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Theses from 1973
Political development, the People's Party of Pakistan and the elections of 1970., Meenakshi Gopinath, Political Science
Antagonism of Trichoderma spp. to sclerotia of Typhula incarnata., Paul Richard Harder, Plant & Soil Sciences
The influence of ovarian hormones on the recovery period following lateral hypothalamic lesions., Lindy E. Harrell, Psychology
An analysis of commitment., William H. Holmes, Psychology
Arousal and reactivity of schizophrenics and normals as a function of event expectancy., Raymond L. Hoobler, Psychology
The utility of soil-phosphorus equilibrium studies as an indicator of phosphate concentration in surface and ground water., Lewis Michael Horzempa, Plant & Soil Sciences
The association of Lophodermium pinastri with the eastern white pine and Scots pine., Jules J. Jaeger, Plant Pathology
Discrimination of aperiodic two-dimensional patterns: a comparison of feature detection and frequency analysis models/, Clinton F. Jenne, Psychology
Patterns of leadership and facilitation in a collaborative task-oriented group/, Mark A. Karpel, Psychology
Predicting consumer acceptance of a service :: an empirical study., Jalal Ameen Khorasanee, Business Administration
A study of the effects of lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus in the mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus., Allen Benfield Koenig, Psychology
NASA's patent policies and the problem of technology transfer., Philip Joseph Lang, Political Science
Prediction of hospital readmission among male problem drinkers using demographic variables., Richard Lawrence Leavy, Psychology
The effects of mode of instruction and media of presentation as related to imageability and verbal ability., Steven M. Marantz, Psychology
Conditioned inhibition: a below zero effect/, Horace G. Marchant, Psychology
The effects of various menstra on the thermal resistance and leakage of metabolic products from Escherichia coli /, Eugene J. Mariani, Plant & Soil Sciences
Gas chromatographic analysis of succinate in the face fly, Musca autumnalis De Geer., Warren B. Meeks, Entomology
The extraction of frequency information from electrical stimulation of the medial geniculate body., Frederick W. Mis, Psychology
The electrical stimulation of human fungiform papillae., Claire. Murphy, Psychology
The role of trust in helping behavior., Susan Miriam Mydlarz, Psychology
Between a crown and a gibbet: Benjamin F. Butler and the early war years., David M. Nellis, History
Histopathology of scar skin disease of apple., Paul Edmund Parker, Plant Pathology
Molecular weight control in ringopening polymerizations., Daniel Martin Pauk, Polymer Science & Engineering
Some aspects of natural control of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), in Massachusetts., Frank Byers Peairs, Entomology
A model for rational decision-making in administration of mental retardation services., Ellsworth Alden Pearl, Political Science
The mechanism of suppression of shock-induced fighting by chlordiazepoxide., Linda F. Quenzer, Psychology
Rheological studies of the kinetics of gelation., Thomas A. Riihimaki, Polymer Science & Engineering
Effects of electrical stimulation of the mammillary bodies on autonomic and regulatory functions in the anesthetized cat., Gail Lee Risse, Psychology
Occurrence and importance of maize dwarf mosaic virus in Massachusetts., Robert A. Schall, Plant Pathology
Personality correlates of meditation practice., Cora Annette Scott, Psychology
The effect of group influence on consumer behavior :: a social comparison approach., Alvin Jay Seronick, Business Administration
The emergence of Bangla Desh., Bannu A. Shrikhande, Political Science
The Hotline: an application of achievement motivation and attribution theory/, Linda Jane Sobelman, Psychology
Solar energy in the housing sector., Pritchard L. Strong, Business Administration
Developmental trends in the effects of irrelevant information on speeded classification., George F. Strutt, Psychology
Availability of an avoidance response as related to fear and anxiety, Jack Alexander Szpiler, Psychology
Expectation-outcome discrepancy and social reality as factors in the attribution of success and failure to self and other: an attributional analysis of achievement motivation., Howard. Tennen, Psychology
The effect of perceived therapist warmth on the effectiveness of deep muscle relaxation training, Christopher Charles Tolsdorf, Psychology
Dimensions of religious growth and development in the college years., Hendrika. Vande Kemp, Psychology
Color term comprehension and the perception of focal color in young children., Charles G. Verge, Psychology
Desirability of position as a determinant of anticipatory opinion change., Rebecca M. Warren, Psychology
"Ut pictura poesis est": Pictorial art and Herman Melville's Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War, Paul M. Wright, English
Theses from 1972
Classical reward conditioning of the heart rate response to auditory stimulation in 3 month old infants., Christina Perry Appleton, Psychology
Studies on rheo-optical properties of ethylene-propylene random copolymers., Kenichi Baba, Polymer Science & Engineering
Gas chromatographic determination of house fly respiration., Rollas W. Batten, Entomology
Effects of freezing on mature 'Richared Delicious' apples., Richard Edward Bir, Plant & Soil Sciences
A comparison of four skin cleansing products., Eli Boroda, Plant & Soil Sciences
Perceived freedom, reinforcement schedules, and cost., Robert G. Bringle, Psychology
A survey of industrial water pollution in the pulp and paper industry of the United States., Stephen Wayne Campbell, Business Administration
Reinforcement and punishment effects on human operant behavior, Edwin N. Carter, Psychology
Evidence for serial learning of multiple cues in concept identification., Marc A. Clement, Psychology
