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Theses from 1974

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The effects of different proctoring systems upon examination performance and preference in a contingency-managed course., Kent R. Johnson, Psychology

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Wavelength, brightness and pattern discrimination following wulst lesions in the northern bluejay (cyanocitta cristata)., Thony B. Jones, Psychology

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Effects of extended exposure to the truly random control procedure, Richard John Keller, Psychology

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The emotional reactions of college gymnasts as a function of time to a meet, level of experience and level of success., Robert M. Koenig, Psychology

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The effect of the institution of a fee system on client motivation for psychotherapy., Christine Nelson Koerner, Psychology

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The effect of alienated and anomic perceptions of social structure on intention to vote, registration, and attitudes toward political participation: the 1972 presidential election., Fred Egon Koerner, Psychology

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Identification and epidemiology of viruses affecting cucurbit crops in Massachusetts., Dean Albert Komm, Plant Pathology

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An evaluation of the Planning for Living Workshop., Herbert P. Koplowitz, Psychology

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Manpower programs : government's response to the occupational needs of the poor., Philip D. Lerner, Political Science

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Stimulus determinants of children's attention to Sesame Street, Stephen R. Levin, Psychology

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Object preferences, trial 1 outcome effects, and intra-session transfer during minimal stimulus object-discrimination learning-set acquisition by bluejays (Cyanocitta cristata)., John Eugene Mauldin, Psychology

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Namibia : the trust territory., Olugbemi Moloye, Political Science

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National Convention Reform: revision of delegate selection procedures in the Democratic Party 1968-1972., Joseph J. Nogueira, Political Science

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Anarchist social science : its origins and development., Rochelle Ann Potak, Political Science

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Evoked potential correlates of perceived fluctuations in an ambiguous visual display., Bruce Edward Rideout, Psychology

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Equality and the mentally retarded., Robert W. Ritchie, Philosophy

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Verbalization in young children as a function of part-whole perception and specific training., Patricia A. Robertson, Psychology

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The nature of the information stored in the perceptual learning of letter strings., Robert M. Schindler, Psychology

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Descriptive and behavioral childhood antecedents of psychosis., Eva Schoenfeld, Psychology

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Needs and successes in achievement and affiliation as partial determinants of career-orientation., Mary Anne Sedney, Psychology

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Influence of communication on reactions to "unconditionally cooperative" behavior in a prisoner's dilemma game., Dorothy Sejwacz, Psychology

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Therapeutic intervention with maladjusted junior high school pupils., Joseph Jacob Shay, Psychology

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Split brains and the unity of consciousness., Sharon K. Stout, Philosophy

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Computer simulation of polymer crystallization., John M. Thornton, Polymer Science & Engineering

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John Foster Dulles : pragmatist or moralist., Harry Park Tolles, Political Science

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Alienation and emotional well-being., Allison C. Twaite, Psychology

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Nonconducting pores in soils., Olaf Lee Weeks, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The effects of reinforcement upon the prepecking behaviors of pigeons in the autoshaping experiment., Michael G. Wessells, Psychology

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Conditioned inhibition of fear from negative Cs-us contingencies with shocks in the inhibitory Cs., Elizabeth Snyder Witcher, Psychology

Theses from 1973

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Studies on crystallization of trans-polybutadiene in stretched networks., Yoshinori Akana, Polymer Science & Engineering

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The public-private dichotomy : two contemporary case studies., Timothy W. Armour, Political Science

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Denitrification in heavily manured soils., Alfred Merrill Blackmer, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Reactivity to positive and negative incentives and their combination, Louis Arthur Boudreau, Psychology

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Student movement, political development and modernisation in India., Rita Braz, Political Science

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Intolerance of ambiguity and anxiety: physiological reactivity to an unavoidable noxious stimulus, Lewis. Breitner, Psychology

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The effects of information sources in the purchase of consumer services., Barry Mason Bresnick, Business Administration

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Mitochondrial behavior during the respiratory climacteric and ripening of detached apples., Wing-Yee Chan, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Changes in the international oil industry and the roles of oil exporting countries /, Ahmed A. Daghman, Business Administration

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A selective spatial discrimination deficit following fornicotomy in the rat., John Manuel De Castro, Psychology

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An exploratory investigation into the perception of price as a function of latitudes of acceptance., Susan Lynn Downey, Business Administration

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Altruism, sharing, and reciprocity in children as related to friendship status., John J. Falkowski, Psychology

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An exploratory investigation into the effects of unit pricing on food shopping behavior., Ronald Fine Fishman, Business Administration

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The effect of frequency transition on the detection of temporal gaps within a tonal sequence., Peter J. Fitzgibbons, Psychology

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College student nonprofessionals in mental health settings: the effects of participation., Avraham Allen Frydman, Psychology

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Television advertising and children :: processes and effects of a proposed model of the child-parent purchasing process., Barry Martin Godowsky, Business Administration

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Political development, the People's Party of Pakistan and the elections of 1970., Meenakshi Gopinath, Political Science

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Antagonism of Trichoderma spp. to sclerotia of Typhula incarnata., Paul Richard Harder, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The influence of ovarian hormones on the recovery period following lateral hypothalamic lesions., Lindy E. Harrell, Psychology

