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The Relation Of Soil And Other Site Factors To Forest Composition And Productivity In West Tennessee, Edwin Atkins Hebb

Doctoral Dissertations

Forest are important in the economy of Tennessee because so much of the state is forested. Half of west Tennessee, for example, is in forest, and since no other productive use is likely for the marginal land so used, it will probably remain forested.

According to a report prepared by the Tennessee Forest Industries Committee in 1957, industries based ultimately on the forests number about one-third of all manufacturing establishments in the state. In west Tennessee, with half of the area actually in forest, the forest economy forms a large part of the total economy of a region of limited …

A Geographical Analysis Of The Production And Marketing Of Fresh Fruits And Vegetables In Florida, Georgia, And South Carolina, Sidney Roberts Jumper

Doctoral Dissertations

One of the more recent developments in the field of geography has been an interest in the marketing of agricultural and industrial products. A few geographers have made studies of a general nature in the realm of marketing and many business and economic experts have made careful inquiries into the costs of marketing various products. There have been few studies, however, of detailed investigations of the geographic aspects of the marketing of specific commodities.

The Effect Of Infection With Pasteurella Tularensis On The Metabolism Of White Rats, Gennaro John Miraglia

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: Although tularemia is generally considered to be a disease of rodents and of small ground animals, man is an occasional host. The early workers in this field succeeded in isolating and describing the causative organism, and in a relatively short time its nutritional requirements and cultural characteristics were fairly well understood. In slightly more than a decade after Pasteurella tularensis was first isolated (McCoy and Chapin, 1912), both American and Japanese workers had reported on its symptomatology, pathology, and epidemiology.

In more recent years, efforts have been directed to studies of the bacterium itself in an attempt to understand …

The Effectiveness Of Internal Communication In Selected School Systems In East Tennessee, Ralph Martin Peters

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: The superintendents of several public school systems in East Tennessee met during the summer of 1959 to form an organization for the purpose of improving public schools through cooperative study and research. This organization was named "Public Schools for Cooperative Research" and soon came to be known as "PSCR." For a number of years such an organization had been the topic of many informal discussions in which superintendents visualized its possibilities and potentialities. Staff members of the Department of Educational Administration and Supervision in the University of Tennessee's college of Education also expressed a keen interest in this type …

Electromagnetic Production Of Pion Pairs, Clayton D. Zerby

Doctoral Dissertations

The Pauli-Weisskopf theory of electromagnetic production of pion pairs has been a subject of interest in various connections for many years. Recently new interest has been stimulated in the theory because pion pair production is a possible means of investigating the - interaction. This approach, which was originally suggested by Pomeranchuk, is particularly valid in view of the increase in the cross section, when the strong pion-nucleus interaction is included, over that obtained by the original theory. The purpose of this work was to study the Pauli-Weiskopf theory with the objective of including the strong pion-nucleus interaction and developing an …

Concentric Tori In The Three-Spere, Charles Henry Edwards Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

A torus is the topological product of two circles, while a solid torus is the topological product of a circle and a disk. Two solid tori B1 and B2 in the three-sphere S^3, with B2 interior to B1, are said to be concentric if and only if the closure of B1-B2 (the set of points in B1 but not in B2) is homeomorphic to the topological product of a torus and a closed interval. Two tori in S^3 are concentric if and only if they are respectively the boundaries of two concentric solid tori.

A Study Of The In-Service Education Program In The Knoxville City Schools, Lacy Edward Harville

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: One of the most challenging problems confronting educators today is that of fostering continuous professional growth. School systems throughout the country are wanting to know more about new methods and techniques of improving their in-service education programs.

The growth and development of in-service education in the United States is complicated by the influence of various factors contributing to the gradual structuring of the total educational program, of which the promotion of professional growth on the part of teachers has been only a small part. The growth and development of in-service education is further complicated by the fact that its …

Studies Of Protein-Bound Sulfhydryl And Disulfide Groups In The Mitotic Apparatus Of The Sea Urchin, Arbacia Punctulata, Naoko Kawamura

Doctoral Dissertations

Problems in the present study

From the studies of Sakai and Dan (1959), it became apparent that the changes in soluble SH groups during the first division of sea urchin eggs, as reported by Rapkine (1931), represent the changes in protein SH groups dissolved in 25% TCA. It is also certain from the cytochemical study of the mitotic apparatus (Kawamura and Dan, 1958) that there are abundant SH groups in the protein of spindle and astral fibers. However, there is no evidence to show whether the total amount of protein-bound SH groups (present in both the 25% TCA-soluble and insoluble …

The Genus Saxifraga L. In The Southern Appalachians, Louis Pearl Lord

Doctoral Dissertations

[From Introduction]

The objects of the study are to understand more fully the relationship of the species of Saxifraga in this area to each other and to hypothesize their relationship to the rest of the genus. Six species have been reported in the Southern Appalachians: Saxifraga micranthidifolia (Haw.) Britt., S. virginiensis Michx., S. michauxii Britt., S. careyana Gray, S. caroliniana Gray, and S. tennesseensis Small. All of these species except S. virginiensis seem to be endemic to these mountains and to have affinities to representatives of the genus in western North America, Europe, and the boreal and arctic …

