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Evaluation Of Patient Activity Programs In Selected San Antonio, Texas, Nursing Homes, Steven L. Ranck

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

THE PROBLEM

The problem was to evaluate by means of the Berryman Instrument (1971) the patient activity programs o[ licensed nursing homes in San Antonio, Texas.

PROCEDURES

The best evaluation of the total patient activities program in nursing homes was the instrument designed by Dr. Doris L. Berryman, Recommended Standards with Evalua­tive Criteria for Recreation Services in Residential Institutions. After permission was secured from the nursing homes to evaluate their patient activities pro­grams, a personal visit was made to each institution to complete the evaluation. The patient activity director and a qualified assistant assisted in the evaluation at each …

Otello: Rossini - Verdi, Kathryn Eckart

Music ETDs

All art, whether visual, plastic, written, or aural, is experienced and criticized through a process of conscious and unconscious comparison. Trends, advances, and styles exist only in their difference from what has passed before. The study of artistic evolution is sometimes made easier when works with the same subject, such as paintings of the madonna, nude sculpture, architectural style of churches, of settings of the passion, by different artists and from different periods can be compared. The similarity of treatment of subject matter or the lack of it in contrasted artists or periods often provides a basis for the beginnings …

An Analysis Of Air Quality Control Regionalization By The Federal Government With Emphasis On The Albuquerque Mid-Rio Grande Air Quality Control Region, Jose B. R. Anglada

Public Administration ETDs

Air pollution is increasing and advancing to such a degree as to interfere with various aspects of our total environment. It cannot be considered as a separate problem, but must be treated as a part of the interactions of a varied and complex ecological system.

The problem of air pollution control involves numerous factors such as technical, political, fiscal, social and cultural. This study concerns itself with the problem of air quality control regionalization and some of the factors involved.

Air pollution control on a regional basis was initiated in 1963 when the ''Clean Air Act of 1963" was adopted. …

An Investigation Of Creativity In The Practicing Field Of Architecture:A Case Study Of Seven Albuquerque Architects., Robert Jenner Philips

Architecture and Planning ETDs

One of architecture's most cherished foundations is the notion of creativity. If the architect is to be charged with the responsibility of the "innovator" and an "agent of change," then much of his work will revolve around being able to exercise his creativity. There appear to be some discrepancies between what architecture is all about in literature and the classroom vis-a-vis in actual practice. The thrust of this thesis is directed to the apparent discrepancy between architectural training and practice. A case study method has been chosen for this investigation. Seven architects were chosen to be interviewed. With five areas …

An Evaluation Of Four Data Reconstruction Techniques Applied To Seismometer Data., Stephen Frank Pickett

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

Four methods of data reconstruction were applied to actual seismometer data with inherent low frequency linear distortion, for relative evaluation and comparison. An electronic system inverse circuit, an impulse invariant Z transform inverse system model, time domain decon­volution, and fast Fourier transforms were the methods used. It was found that from the standpoints of ease of application, computer core and CPU requirements, and reconstruction quality, the electronic inverse circuit and time domain deconvolution would probably be the reconstruction options favored by most seismometer users. Of these two methods, time domain deconvolution exhibited slightly better reconstruction quality than did the inverse …

Providence And Progress: Richard Price's Idea Of Progress, George Marshall Reynolds

History ETDs

This study examines the idea of historical progress of the eighteenth-century English theologian and revolutionary thinker Richard Price. Although Price has received only passing notice in the standard histories of the belief in progress, the popular English philosopher made a significant (and in some respects unique) contribution to the history of the eighteenth-century idea.

Price was one of the most illustrious members of a small circle of English progressives--all Christian thinkers-- which also included the Anglicans David Hartley and William Paley and the Unitarian Joseph Priestley. These writers gave the idea of progress a strongly spiritual (Christian) imprint missing in …

The Renal Response To Ringer's Infusion In Developing Rats, Brian Stephen Misanko

Biomedical Sciences ETDs

In order to study the effectiveness of body water and electrolyte regulation in young animals, the developmental pattern of renal function of rats in response to body fluid volume expansion with Ringer’s was investigated. Clearance experiments were performed on male Wistar rats of two age groups, twenty to thirty days and forty to sixty days of age. After two hours of a stabilization period, urine was collected for three consecutive twenty minute periods to establish a control value. The rats were then given an intravenous infusion of mammalian Ringer's solution of a volume equal to 4.6% o: body weight. Urine …

Changes In Student Teacher Dogmatism And Attitudes, George Geer Austin-Martin

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine what changes in student teacher dogmatism and attitudes occurred during the student teaching experience as a function of the supervising teacher's dogmatism and attitudes as measured by the Rokeach Dogmatism Scale and the Minnesota Teacher Attitude Inventory.

