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Theses from 1986

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Maternal self-esteem and the ability to tolerate infant autonomy., Rachel Wilhelm Bush, Psychology

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Symptoms and distribution of ash yellows in Massachusetts and effects of oxytetracycline microinjection on mycoplasma-like organisms within white ash /, Kevin P. Carr, Plant Pathology

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Effect of chemical growth retardants on carbohydrate levels of turfgrasses /, Elizabeth Leigh Clifton, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The effect of a stimulus suffix on short-term auditory memory in preschoolers., Teresa Daly, Psychology

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The place of the philosopher., Jeffrey B. Diamond, Political Science

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Identification of calcium-use efficiency characteristics among strains of snap bean (Phaseolus vulgaris, L.) /, Martha G. Edens, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Family management: a time management program., Laura J. Hall, Psychology

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Psychotherapists' development in terms of true self and caretaker self., Anton H. Hart, Psychology

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Context and object recognition., John M. Henderson, Psychology

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A compositional study of the morphology of 18-armed poly(styrene-isoprene) star-block copolymers/, Doreen S. Herman, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Sex, race, social class and alienation., James P. Howard, Psychology

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The effects of time, method and rate of boron fertilization on the incidence of brown curd and hollow stem disorders in cauliflower, Brassica Oleraceae, (Botrytis Gp.) /, Valerie J. Mailler, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Religious beliefs, locus of control and college performance., Renata L. Nero, Psychology

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The effect of crypticity on the foraging efficiency of the blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata)., Deborah Jean Olson, Psychology

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The accuracy of reaching in the dark in 7-month-old infants., Eve Emmanuel Perris, Psychology

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Conversational skills training with socially isolated nursing home residents., Kim Praderas, Psychology

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The effect of cadmium upon the growth and nitrogen fixation of the cyanobacterium Gloeothece ATCC 27152 /, Kevin J. Rodrigues, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Sexual identity development and problem drinking in college women., Randi Ellen Schnur, Psychology

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On-line inferences., Dolores M. Shank, Psychology

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The effect of the context in metaphor comprehension., Makiko Shinjo, Psychology

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Physiological control of calling, pheromone release, and pheromone production in the female gypsy moth, Lymantria dispar., Juliet D. Tang, Entomology

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Cartesian philosophy and the study of language., Gert Webelhuth, Philosophy

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The susceptibility of the reproductive process in Zea mays L. to acid precipitation /, Frank S. Wertheim, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Newborn behavior and maternal and infant biomedical factors among the Efe and Lese of Zaire., Steven A. Winn, Psychology

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Strategies used in computer program comprehension and debugging., Christopher B. Young, Psychology

Theses from 1985

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Feedback to enhance safe lifting., Mark Paul Alavosius, Psychology

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Developmental differences in individuals with borderline personality disorder., Dawn E. Balcazar, Psychology

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Cucumber mosaic virus transmission and resistance in Capsicum annuum L /, John R. Cuevas, Plant & Soil Sciences

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A 1973-1984 cohort comparison of college students' life plans and career aspirations., Miriam A. Defant, Psychology

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The biology and ecology of the pinewood nematode, Bursaphelenchus xyophilus (Steiner and Buhrer) Nickle, in Massachusetts /, Anne E. Dorrance, Plant Pathology

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An animal model for overjustification :: preliminary investigation., Vivian Packard Dorsel, Psychology

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Auditory stimulation and control as sources of environmental enrichment for captive Rhesus monkeys., Karla Hull Drewsen, Psychology

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The use of imagery and its relationship to maternal adaptation :: a comparison of cesarean [sic] versus vaginal deliveries., Corey N. Fagan, Psychology

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The role of context in resolving syntactic ambiguity., Fernanda Ferreira, Psychology

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Some difficulties experienced by psychotherapists in training., Charles Lawrence Field, Psychology

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Studies in tissue-cultured Paulownia tomentosa :: phenotypic stability, ploidy status, acclimatization, and in vitro cold storage /, Lakshmi Jagannathan, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Development and evaluation of an in vitro radiochemical assay for juvenile hormone biosynthesis in the black blowfly, Phormia regina (Meigen)., Mei-Ann Liu, Entomology