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An analysis of commitment., William H. Holmes, Psychology

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Arousal and reactivity of schizophrenics and normals as a function of event expectancy., Raymond L. Hoobler, Psychology

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The utility of soil-phosphorus equilibrium studies as an indicator of phosphate concentration in surface and ground water., Lewis Michael Horzempa, Plant & Soil Sciences

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The association of Lophodermium pinastri with the eastern white pine and Scots pine., Jules J. Jaeger, Plant Pathology

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Discrimination of aperiodic two-dimensional patterns: a comparison of feature detection and frequency analysis models/, Clinton F. Jenne, Psychology

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Patterns of leadership and facilitation in a collaborative task-oriented group/, Mark A. Karpel, Psychology

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Predicting consumer acceptance of a service :: an empirical study., Jalal Ameen Khorasanee, Business Administration

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A study of the effects of lesions of the ventromedial hypothalamus in the mongolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus., Allen Benfield Koenig, Psychology

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NASA's patent policies and the problem of technology transfer., Philip Joseph Lang, Political Science

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Prediction of hospital readmission among male problem drinkers using demographic variables., Richard Lawrence Leavy, Psychology

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The effects of mode of instruction and media of presentation as related to imageability and verbal ability., Steven M. Marantz, Psychology

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Conditioned inhibition: a below zero effect/, Horace G. Marchant, Psychology

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The effects of various menstra on the thermal resistance and leakage of metabolic products from Escherichia coli /, Eugene J. Mariani, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Gas chromatographic analysis of succinate in the face fly, Musca autumnalis De Geer., Warren B. Meeks, Entomology

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The extraction of frequency information from electrical stimulation of the medial geniculate body., Frederick W. Mis, Psychology

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The electrical stimulation of human fungiform papillae., Claire. Murphy, Psychology

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The role of trust in helping behavior., Susan Miriam Mydlarz, Psychology

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Between a crown and a gibbet: Benjamin F. Butler and the early war years., David M. Nellis, History

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Histopathology of scar skin disease of apple., Paul Edmund Parker, Plant Pathology

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Molecular weight control in ringopening polymerizations., Daniel Martin Pauk, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Some aspects of natural control of the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), in Massachusetts., Frank Byers Peairs, Entomology

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A model for rational decision-making in administration of mental retardation services., Ellsworth Alden Pearl, Political Science

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The mechanism of suppression of shock-induced fighting by chlordiazepoxide., Linda F. Quenzer, Psychology

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Rheological studies of the kinetics of gelation., Thomas A. Riihimaki, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Effects of electrical stimulation of the mammillary bodies on autonomic and regulatory functions in the anesthetized cat., Gail Lee Risse, Psychology

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Occurrence and importance of maize dwarf mosaic virus in Massachusetts., Robert A. Schall, Plant Pathology

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Personality correlates of meditation practice., Cora Annette Scott, Psychology

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The effect of group influence on consumer behavior :: a social comparison approach., Alvin Jay Seronick, Business Administration

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The emergence of Bangla Desh., Bannu A. Shrikhande, Political Science

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The Hotline: an application of achievement motivation and attribution theory/, Linda Jane Sobelman, Psychology

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Solar energy in the housing sector., Pritchard L. Strong, Business Administration

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Developmental trends in the effects of irrelevant information on speeded classification., George F. Strutt, Psychology

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Availability of an avoidance response as related to fear and anxiety, Jack Alexander Szpiler, Psychology

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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

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The effect of perceived therapist warmth on the effectiveness of deep muscle relaxation training, Christopher Charles Tolsdorf, Psychology

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Dimensions of religious growth and development in the college years., Hendrika. Vande Kemp, Psychology

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Color term comprehension and the perception of focal color in young children., Charles G. Verge, Psychology

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Desirability of position as a determinant of anticipatory opinion change., Rebecca M. Warren, Psychology

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Classical reward conditioning of the heart rate response to auditory stimulation in 3 month old infants., Christina Perry Appleton, Psychology

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Studies on rheo-optical properties of ethylene-propylene random copolymers., Kenichi Baba, Polymer Science & Engineering

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Gas chromatographic determination of house fly respiration., Rollas W. Batten, Entomology

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Effects of freezing on mature 'Richared Delicious' apples., Richard Edward Bir, Plant & Soil Sciences

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A comparison of four skin cleansing products., Eli Boroda, Plant & Soil Sciences

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Perceived freedom, reinforcement schedules, and cost., Robert G. Bringle, Psychology

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A survey of industrial water pollution in the pulp and paper industry of the United States., Stephen Wayne Campbell, Business Administration

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Reinforcement and punishment effects on human operant behavior, Edwin N. Carter, Psychology

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Evidence for serial learning of multiple cues in concept identification., Marc A. Clement, Psychology

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Processing capacity in a letter-matching task., Elizabeth Mclean Comstock, Psychology

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The evolution of the Yugoslav policy of nonalignment., Donald S. Connors, Political Science

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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

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Verbal participation in videotape feedback group therapy., James Gilbert Durfee, Psychology

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An examination of the perceptual aspects of personal space., Gary W. Evans, Psychology