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The Binary Halides Of Molybdenum(Iv) And Tungsten(Iv) And The Oxochlorides Of Tungsten(Vi), Edward Roy Epperson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to investigate the reaction of molybdenum and tungsten dioxides with carbon tetrachloride and bromoform (via the method of Knox and Tyree) to produce anhydrous molybdenum and tungsten tetrachlorides and bromides and to determine whether the method is a reliable one for the synthesis of these compounds. Out of this grew an investigation into the preparation of the oxochlorides of tungsten(VI) using the same preparative technique.

The results of this study are here set forth. An attempt is made to systematize the published material on the synthesis and properties of the binary halides of …

Polarography Of Selected Metal Ions In Anhydrous Aliphatic Diamines, Frederick William Foss Jr.

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

A search of the literature revealed that no study has sought to measure and compare the polarographic solvent properties of the anhydrous aliphatic diamines. In fact, there has been no reported instance of the use of anhydrous 1,3-propanediamine or 1,4-butanediamine in any electro- chemical system.

Polarography As A Measure Of Ionic Environment, James Wilburne Larsen

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The present work is a polarographic study of the alkali metals and selected first row transition metals in DMSO (dimethylsulfoxide) with tetraethylammonium perchlorate as a supporting electrolyte. DMSO was chosen as a solvent because of its interesting solvent and complexing properties. Tetraethylammonium perchlorate was chosen as a supporting electrolyte because of its lack of complex forming tendencies and because of the wide range of voltages available for polarographic investigation before the supporting electrolyte ions react electrochemically.

One of the problems, particularly in nonaqueous polarography, is the low conductivity of the solutions leading to high cell resistance. As current flows through …

Some Spectrophotometric Studies Of Molecular Complexes For Phenanthrene, Anthracene, Pyrene, Chrysene, And Benzanthracene With Iodine Monochloride, Joe Boyd Coacher

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The principal purpose of the present study was to prove the existence of the weak interaction between the halogenoid iodine monochloride and the condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, phenanthrene, anthracene pyrene, chrysene, and benzanthracene (see Figure 1).

Polarography Of Mercury In Aliphatic Diamines, John Charles Richardson

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The problem taken for investigation was discovered when a cryostat needed for use in polarography in liquid ammonia (the original problem) was found broken. For experience it was decided to turn to another form of nonaqueous polarography while the parts were on order. Materials remaining from a previous diamine investigation by Foss (21) were found in the laboratory. After reading the dissertation in which they had been used, it was decided to reproduce some of the results that had been previously obtained. Following preparation of the chemicals and several polarographic runs, a previously unreported wave was persistently observed. Further perusal …

Studies On The Rates Of Mutarotation Of The Benzyl-N-Carbobenzoxy-D-Glucosaminides, Kamthorn Sukumarabandhu

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The independent interconversion of alpha-N-carbobenzoxy-D-glucosaminide to the beta- form, and vice versa, suggests that the proper treatment of the rate data must involve a system of opposing reactions. It is evident from the data cited in the preceding chapter that such opposing rates must necessarily involve the HCl which is included in the reaction mixture. Thus, as the first approach to the analyzed data, it is reasonable to suppose that the rate law for opposing second-order rates will apply. However, it is also apparent from the data that the concentration of HCl used in all this work exceeds the glycoside …

A New Two-Position Protecting Group: Preparation And Properties Of Glucopyranosido-(1,2: 4',5')-2'-Oxazolidone And Syntheses Of D-Glucosaminides, Sharad Ramchandra Kulkarni

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The present work consists of two parts. The first part contains the synthesis of 3,4,6-tri-o-benzoyl-D-glucopyranosido-[1,2:4¹,5¹]-2¹-oxazolidone (III) and the study of its chemistry in order to determine whether it could be used as a simultaneous protecting group for C₁ and C₂ in the preparation of new aminosugars. The second part covers the synthesis and de-o-benzoylation of β-D-glucosaminides. The products thus obtained can be used to prepare new disaccharides. In addition new aminosugar derivatives have been prepared.

