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Theses from 1985
Effects of classroom performance feedback on teacher and student behavior., Felicia L. Wilczenski, Psychology
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
Effects of pre- and post-natal exposure to a supermarket diet on the development of obesity., Sue Anne Assimon, Psychology
The effect of embossing process conditions on the surface properties of a plasticized vinyl polymer., Eileen Wanjek M. Bailey, Polymer Science & Engineering
Crystalline-state extrusion of low density polyethylenes/, Chadli Benelhadjsaid, Polymer Science & Engineering
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
The role of prosody in perception of lexical stress., Cynthia M. Connine, Psychology
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
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
The distorting image : women and advertising, 1900-1960/, Judith A. Freeman, History
Microstructure and phase behavior of poly (para-phenylene benzobisthiazole)/methane sulfonic acid crystal solvates/, Herbert H. Frost, Polymer Science & Engineering
Brown adipose tissue of hypothalamic knife-cut rats :: effects of high-carbohydrate and high-fat diets., Joan M. Hamilton, Psychology
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
Development and validation of projective measures of the affiliation motive for use with young children., Jolene Kaweah Hart, Psychology
Self-disclosure and genital herpes., Bernard Louis Hecker, Psychology
Effects of an antiestrogen and estradiol on food intake, body composition, and metabolism in ovariectomized rats., Henry Walter Heller, Psychology
Judgments of the short-term and long-term effects of conflict episodes on relationship cohesion., Darryl R. Hickman, Psychology
Influence of Pseudomonas putida (Isolate M17) on nodulation and yield of Glycine max (L.) Merrill var. 'Evans' /, Catherine Mary Huot, Plant Pathology
Optically active polytrichloroacetaldehyde based on macromolecular asymmetry/, Gary Jaycox, Polymer Science & Engineering
Parental death in adolescence :: factors affecting the course of mourning., Claudia J. Kaplan, Psychology
The effects of early optic lesions on the ectomammillary nucleus of the chick embryo., Carol Kwei, Psychology
Teenage pregnancy and educational attainment :: six young black mothers., Deborah N. Lewis, Psychology
Psychotherapy and the process of change :: toward an interactive-cognitive model of therapeutic influence., Jeffrey B. Mar, Psychology
Amherst soldiers in the American Revolution/, Martha N. Noblick, History
The elite status of think tank directors : corporate liberals versus the New Right., Beata Panagopoulos, Political Science
Formaldehyde levels in the health care environment /, Mark L. Rollins, Plant & Soil Sciences
Attempts, control and weight reduction :: an application of a theory of planned behavior., Deborah E. Schifter, Psychology
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
The influence of conservation tillage on edaphtic properties of a typic dystrochrept in Massachusetts /, Peter F. Waldron, Plant & Soil Sciences
Theses from 1983
Genealogy and social history :: the early settlement of Lebanon, Connecticutt, as a case study., Robert Charles Anderson, History
Social networks, social support and issues of aging: survey of three rural New England communities/, David J. Armstrong, Psychology
Phylloplane microflora from apple varieties resistant and susceptible to Venturia inaequalis and possible antagonism to the apple scab fungus., Christopher Mark Becker, Plant Pathology
Control of Poa annua L. infestations in sports turf with Lolium perenne L. and ethofumesate., David K. Bell, Plant & Soil Sciences
Interpersonal transformations in married and cohabiting couples., Victor Haifleigh Mark Borden, Psychology
An attributional analysis of the effect of deceptive nonverbal behaviors on simulated jurors' decisions., Richard Buckey Chesley, Psychology
Response of two indeterminate soybean cultivars to plant competition induced by altered row widths and plant densities., John F. Creighton, Plant & Soil Sciences
A study of poly(methyl methacrylate) as an electron beam resist., Vicki C. Crosby, Polymer Science & Engineering
Recognition memory for complex pictures in preschool children., Deborah L. Davis, Psychology
Children's television attention and comprehension: the effect of instructions in auditory, visual, and audiovisual stories., Diane Erickson Field, Psychology
The development of an abbreviated form of the college women's assertion sample., Victoria-anne Grenier, Psychology
The importance of analog knowledge in understanding the mean., Pamela Thibodeau Hardiman, Psychology
Patterns of bluestain discoloration and associated organisms in Japanese black and Scots pines on Cape Cod, Massachusetts., Lorraine Beth Highley, Plant Pathology
Behavior and effects of apple mosaic virus in cultured plant tissue., Charles D. Hurwitz, Plant Pathology
The relationship of work and family roles to depression: an examination of dual working couples., Linda Kanefield, Psychology
The effect of red light as a fall treatment on branching of rhododendron., Laurie Beth Menzel Kasperek, Plant & Soil Sciences
Emotional outlet: a study into the emotions and attitudes of compulsive eaters., Suzanne Lerner, Psychology
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
Tissue culture of Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.)., Cynthia A. Lincoln, Plant & Soil Sciences
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
Effects of maturity, fruit size, and microelement concentrations on predicting the storage life of McIntosh apples., Christine Antonia Marmo, Plant & Soil Sciences
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
Confounding variables in the discriminated Irt procedure., David C. Palmer, Psychology