The population for this study consisted of all students enrolled in education courses during the spring semester of 1974 who had not had field work in the public schools and all Secondary Education students enrolled in student teaching and their supervising teachers. From this population the following sample was selected:

1. A group of 22 …

The Feasibility Of Test Translation -- English To Navajo, Annabelle R. Scoon

Language, Literacy, and Sociocultural Studies ETDs

The school beginner is expected to be able to follow the language of directions and explanations. Navajo children who enter school essentially monolingual in Navajo and shortly have to accomplish school learning tasks in English may face a double handicap if they have not yet labelled in Navajo the concepts needed in beginning English school work.

Measurement of school related concepts in Navajo was attempted by means of a translation of the Boehm Test of Basic Concepts, a test developed from analysis of early school language requirements. It was assumed that the semantic content of such basic concepts is universal, …

The Patio House: An Alternative Housing Form For The U.S. Southwest, Frederick L. Swetland Iii

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis sets out to tell the reader just why a patio style house is a legitimate alternative to the present housing forms that are being built.

1. It goes into the historical background of the building type and shows how ancient peoples responded to many of the same shaping forces that are coming to bear on present day building styles.

2. The study touches on the sociological ramifications of urban growth and how the patio house offers a better remedy than the present housing types being pandered.

3. It touches on the economics of building patio houses, and summarily …

A Method Of System Identification With Experimental Investigations Of Real Systems, Paul H. Merritt

Mechanical Engineering ETDs

The following generalized problem was investigated in this study:

"Given a system that can be described by a vector differential equation of the type,

x = f (x, u, a, t) ,

and given both input data, ^u_~ and output data, ^x_~, determine both the general form of the differential equation, ^f_~ (.,.,.,.), and the unknown parameters, ^a_~."

This study describes a method of identifying the parameters, ^a_~, and the form, ^f_~, of the above equation. Initially, the form of the equation must be hypothesized to determine the unknown parameters; …

Role Of Melatonin In Hibernation And Isolated Heart Activity, Dennis L. Palmer

Biology ETDs

Melatonin functions in the control of melanophore pigmentation of amphibians but its role in higher vertebrates is ill-defined. In mammals melatonin is produced within the pineal gland, where its formation is light dependent. This study consisted of three experiments: (i) a biological assay of commercial preparations of melatonin; (ii) response of hibernating ground squirrels exposed to cold and melatonin; (iii) response of isolated hearts to melatonin. Commercial preparations of melatonin were compared for their biological effectiveness by measuring the inhibition of compensatory ovarian hypertrophy in laboratory mice. Unilateral ovariectomy results in hypertrophy of the intact ovary of untreated mice. Unilaterally …

An Experimental Investigation Of Highly Undercooled Magnesium Silicate Chondrule-Like Spherules, Harry Nicholas Planner

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

A series of experiments, involving molten magnesium silicate spherules that were subjected to high initial cooling rates and allowed to nucleate at high temperatures (985-1350°C), were performed so as to compare their thermal histories to the resulting internal features. Such comparisons could be used to decipher the thermal history of chondrules and the conditions surrounding their formation based on their mineralogy, crystal morphology, and overall texture. Various features of the spherules were correlated with the initial high cooling rate process, nucleation temperature, and the maximum temperature attained during the recalescance to demonstrate the restrictions resulting from or their sensitivities to …

Geochemistry And Petrology Of The Orbicular Rocks, Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, Robert David Enz

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

Orbicular rock located on the west side of the Sandia Mountains, New Mexico, at W. long. 106° 29' 30", N. lat. 35° 13' 04", was first reported by Fitzsimmons (1966). Recently Thompson and Giles (1974) published a paper describing.three types of orbicular rock in the locality which they believed to have been formed by a metasomatic process. Without knowledge of the work of Thompson and Giles, this thesis was initiated as a detailed field, petrographic, geochemical and geochronologic study of these orbicular rocks.

Four types of orbicular rock, including another previously unreported occurrence of orbicular granite about 2 km north …

Comparative Foraging Behavior Of The Olive Warbler And Its Possible Competitors, Robert J. Secatore

Biology ETDs

The foraging activities of the Olive Warbler (Peucedramus taeniatus) and three other foliage-gleaning species were studied in the Chiricahua Mountains of southeastern Arizona during the summer of 1973. Grace's Warblers (Dendroica graciae), the most specialized of the four species, foraged most similarly to Peucedramus and is probably the latter is strongest potential competitor during the breeding season. The small size of D. graciae appeared to facilitate foraging in pine foliage and may be an important factor in promoting ecological segregation from the Olive Warbler. Audubon's Warblers (D. coronata) and Pygmy Nuthatches (Sitta pygmaea) were more generalized in their feeding activities …

The Fall Of The Bourgeoisie: Cuba, 1959-1961, Alfred L. Padula Jr.

