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Theses/Dissertations from 1969
Population Dynamics of the Red-Headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes Erythrocephalus, in Central Ohio, Philip Randall Sharp
The Effect of Different Labelling Procedures on the Shape of Response Generalization and Reaction Time Gradients, Thomas E. Ulrich
Theses/Dissertations from 1968
The Thermal Conductivity of Indium, James Wittman Babcock
Glycogen Deposition in the Skeletal and Cardiac Muscle of the Embryonic Chick, Lawrence Warner Barnthouse
An Examination of Quine's Refutation of the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction, Glenn Frederick Bender
Incubation Constancy and the Territorial Behavior of the Red-Headed Woodpecker, Melanerpes erythrocephalus, Barry Webster Burkhardt
The Financial Policies of Sir Robert Walpole and Henry Pelham 1717-54, Peter Jeffrey Bussman
An Investigation of Intraspecific Blood Protein Differences in Some Cave Crayfish, Robert Ferree Crooks
Response Enhancement as a Function of Blocking an Instrumental Act at Absolute and Proportional Distances from Start and Goal, Michael Snyder Cross
The Effect of Magnesium Pemoline on the Acquisition of Visual Discrimination in a Thorndikian Choice Situation, Michael William Gaynon
The Face of the English in Irish Literature, 1880-1921: Portrait in Acid, Mark Symington Geston
Refectio Ebora Gubernationis: A Study in Medieval Kingship, James Laurence Gillespie
Jonson -- Donne and Herbert, Gerald Hirsh Goldschmidt
Legislative Apportionment and American Representation, Mark Stanley Greenberg
The Technique of Self-Realization: An Evaluative Study of the Novels of Ernest Hemingway, Daniel Gordon Hale
The Effects of Lithium Chloride on the Early Embryological Development of Rana Pipiens, David Brewster Hanzel
Pair Encounters in Captive Kangaroo Rats, Earl Raymond Heithaus
Herakles in Greek Lyric Poetry, Jeffrey J. Henderson
The Effects of Thyroidectomy Upon Limb Regeneration in the Newt Notophthalamus Viridescens Viridescens, Douglas Edward Hutchninson
Free Press -- Fair Trial, George W. Johnston III
From Wonder into Wonder, Arthur Thaddeus Kosiakowski
The Irreversible Coordination of Molecular Oxygen with a Manganese(II) Chelate Compound, Lawrence Douglas Lilien
The Image of the Flesh: A Study in the Romances of Charles Williams, Eric Edgecombe Linder
The New Testament as Tradition in the Early Church, Ronald Edwin Long
Structural Studies on Helical Smooth Muscle from the Squid, Loligo Pealei, Paul Andrew Lucky
Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Ecstasy of Death, Daniel Hale Melcher
Lying, Secrecy, News Managing and Presidential Leadership, Sanford Neiman
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, John Lloyd Owen III
Civil Disobedience: The Individual's Relation to the Law in Society, William George Peden
American Neutrality and the Spanish Civil War, Jules Bryan Perilman
The Meaning of Emergence, Raymond Smith Pfeiffer
Toward a Specific Heat Cryostat, Gary Robert Reich
The Function of the Eye Stalks in the Regulation of Metabolism of the Crayfish, Cambarus, Paul Henry Rigali Jr.
Cyclic Secretory Activity in the Androgenic Gland, Pierce Edward Scranton
Robert F. Wagner and the Progressive Era in New York State, Carl Frederick Seastrum
Uses of Interest Group Theory, Richard Lee Shapiro
Features of Deductive-Nomological Explanations: A Study of Explanations in Science, John Douglas Sinks
A Study of the Electrical Properties of Binary Mixtures of Anthracene, Pyrene and Chrysene, Mitchel Blacher Sosis
Foreign Policy and Morality, Mark Eugene Sullivan
The Reactions of Dibromoiodide and Platinum(II) Coordination Compounds, Frank Svec Jr.
Other Minds and a Suggestion Concerning Criteria, Carl Thayler
The Significance of Eschatology in the Writings of Three Contemporary Theologians, Timothy Joal Wildman
Jacob Burckhardt: Beyond Good and Evil, Steven Lewis Willner
The Alexandria Quartet: Lawrence Durrell's Harim, William Tenney Wright Jr.