School District Reorganization For Calaveras County, California., Henry Schiffman

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Problem

Formal education can be carried on in many settings ranging from simple one-teacher school in a small district to a multi-school system offering an extensive number of services. Because not all districts are equally efficient, from time to time it is necessary to reevaluate the administrative structure of education in a particular area. For this reason, this study has been made of the four existing school districts which comprise all the territory in Calaveras County in an effort to answer the question, "What is the most advantageous type of school district organization for Calaveras County?" This problem has been …

The Effect Of The Severely Mentally Retarded Child On His Family, Carolyn Mary Fowle

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The general purpose of this study is to attempt to determine whether or not the presence of a severely mentally retarded child has deleterious effects upon the family. The hypothesis that a retarded child tends to have a disintegrating effect upon his parents’ marriage has frequently been stated, but there has been little systematic research concerning the relationship of severely retarded children and the marital interaction patterns of their parents.

A common belief in the area of mental retardation is that the presence of a retarded child in family has an adverse effect on the other siblings. This is one …

A Proposed Program Of Supervision Of Instruction In Public Junior Colleges, Louis Quint

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purposes of this study were: (1) to discover and report current policies, programs, and procedures for supervision of instruction, (2) to identify, classify, and quantify the essential elements of programs of supervision of instruction, (3) to analyze administrative staffing for supervision of instruction in public junior colleges, and (4) to develop a proposed plan for supervision of instruction for junior colleges.

The Relationship Between Daydreams And Manifest Needs, Donald Cooper Watkins

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

For many years psychologists have been interested in studying methods by which it is possible to assess the presence and strengths of needs (drives) within the human being. In particular, is has long been felt that the needs of an individual are expressed in his daydreams or fantasies. The purpose of the present study was, then, to investigate empirically the relationship between reported daydreaming behavior and manifest needs.

Lebanon: A Bridge In International Affairs : The Role Of Lebanese Positive Neutrality, Edward Elias Azar

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

GEOGRAPHY

Lebanon, a small state on the eastern shores of the Mediterranean sea, is the home of about two million people in approximately four thousand square miles.

The Coastal Stript

The narrow coastal strip is about five to ten miles wide, but at some places it disappears completely. Olives, citrus fruits, bananas, and different kinds of vegetables are cultivated intensively all along the Mediterranean coast.

An Analysis Of The Recruitment Processes Of Volunteer Leaders In The Y.M.C.A., Frederick Edwin Stickney

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to determine the theories of recruitment and compensations utilized by the Young Men's Christian Association to compare the reasons given by a selected group of volunteer leaders in the Young Men's Christian Association for their volunteer work with the opinions given by a selected group of Young Men's Christian Association program secretaries.

Drift Bottle Studies At Bodega Head, California, Robert Jay Hamby

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Despite the fact that considerable information now exists on the major oceanic current system, off the Pacific Coast, little is known about the near shore currents in many regions of the west coast states. The Bodega Bay area of California is a case in point. Because of the proposed construction of a nuclear-powered steam plant on Bodega Head and its proximity to both the Pacific Marine Station of the University of the Pacific and to the future marine laboratory of the University of California, it has become necessary to learn as much as possible about the currents in the immediate …

Un Informe Sobre El Arte Culinario Y Nutricion : Presentado Al Professorado De La Graduate School, University Of The Pacific, Alice Lee Harris

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Antigone : A Creative Venture, Marian Mcarthur Leach

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Statement of the problem. It was the purpose of this study (l) to determine and illustrate the influence of time, culture and production situation upon the form and content of two plays based on the Greek legend of Antigone; the texts in question were those of Sophocles and Anouilh; and (2) to determine and illustrate the same influence of time, culture, and production situation upon the means of producing Lewis Galantiere's adaptation of Anouilh's Antigone at the University of the Pacific Play box in the Spring of 1965.

