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Theses from 1979
The behavioral correlates of alternative lighting designs., Lauren A. Birenbaum, Psychology
Effects of therapist race upon extent of clients' willingness to self-disclose in the initial clinical interview., Ronald C. Boutelle, Psychology
Mother is a freshperson: a study of power in the family., Barbara Brooks, Psychology
Cell ultrastructure and membrane electropotentials during initiation of systemic necrosis in tobacco ringspot virus-infected cowpea plants., Richard J. Carr, Plant Pathology
Information, attention and the reduction of stress., Randolph R. Cornelius, Psychology
Some correlates and determinants of attributed freedom., Ann Detrick, Psychology
Calcium efficiency among tomato genotypes., Jean Evelyn English, Plant & Soil Sciences
The presence of a windblown component in Massachusetts soils., Peter Craig Fletcher, Plant & Soil Sciences
Morphological characterization of reaction injection molded (rim) polyurethanes., Israel David Fridman, Polymer Science & Engineering
A "psychocultural" experiment in autobiography., John Franklin Furbish, Psychology
Studies on the interactions of Thelazia sp., introduced eyeworm parasites of cattle, with their definitive and intermediate hosts in Massachusetts., Christopher John Geden, Entomology
A cluster analytic evaluation of the effectiveness of the Amherst Youth Center in reaching non-traditional youth in Amherst., Michael Allen Glish, Psychology
Empathic responses to child-abusive behaviors: the influence of observational set and personality., Denise Godfrey-pinn, Psychology
Hepatic control of feeding and gastric acid secretion., James Gerard Granneman, Psychology
The induction of anger and its effects on self-criticism among depressed and non-depressed female college students., William E. Haley, Psychology
A study of the social skills of four year old hearing impaired and hearing children in an integrated preschool, Clarke School for the Deaf, Northampton, Mass., Deborah S. Kearney, Psychology
Leibniz' doctrine of super-essentialism and world-bound individuals., Craig F. Knoche, Philosophy
Predicting differences in the retention of prose materials on the basis of subject prior knowledge., Clifford E. Konold, Psychology
The relationship between the host plant and the dispersal of larval gypsy moths, Lymantria dispar (L.) (Lepidoptera: Lymantriidae)., David R. Lance, Entomology
Lenin: the party, revolution and politics., William Francis Leahy, Political Science
Melting studies of polyethylene terephthalate., Patricia Leite-james, Polymer Science & Engineering
The relationship between prelinguistic communication and sensorimotor development in severely and profoundly retarded individuals., Debra J. Lobato-Barrera, Psychology
The clay mineralogy of some Massachusetts soils developed on till., Henry J. Lord, Plant & Soil Sciences
Mood and children's generosity/, Jeffrey D. Lowell, Psychology
Wives' marital satisfaction, perceived personal control, and blame of husband., Margaret E. Madden, Psychology
Identification, etiology and control of euonymus fortunei anthracnose caused by colletotrichum gloeosporioides., Matthew John Mahoney, Plant Pathology
Day care effects on the empathic process of young children., María Lourdes. De Mattei, Psychology
Eurocommunism, Spain, and the views of Santiago Carrillo., Joseph Anthony Nicastro, Political Science
The potential for renovated wastewater use by Massachusetts industries., Janice Laura Pratte, Plant & Soil Sciences
Language acquisition in low-income Black children., Ricky Charles Robson, Psychology
Trials distribution and Ur excitability in conditioned inhibition of the rabbit's nictitating membrane response., Anthony G. Romano, Psychology
Between two worlds: mainland Puerto Rican youth ;: some correlates of ethnic identification/, Nydia I. Santiago Nazario, Psychology
Maternal-child interaction during a problem-solving task, Karen Anne Sawchenko, Psychology
Binaural assessment of cerebral lateralization for speech utilizing the salient processing qualities of the dominant hemisphere., Efrain Segarra, Psychology
Insulin withdrawal effects on female sexual behavior and cell nuclear estrogen receptor levels in diabetic rats., Linda Irene Siegel, Psychology
Exportation, transparent belief and quantifying in., Harvey I. Simon, Philosophy
Cells vs fibers of passage in the lateral hypothalamic syndrome: the use of monosodium-L-glutamate., Earl L. Simson, Psychology
General activity and mating behavior of Rhagoletis flies in nature., David Courtney Smith, Entomology
A retrospective study of smoker types and optimal cessation procedures., Brian Hutting Stagner, Psychology
Patterns of intimacy: a study of 30-year-old professional women., Lynn R. Starker, Psychology
The genetics and morphology of the pericarp in maize :: a thesis /, William Francis Tracy, Plant & Soil Sciences
Growth and development of Chironomus thummi (Kieffer) on various algal diets., Daniel Weissman, Entomology
Theses from 1978
Reactivity to heteromodel stimulation and the modulation of excitation., Robert Bruce Alexander, Psychology
Ecological characteristics of the rhizosphere microflora of water milfoil., Joseph Reed Blotnick, Plant & Soil Sciences
Peer separation in older Rhesus monkeys, Robert Arnold Blume-babcock, Psychology
Lindomania or the Penny Press observed :: a study of the 1850 New York press in action., Janet Lehrman Brown, History
Indo-Pakistan relations (1972-1977), Baderunissa Channah, Political Science
Ameliorative helping and the transgression-compliance phenomenon., Gregory M. Chilenski, Psychology
Duration of outpatients treatment as related to perceived agency characteristics and agency respondent attitudes., Benson George Cooke, Psychology
Native extrachromosomal deoxyribonucleic acid in Erwinia carotovora var. carotovora., Margery Louise Daughtrey, Plant Pathology
