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An Evaluation Of The Precision Teaching Project, Jerilynn Dorow

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Rapture In The Spirituality Of St. Thomas Aquinas, Diane L. Harwood

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A Learner Verification And Revision Of A Programmed Text Teaching Stock Market Concepts And Operations To High School Introductory Business Students, Edward T. Huth

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An Analytical Study Of Twentieth-Century Cadential Techniques, Rhenda Ronfeldt Pease

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The purpose of this paper is to devise a codification of twentieth-century cadential techniques used by some of the major representative composers. It is because Debussy had such a profound impact upon twentieth-century music -·because of his innovations and influences upon this century's composition - that he is included in this paper. His music will serve as the beginning step away from traditional cadence procedures. Twentieth century compositions which are non-tonal and basically tonal will be studied for their non-traditional cadential procedures. Traditional procedures refer to those classical clichés which one expects to hear at cadence points, such as: IV-V-I; …

Report Of An Internship In The Office Of Curriculum Planning And Evaluation In Grand Rapids Public Schools, Joseph Steven Miller

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A Demographic And Behavioristic Description Of Visitors To Cherokee, N.C., Shirley Louise Hyatt

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The identification of demographic and behavioristic characteristics of summer visitors to Cherokee, North Carolina, which would provide a basis for marketing decisions, was undertaken in this research. A survey of visitors was conducted in Cherokee during the summer season to determine characteristics of the visitors.

Data were collected with a self-administered questionnaire that was distributed at sixteen businesses which proportionately represented craft shops, motels, restaurants, campgrounds, amusement attractions, and cultural attractions. Distribution points, dates, and times were randomly selected. Analysis of the data revealed behavioral and demographic characteristics of the summer visitor and behavioral influences on demographic segments.

The strongest …

A Multivariate Analysis Of Palatal Measurements In Four Populations, David M. Glassman

Masters Theses

This study presents a multivariate analysis based on sets of twenty-six palatal measurements from males and females of three racial groups. The analysis examines the occurrence and degree of inter- and intrapopulational relationships. Morphological interpretations are provided whenever possible for the multivariate functions and factors identified. Additionally, discriminant functions from which individuals may be classified into their proper racial and sexual group are calculated and their degree of accuracy discussed.

The data for this investigation were obtained from two skeletal collections. Representatives of Negro and White populations were provided from the Terry Collection housed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural …

The Ducks Nest Site: A Small Mississippian Site In Warren County, Tennessee, Gerald Wesley Kline

Masters Theses

Archaeological investigations conducted at the Ducks Nest site (40WR4), situated on a ridge in the Barren Fork drainage in the Eastern Highland Rim of Middle Tennessee, resulted in the excavation of a small Mississippian component consisting of two superimposed wall trench structures and six features. These cultural remains and the artifacts and ecofacts recovered in association are described and discussed. It is concluded that the Ducks Nest site was occupied on a year round basis over a limited number of years during the first half of the twelfth century A.D. by a small social group that was trophically self-sufficient.

The Mississippian Component At The Eoff I Site, Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, Lloyd Norris Chapman

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Analysis of the Mississippian component features from the Eoff I site in the Normandy Reservoir, upper Duck River, Coffee County, Tennessee, has indicated that the component represents an Early ,Mississippian Banks phase occupation dating from between A.D. 1068 and A.D. 1170. The spatial distribution of features at the site along with the artifactual content of these features suggests that a major cluster of features was placed in consistent arrangement with each of two semisubterranean structures. A storage zone is possibly indicated by a cluster of features with morphological characteristics usually associated with storage facilities and also by the significantly larger …

Effects Of Plant Growth Regulators On Phaseolus Vulgaris L., Zea Mays And Gossypium Arboreum, Soon Woon Toh

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The effects of gibberellic acid (GA^). 1-Triacontanol (Triac) and Liquid of Ferment (OCB) were studied on snap beans (Phaseolus vulgaris cv. Early Gallatin), fieldcorn (Zea mays cv. T232xGT112) and tissues of cotton(Gosoypium arboreum cv. Nanking). A split-plot design was used in all experiments. Treatments were replicated three and four times in greenhouse and field experiments, respectively. Main plot treatments consisted of seed soak and foliar spray and sub-plot treatments consisted of growth regulator levels. Factors evaluated in snap beans were:yield, pod number and weight by sieve size distribution,plant height, width, fresh and dry weight. Factors evaluated on the field corn …

A Study Of Crop Income Fluctuations For Farm Plans Developed To Meet Specified Soil Erosion Loss Levels On Four West Tennessee Farms, John M. Zinn

