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Theses from 1970
Personality Factors in Mothers as Related to Problem Behavior in Children, Josephine H. Veldman
The Effect of Group Counseling on the Adjustment and Behavior of Returning Foreign Study Students at Kalamazoo College, Thomas J. Walsh
The Role of the Student Council in Selected Michigan High Schools, Loren C. Warfield
Stuttering Tremor; an Exploration of Methodologies for Recording and Analysis, James J. Welsh
Organization of the Bird Community of a Michigan Oak Forest, Jerome D. Wenger
Effects of Extraneous Auditory Stimulation on Visual Choice Reaction Time, William J. Wenger
Theses from 1969
Kinetic Studies of the Cell Elongation Phenomenon in Etiolated Pisum Stem Segments, Grant M. Barkley
Reinforcement of Sitting Behavior in Retardates in an Institutional Setting, Robert James Bonner
Inelastic Deuteron Scattering from 151Eu, Gerald Ralph Boss
Foliage Production and Consumption in an Oak Forest, David A. Boyce
The Influence of Experimental Stress upon Selected Rorschach Variables, William P. Brady
The Prediction of High School Dropouts, Clifford E. Bryan
An Indeterministic Approach to the Investigation of CBD Commuter Flows in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bruce Richard Bullis
A Popular Uprising in Twelfth Century France the Capuciati of the Auvergne, Lila Beth Burke
An Attempt to Manipulate the Results of a Psychomotor Learning Task, Robert D. Cable
Transpiration Measurements of the Decomposition Pressures of Barium Hexafluorosilicate, Kemal Cankaya
An Examination of the Secular Deterioration Hypothesis, Roger L. Carothers
Some Relationships Associated with Academic Success in Graduate Work at a Midwestern University, Stelios Georgiou Chimonides
An Exploration of the "Fear of Hawk" Hypothesis Using Stationary Silhouetted Stimuli with Naive Japanese Quail, John Stuart Clement
Skeletal Pathology in the Kenya Baboon, Ronald R. Copping
Skin Color, Race, and Self Image: An Exploratory Study of a Group of High School Youths, Zelte Crawford
Patterns of Intergenerational Occupational Mobility of American Females, Peter DeJong
The Availability and Adequacy of Some Spanish Translated Tests, Nelson Diaz-Mora
The Differential Impact of Protestant, Catholic, and Public Schooling Upon Attitudes toward the Police of Kalamazoo Junior High Students, Daniel James Dingman
Effects of X-Radiation on Saccharine Consumption as a Function of Dosage and Interstimulus Interval, Michael Drillings
A Program for Teaching Beginning Language Skills to Mentally Retarded Children, Thomas James Elzinga
The Effects of Morphine on Shock-Induced Aggression in the Squirrel Monkey, Grace S. Emley
Max Weber's Methodology: A Probabilistic Perspective, Rudolf J. Faller
An Analysis of the Comparative Effectiveness of Day Center Treatment and Out-Patient Treatment for a Psychiatric Population, John T. Gallagher
Comparisons of the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence with the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children, Bert Douglas Goens
Bird Populations of Three Oak Forest Areas in Southern Michigan, Ted B. Gottshall
Odo of Morimond: His System of Contemplation as Based on Matthew XX, the Parable of the Vineyard, Richard M. Green
The Influence of Extrinsic and Intrinsic Decision Factors on Company Selection among College Seniors, Lawrence J. Hahn
School Library Supervision in Michigan, Mary Ann Hanna
Effects of Disrupted Taction on Certain Dimensions of Speech in an Adventitiously Deafened Individual, George Graham Helliesen
Knudsen- and Torsion- Effusion Measurements of the Vapor Pressure of Manganese(II) Fluoride, Walter Clayton Hitchingham
Populations of Some Mammals of Oak Forests in Southwestern Michigan, James R. Hodgson
Angular Correlation of Positron Annihilation Radiation in Damaged Nickel and Iron, Hsien Chen Huang
History and Archetypes a Critique of Mircea Eliade's Philosophy of History as Applied to a Study of Spatial Orientation in Dante, Marilyn J. Hughes
Comfort Climates at Grand Rapids, Michigan: A Dynamic Approach, Robert L. Janiskee
An Appraisal of the Performance of Selected Secondary School Principals as Perceived by Teachers and as Perceived by Themselves, Vernon J. Johnson
Simultaneous Knudsen- and Torsion- Effusion Measurements of the Vapor Pressures of Tetraphenyltin and Hexaphenylditin, Dale Keiser
Randomness as an Element of Stimulus Complexity, Norman M. Kiracofe
An Early Intracounty Railroad Network and the Development of Fruit Culture: Van Buren County, Michigan, Dale L. Kubicki
The Effects of Non-Contingent Stimuli on Rate of Lever Pressing Using Human Subjects, Dan V. Lebenta
Generalization of a Matching Discrimination, Klaus E. Liebold
An Exploratory Study of the Relationship of High School Non-Academic Achievements to Community College Academic Achievement, Ira C. Livingston
The Yugoslav Communist Party: Decentralization and Reorganization, Barbara P. McCrea
History and Symbol in Hugh of Saint-Victor, Thomas M. McElmeel
Stimulus Balance and Preference in the Japanese Quail, Richard Leon Mead
