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Dissertations from 1986
Factors Affecting Faculty Attitudes toward the Use of Instructional Media in Selected Public Colleges and Universities in Michigan, Abdelgader Ali El Musrati
Generalized Connectivity in Graphs, Ortrud R. Oellermann
The Effects of Acid Precipitation on Two Lakes in Southwestern Michigan, Fardin Olyaei
Relationship of University Faculty Loyalty and Faculty Perceptions of Department Chairperson Leadership Style, Thomas A. Ongwela
Video Display Terminals and Psychological Stress: A Study of the Acclimation Process, Walker Michael Parmelee
Comparison of Electron and Light Microscopy of Chromosome Aberration Induced in Human Lymphocytes by Adriamycin and Mitomycin C, Abbas Parsian
A Comparison of Perceptions Related to School District Consolidation, Grace A. Peapples
Physiological Differentiation and Cognitive Discrimination of an Olfactory Stimulus Produced under Stress, Robert Gray Perra
The Role of Trainer Contact in the Treatment of Enuresis Using a Conditioning Device, Elaine Lee Phillips
A Comparison of the Sub-Types and Specific Learning Disabilities of Attention Deficit Disordered Children, George D. Pommer
An Analysis of Conduct Disordered Boys’ and Their Parents’ Perceptions of Their Family Social Environments, John Rolph
Design and Analysis of Efficient Algorithms to Solve the Maximum Concurrent Flow Problem, Farhad Shahrokhi
An Historical Analysis of Public Policy for the Care and Treatment of People Who Are Mentally Retarded in Michigan, Kenneth O. Slater
Field Testing of an Instrument for Measuring Educator Knowledge of Laws of the State of Michigan, Barbara A. Souve
Gender and Assumptions Underpinning Research among Doctoral Students, Eileen F. Stryker
The Relationship between the Leader Behaviors of Pastors and Church Growth in the Lake Union Conference of Seventh-Day Adventists, Clinton Anthony Valley
The Design and Analysis of Drug Combination Experiments, Thomas J. Vidmar
An Investigation of Variables Related to Successful Foster Care of Juvenile Delinquents, John Charles Weiks
An Analysis of the Correlation between Coping Factors and Clinical Symptoms, Justin Morgan Wilson
Perception of Effectiveness as a Factor in Schedule Management System Usage in Industries Involved in Department of Defense Development Programs, Lyle Adelbert Wolcott
Loneliness and Graduate Students: A Descriptive Study, Mary Zirpoli
Dissertations from 1985
The Effect of Medicaid Billing on Service to Developmentally Disabled Adults, Kambiz Alavi
The Use of an Incentive System to Increase Worker Performance in a Financial Setting, Steven S. Armstrong
Performance Appraisal System Design and Evaluation, Joe Baker Jr.
A Study of the Feasibility of Developing a Training Model to Incorporate Management by Objectives in Higher Education in Iraq, Nadhim J. Bakri
A Study of Effects of Persistence and Nonpersistence in Mastery Learning PSI Remedial English in a Two-Year College, John H. Corbin
To Establish the Degree of Interest for New Technical Instructional Programs at Taif Junior College, Saudi Arabia, Ahmed Said Sulayman Derbas
Differences in Typology among Nurses at Different Levels of Management in Acute Care Institutions as Measured by the MBTI, Catherine Marie DeVet
The Effects of Reward and Reinforcement on Intrinsic Interest, Alyce Muzette Dickinson
Determinant Factors in the Utilization Process of Social Services in Saudi Arabia, Fahd Abdullah Ali Dileym
A Descriptive Study of Six Career Developmental Tasks as a Function of the Performance Ratings of Supervisory Personnel of the Financial Department within One Division of a Multi-National, Fortune 500 Manufacturing Corporation, Claudia Mettler Duranceau
An Evaluation of the Client Progress Assessment (CPA) Instrument as a General Purpose Measure of Adaptive Behavior of Developmentally Disabled Adults, Robert Edward Endias
An Investigation of the Relationship between Premorbid Personality and Depression, William Essenburg
Reducing EMG and Cardiovascular Reactivity with Cue-Controlled Relaxation, Janel Kay Harris
The Effects of Symbolic Modeling and Parent Training on Noncompliance in Hyperactive Children, George Kahle Henry
A Comparative Study of Alcoholic and Nonalcoholic Women's Perception of Their Relationship with Their Father, Judith A. Hinga
Organizational Deviance in the Direct Selling Industry: A Case Study of the Amway Corporation, Carol Lynn Juth-Gavasso
An Ecological Study of Coaching Behaviors and Corresponding Player Performance and Perception and Performance for the Sport of Collegiate Ice Hockey, Joseph M. Kalinowski
Continuing Professional Education for Teachers and its Relationship to Teacher Effectiveness, Gregory Allen Knoblock
Implementation and Meta-Evaluation of an Experimental Method for Evaluating an Administrator Training Program, Nancy B. Larsen
An Assessment of Attitudes of Faculty Men and Faculty Women Toward Faculty Women in Higher Education in the Republic of Korea, Kyunghui Lee
Beyond Contingency Theory: Environment, Structure, and Administrator's Coping Ability in the Public Sector, Shyu-tu Lee
Locus of Control and Perceived Locus of Control by Significant Others of Learning Disabled and Normal Children, Shirley Irene Kane Lewis
Educational Quality: An Analysis of the Effects of Process Versus Outcome Feedback on Instructor Performance, Daniel Vern McCallum
Scientific-Technological Dependency and Uneven Development: The Case of Iran, Abdullah Mehdipour
Training Behavioral Assessment Interviewers: A Comparison of Two Procedures, Raymond G. Miltenberger
