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Theses from 1978

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Signal: a study in Geman propaganda of the Second World War., Jeffrey Alan Hanson, History

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Social desirability and aggression under trans-situational conditions., Robert Alan Hines, Psychology

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High shear viscometry of high polymer solutions., Paul Li Horng, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Case study of a female juvenile offender: a social ecological analysis., Maureen M. Mcandrews, Psychology

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Attributions of poverty and affluence: an information processing analysis., Robert L. Miller, Psychology

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Nitrification activity in an aquatic ecosystem., John Edward Perkins, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Nose-poke responding and locomotor activity in mice with septal lesions., Susan J. Rice, Psychology

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Army rule in Pakistan : a case study of a military regime., Marguerite Maude Riley, Political Science

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Chilling injury in young cucumber (Cucumis sativus) hypocotyls., Nathaniel Sasson, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The importance of speech recoding in reading., Maria Louisa Slowiaczek, Psychology

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Isolation and partial characterization of the intercellular pectic enzyme complex from Erwinia carotovora isolate 14., James Peter Stack, Plant Pathology

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The effect of an actor's social identity on the type of information the decision maker seeks and his subsequent decision to sanction., David A. Wagstaff, Psychology

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The role of nutrition in the reproductive biology of the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)., Reginald Paul Webster, Entomology

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A comparison of fading, non-fading and a combination of procedures in training word recognition with moderately retarded adults., Leslie Ellen Weidenman, Psychology

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Characterization of a bacterial chitinase., Mary Pickett Weir, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The use of individual difference data in determining the effects of environment on developmentally disabled persons., William H. Weitzer, Psychology

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Amino acid analysis and technical aspects of gel electrophoresis on vitellin from Aedes aegypti (L.) the yellow fever mosquito., Gail Vanessa Willard, Entomology

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Generality of the causal inference mediation of opinion change., Wendy Wood, Psychology

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Semantic differences as a function of type of bilingual and cognitive development., Ana Isabel Alvarez, Psychology

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Responsibility for accidents: an information-processing analysis., Daniel P. Blyth, Psychology

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DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its involvement in crown gall disease., Judith A. Cigna, Plant Pathology

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Alienation: from critique to conformity., Howard. Cohen, Psychology

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Stimulus control of lever-holding responses by rats along a light intensity dimension., Michael A. Crowley, Psychology

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The localization of function: a developmental study of the localization of emotion and the self., Susan Rubin Davidson, Psychology

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A study of the blushing response using self-reported data from college students., Maynard Kirk Davis, Psychology

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Children's perception of depth in random dot stereograms, John Myron Dowd, Psychology

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Transfer in problem solving., Anna E. Fiszman, Psychology

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Natural feedback systems and organizational self-evaluation: a case study of a psychology department clinic., Joseph P. Gabbert, Psychology

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Row width and growth habit influence on light interception and leaf area development in beans., Thomas Robert Gardiner, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The relationship between therapist empathy in therapy and nontherapy settings and some contributing components to empathic understanding, Ted William Grubb, Psychology

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Problem adolescents: adolescent growth in the context of an urban junior high school/, L. Franklin Harrell, Psychology

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Host habitat influences on oviposition by Parasetigena silvestris (R-D), a tachinid parasite of the gypsy moth., Eugene Arthur Harrington, Entomology

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The political posture of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America with specific reference to Colombia and Chile., Ronnie Glantz Harrington, Political Science

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Unfinished as a person: the first twenty years of a seventy-five year life history/, Alexander R. James, Psychology

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ABC's (Activity Based Curriculum) and cognitive abilities., William H. James, Psychology

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The legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin., Gial Victoria Karlsson, Philosophy

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Reflections upon the scientific study of personality., Rod Kessler, Psychology

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Relative discriminability of configuration and brightness differences in a monitoring task, Joanna C. Kosakowski, Psychology

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The processing of irrelevant information., Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch, Psychology

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The effects of external rewards on interest and quality of task performance in children of high and low intrinsic motivation., Kathryn Kernodle Loveland, Psychology

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Effects of gonadal hormones on food intake and body weight in adult Mongolian gerbils., Christie A. Maass, Psychology

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Electrical resistance, physical characteristics and cation concentration in xylem of sugar maple infected with Verticillium dahliae., Margaret Evelyn Malia, Plant Pathology

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Effects of phosphorus, potassium, and calcium compounds on the growth and zinc accumulation in Radish (Raphanus sativus L.) grown in zinc treated soils., Martin Peter Mascianica, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The effects of synthetic chemical soil conditioners on the structure of compacted turfgrass soils., Edwin Dennis McGuire, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The status of West Indian immigrants in Panama from 1850-1941., Sadith Esther Paz B., History

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The effects of instructions for performance and consequence imagery in covert reinforcement., John Thomas Peters, Psychology

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Effects of extrinsic rewards on the subsequent choice behavior of academically delayed children., George Ramey, Psychology

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A reflection of cognitive styles in the heart rate of paranoid and nonparanoid schizophrenics., Brian F. Reynolds, Psychology

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Perceived control and the management of information overload., Judah Charles Safier, Psychology

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The physiological status of isolated oat leaf protoplasts., Renée Irma Shapiro, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Continuity vs. change in Southern Africa : the reality of legal reform and social change in Portuguese speaking Africa, (1950-early 1960's), Betty J. Shaw, Political Science

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The Massachusetts generic drug law : a history, 1967-1976., James A. Smith, Political Science