Theses/Dissertations from 1967
Experimental Developments in the Last Plays of William Shakespeare, James Hubert Baxter III
The Metaphysics of Metaphor: Hart Crane's The Bridge, Michael Kenneth Berryhill
The Reversible Coordination of O2, SO2, NH3, N2, and CO, with N, N-Disalicyaldehyde-1,3-Propanediiminemanganese(II), Wayne Douglas Beveridge
Police Interrogation and the Right to Counsel, Theodore David Carlson
The Formation of Blood Elements in a Fluid Culture Medium, Stephen Webb Carmichael
Religion and Education Under the Establishment Clause, James Wilbur Ceaser
The French Presidency: The Role of the Chief Executive in the Fifth Republic, Philip George Cerny
On Two Indictments of Ordinary Language Philosophy, William Michael Clark
Religious Feeling in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!, Paul Robert Cole
Stalin and Germany Between the Wars, Lawrence Donald Gall
German Participation in Politics, 1848-1871, Robert Joseph Gibbons
Thomas Mann's Joseph und Seine Brüder, Edward Robert Hallowell
William Blake and the Revolutionary Man, Ronald Frederick Javorcky
Tom L. Johnson and Progressive Reform in Cleveland, 1901-1909, Allan S. Kohrman
Man's Search for Self-Fulfillment in the Works of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, William Ross Konrad
Inductive Effects of Ligands in Coordination Compounds, Thomas Edward Lad
Bernard Malamud: The Search for the Self, Howard Alan Levy
The Pre-Raphaelite Epic: William Morris' Sigurd the Volsung, Floyd Sanford Linton
The Evolution of the 'Cyclic Bromonium Ion' and the Infrared Characterization of Selected Bromine Derivatives of 4-Vinylcyclohexene-1, Douglas Ross Morton Jr.
Karl Barth's Interpretation of Human Freedom, Willard Jerome Pugh III
Ossian: A Product of the Eighteenth Century, Roger Lee Reynolds
Conrad's Isolated Skeptics, James Arthur Robinson
The Mechanism of the Basic Hydrolysis of Quarternary Phosphonium Halides, Stephen Edward Rudolph
Walt Whitman: The Epic Vision of Song of Myself, Mark David Savin
Fetal Erythropoiesis in the Rat, Bill Stuart Schnall
The Kinetic Study of the Addition of Grignard Reagents to 1,2,3,4 - Tetraphenylfulvene, Clifford Harold Spohr
Attitudes in England and the American Seaboard Colonies Toward the Constitution of the Empire in the Seventeenth Century, Charles Johnson Taggart
Immunization of C57 Mice Against Zimmerman Glioma, Lee Paul Van Voris
The Yorkist Experiment: Triumph and Failure, Karl Edward Wagner
Michels, The Iron Law of Oligarchy: A Case Study of its Applicability to American Industrial Relations, Roger Glenn Wallace
Theses/Dissertations from 1966
From Suez to Westminster: An Analysis of the Suez Canal Crisis of 1956, Michael H. Abramson
A New Birth of Freedom: The Emergence of Lincoln's Attitude Toward Slavery and the Negro, Barry M. Bergh
Investigations of Bromanilic Acid in the Determination of Anions and Investigations of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, Brian Arthur Bidlingmeyer
Investigations of Bromanilic Acid in the Determination of Anions and Investigations of Several Complexes for the Spectrophotometric Determination of Silver, William E. Campbell
The Influence of the Pastoral Elegiac Tradition on Five Modern Elegies, Thomas E. Carr
James Agee: The Adaptive Eye, John C. Cocks Jr.
The Effect of Trypsin and Pancreatin on the Growth Pattern of E. Coli ML 35, Robert Morrison DeWitt Jr.
Vestibular Compensation and the Eighth Cranial Nerve, Frank Burton Dibble Jr.
The Symbolic World of Robinson Jeffers: A Study of the Lyrics, 1924-62, Dennis J. Eberl
The Parlement of Paris, 1715-1789, William Freer Heinlen
Story Patterns in Herodotus, Alan Douglas Hornstein
The Anachronism of the Pubic Schools in Modern Britain, John Curtis Jenkins
The Effect of Actinomycine D on Stentor Coruleus, William Whiting Judson
Adverse Publicty and the Rights of a Criminal Defendant to a Fair Trial, James Martin Kaplan
Effect of Chlorpromazine Hydrochloride on Rate of Heartbeat in Rana Pipiens, Daniel Elliot Koblentz
A Stereospecific Study of Chlorine Additions to Cyclohexene, Martin Lewis Madorsky
Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument, Carl S. Mankowitz
On the Glyconeogenetic Action of Fed DL/Serine in the Rat, Louis Henry Martone
Navalism and Diplomacy Under Theodore Roosevelt, Thomas Alexander Mason
From Secession to Annexation: An Analysis of the Czech-German Racial Struggle in the Historic Privinces -- 1918-1938, James G. Mauro Jr.
The Oxidative Cleavage of Cis-trans Isomers with Osmium Tetroxide and Hydrogen Peroxide, Peter Jay Mondron
Nuclear Degenaration Induced by 2-(2-Aminoethylamino)Ethanol in Tradescantia, John Watson Morrison Jr.
The Problem of the Negro in Maryland, 1790-1865, Charles Francis Peace IV
An Essay on 'Good' and 'Moral', Richard W. Reese Jr.
Hinduism in Modern India, Gerald E. Reynolds