A Study of the Relationship between Church Sponsored K-12 Education and Church Membership in the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Warren Earl Minder
Diagnosis of Dyslexia: The Utility of the Boder Test of Reading-Spelling Patterns, a Representative Case Study Approach, Donna Montei
The Use of Guided Imagery and Progressive Relaxation in Treating Hemodialysis Patients for Dietary Compliance, James B. Morrissey
An Integrative Model of Marital Therapy Based on the Psychoanalytic Behavioral and Systems Approaches, Dennis L. Mulder
A Study of the Academic Problems Encountered by Saudi Students at Western Michigan University, Ali Hajjan Mustafa
An Investigation into the Effects of Learner Control Options on Patterns of Learning Strategies, Debra Small Nelson
The Rorschach as a Diagnostic Aid in Differentiating the Bipolar Affective Disorder from the Schizophrenic Disorder, Stephen James Newman
The Familial Interrelationship Patterns, Socialization, and Juvenile Delinquency: An Integrated Theory and Research, Alan J. Pearl
Reinforcement Increases the Strength of an Elicited Response, Michael D. Peters
Holland Area Employer-Sponsored Community Coordinated Child Care: A Case Study, Bonnie Church Piller
The Development and Evaluation of an Educational Therapeutic Group Procedure to Assist Preadolescent Children to Process Parental Divorce, Donna K. Prins
The Relationship between Managerial Experience and Conflict Management Styles of Men and of Women in Community College Administration, Betty Pritchard
A Study of the Relationship between High School Graduation Requirements and Student A.C.T. Assessment Scores in Public High Schools in the State of Michigan, William M. Pritchard
Effects of Reinforcement Duration and Reinforcement on Response Latency: Stimulus-Reinforcer and Probability Response-Reinforcer Relationships, Henry David Schlinger Jr.
Behavioral Toxicology of a Glucocorticoid: Analysis of Selected Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Repeated Prednisolone Treatment, Robert G. Sewell
The Effect of Task Responsibilities on Assistant Principals' Roles, Sandra B. Sirotti
MMPI Characteristics of Vietnam Combat Veterans Diagnosed as Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Requesting Outpatient Mental Health Counseling, Thomas M. Spahn
The Intuitive Dimension of the Therapist's Consciousness: A New Paradigm, Bonnie Marie Truax
The Status of Performance Evaluation Practices as Perceived by Student Personnel Administrators in Michigan Four-Year Colleges and Universities, Todd Steven Voss
Personality Predictors of Academic Success in Underachieving First Year College Students, Carolyn Wilson-Garrison
Predicting Agency Survival as a Function of Constituency Support in the Michigan Mental Health System, R. Dee L. Woell
The Feature-Value Effect in Children; An Attempt to Replicate and Further Experimentation, Kathleen Wright
On Common Subgraphs, Hung Bin Zou
Dissertations from 1984
The Therapeutic Use of Hope, Bonnie Lee Timmer Aardema
Adolescent Eating Attitudes and Behaviors, Linda Kron Brundage
Using Group Psychotherapy for Enhancing Late Adolescent Selfconcept: Comparing the Effects of Hypnosis and Rational-Emotive Therapy, James J. Buldas
The Effects of Meditation on Counselor Candidates' Self-Actualization, Clifton H. Burrows
Underdevelopment and State Capitalism: A Cross-National Study, Massoud Chalabi
The Differential Effects of Biobehavioral Feedback on Physiological Reactivity in Type A Coronary-Prone Males, Gary Michael Chavoya
Matching and Melioration in Concurrent Linear VI Schedules, Christopher Cherpas
Naphthalene-2,3-Dialdehyde: A Synthon to 7,9-Polymethylene-8H-Cyclohepta[B]Naphthalene-8-One and a Study of Their Aromaticity, Edward O. Crapps
A Study of the Work Values and Achievement Motivation of Persons Eligible for Federal Job Training Programs in a Rural Service Delivery Area, John Desiderio
Mental Health Status of Malay Students at U.S. Colleges and Universities, Md. Shuaib Che Din
The Evaluation of a School-Court Program that Deals with Chronic Absenteeism of Middle School Students, Robert A. Duell
The Relationship between Thought Disorder and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia, David Frank Fatzinger
Job Position as a Moderator of Opinion Regarding School Finance among Seventh-Day Adventist Administrators, Gregory A. Gerard
The Effects of Immediacy to Parenthood on the Perceptions of Importance of Parent Education Topics, Nancy Mauro Gerard
A Descriptive Study of the Leadership Styles of School Business Officials in Selected Michigan School Districts, Daniel S. Gilmore
The Chromatic and Cochromatic Number of a Graph, John Gordon Gimbel
Effects of Tripelennamine and Pentazocine Alone and in Combination on Schedule-Controlled Performance, Deborah Lou Grossett
Improving Interpersonal Perceptual Accuracy and Psychological Adjustment through Brief Perception Therapy with a Substance Abuse Population, B. Gerald Hartman
Stimulus-Reinforcer and Response-Reinforcer Relationships in the Determination of Response Latency, Bruce Edward Hesse
The Use of Guided Imagery in the Control of Food and Liquid Intake of Hemodialysis Patients, Thomas E. Higgins
A Comparative Study of the Career Aspirations, Job Seeking Patterns, and Career Patterns of Male and Female Doctoral Recipients in Educational Administration, Alice J. Hullhorst
The Effect of Aerobic Training and Weight Training on the Cardiorespiratory Fitness, Body Cathexis, and Self-Concept of College Females, John Stuart Irvine
Community Mental Health Attitudes, Fenimore William Johnson