi
Schedule interactions and stimulus control, Andrew Louis Homer
Computer Solution to Inverse Problems of Elliptic Form: V²U(x,y) = g(a,U,x,y), Frederick Alvin Jeter
An Attempt to Find Predictor Variables Which Will Discriminate Between Those Patients Who Seek Aftercare Treatment and Those Who Do Not Seek Aftercare Treatment Upon Discharge From a Psychiatric Ward, Nena V. Johnstone, William D. Lynch, Philip M. Baldwin, and John C. Kemp
A postulated alternative to current Oregon marital statute (ORS 106.71): a frankly revisionist analysis of the concrete situation, Ken Jones, Ray Kendall, Jan Nolley, and Jill Weeden
Interorganizational Coalitional Decision-making: an Exploratory Investigation, Dennis Brian Keenan
Ames Trapezoid Illusion: A New Model, Daniel Robert Kelly
Differences in the Attitudes of Church-Attending Catholics Toward Changes in Religious Beliefs and Practices Correlated with Age and Education, Cletus Michael Kirkpatrick
Anxiety Level of Graduate Students in Social Work, Sophia Kouidou-Giles and George Albert McKee
Day Care Centers' Manpower Elements and Training Needs, Philip Kwakuvi Kudiabor
Communicative Abilities: an Analysis of the Interactions of Reticent and Non-reticent Task Groups, Myron W. Lustig
"Follow Through" Services for Child Abuse Cases, Marguerite Matusak
Life history of Philophthalmus megalurus (Cort, 1914) in western Oregon, Toni Anne McMillan
Die Prostituierte in Frank Wedekinds Dramen, Philip A. Mellen
The political role of religious pacifism during the inter-war years, Ancil K. Nance
Assessing the Convenience Factor in Relocating a Day Care Center, Barbara Ann Dauterman Norton and Terry Roger Horton