Fragipan strength behavior, moisture regimes, and morphology of soils in a drainage-toposequence in Central Massachusetts., Edward Wallace Pickering, Plant & Soil Sciences
Anatomy of the nodose ganglion in the rat: central projections of afferent fibers in the hepatic vagus., Bonnie E. Pipkin, Psychology
Planting patterns and densities of intercropped corn-soybean for silage., Daniel Harold Putnam, Plant & Soil Sciences
Personality and self reported likelihood to rape among college males., Robert M. Samuels, Psychology
An investigation of field application of a hydrologic unsaturated-saturated flow model., Blaine P. Sargent, Plant & Soil Sciences
The effects of environment on the self perception of the mentally retarded adult., Linda D. Scott, Psychology
Beliefs about the sexual victimization of children., Rebecca Alleen Shrum, Psychology
Rheological and other properties of some novel thermotropic liquid crystalline polyesters., Debra Ann Simoff, Polymer Science & Engineering
Healthy children's response to chronic illness in siblings., Lee Ann Simons, Psychology
Discriminant measures for desperate love., Michael B. Sperling, Psychology
Mineral nutrition in radish (Raphanus sativus L. 'Cherry Belle') grown with nitrification inhibitors., Margie Lynn Stratton, Plant & Soil Sciences
Effects of growth retardants on Kentucky bluegrass growth and development., Anna G. Symington, Plant & Soil Sciences
The functional response to fluctuations in water quality of indigenous periphytic algal populations colonizing tubular substrates in lotic waters., Bruce Edward Tease, Plant & Soil Sciences
Defensiveness as a moderator variable for self esteem., Laurie Ann Teraspulsky, Psychology
Inferences used in comprehension and recall at ages 4 and 7., James G. Thompson, Psychology
Relationships linking preharvest mineral nutrition of 'McIntosh' apple leaf and fruit to storage disorders of fruit., Sarah Almy Weis, Plant & Soil Sciences
Row width and density effects on yield, growth, and light interception in soybeans., Julie Willcott, Plant & Soil Sciences
A role for serotonin in the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal response to insulin stress., Rachel Yehuda, Psychology
Theses from 1982
Effects of hysterectomy on sexual receptivity, food intake, running wheel activity, and hypothalamic estrogen and progestin receptors in rats., Harry Ahdieh, Psychology
Pest management strategies for the alfalfa blotch leafminer, Agromyza frontella (Rondani) (Diptera: Agromyzidae), in Massachusetts., Alfred Jeffery Alicandro, Entomology
Effects of aminoethoxyvinylglycine on maturation, ripening, and storage of apples., Wesley R. Autio, Plant & Soil Sciences
Effect of injected antiviral compounds on apple mosaic and other diseases of apple trees., Susan Cheplick, Plant Pathology
The effect of processing conditions on the solid-state deformation and consequent properties of high density polyethylene., Marc Michael Daniels, Polymer Science & Engineering
Bionomics and development of the cabbage maggot, Hylemya brassicae (Wiedemann)., Lawrance Joseph Dapsis, Entomology
Photocontrol of leaf abscission., Dennis Roger Decoteau, Plant & Soil Sciences
Neuronal control of the classically conditioned nictitating membrane response in rabbit: a critical role for the dorsolateral pons., John E. Desmond, Psychology
Properties of sulfonated polysulfone ionomers., Michael A. Drzewinski, Polymer Science & Engineering
Evaluation of sludge, composted sludge, and fly ash for the growth of turf and container plants., Kevin William Duffy, Plant & Soil Sciences
Medium chain triglyceride feeding to normal and diabetic rats., Neilé Kay Edens, Psychology
Monitoring and control strategies for the European corn borer, Ostrinia nubilalis (Hubner), in Massachusetts sweet corn., Gordon Howard Fletcher-Howell, Entomology
Development of a self-report measure of role-playing ability., Kenneth E. Fletcher, Psychology
Conceptual and empirical issues in the duration of anger., Bram Michael Fridhandler, Psychology
Sex role identification in anorectic females: a reappraisal., Alison Fishman Gartner, Psychology
Born-again Christians need not apply: religious discrimination in clinical psychology graduate school admissions., John Douglas Gartner, Psychology
The ontogeny of coping responses in infancy/, Andrew Francis Gianino, Psychology
Definitions of political power: a case study., Thomas F. Gilmartin, Political Science
Studies on the oviposition behavior of the salt marsh greenhead, Tabanus nigrovittatus Macquart (Diptera: Tabanidae)., Nancy Lee Graham, Entomology
The effects of basic level category information on immediate and delayed recognition memory in two-year olds., Carolyn Greco, Psychology
Impact of Pseudomonas putida on nodulation in the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris., Howard Dean Grimes, Plant Pathology
Perceptual encoding and the stimulus probability effect., Randall Stephen Hansen, Psychology
The relationship between a restrained eating style and body image disturbances in college women., Amy Auslander Hirsch, Psychology
The synthesis and characterization of thermotropic compounds for rim-type polymers., Hiroshi Hoshino, Polymer Science & Engineering
The mechanical behavior and deformation morphology of rubber-modified polypropylene., Thomas David Juska, Polymer Science & Engineering
The effects of light spectra on stress and behavior., Kim Elizabeth Kendall, Psychology
The effect of host age on mosquito attraction, feeding, and fecundity., Dennis Albert LaPointe, Entomology
Satisfying and unsatisfying therapy relationships between women: female therapists' perspectives/, Sandra B. Levy, Psychology
A construct validity study of the sentence verification technique as a method of measuring reading comprehension., Douglas J. Lynch, Psychology
Time-of-planting treatments and the role of Pratylenchus penetrans in peach decline in Massachusetts., Susan R. McCouch, Plant Pathology