Initiation and development of systemic necrosis in relation to virus concentration in tobacco ringspot virus-infected cowpea plants., Michael C. Edwards, Plant Pathology
Hypothalamic hypoactivity prevented but not reversed by subdiaphragmatic vagotomy., Ricardo Eng, Psychology
Land management effects on the chemical composition of corn grown on sludge-amended soil., Gregory Kevin Evanylo, Plant & Soil Sciences
In vivo and in vitro uptake of (3h) Estradiol in brain and pituitary of the female Monogolian gerbil, Meriones unguiculatus, Janet M. Gray, Psychology
The effects of nitrogen and potassium on the uptake of calcium and magnesium by Kentucky bluegrass (Poa pratensis L.) :: as related to infection by Helminthosporium vagans /, John J. Griffin, Plant & Soil Sciences
Signal: a study in Geman propaganda of the Second World War., Jeffrey Alan Hanson, History
Social desirability and aggression under trans-situational conditions., Robert Alan Hines, Psychology
High shear viscometry of high polymer solutions., Paul Li Horng, Polymer Science & Engineering
Case study of a female juvenile offender: a social ecological analysis., Maureen M. Mcandrews, Psychology
Attributions of poverty and affluence: an information processing analysis., Robert L. Miller, Psychology
Nitrification activity in an aquatic ecosystem., John Edward Perkins, Plant & Soil Sciences
Nose-poke responding and locomotor activity in mice with septal lesions., Susan J. Rice, Psychology
Army rule in Pakistan : a case study of a military regime., Marguerite Maude Riley, Political Science
Chilling injury in young cucumber (Cucumis sativus) hypocotyls., Nathaniel Sasson, Plant & Soil Sciences
The importance of speech recoding in reading., Maria Louisa Slowiaczek, Psychology
Isolation and partial characterization of the intercellular pectic enzyme complex from Erwinia carotovora isolate 14., James Peter Stack, Plant Pathology
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
The role of nutrition in the reproductive biology of the apple maggot, Rhagoletis pomonella (Walsh)., Reginald Paul Webster, Entomology
A comparison of fading, non-fading and a combination of procedures in training word recognition with moderately retarded adults., Leslie Ellen Weidenman, Psychology
Characterization of a bacterial chitinase., Mary Pickett Weir, Plant & Soil Sciences
The use of individual difference data in determining the effects of environment on developmentally disabled persons., William H. Weitzer, Psychology
Amino acid analysis and technical aspects of gel electrophoresis on vitellin from Aedes aegypti (L.) the yellow fever mosquito., Gail Vanessa Willard, Entomology
Generality of the causal inference mediation of opinion change., Wendy Wood, Psychology
Theses from 1977
Semantic differences as a function of type of bilingual and cognitive development., Ana Isabel Alvarez, Psychology
Responsibility for accidents: an information-processing analysis., Daniel P. Blyth, Psychology
DNA-dependent RNA polymerase from Agrobacterium tumefaciens and its involvement in crown gall disease., Judith A. Cigna, Plant Pathology
Alienation: from critique to conformity., Howard. Cohen, Psychology
Stimulus control of lever-holding responses by rats along a light intensity dimension., Michael A. Crowley, Psychology
The localization of function: a developmental study of the localization of emotion and the self., Susan Rubin Davidson, Psychology
A study of the blushing response using self-reported data from college students., Maynard Kirk Davis, Psychology
Children's perception of depth in random dot stereograms, John Myron Dowd, Psychology
Transfer in problem solving., Anna E. Fiszman, Psychology
Natural feedback systems and organizational self-evaluation: a case study of a psychology department clinic., Joseph P. Gabbert, Psychology
Row width and growth habit influence on light interception and leaf area development in beans., Thomas Robert Gardiner, Plant & Soil Sciences
The relationship between therapist empathy in therapy and nontherapy settings and some contributing components to empathic understanding, Ted William Grubb, Psychology
Problem adolescents: adolescent growth in the context of an urban junior high school/, L. Franklin Harrell, Psychology
Host habitat influences on oviposition by Parasetigena silvestris (R-D), a tachinid parasite of the gypsy moth., Eugene Arthur Harrington, Entomology
The political posture of the Roman Catholic Church in Latin America with specific reference to Colombia and Chile., Ronnie Glantz Harrington, Political Science
Unfinished as a person: the first twenty years of a seventy-five year life history/, Alexander R. James, Psychology
ABC's (Activity Based Curriculum) and cognitive abilities., William H. James, Psychology
The legal philosophy of Ronald Dworkin., Gial Victoria Karlsson, Philosophy
Reflections upon the scientific study of personality., Rod Kessler, Psychology
Relative discriminability of configuration and brightness differences in a monitoring task, Joanna C. Kosakowski, Psychology
The processing of irrelevant information., Elizabeth Pugzles Lorch, Psychology
The effects of external rewards on interest and quality of task performance in children of high and low intrinsic motivation., Kathryn Kernodle Loveland, Psychology
Effects of gonadal hormones on food intake and body weight in adult Mongolian gerbils., Christie A. Maass, Psychology
Electrical resistance, physical characteristics and cation concentration in xylem of sugar maple infected with Verticillium dahliae., Margaret Evelyn Malia, Plant Pathology
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
The effects of synthetic chemical soil conditioners on the structure of compacted turfgrass soils., Edwin Dennis McGuire, Plant & Soil Sciences
The status of West Indian immigrants in Panama from 1850-1941., Sadith Esther Paz B., History