History ETDs

This is an inquest into the demise of the Cuban bourgeoisie. How is it that, within the space of twenty-eight months, Castro's revo­lution was able to destroy this once powerful, talented and rapidly grow­ing class?

It is the thesis of this dissertation that the Cuban bourgeoisie was destroyed not only by pressure from without, by events beyond its control, but also that it disintegrated in considerable part from within. To an important extent, the bourgeoisie died of its own follies, its own failures.

This dissertation focuses on the process of internal disintegra­tion. Separate chapters consider the impact of Castro's revolution …

The Numantian Theme In Spanish Literature, Jason M. Rogers-Rodriguez

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Numantia, after years of heroic resistance, fell to the Roman legions in 133 B.C. The conquest of Numantia was so costly that it played an important role in the internal politics of Rome and thus it was singled out and received the attention of the Greek and Roman historians who recorded and analyzed the conquest and colonization of Iberia.

Centuries later, when Spain had developed a sense of national unity, the Hispanic chroniclers found in the history of Numantia an authenticated record of Iberian will to resist foreign domination and evidence of a courageous and virtuous national character. The Hispanic …

Myth And Reality In Hijo De Hombre, A Novel By Augusto Roa Bastos, David R. Gifford

Foreign Languages & Literatures ETDs

The essence of Paraguayan reality, cloaked in myths since the days of the Conquest, is an enigma which, for the most part, has been elusive to the writer's pen. There is, however, one man, Augusto Roa Bastos, who has succeeded masterfully in capturing that essence and who has done so precisely through the revelation of both Paraguay's myths and her reality. His work is the highly complex narrative Hijo de hombre, winner in 1959 of the esteemed Losada prize in Buenos Aires.

The success of Roa's novel stems from a deeply felt commit­ment to his fellow Paraguayans against man's …

The New Mexico Supreme Court, 1910-1970: Politics And The Legal Community, Susan Ann Roberts

History ETDs

This study examines the history of the New Mexico State Supreme Court and its role within the political process. As a political account, it focuses on the election and appointment of judges on a partisan basis, judicial personnel and their partisan activities, attempts to manipulate the judiciary for political purposes, political controversies litigated and subsequently resolved by the court, and the legal community and its influence on the state's judicial development. As a history, it proceeds chronologically, beginning with an exposition of the territorial precedent and of the establishment of the judiciary under the state constitution. The manuscript then recounts …

Unusual Lavas From Molokai, Hawaii: Alkalic Olivine Basalts Transitional To Hawaiites And Strontium-Rich Mugearites, Paul Frank Hlava

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

ABSTRACT

Systematic data has recently been published on the compositions of major mineral phases in rocks of the tholeiitic, alkalic, and nephelinic suites from the island of Maui, Hawaii. The present study was initiated to provide similar data from the rocks of Molokai, Hawaii, from which the nature of interisland variations could be established. During the study, it became obvious that many of the rocks were unusual and so this study also provides information on the bulk rock, trace element, and mineral compositions of alkalic olivine basalts transitional to hawaiites and Sr-rich mugearites.

From a total of 14 basalts collected …

Geology Of The Northern Part Of The Sierra Cuchillo, Socorro And Sierra Counties, New Mexico, Florian Maldonado

Earth and Planetary Sciences ETDs

The northern Sierra Cuchillo, Socorro and Sierra Counties, New Mexico is approximately 32 miles northwest of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. The Sierra Cuchillo is a narrow fault-block range in the Basin-Range province and is a structurally high element west of the Rio Grande trough. It is bordered on the west by the Winston graben and the Black Range and on the east by Monticello graben and the San Mateo Mountains.

Permian rocks consist of the Yeso and San Andres Formation, with an aggregate thickness of 2100 ft (640 m). Upper Cretaceous rocks, 40 ft (10 m) thick, consist of …

The Impact Of Citizen Participation On Public Policy Making:Los Alamos County, New Mexico., Sherry R. Reisfeld

Public Administration ETDs

A study has been carried out in an effort to determine the impact of citizen participation on public policy making in a high status, high income community. Los Alamos County, New Mexico, was chosen as the subject for this work.

After an introductory section on the history of citizen participation, a number of hypotheses ar introduced for testing the impact of citizen participation on County policy making in Los Alamos. Background material on the County’s history and character is added to aid the reader’s understanding of the operation of the community’s voluntary associations and public bodies.

The institutionalized forms of …

Toxoplasma Antibodies In Wild And Domiciled Animals From Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, And The Philippines., Alan A. Marchiondo

Biology ETDs

Using the Sabin-Feldman Dye Test, sera from wild and domestic animals in Arizona, Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, Peru, and the Philippines were tested for the prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma gondii. The incidence of Toxoplasma in all animals from these areas was: Arizona (19.6%, 11 of 56), Colorado (28.6%, 2 of 7), Montana (41.7%, 73 of 175), New Mexico (31.3%, 178 of 569), Peru (0%, 0 of 3), and the Philip­pines (33.8%, 48 of 142). The overall prevalence of antibodies to Toxoplasma was 32.7% (312 of 952).

