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Theses from 1972
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
Biosynthesis of phospholipid in Mycobacterium smegmatis., Young Soon Lee, Plant & Soil Sciences
Retention of information by object discrimination learning set experienced northern bluejays (Cyanocitta Cristata)., Michael Durand Lougee, Psychology
An inquiry of mediating events in the solution of the matching-to-sample problem., Richard Paul Mack, Psychology
The early career of Pliny Earle: A founder of American Psychiatry, Constance M. Mcgovern, History
Agobard and his relations with the Jews., Michael G. Minsky, History
Toxicity of Rabon to house fly larvae : bioassay of manure from chickens fed encapsulated formulations., Barron Mkwaila, Entomology
Retroactive inhibition in free recall as a function of list organizations., Jane Perlmutter, Psychology
The coding hypothesis and zero-delay matching-to-sample in the pigeon., Robert A. Sacks, Psychology
Imitation of complex social responses under conditions of prior positive social interaction and withdrawal of positive social interaction., Leatrice M. Sherer, Psychology
Self-descriptions and peer acceptance of creative students in high and low structured schools., Judith Shortsleeves, Psychology
Soil ecosystem response to Sevin., Roy David Sjoblad, Plant & Soil Sciences
The relations between decision making processes and delusions., Dianne Christine Smith, Psychology
The moral world of the emotionally disturbed: an exploratory study., Eric S. Strauss, Psychology
The chaetotaxy of the last three larval instars of Aedes (Ochlerotatus) Communis (DeGeer) (Diptera: Culcidae)., Lih-Ruey Tai, Entomology
Comparison of various plating media and temperature for the isolation of salmonella and shigella., Chun-Kwan Wun, Plant & Soil Sciences
Theses from 1970
Changes in perceived desirability and goodness of relationship as a function of being paired with attractive versus unattractive partners., Robert V. Agoglia, Psychology
Potassium-calcium cation exchange selectivity of some clay minerals., Ayemou Desire Assa, Plant & Soil Sciences
Lewis Mumford on Man in Society., Tatiana Barkas, History
Social schemas in normal children., Jon Kenneth Berenson, Psychology
Investigation into TAT-related predictors of aggressive behavior in the mentally retarded., Lawrence R. Berman, Psychology
Apple pests and their control in northeastern North America : a review of literature and plans for 1970 field tests., Kailash Narayan Bhatnagar, Entomology
Effect of soil surface treatments on soil temperature and growth and development of early sweet corn, Zea mays, L. cv Early Golden Giant., Reginald Eugene Buckmire, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effect of simple vs. complex training upon binary predictions, Richard E. Colker, Psychology
The effects of distraction and discrepancy size on counterargument production and attitude change., William A. De Lamarter, Psychology
A Pseudomonas Profile of a General Hospital's Intensive Care Unit /, Daniel David Drollette, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effect of early gustatory experience upon taste preference in the mature albino rat., Rodney Philip Dube, Psychology
Low temperature studies in insects., Richard M. Duffield, Entomology
The effect of anxiety on the stimulus generalization gradient in operant verbal conditioning., William E. Ford, Psychology
Four European neutrals and European integration., George C. Grosscup, Political Science
The chaetotaxy of the last three larval instars of Culiseta morsitans (Theobald) (Diptera: Culicidae)., Mei-Lin Han, Entomology
Some intellective and non-intellective correlates of the study of values., Audrey Prentiss Hindman, Psychology
Psychological versus spatial effects on social schema distances of normal and schizophrenic subjects., Charles J. Holahan, Psychology
Learning set performance in the bluejay and the crow., Maxwell W. Hunter, Psychology
Some communication patterns observed in families using an identified patient as a scapegoat., Stephen Kolb, Psychology
Personality characteristics of early and late responders to ambiguous stimuli., George Magakis, Psychology
Natural and experimental infections of eastern equine encephalomyelitis and other arborviruses in colonial bats (Chiroptera: Vespertilionidae) of New England., Andrew James Main, Entomology
Zone fractionation of polyethylene glycols., Bernard John Mentro, Polymer Science & Engineering
Alienation from society, self estrangement, and personality characteristics from the Mmp1 in normals and schizophrenics., Richard E. Merwin, Psychology
Salt effects on some physiological processes associated with seed germination., Barbara W. Mioduchowska, Plant & Soil Sciences
Alienation as a function of perceived disjunction between present behavior and goals., Lois Munson, Psychology
Tolerance of the depressant effect with a moderate dose of chlordiazepoxide., Timothy L. Ralph, Psychology
The Federal Role In Aiding American Elementary And Secondary Schools, Jay Martin Russek, Government
Arab reform thought and the emergence of Arabism 1876-1916., Dominic Saadi, History
Political ideology and personality correlates of college students and their response to a request for helping behavior from a politically biased recruiter., David H. Walker, Psychology
Symptomatic effects of dichlobenil on three species of needled evergreens., Dean W. Wiegers, Plant & Soil Sciences
The toxicity of droppings from encapsulated Rabon-fed poultry of larvae of the little house fly, Fannia canicularis (L.)., Edmund J. Wilk, Entomology
Observational learning as a function of motoric rehearsal, length of task, and age., Melanie L. Williams, Psychology
An analysis of the clinical judgement of psychological adjustment., Charles William Zanor, Psychology
Nonimmediacy as an implicit measure of problem areas experienced by college students., Gene Berardi Zanor, Psychology
Theses from 1969
The effects of potassium on ammonium nutrition in tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum, mill., Heinz 1350)., Olusegun O. Ajayi, Plant & Soil Sciences
The retardation of growth in A. aegypti (L.) larvae exposed to the vital dyes methylene blue and neutral red., Pedro Barbosa, Entomology
Effect of water stress and light on the activities of certain enzymes in corn., John Michael Bardzik, Plant & Soil Sciences
Inspection time, attention, and retention in prose learning using pre- and post-questioning., William Mckendree Boyd, Psychology
Studies on nitrite utilization by soil microorganisms., Sally Erika Bulpitt, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effectiveness of client participation in the communication of test results in group counseling., Stephen Best Carlton, Psychology
The repellent effect of necrotic tissues on the nematode Pratylenchus penetrans (Cobb, 1917), Filipjev and Schuurmans Stekhoven, 1941 /, Liu-Mei Chang, Plant Pathology