Impact Of Technology On Labor, Allan Jeong Wong

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It is not the intent of this paper to contribute to the body of technological knowledge nor even to report on it at length, but to investigate in one area the important economic and social effect caused by technological progress. It is the intent of this study to answer or at least throw some light on the problem of the technological impact on labor.

Development Through Community Effort Of An Early Training Program For Culturally Disadvantaged Children, Rita Williams Emery

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Each year children of seasonal worker who reside in the labor camps of the Patterson-Westley area enter kindergarten unable to learn. They are disadvantaged by comparison with children from the middle-class homes in the community. The organization and development of Del Puerto School for Pre-Kindergarten Children was a community effort to alleviate some of the cultural deprivation experienced by the children.

Fock's Representation For Molecular Orbitals, Tai-Ichi Shibuya

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

V. Fock studied the hydrogen atom problem in momentum space by projecting the space onto a 4-dimensional hyper-sphere. He found that as a consequence of the symmetry of the problem in this space the eigen-functions are the R₄ spherical harmonics and that the eigenvalues are determined only by the principal quantum number n. In this chapter we note that if his method is applied to the 2-dimensional Kepler problem in momentum space, the eigenfunctions are the R₃ spherical harmonics, Y_1m, and the eigenvalues are determined only by the quantum number 1. These facts enable one to …

A Recommended One-Year Buddhist Curriculum For High School Seniors In The Buddhist Churches Of America, Laverne Senyo Sasaki

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The present research attempts to discover a type of Buddhist curriculum which will best suit the needs and interests of the high school senior (twelfth grader) Buddhists in the United States. The present Buddhist Churches of America recommended curriculum in use covers only the pre-school through the eighth grades. There is an obvious need for a Buddhist curriculum in the important upper grades. As this proposed curriculum is directed to twelfth graders, the compilation of a curriculum for the other three grades {ninth, tenth, and eleventh) still remains to be completed.

Personality Correlates Of Creativity, David Howard Schroeder

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of the present study is twofold: (1) to investigate the extent to which changing criteria of creativity influences the selection of subjects with different personality characteristics; and (2) to determine if the selection of different subjects by different criteria of creativity also extends to the different scoring methods which can be applied to the same test of creativity.

The specific hypothesis to be tested in this study are: (1) There will be low or non-significant correlations both between the two specific tests of creativity and between the various methods of scoring each test.; (2) The subjects selected by …

Spectrophotometric Study Of The Copper (Ii) Complexes Of Alpha-Omega Diamino Adipic Acid And Alpha-Omega Diamino Pimelic Acid, Julius Caesar Hastings

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The chenistry of diamino dicarboxylic acids together with that of monoamino dicarboxylie and monocarboxylic acids in of great importance to the chemist because of the rolation- ship of these compounds to the biochemistry of cancer.

Diamino dicarboxylic acids in general, contain two asymmetric carbon atoms and may exist in one optically inactive and two optically active forma. Alpha-omoga diamino pinolic acid is the only member of the alpha-omoga diamino dicarboxylic acids thus far known to occur naturally.

An Inquiry Into The Causes Of The Defeat Of The Republican Party In California In 1958, John Andrew Walker

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

California has been traditionally a Republican state, yet the Republicans have been unable to regain their traditional dominance since their defeat in 1958. The 1958 election represented a fundamental shift in the nature of California politics. More than that, the defeat of the Republicans pointed up a fundamental weakness in the Republican party.

