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The Internship: A Practical Experience, Guy D. Parr Jr.

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Social Workers' Attitudes About Poverty, Trudy Hussmann

Dissertations and Theses

The purpose of this study is to assess the attitudes of a select group of social workers in the Portland area. The study will focus on their attitudes about the causes of poverty and actions to deal with problems of poverty. These attitudes will be examined in the context of a theoretical framework. The sample consists of those social workers and social work-related professionals who serve as field instructors for the Portland State School of Social Work. This means that the study will also provide information about the attitudes that Portland State social work students are likely to encounter in …

Aspects Of Light In Photography, Christopher Seiberling

Art & Art History ETDs

Light is not only a basic condition for photographic process but also a versatile tool for photographic image-making and a metaphorical agent for photographic expression. In a cross-cultural context, there are universal but complex religious interpretations of light phenomena; light has been associated with mystical experience and alchemical process and has been symbolic of enlightenment or salvation. In literature light implies many ideas, e.g. the "colorless all-color of atheism" (Helville) and the "inexplicable" human condition (Beckett). Current attitudes toward light, generated by advances in technology, dominate fading religious concerns.

Among twentieth century photographers, C.H. White and George Seeley used light …

Corticosterone Levels And The Critical Period In Imprinting Behavior Of Domestic Chicks, Lorraine Feldman

Biology ETDs

The following research was undertaken to monitor a glucocorticoid corticosterone to determine whether or not a reduction in glucocorticoids occurs during the critical period of imprinting behavior. Two groups of domestic chicks (Schaffer white Leghorns) were incubated, hatched and maintained under brooding conditions prior to imprinting procedures. Chicks were first divided into seven age groups, four hour intervals, beginning at hatching. The critical period of imprinting behavior was established with Group I. Success of imprinting training in this group was tested 24 hours after the training sessions. The second group provided blood samples taken after imprinting training sessions; they were …

Optimal Linear Coding For A Multichannel System, Kyong-Hwa Lee

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This paper is concerned with the problem of obtaining the optimal linear vector coding (transformation) method that matches an r-dimensional vector signal and a k-dimensional channel under a given channel power constraint. the encoder converts the r correlated random variables into r independent random variables and selects at most k independent random variables which correspond to the k largest eigenvalues of the signal covarience matrix Q. The encoder reinserts cross-correlation into the k random variables in such a way that the largest eigenvalue of Q is assigned to the smallest eigenvalue of the channel noise covarience matrix R and the …

Sherwood Anderson, Charles Burchfield, And The American Small Town, Jerome Paul Shea

American Studies ETDs

This study explores the American small town, located (for the study's purposes) principally in the turn-of-the-century Midwest, and its reflection in the works of the American writer, Sherwood Anderson, and the American painter, Charles Burchfield.

A large portion of the study is devoted to the small town itself: its place in our history and in our myths. To that end, many pages are devoted to the highlights of American history from 1875 to 1925, to some of the representative phenomena of that period, and to our geographical myths (e.g., "out West" versus "back East") which came together in the Midwest. …

Substantive And Ideological Aspects Of Science: An Analysis Of The Velikovsky Controversy, Robert E. Mcaulay

Sociology ETDs

Conventional conceptions of Science hold that assessment of scientific ideas takes place without extraneous economic, social or cultural interference. Thus, while metaphysical-cultural beliefs may be integral to a theory's genesis, evaluation of scientific merit is seen to be largely based on the empirical evidence provided by observation and experiment. In fact, however, without impugning scientific knowledge it is possible to demonstrate that both substantive and ideological factors may regularly influence the course of scientific practice. Analysis of the reception afforded the ideas of Immanuel Velikovsky reveal that, as in the case of the Copernican Revolution, extra-scientific influences may intertwine with …

Stabilization Processes Of Existing Adobe Structures, Douglas L. Gallagher

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis discusses the deterioration of existing adobe structures and the solutions available to retard deterioration.