Elastic Scattering of 1.33 MeV Gamma Rays from Lead, William Jack Merrow
An Experimental Analysis of Human Social Behavior in a Competitive Situation with the Opportunity for Aggression, William A. Michael
The Generalization Effects of Initially Improved Reading Skills Upon Social and Other Academic Behavior, C. Wesley Middlebush
The Effects of Continuous Shock Punishment on FR Reinforced Behavior, John Carter Moore
Reduction of Inappropriate Behavior of Two Public Grade School Students by Operant -Conditioning, Ronald Nederhoed
The Role of the Suprapharyngeal Ganglia of Lumbricus Terrestris in Respiratory Metabolism, John D. Nelson
A Program for Teaching Self-Care Techniques to Severely Retarded Residents of an Institution for the Retarded, Timothy S. Nelson
A Cinematographical Analysis of Selected Factors Affecting the Efficient Performance of the Back Somersault in Floor Tumbling, John W. Newton
Classical Discrimination Conditioning of Pain-Elicited Aggression, Delmar A. Ozolins
Attention: Its Meaning and Its Control in the Classroom, Robert G. Packard
Preparation and Lead Tetraacetate Oxidation of Aldehydic Hydrazones, Alan J. Quarfoot
British and American Strategy in the European Theater of Operations December 1941 to August 1944, Ronald A. Refior
The Effect of the Rate of Formation on the Structure and Properties of Paper, William M. Reif
Characterization of Some Unidentified Components in Aorta Lipids, Max Elvin Royer
Response Contingent Shock and Its Effect upon Self-Injurious Behavior, William N. Schlee
Elastic Scattering of 1.33 MeV Gamma Rays from Uranium, David Rood Schwandt
An Evaluation of the Community School Program Springfield Public Schools Battle Creek, Michigan, Robert Bruce Sellers
A Comparison of Art Course Offerings in Representative Community Colleges in the Midwest, Wayne L. Shaw
Comparison of an Oral Form of the MMPI with a Booklet Form, Ronald Andrew Simia
Parental Consequation of Classroom Behavior, David J. Sluyter
Immediate Feedback and Parental Consequation of Academic Behavior, Carroll Dean Smith
A Differentiation between Suicidal and Non-Suicidal Schizophrenic Patients, Gerald H. Smith
A Comparison of Differential Response Rates with Children under Two Schedules of Reinforcement and Extinction Using Programmed Mathematics Instruction, David L. Sorenson
Staff Perceptions of Psychiatric Patients in Relation to Disruptive Behavior, Thaddeus I. Stachowiak
Changes in Rates of Food-Reinforced Bar-Pressing and Collateral Licking during a Signal Preceding Response-Independent Shock, Sander Stern
An Assessment of the Problems of Recruiting and Retaining Substitute Teachers for the Elementary Schools of the Jackson Public Schools, Jackson, Michigan, William Henry Sumner
Use of an Avoidance Paradigm in the Treatment of Torticollis, Sharon L. Surratt
Avoidance of Time-Out from, and Withdrawal of, Positive Reinforcement in Humans: Reduction in Actual and Potential Reinforcement as a Stimulus for Aggression, Brigitte Symannek
The Elastic Scattering of 1.33 MeV Gamma Rays from Tin, J. Edward Terdal
A Survey of School Plant Needs in the Grandville School District, Elmer H. Theodore
Generalization Effects of Verbal Conditioning in Chronic Schizophrenics, James Larry Tichenor
Reference Group Theory and Predisposition toward Teacher Dropout, Anton John Tomas
School Application of Delayed Conditioning Procedures to Modify Home Behavior, David Arthur Vandervelde
A Reliability and Validity Assessment of Scales Measuring the Perception of the Evaluations of Others, John A. Vonk
A Study of Some Matrix Elements for the Four-Pion Decay Mode of Neutral Bosons, George Victor Weller
The Wittig Reaction of Stabalized Phosphonium Ylids with Derivatives of D-Ribose, George Robert Wellman
A Study of Completed Suicide and Attempted Suicide in the Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area of Flint: Michigan, I960, Friedrich Volker Wenz
An Analysis of Worker Satisfaction, Thomas W. Westrate
Behavioral Contrast: A Comparison of Responses Maintained by Qualitatively Different Reinforcers, Paul Whelan
A Study of Trace Metals in Hair and Nails of Myasthenia Gravis Patients, Frank Melvin Whitaker
A Late Pleistocene Geography of Southwestern Michigan: A Cultural and Historical Study, David R. Williams
The Mossbauer Effect in Ferric Stearate and Ferric Oleate, Ronald L. Wilson
The Evolution and Character of the Bedding Plants Industry in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, Robert F. Wiseman
A Study of Change in Secondary Teachers' Attitudes towards School Library Concepts after Instruction in Librarianship, Rulon Kent Wood
Ten Hours or No Sawdust: A Study of Strikes in the Michigan Lumber Industry 1881-1885, Daniel J. Yakes
Fabrication of Lithium Drifted Germanium Detectors of Planar Structures, Khin M. Yin
Theses from 1968
The Effects of Monetary Reinforcement on the Intelligibility Threshold for Spondee Words, John L. Allen
Rate of Extinction as a Function of the Distribution of Extinction Trials, Richard Louis Allers