Birch Reduction Of Benzenesulfonamide And Benzenephosphonic Acid, Tony Ping-Fong Niem

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The use of an alkalai metal dissolved in liquid ammonia and a proton source such as alcohol to affect partial reduction of aromatic compounds, commonly known as the BIrch reduction, has proven to be a synthetic procedure of great utility. (1) The flexibility and usefulness of this reaction has attracted increasing attention in recent times, primarily by BIrch (1,2). The overall reaction occuring during the Birch reduction of benzene is indicated by Figure 1. [see PDF]

Birch has suggested that the reaction may proceed by the transfer of one electron to the aromatic nucleus to give a radical anion or …

Fluorescein As A Reagent In A Spectrophotometric Determination Of Micro-Amounts Of Iodine: Application To Glucose Determination, Donald Eugene Braun

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The increasing awareness of the close inter-relationships between biological activity and chemical reactions has resulted in a rapidly growing pursuit of biochemical knowledge. Research in the related fields of medicine, virology, pharmacy, and biophysics is expanding at a rapid rate. Problems related to food production for an exploding population, space explorations, world health issues, the utilization of the resources of the oceans, and the proper employment of energy sources have spurred man to delve deeper into the secrets of creation. The mysteries of life itself are slowly being revealed through finding in egentic studies.

With this ever expanding biochemical and …

An Historical Study Of The Adoption Of The Fifth-Year Requirement For High School Certification In California, Calvin Richard Boyes

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

This is an historical study depicting how California came to adopt the requirement of a fifth year of preparation for secondary teachers. It is hoped that through a better understanding of such a milestone event those interested in teacher education will be able to view current educational problems with greater insight. This insight should include the knowledge that California's fifth-year requirement, though being the first in the United States, was just one of the steps in the development of better certification in this State and the nation. Through remembering how this one significant event_ the adoption of the fifth-year requirement, …

Differences In Team And Standard Approaches To Counselor Education, Patricia Baker Mallars

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

It was the purpose of this study to evaluate the effectiveness of counseling by comparing results of a counseling tema approach with those of a standard counseling approach. The criterion of effective counseling was client, counselor, and supervisor satisfaction with the counseling experience. The following background questions were raised. Would the perceptions as experiences in the two counseling practicum approaches be measured as significantly different? What in both approaches would be common perceptions among the student counselor, his client, and the student counselor supervisor of what constitutes a satisfying counseling interaction? What common perceptions of the counseling experience would be …

Anomers Of D-Galactosamine Benzoates, Robert Stanley Strong

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

D-Galactosamine has been known as one of the rarer amino sugars, occurring widely distributed in small concentrations in living organisms. The biological importance of D-galactosamine and its derivatives was thought to justify a study of the chemical properties of this group of compounds. As a result of this study the reactions of D-galactosamine have been found to differ more than previously thought from those of D-glucosamine, the more common amino sugar

For this investigation D-galactosamine hydrochloride was isolated from chondroitin sulfate, a polysaccharide obtained from the cartilaginous tissues of animals. This was changed by appropriate reactions to the 1,3,4,6-tetra-0-benzoyl-N-carbobenzoxy-α-β-D-galactosamine (III). …

A Survey Study Of The Curriculum Of The Conservatory Of Music, University Of The Pacific, Stockton, California, From 1924 To 1964, Alvin Emil Liedstrand

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to investigate the history and development of the curriculum of the Conservatory of Music of the University of the Pacific from 1924 to 1954, and to indicate change as they occurred. The beginning point of this study was chosen because it coincides with the move of the institution from San Jose, California, to its present location in Stockton, California.

Specific problems to be investigated are: (1) The history of the Conservatory of Music.; (2) Curriculum changes from 1924 to 1964 as revealed in selected Bulletins of the University of the Pacific.; (3) The Aims …

An Investigation Of The Okinawan Reversion Movement, Louis Howard Dearing

University of the Pacific Theses and Dissertations

Patrick Henry and Thomas Paine might have been better equipped to understand the Okinawan reversion movement than are most Americans today. Many Americans in Okinawa wonder why, in the light of the obvious military and economic advantages of American occupation of the Ryukyus, an over- whelming majority of the Ryukyus wish to return to Japan. The question includes, of course, a full periphery of qualifications relating to degree and schedule of withdrawal, but the fact remains that no Japanese or okinawan politician dares oppose eventual reversion.