1. The thesis presents information necessary for analyzing the existing structure.
2. The thesis discusses the causes of deterioration in order to stabilize against it.
3. It discusses and illustrates the various forms and visible signs of deterioration.
4. Finally, the thesis shows the reader various solutions that may be implemented to resolve and halt further deterioration of the adobe structure.

The Rock Houses Of Fredericksburg, Texas 1846-1910, Sylvia Lorraine Rusche Cook

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Fredericksburg, Texas was founded in 1846 by German settlers under the sponsorship of the Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas. The Society, composed of a group of German noblemen, was to provide the immigrants with transportation, land, and assistance in making settlements, and the settlers were faced with considerable difficulties after the Society's collapse. The immigrants were primarily farmers and village craftsmen from the central uplands of Germany, a hilly region which bore a striking resemblance to the Fredericksburg area's. But the dissimilarities, the settlement areas' higher, widely fluctuating temperatures, arid its erratic rainfall caused by its …

Architecture/Planning Paradigms: Beyond The Stars, The Wizard Of Oz And The Other, Susan Dreier

Architecture and Planning ETDs

This thesis describes a process or investigation of the presumptions that structure the attitudes and interactions in the field of architecture/planning. Architecture/planning is described, in relation to defined criteria, as a system which maintains academic and professional hierarchies and white perpetuates itself and its self interests. The resulting definitions of problems, solutions and roles within the field are directly linked to the controlling social, political and economic interests that are the status quo. Certain mechanisms direct and maintain the activities of the field in the process of development. For example, the parameters of the low-income housing problem have been traditionally …

Illuminated Porcelain Forms, Janet Kellner

Theses

None provided.

Phenetic Structure And Zoogeography Of North American Insectivorous Bat Faunas, Gregory Michael Shum

Biology ETDs

Eighteen morphological features were measured for 103 species of insectivorous bats found throughout North America. These characters were standardized to a mean of zero and a standard deviation of unity. Using these morphological characters, thirty-one distinct faunas, ranging from a Boreal Forest fauna with three species to a Wet Tropical fauna with 50 species, were analyzed in an 18-dimensional mathematical hyperspace with the numerical taxonomic techniques of distance, correlation and principal components.

The results show that tropical faunas occupy a greater morphological hypervolume than temperate-zone faunas. Morphological packing is not greater in tropical faunas, and it appears that a limiting …

An Interdisciplinary Approach To The Art Experience On An Urban University Central Campus, George Loring Sanders

Architecture and Planning ETDs

PROBLEM

As an interest in art appreciation by the general population grows it becomes more and more important that display techniques expand tremendously so as to allow the largest diversity of persons possible to participate. The construction of university art museums has been extensive in recent years. However there has been no comprehensive body of work studying the implications of a project designed to totally immerse art experience in the educative process on a university campus. A university campus, by its very nature, is an elite institution. The problem then becomes how to make it less so by visually and …

Efficacy Of Bunamidine Hydrochloride Against Immature And Mature Stages Of Echinococcus Granulosus, Lauritz A. Jensen

Theses and Dissertations

A study was conducted to determine the efficacy of bunamidine hydrochloride against the immature and mature stages of Echinococcus granulosus found in Utah. Twenty-seven dogs were obtained from local animal shelters and experimentally infected with the parasite. The drug was given at dosage levels of 25 mg/kg to 50 mg/kg of bodyweight. It was from 85.9 to 98.8% effective against the immature stage, and 100% effective against the adult stage. The results suggest that this drug can feasibly be used under field conditions where hydatid disease is endemic.