Masters Theses

Four West Tennessee upland row crop farms were selected as representative of those in the area. Soil losses were estimated for the farmers' current soil management system using the Universal Soil Loss Predicting Equation. The returns to land and management generated by the farmers' current soil management system were estimated using yield data and crop budgets published in University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletins. A set of fifteen cropping systems and four soil management practices were used to develop soil management plans to hold soil losses at approximately 5 ton/acre/year, 10 ton/acre/year and greater than or equal to 20 …

Migration, Distribution And Breeding Of American Woodcock, Thomas H. Roberts

Masters Theses

Woodcock are widely distributed over Tennessee, but are most common during fall and spring in the Great Valley, Central Basin, and throughout western Tennessee. Harvest records indicate that peak fall migration occurs in mid-November. In 1977 and 1978, spring migration began during mid-February, and ended during mid-March. Peak migration occurred in late February or early March, but this chronology may not be representative of normal years. Testes lengths averaged 9.2 mm, indicating that male woodcock are in breeding condition by mid-February. Follicle development suggested that 44 percent of the females collected in February 1977 and 52 percent of the females …

Social Interaction In Juvenile Channel Catfish, Lynda Lee Roys

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Social interactions between 11 pairs of channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) were observed and discrete behavioral units were described and analyzed. Dominant fish engaged regularly in aggressive activities and never in submissive activities, whereas subordinate fish were observed in submissive activities on a regular basis and rarely in those that were aggressive. Activity levels were significantly higher in dominant fish. There was no significant difference in activity levels between pairs equal and unequal in size. A factor analysis indicated three motivational systems underlying the social behavior in juveniles and two behaviors, which appeared as displacement activities, were functioning in agonistic encounters. …

A Study Of Agricultural Extension Radio Usage And Production In Tennessee And Iran With Special Emphasis On Script And Tape Packet Material Development And Evaluation, Mohammad Ali Shams

Masters Theses

This multi-method study was concerned with a study of agricultural Extension radio usage and production in Tennessee and Iran with special emphasis on script and tape packet material development and evaluation. Library research was used to gather information about the background of agricultural Extension radio in Tennessee and Iran. Questionnaires were used to survey the opinions of 75 Tennessee radio stations about the quality and usefulness of two University of Tennessee packets, Radio Script Service (Scripts) and Farm and Home Briefs (Tapes) in general for 1978 and specifically for the weeks of July 31 and August 7, 1978. Also, a …

Endomycorrhizal Infection Of Containerized Yellow-Poplar Seedlings, Victor Lavann Ford

Masters Theses

Yellow-poplar, an important hardwood in the Southern Appalachians, can be infected with the endomycorrhizal fungi, Glomus masseae (Nicol. and Gerede.) Gerdemann and Trappe and Glomus fasuculatus (Thaxter) Gerdemann and Trappe. Objectives were to determine (1) the effects of various mycorrhizal inocula on seedling growth, (2) the developmental patterns of seedling root infection and corresponding seedling growth, (3) a correlation between fungal structures and seedling growth rates (4) the technology of seedling propagation in Spencer-Lemaire rootrainers. Sterilized growth medium in rootrainers was amended with inocula of Glomus mosseae, Glomus fasciculatus, Glomus masseae plus Glomus fasciculatus soil from a natural yellow-poplar stand, …

Interaction Of Temperature And Growth Retardants On Pimento Pepper, Priyavadan A. Joshi

Masters Theses

The effects of temperature and growth retardants were studied on pimiento pepper. Seedlings were subjected to night temperatures of 12°-13°C or 20°-21°C for 21 days after the appearance of first true leaves. Drench and foliar application of the growth retardants (2-chloroethyl) trimethylammonium chloride (CCC) and N-dimethylamino succinamic acid (SADH) at concentrations of 10⁻²M, 10⁻³M and 10⁻⁴M were made at the 2, 4-6 and 6-8 leaf stages of growth. In the greenhouse, interaction of temperature and growth retardants resulted in an increase in number of flower buds and fruits set and subsequently enhanced flower and fruit development and fruit ripening. Treated …

Heat Inactivation Of Trypsin Inhibitor In Vegetable-Type Soybeans And Physiological Responses Of Rats To These Beans, Brenda Faye Beaty

Masters Theses

The objective of this investigation was to determine the effect of boiling water on the inactivation of trypsin inhibitor in green vegetable-type soybeans and to determine the effect of feeding the heat-treated soybeans to rats on weight gain, protein efficiency ratio, pancreas weight, liver weight, percentages of lipid and protein in the liver and histology of the pancreas. Trypsin inhibitor activity decreased rapidly with a short heating time. In soybeans heated one minute, 62% of the TIA was destroyed, whereas in soybeans heated nine minutes, 96% of the TIA was destroyed. Rats fed raw soybeans weighed less than rats fed …

Yield And Quality Responses Of Summer Annual Grasses To Different Management Regimes, Rodney J. Creel

Masters Theses

Sorghum-sudangrass hybrids (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and improved pearlmillets (Pennisetum americanum (L.) Leeke) produce large amounts of forage in summer when most cool season forage crops have slowed production.