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The law and policy of control : presidential papers and school library books., Pamela R. McKay, Political Science

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Politics and pleasures : sexual controversies in the women's and lesbian/gay liberation movements., Lisa J. Orlando, Political Science

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Relationships among marital functioning, childbirth delivery mode, and maternal adjustment :: an exploratory study of the immediate postpartum period., Jill Anne Padawer, Psychology

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A radical epistemology of 'other worlds' : acausation, nonlinearity, consciousness., Jerome Radin, Philosophy

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Factors which influence the seeking of professional psychological help by college students who seriously consider suicide., Peter Spencer, Psychology

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Attraction of adult cabbage maggots to visual and olfactory traps., Arthur Tuttle, Entomology

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Intercropping corn and soybean :: planting pattern, plant density, and nitrogen fertilizer responses /, Antonio Vargas, Plant & Soil Sciences

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A comparison of measures of psychological differentiation and boundary including their relationships to subjective experiences of self and relationships in normal young adults., Madeline Anne Wagner, Psychology

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Effects of classroom performance feedback on teacher and student behavior., Felicia L. Wilczenski, Psychology

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Potentiation of the discriminative stimulus cues elicited by methylphenidate and imipramine by amino acid :: implications for the treatment of attention deficit disorder., Sandra Kay Woods, Psychology

Theses from 1984

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Effects of pre- and post-natal exposure to a supermarket diet on the development of obesity., Sue Anne Assimon, Psychology

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The effect of embossing process conditions on the surface properties of a plasticized vinyl polymer., Eileen Wanjek M. Bailey, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Crystalline-state extrusion of low density polyethylenes/, Chadli Benelhadjsaid, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Development and evaluation of population monitoring techniques for two domestic cockroach species and effectiveness of an oothecal parasitoid Comperia merceti in controlling the brownbanded cockroach., Reginald Robert Coler, Entomology

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The role of prosody in perception of lexical stress., Cynthia M. Connine, Psychology

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The taxonomy of the side species group of Spilochalcis (Hymenoptera: Chalcididae) in America north of Mexico with biological notes on a representative species., Gary James Couch, Entomology

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An investigation of the organization of the cerebral cortex in the rat :: the use of horseradish peroxidase and fast blue to evaluate the columnar hypothesis., Anton Blaine Dodek, Psychology

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The distorting image : women and advertising, 1900-1960/, Judith A. Freeman, History

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Microstructure and phase behavior of poly (para-phenylene benzobisthiazole)/methane sulfonic acid crystal solvates/, Herbert H. Frost, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Brown adipose tissue of hypothalamic knife-cut rats :: effects of high-carbohydrate and high-fat diets., Joan M. Hamilton, Psychology

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The production of gibberellin-like compounds by two ectomycorrhizal fungi and the effects of gibberellic acid on a known host /, Kathleen M. Hanley, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Development and validation of projective measures of the affiliation motive for use with young children., Jolene Kaweah Hart, Psychology

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Self-disclosure and genital herpes., Bernard Louis Hecker, Psychology

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Effects of an antiestrogen and estradiol on food intake, body composition, and metabolism in ovariectomized rats., Henry Walter Heller, Psychology

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Judgments of the short-term and long-term effects of conflict episodes on relationship cohesion., Darryl R. Hickman, Psychology

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Influence of Pseudomonas putida (Isolate M17) on nodulation and yield of Glycine max (L.) Merrill var. 'Evans' /, Catherine Mary Huot, Plant Pathology

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Optically active polytrichloroacetaldehyde based on macromolecular asymmetry/, Gary Jaycox, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Parental death in adolescence :: factors affecting the course of mourning., Claudia J. Kaplan, Psychology

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The effects of early optic lesions on the ectomammillary nucleus of the chick embryo., Carol Kwei, Psychology

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Teenage pregnancy and educational attainment :: six young black mothers., Deborah N. Lewis, Psychology