Fingertip Skin Temperature As An Indicator Of Affect Arousal, Michael A. Glazer

Psychology ETDs

This experiment was concerned with investigating the effectiveness of fingertip skin temperature as an indicator of anxiety and affect arousal. All fingertip skin temperature data was divided into four levels; an anxiety fingertip skin temperature data level, a nonanxiety fingertip skin temperature data level, a decreasing approach to an anxiety level, and an increasing approach to a nonanxiety level. Fifteen subjects were divided into low, medium, and high anxiety groups based on their Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale Scores. The subjects were attached to the fingertip skin temperature apparatus and 40 minutes of verbal behavior per subject was recorded. The subjects …

Cooperacion Agraria Y El Mejoramiento Del Sector Campesino Venezolano, Augusto S. Moreno Reyes

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Important changes, which have ocurred in the Venezuelan's class structure have resulted in a significant shift in the balance of political power producing more participation by the people. Today, in an attempt to release the country's economy from foreign domination, the state is taking a series of steps such as : nationalization of raw materials, improvement of human values, agrarian reform etc. Not withstanding, the positive changes undergoing, there exists a privileged minority which has strong economic power (capital, land and commerce). This minority, whose economic interests are usually subordinated to foreign capitalistic organizations has control upon the domestic market …

The Effects Of Windowless Classrooms On The Cognitive And Affective Behavior Of Elementary School Students, Bryan Miles Romney

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Windowless school buildings are currently being proposed as a design solution to the problems of vandalism, energy conservation, and building costs. However, little consideration is being given to the effects of windowless classrooms on the students and teachers inside. The intent of this thesis was to describe the effect of windowless classrooms on three specific areas of cognitive behavior: rote learning, concept formation, and perceptual ability. In addition, a description of student and teacher affective behavior, based on formal observations, was included. Two identical sixth grade classes were selected for this study. The experimental period was divided into two three-week …

The Social Consciousness Of Mark Twain, Rose W. Caudill

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the School of Social Sciences at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in History by Rose W. Caudill on December 4, 1975.

Journey Into The World: An Analysis Of The Religious, Artistic, Educational And Political Forces That Have Determined The World View Of An American, Rodger Kent Scott

American Studies ETDs

The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the cultural forces that have influenced the religious, artistic, educational and political values of an American male who was born in Central Texas and spent the formative years of his childhood in that environment. After receiving a public school and university education in Texas, that person traveled to more than 20 countries, spending five years in four of those countries : France, Germany, Colombia, and Japan. Working and studying in France, serving in the United States Army in Germany and in the Peace Corps in Colombia, teaching in Japan, and …

A Precipitation Model And Experimental Correlation With Various Properties Of Pentaerythritol Tetranitrate, Thomas Rivera

Chemistry and Chemical Biology ETDs

A continuous precipitation method for the preparation of crystalline pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN) has been developed. The process involves the precipitation of PETN from an acetone solution by the addition of water in a static mixer. The principal independent variable is the ratio, R, of the acetone-PETN solution flow rate to the flow rate of water.

A mathematical model based on dispersed plug-flow equations adequately represents the physical process. The relationships developed can be used to predict particle size distributions, two explosion properties of PETN, and estimate the effective kinetics involved in the precipitation process. The mass-weighted mean particle size, L, …

Cognitive Manipulation Of Test Anxiety Through False Emotional Feedback And Modeling, John Russell Jacobson

Psychology ETDs

The effects of false emotional feedback and modeling on the cognitive manipulation of test anxiety were studied. A Composite Scale of Test Anxiety (Koenig, 1973) was administered to introductory psychology students. The distribution of scores was divided into thirds, and subjects were defined as either high, average, or low test-anxious. Forty-eight high and forty-eight low test-anxious subjects were then randomly chosen from subjects in the pretest population who had volunteered to participate in the actual experiment. They were assigned to each of four conditions (false emotional feedback, modeling, combined false emotional feedback and modeling, and control). There were 12 subjects …

A Study Of Compensatory Techniques For Special Freshmen At Morehead State University, Nancy Diane High

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Specialist in Education Degree by Nancy Diane High on December 3, 1975.