Nine fecal samples from wild felines contained Toxoplasma like oocysts which were experimentally …

Reproductive Status Of Alligator Juniper In Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico, Graham A. Mark

Biology ETDs

The primary object of this study was to determine the reproductive status of Juniperus deppeana Steud. In Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico. Due to the apparent scarcity of seedlings and young trees, eventual local extinction seemed likely.

Information about the population—its distributions in space and time, its fecundity and mortality rates—was gathered in the Monument. This, together with reported demographic traits of Juniperus spp., indicates that reproduction has indeed recently declined. However, due to the longevity of its members, the population could withstand at least a century of no reproduction before becoming seriously endangered.

Since reproduction has been generally poor …

An Examination Of Mud Brick Architectural Forms In Iran With Experimental Applications In The Southwestern United States., Paul Graham Mchenry Jr

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Mud, in a variety of forms, is the oldest and most widely used building material in the world. Its uses in various ways, and the logical development of extremely sophisticated architectural forms occurred independently in many parts of the world. The complexity of the forms that were developed were dependent on the length of time the material was in use, and the local environment which limited possibilities and created the necessity for particular uses. As social and intellectual patterns become more complex, with the attendant prosperity, accumulation of wealth, ostentation, and other aspects of a more complex social order, the …

Teacher Preparation For Social Studies On The Secondary Level As Recommended By Selected Colleges Of Education And As Preferred By Selected School Districts, Clare Ignatia Sharp

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

The curriculum changes in the social studies from the expostulatory method with history and economics content, to the inductive method with an interdisciplinary approach which included all the social studies, made it difficult for those prepared in the traditional teacher education patterns to adapt to the "new social studies." It was the purpose of this study to survey the programs recommended by selected colleges of education, and to survey the programs preferred by the school districts. This study also attempted to survey any changes that had taken place in teacher preparation on the one hand, and any changes in teaching …

Studies On The Structural Polypeptides Of Bacteriophage N1, Jeffry J. Leary

Biology ETDs

The structural proteins of Micrococcus lysodeikticus bacteriophage N1 were studied by SDS-urea polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Electrophoretic analysis of highly purified virions revealed that N1 phage is composed of six structural polypeptides which were designated VP1 through VP6. Molecular weights of the virion polypeptides were estimated to be 103,000 (VP1), 76,000 (VP2), 66,000 (VP3), 51,000 (VP4), 26,000 (VP5), and 16,750 (VP6) daltons. Quantitative analysis of electropherograms of N1 indicated that VP4, VPS, and VP6 are major components of the virion representing 46%, 29%, and 19% of the weight of the virion protein, respectively. The three minor polypeptides VP1, VP2, and VP3 …

Factors Which Affect Job Satisfaction And Dissatisfaction Of Male And Female Interscholastic Head Coaches, John E. Ritter Jr.

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Statement of Problem

This study was conducted in an effort to determine the sources of job attitudes of male and female interscholastic head coaches in the State of New Mexico. The Herzberg Dual-Factor Theory of job satisfaction formed the theoretical framework upon which this study was developed.

Procedures

A 22 item Job Satisfaction Questionnaires and a Personal Data Sheet, accompanied by an introductory letter, were sent to the entire population of 559 male and female interscholastic head coaches in the State of New Mexico. The introductory lefter, follow-up letter, and fina I post card yielded 469 returns (83.9%) of which …

Attitude Change Of Spinal Cord Injured Males And Their Marital Partner Involved In A Sexual Therapy Program, Joan B. Scott

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to study the changes in attitude of a group of spinal cord injured males and their marital partners after a sexual therapy treatment program. The investigation utilized a two-group design. The experimental group consisted of five couples who had sought treatment of difficulties in the sexual aspect of their relationship and had indicated some degree of inadequacy in this area on the part of one or both partners. The control group consisted of five similar couples who agreed to wait or did not feel ready for the treatment program. In both groups the male …

The Use Of Audio Tape Materials For Teaching Geography To Emotionally Disturbed Children., Richard David Mann

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this study was to determine the applicability and effectiveness of tape presentations in the teaching of geography studies. More specifically it was the purpose of this study to determine I) whether students in a special adaptation class score higher on comprehension tests and 2) express a higher level of Interest when taped materials are presented to them as opposed to traditional teaching methods.

The subjects for this study were seven students who have been evaluated through multi-discipline approaches by the Albuquerque Public Schools and placed in a classroom for the emotionally disturbed at McKinley Junior High School, …