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Psychotherapy and the process of change :: toward an interactive-cognitive model of therapeutic influence., Jeffrey B. Mar, Psychology

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Amherst soldiers in the American Revolution/, Martha N. Noblick, History

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The elite status of think tank directors : corporate liberals versus the New Right., Beata Panagopoulos, Political Science

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Formaldehyde levels in the health care environment /, Mark L. Rollins, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Attempts, control and weight reduction :: an application of a theory of planned behavior., Deborah E. Schifter, Psychology

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Handling marginality in feminist organizations :: a study of the structural choices and the organizational problems of campus - based women's centers., Joan L. Sweeney, Psychology

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The influence of conservation tillage on edaphtic properties of a typic dystrochrept in Massachusetts /, Peter F. Waldron, Plant & Soil Sciences

Theses from 1983

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Genealogy and social history :: the early settlement of Lebanon, Connecticutt, as a case study., Robert Charles Anderson, History

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Social networks, social support and issues of aging: survey of three rural New England communities/, David J. Armstrong, Psychology

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Phylloplane microflora from apple varieties resistant and susceptible to Venturia inaequalis and possible antagonism to the apple scab fungus., Christopher Mark Becker, Plant Pathology

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Control of Poa annua L. infestations in sports turf with Lolium perenne L. and ethofumesate., David K. Bell, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Interpersonal transformations in married and cohabiting couples., Victor Haifleigh Mark Borden, Psychology

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An attributional analysis of the effect of deceptive nonverbal behaviors on simulated jurors' decisions., Richard Buckey Chesley, Psychology

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Response of two indeterminate soybean cultivars to plant competition induced by altered row widths and plant densities., John F. Creighton, Plant & Soil Sciences

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A study of poly(methyl methacrylate) as an electron beam resist., Vicki C. Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Recognition memory for complex pictures in preschool children., Deborah L. Davis, Psychology

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Children's television attention and comprehension: the effect of instructions in auditory, visual, and audiovisual stories., Diane Erickson Field, Psychology

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The development of an abbreviated form of the college women's assertion sample., Victoria-anne Grenier, Psychology

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The importance of analog knowledge in understanding the mean., Pamela Thibodeau Hardiman, Psychology

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Patterns of bluestain discoloration and associated organisms in Japanese black and Scots pines on Cape Cod, Massachusetts., Lorraine Beth Highley, Plant Pathology

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Behavior and effects of apple mosaic virus in cultured plant tissue., Charles D. Hurwitz, Plant Pathology

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The relationship of work and family roles to depression: an examination of dual working couples., Linda Kanefield, Psychology

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The effect of red light as a fall treatment on branching of rhododendron., Laurie Beth Menzel Kasperek, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Emotional outlet: a study into the emotions and attitudes of compulsive eaters., Suzanne Lerner, Psychology

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A study of the toxic effects and binding capacity for the heavy metals cadmium, copper, and zinc by the blue-green alga Chroococcus paris., Albin Paul Les, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Tissue culture of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.)., Cynthia A. Lincoln, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Studies of the fate of NO3- and NH4+ nitrogen from various fertilizers on turfgrasses grown on three different soil types., Charles F. Mancino, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Effects of maturity, fruit size, and microelement concentrations on predicting the storage life of McIntosh apples., Christine Antonia Marmo, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Effect of 6-benzylaminopurien; gibberellins A4+7; and N, N-dimethylamino succinamic acid on flowering and fruiting of 'Golden Delicious' apple trees., Joann Mary McLaughlin, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Confounding variables in the discriminated Irt procedure., David C. Palmer, Psychology

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Fragipan strength behavior, moisture regimes, and morphology of soils in a drainage-toposequence in Central Massachusetts., Edward Wallace Pickering, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Anatomy of the nodose ganglion in the rat: central projections of afferent fibers in the hepatic vagus., Bonnie E. Pipkin, Psychology

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Planting patterns and densities of intercropped corn-soybean for silage., Daniel Harold Putnam, Plant & Soil Sciences