The Senate Small Business Committee During World War Ii, Catherine Neff Bugg

Student Work

That small business was essential to the American way of life was an unquestionable tenet of both liberals and conservatives in the government prior to and during the Second World War. Both political factions also agreed that the war needed to be won and that great sacrifices would be necessary in order to achieve that victory. Beyond these two basic areas of agreement, however, great divergence as to the methods to be used for conserving and protecting small business while fighting an all-out war for survival soon became apparent. Nowhere was this conflict more obvious than in the formation of …

The Ideology Of Growth And The Utopia Of Equilibrium, John C. Cunningham

Student Work

This study focuses on the ongoing social processes of theory formation. It is a description of how individuals as members of a concrete social group think about social systems, share their world views within their group, explain their ideas to others, and attempt to produce realities corresponding to these ideas. The types of individuals under consideration are "policymakers" or "decisionmaker," and the substantive issue is that of theories about global trends of world growth, particularly economic growth. The study depicts the procress of social change as a sonstruction arising out of interaction between social groups with conflicting visions of past, …

Locus Of Control And Aspiration In Feminist And Traditional Women, Shelagh Emmott

Student Work

The concept of locus of control has been a widely-researched one in recent years. An outgrowth of Rotter's (1954) social learning theory, it has found application in the prediction of a diversity of behaviors, some, such as achievement behavior and resistance to conformity pressure, of considerable social import. Locus of control has been conceived of as an expectancy variable concerning the individual's beliefs as to the amount of control he exerts over important reinforcements; expectations predicated upon the validation of experience over the course of time. At its internal pole, the construct refers to the generalized expectation that reinforcements are …

Parental Attitudes Toward Their Retarded Child, Barbara Burman Bronston

Student Work

The attitudes parents have towards their retarded child are formed by many people. Previous contact and knowledge about mental retardation is one. The others are, contacts with the medical profession, reactions from other family members, and how the community supports and helps this group of people. Guilt and anger that parents have also contribute to their attitudes. In many cases the parents will feel a groundless personal guilt. (World Health Organization, 1954).

The Relationship Between Qualified And Non Qualified Teaching Personnel In The Nigerian Educational System, Edem C. Umo

Student Work

Nowadays, education is regarded as the key, not only to economic stability of a nation but also to the political and social advancements. This growing consciousness to the importance of education, has in recent years almost doubled the pace of educational improvements in many countries. While the advanced nations are busy adjusting their educational systems to suit their objectives and changing needs, the developing nations try to imbibe and adapt their local situations. As in many other parts of Africa, Nigeria is no exception to making some educational progress.

A Study Of The Attitudes Of Parents And Graduates Toward The Group Guide Program In Technical High School, Grace Leonn Davis

Student Work

The members of the Omaha Board of Education, through the office of the Superintendent of Schools, made provisions for the school year 1972 to 1973. One of the changes was to revise the curriculum. A Task Force was formed in June of 1972, to work on curriculum revision and staffing. The Task Force was composed of fifty-two persons from the Omaha School System. The Task Force included teachers from Technical High School, teachers from other high schools, Administrators from Technical High School and the Central Administration.

The History Of Notre Dame Academy Omaha, Nebraska, Anita Rolenc

Student Work

"I give Him to you that you may make Him grow."· With these words, the Virgin Mary extended the Infant Jesus to the open arms of Blessed Alix Le Clerc. Since that vision in 1597, nearly four hundred years ago, the School Sisters de Notre Dame have carried on the work of education begun by Alix Le Clerc and a small band of women, under the direction of St. Peter Fourier. On Christmas night 1597, a new Religious Order came into being in Lorraine, France. From here the Congregation spread throughout Europe. In 1853 the Reverend Gabriel Schneider established the …

Quality Control Standards For Cooked Frozen Green Beans Held Heated For Varying Holding Times, Anna Mae Brenner

Doctoral Dissertations

Objective quality control standards for prepared food, held heated for varying periods of time were studied. Frozen Grade A whole stringless Peco and Slender White string green beans grown, blast frozen, and packaged in Tennessee were used.

Before cooking, 12 lb of each variety were randomly chosen, removed from the freezer and package, mixed together, then divided into seven 735 g portions. Portions were placed in seven half-size shallow stainless steel steam table inset pans marked with holding times of 0, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, and 60 minutes.

All pans of green beans were steamed at one time for …