To determine some plant and environment characteristics and the extent of cultivar x management interaction over a broad spectrum of managements, four summer annual grass cultivars were subjected to 19 different defoliation frequency and stubble height managements at Knoxville, Tennessee in 1976 and 1977. The cultivars were Chowmaker 235, Sweet Sioux III, FS-531 sorghum-sudangrass hybrids, and Millhy 99 pearlmillet. The plots were sidedressed with nitrogen (N) twice during the summer and …

Composition And Structure Of Replacement Forest Stands Following Southern Pine Beetle Infestations As Related To Selected Site Variables In The Great Smoky Mountains, Nathaniel White Kuykendall Iii

Masters Theses

Stand composition and eleven site factors were sampled in 49 stands in the Great Smoky Mountains in which the pine overstory had been killed by the southern pine beetle. Replacement community types were determined using cluster analysis of relative densities for 21 common species. absolute densities for total stems, total pine, total oak, and eight individual species in the overstory, understory, and reproduction strata were related to selected site and vegetation variables by correlation and stepwise multiple regression.

Infestations greatly reduced the importance of pine in all replacement stands, converting most pine dominated stands to mixed pine-hardwood. Pine reproduction was …

The Lithic Assemblage Of The Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Jerrel H. Sorensen

Masters Theses

Introduction

Orientation

In A History of American Archaeology Willey and Sabloff (1974) outline the development of archaeological method and theory in the Western Hemisphere. The authors defined 5 periods through which they traced advances in archaeology from the time Europe first discovered the New World. Each other these periods is characterized by certain attitudes and orientations toward archaeological data. Old ideas changed as new information, new tools of discovery, and new ways of interpretation and explanation transformed archaeology into what it is today.

Archaeologists are now in the Explanatory Period (Willey and Sabloff 1974:178). This period's theoretical orientation can be …

A Descriptive Study Of Parish Clergy And Their Counseling Practices, Gregory J. Ludlow

Masters Theses

First paragraph:

It has been the function of societies throughout history to provide comfort and support for it's troubled members. In the past, this function was performed by the society's religious institutions.Today, as in the past, people who want solutions.to the problems they experience, or who want to gain pathways to possible solutions, look to their religion, their church organization, their clergyman, to their God. The clergymen of a community are apt to be the first professionals of that community to be consulted when the need for help is felt.

The Influence Of Food On Induction Of Males In Daphnia Pulex, Paul Henry Schreuder

Masters Theses

Introduction

Daphnia pulex Leydig (Crustacea, Cladocera) is a common component of the zooplankton of freshwater lakes and ponds. Its importance in the aquatic trophic structure as food for small fish has long been recognized.

Typical populations of daphnia consist almost exclusively of females. Under favorable conditions this situation is perpetuated by parthenogenetic reproduction. Eggs produced in this manner are referred to as parthenogenetic or summer eggs. When stressed by falling temperatures, drought, overpopulation, or starvation, populations shift to sexual.reproduction. Parthenogenetic eggs are produced which develop into males. Other eggs known as ephippial or winter eggs are also produced, which after …

Acquisition Of Problem-Solving Behavior Via Precurrent Training, Diane E. Nelles

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A Conceptual Analysis Of Radical Behaviorist Epistemology, Marcia L. Bennett

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Nmr Instrumentation With Solid State Devices, Syed M. Ahmed

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Robert Alfonzo Taft: And The Quest For The Presidency, William Little Hafer

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A Triphasic Design For Comparison Of Three Biofeedback Training Methods On Bilateral Theta Eeg Wave Activity, Morris D. Edwards

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A Comparison Of The Phobic Test Apparatus With Traditional Measures Of Fear And Avoidance, Robert F. Doljanac

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A Study Of User And Nonuser Reactions To Wmu Online Automated Retrieval System (Oars), Janet Dommer

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Music Therapy Versus Music Education: The Effect Of Two Approaches On Severely Emotionally Impaired Children's Musical Growth And Self Esteem Development, Judith Bertsch D'Arcangelis

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