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Issues of challenge, coping, and support for first semester clinical psychology graduate students., Andrea G. Sodano, Psychology

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The effects of the plant parasitic nematodes, Xiphinema americanum and Meloidogyne hapla on the endomycorrhizae of sugar maple, Acer saccharum., Roberta Spitko, Plant Pathology

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Long term memory for verbal and non-verbal material in Korsakoff patients., Sunita Mahtani Stewart, Psychology

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The electrical resistance properties of tree tissues in cankers incited by Endothia parasitica and Nectria galligena., D. M. Sylvia, Plant Pathology

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The relative influence of favorable and unfavorable evaluations on emotional, behavioral and cognitive reactions and as a function of level of self-esteem and of level of depression., Jean Losco Szpiler, Psychology

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The symptomatology and sequence of events in psychosis, Barbara Ann Tinker, Psychology

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Teaching virtue., Nancy N. Von Staats, Philosophy

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Personality and creativity variables associated with the belief in paranormal phenomena., Schuyler Cleveland Webb, Psychology

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The Peace of Nicias/, Milo Milton Williams, History

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An adaptation of the critical incidents technique to evaluate the process of developmentally disabled persons toward normal behavior., Craig Zimring, Psychology

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Mosquito vectors of dog heartworm, Dirofilaria immitis (Nematoda: Filariodea) in western Massachusetts., John James Arnott, Entomology

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A systems analysis of cooperative federalism : the disability insurance program as a case study., David Carl Baker, Political Science

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Family at dinner., Jeffrey Baker, Psychology

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Tracking and change of orientation of the child or the stimulus in preschoolers' spatial localization., Katherine A. Benson, Psychology

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Factors affecting penetration of calcium into apples dipped in calcium chloride solutions after harvest., Heather A. Betts, Plant & Soil Sciences

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A comparison of the arthropods found in two integrated control blocks, a commercial control block, and an abandoned block of apples in Hampshire County, Massachusetts., Edward J. Blyth, Entomology

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Investigation of the nature of amylase enzymes in incubated, de-embryonated Zea mays kernels /, Alice Jean Chapman, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The word familiarity effect as a function of the number of response alternatives., Robert Laurence Cohen, Psychology

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A study of therapists' attitudes towards the treatment of seriously suicidal individuals., Byrl Robert Crago, Psychology

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Self-disclosure and attraction: effects of intimacy and desirability of information about another person., Carol Ann Dalto, Psychology

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Mobilization of heavy metals from urban runoff sediment by organic ligands. and the subsequent effect on selected freshwater vertebrate and invertebrate species /, David R. Dominie, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The external setting of contemporary Japanese foreign policy., Douglas Clarke Durham, Political Science

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Contingencies of reinforcement and levels of success in a learned helplessness paradigm among college females., Barbara L. Fibel, Psychology

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Development of vitellogenic competence in the fat body of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti., Thomas Raymond Flanagan, Entomology

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Sequential blanking and the word superiority of effect., Michael E. Fotta, Psychology

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The interrelation of the life and the written work of a creative writer., Ann C. Greif, Psychology

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The British War Office ;: from the Crimean War to Cardwell, 1855-1868., Paul H. Harpin, History

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The effects of pictures and spatial array on two-year olds' memory for location., Hilary Anne Horn, Psychology

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Photoperiod and temperature effects on root cold acclimation., James Robert Johnson, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The effects of manipulations of Cs duration on blocking., Elizabeth Adams Kohler, Psychology

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Genesis and morphology of two soils with fragipans in Massachusetts :: the Paxton and Mills series., J. T. Krohelski, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Implicit theories of relationship: an intergenerational study, Marylyn. Lacey, Psychology

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The Santa Cruz strikes: a case study in labor relations in the Yrigoyen era/, Robert Nelson Landback, History

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From Kelly to Kuhn: an exploratory search for a paradigm in psychology., Helen A. Lekisch, Psychology

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The processing of false propositions/, Robert Frederick Lorch, Psychology

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Emg biofeedback ;: controlled for three placebo conditions., Jeffrey L. Lukens, Psychology

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The insanity defense., Jesse William Markham, Philosophy

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Phonemic processing in reading printed words :: effects of phonemic relationships between words on semantic categorization response time., Margaret L. Mcmahon, Psychology

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The relationship between electrical resistance of cambial tissues of acer saccharum and physiologic stress., Dennis Newbanks, Plant Pathology

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Increasing levels of noncontingent feedback, nature of noncontingent feedback, and task difficulty in the learned helplessness paradigm., Martha Jane Nugent, Psychology

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Family and school influences on disordered adolescent behavior: a study of young adolescents in trouble in school., Patricia. Owens, Psychology

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The Yippies.: an inquiry into the concept of cultural revolution., Joseph R. Porcari, Political Science

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The effect of test orientation training on children's achievement test scores., Sarah. Powell, Psychology

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Work satisfaction amoung doctors and nurses: the case of an outpatient clinic at Humacao, Puerto Rico., Gretchen M. Ramirez, Psychology

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Locus of control, social activism, and sex roles in Puerto Rican college and non-college individuals., Julia Mercedes Ramos-mckay, Psychology

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Client fee payment as an issue for therapists-in-training ;: an analysis of the institution of a fee system in a training clinic., Karel E. Rubinstein, Psychology

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An examination of the laws of William the Conqueror., Steven D. Sargent, History

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Review effects of adjunct questions on learning from prose/, Susan Bennett Sefkow, Psychology