Processing capacity in a letter-matching task., Elizabeth Mclean Comstock, Psychology
The evolution of the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment., Donald S. Connors, Political Science
The effect of stimulus materials and pretraining on children's performance and error choice behavior in a two-trial inference task., Bonnie Blake Drucker, Psychology
Verbal participation in videotape feedback group therapy., James Gilbert Durfee, Psychology
An examination of the perceptual aspects of personal space., Gary W. Evans, Psychology
The Massachusetts Racial Imbalance Act : the administration of public policy at the state and local levels., Barbara Garde Garvey, Political Science
Pronoun usage as a reflection of orientation to marriage., Susan E. Gottlieb, Psychology
Effect of mammillothalamic tractotomy on unnatural appetitively motivated avoidance behavior in rat., Joseph M. Graziadei, Psychology
The effects of irrelevant information on processing levels., Joanne Green, Psychology
Memory dependent search processes: evidence for a fast self-terminating scan., Karl Dieter Gutschera, Psychology
The effects of photoperiod and temperature on three crownvetch (Coronilla varia L.) varieties., Peter Anthony Kaskeski, Plant & Soil Sciences
Electrical recording of the feeding behavior of Myzus persicae (Sulzer)., Cynthia Jane Kislow, Entomology
The histology of the third instar larva of the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)., John Knell, Entomology
Interaction tendency as a determinant of personal space., Susan Carol Lehtinen, Psychology
Absorption of water soluble compounds into leaves of McIntosh apple (Malus domestica, Bork.)., William G. Lord, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effects of concentration and exposure time on the toxicity of ozone to the spores of Botrytis cinerea., William Paul Magdycz, Plant Pathology
The Supreme Court, freedom of expression, and the law of libel., James J. Magee, Political Science
An improved Couette high shear viscometer and its application to crystallization of polyethylene in simple shear., Louis A. Manrique, Polymer Science & Engineering
Locke's concept of personal identity., Michelle Marguerite Maurer, Philosophy
An approach to play., Lillian M. Miller, Psychology
The effect of pH, rate of nitrogen application, and plants on ammonium volatilization., Harry Arvin Mills, Plant & Soil Sciences
Microbial levels in a general hospital nursery and nursery with rooming-in facilities of a maternity hospital., Mary Elizabeth Murray, Plant & Soil Sciences
Concreteness and imagery in sentence meaning, revisited., Kathy. Pezdek, Psychology
Imperial looting and the case of Benin., Mary Lou Ratté, History
Trainee competence and the status relationship between the trainee and trainers as determinants of trainers' evaluation of the trainee's performance., Manfred Kurt Rotermund, Psychology
Job shop automation., William Alexander Scheffter, Business Administration
Mother's employment history and intensity of socialization to achievement and achievement motivation level in college freshman., Elizabeth Ann Slaughter, Psychology
Effects of redundant and orthogonal stimulus dimensions in visual immediate memory search, Barbara Sonnenschein, Psychology
The courtship behavior of the house fly, Musca domestica L., and face fly, Musca autumnalis De Geer : with notes on the experimental hybridization of the two species., Edward N. Tobin, Entomology
Coping with stress and locus of control., Michael S. Weissman, Psychology
Phosphatidase and polygalacturonase in extracts of diseased and healthy American elms and in cultures of Ceratocystis ulmi., Alice Callaway Woods, Plant Pathology
The effects of a polyphenolpolyphenoloxidase system on the infectivity of cowpea chlorotic mottle virus-ribonucleic acid., Thomas L. Woods, Plant Pathology
Theses from 1971
The attitudes of the American business community to the Soviet Union, 1917-1933., Patricia J. Behenna, History
Factors affecting conditioned suppression in the absence of a Cs-us contingency., James O. Benedict, Psychology
Therapist self-disclosure: Its effect on clients' perception of therapist nuturance, clients' perception of therapist intraception, and clients' willingness to self-disclose, Kenneth Allen Bundza, Psychology
The effects of reinforcement of the development of inhibitory stimulus control., Jeremiah P. Collins, Psychology
Stimulus sequence effects in a discrete trial discrimination, James V. Couch, Psychology
Preliminary exploration of an altered state of consciousness: the hyperalert-hyperreal state., Anthony Edward D'aguanno, Psychology
Learning and transfer in hierarchically structured concept attainment tasks., Sergio V. De Luna, Psychology
Teacher-centered vs. student-centered mode of college classroom instruction as related to individual differences., Fred J. Dowaliby, Psychology
Studies on the biological control of Fusarium., Edward P. Dugan, Plant & Soil Sciences
Imagery and language coding in deaf and hearing adolescents., Toni Farrenkopf, Psychology
Purification and properties of apple russet ring virus., Natalie I. M. Feng, Plant Pathology
Competence, co-presence, and self-esteem as determinants of helping behavior., Burton W. Franzman, Psychology
Aggressive behavior and the perception of violence., William J. Fremouw, Psychology
The effect of the ambiguity level of nonverbal contact on willingness to self-disclose., Kay Marie Gustafson, Psychology
Religious conversion in Tlaxcala, 1520-1550., Edmund C. Hands, History
Response set, communicator credibility, pro-counterattitudinal message: a cognitive response analysis of reactions to persuasive communications., Nuran Hortacsu, Psychology
Vicarious verbal conditioning as a function of an observer's expectancy regarding the friendliness of the reinforcing agent., Bruce W. Jorgensen, Psychology