Interface Phenomena During Gas-Liquid Mass Transfer Operations, John Wallace Mottern

Doctoral Dissertations

Summary: By the use of photographic techniques, the absorption rates of single CO₂ bubbles suspended in downward flowing aqueous monoethanolamine (MEA) solutions were determined for various MEA and CO₂ liquid concentrations. It was found that a linear correlation of the experimental data could be obtained by plotting the mass of the bubble to the one-third power versus absorption time. Such a correlation indicates that the absorption rate per unit area is constant. The absorption rates were found to increase with MEA concentration and to decrease with total absorbed CO₂ concentration (that physically absorbed and chemically combined). However, …

An Experimental Investigation Of The Differential Effects Of Hypnotic, Post-Hypnotic And Waking Suggestion On Learning, With Tasks Varied In Complexity, Herman Carl Salzberg

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: This study was designed to test, first of all, whether there were any differential learning effects following hypnotic, post-hypnotic, and waking suggestion. Secondly, the investigation was designed to test whether learning following suggestion increased or decreased differentially when learning tasks varied in complexity. Finally, the study was set up to find out whether there was a difference between the quality and quantity of learning following suggestion. A large number of the features of previous experiments in the area of hypnosis and learning were combined. As past experimenters found contradictory results, no hypotheses were forwarded regarding the outcome of this …

Hawthorne And Howells: The Middle Way In American Fiction, James W. Mathews

Doctoral Dissertations

For a long time readers of William Dean Howells have noted likeness of his fiction to that of Nathaniel Hawthorne. Although several recent articles and books have mentioned parallels between the two writers, no work has undertaken a complete study of these parallels, much less of their possible significance. The present work is a study of major qualities of the fiction of Hawthorne and Howells, the similarities in these qualities, the development of some of the older writer's methods and themes in the younger man's work, and the significance of this relationship as it illustrates a prominent nineteenth-century fictional trend--the …

Geographic Factors Influencing The Manufactural Industries Of Upper East Tennessee, Terry Elmer Epperson

Doctoral Dissertations

This study presents an inventory and analysis of the geographic and socio-economic factors influencing the location and development of manufactural industries in Upper East Tennessee. A combination of many determinants has gradually changed the basic economic structure of the area from that of a modified form of subsistence agriculture to one of manufactural importance within the state and in the United States. Integration of the physical and cultural complexities of the area shows causation for the present and continued position of manufactural prominence. Some of the elementary facts concerning the location of manufacturing which make this area prominent are: (1) …

The Geology Of The Sequatchie Valley Overthrust Block, Sequatchie Valley, Tennessee, Robert Calvin Milici

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: Abbreviated

The purpose of this investigation was twofold: (1) to decipher the nature of the thrust faulting of the anticline; and, (2) to study the stratigraphy of the Paleozoic formations of the Sequatchie Valley.

Personality Correlates Of Undergraduates Selecting Home Economics As An Area Of Specialization In College, Nell Pauline Logan

Doctoral Dissertations

Statement of the Problem

The purposes of this exploratory study were to identify: 1. Some of the factors (real or latent) which may have a bearing upon the reasons why students do or do not choose home economics as a major field of study in college. 2. Personality characteristics of individuals which tend to be dominant in a selected in a selected group who have chosen home economics as a area of specialization in college.

Part A: Studies Of Organic Solvent Enhancements In Flame Photometry; Part B: Studies Of The Extraction And Flame Emission Of Magnesium, Jack Hudgens Knox

Doctoral Dissertations

Summary

The present investigation has been concerned with the study of several parameters which influence the flame photometric emission of elements in an effort to elucidate the nature of the intensifications observed with organic solvents. Parameters such as flames temperature, OH band intensity, ionization, sample flow rate, and the emission intensities of different elements in different solvents have been studied.

Metal-Metal Ion Exchange Of Mercury And Some Amalgams, Richard Charles Legendre

Doctoral Dissertations

Proposed Problem

The objective of this research was to investigate the behavior of metal ions in aqueous solution in their exchange with atoms of the same metal, but where the metallic phase would be in the liquid state.

Research along these lines but involving solid metallic phases has demonstrated that the exchangeability of an ion with a solid metal probably depends on the ability of the metal to re-form its surfaces when in contact with these solutions. A preceding section has reported on the sensitivity of exchange to any of the various processes that can affect the nature of the …

Gas Chromatography Of Hydrogen-Deuterium Mixtures, Paul Payson Hunt

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: In recent years the gas chromatographic method has found widespread applications, chiefly for analytical purposes. This method is principally employed for the separation, identification, and quantitative determination of volatile compounds. It is potentially of great value for the quantitative determination of mixtures of the hydrogen isotopes. The development of a rapid, convenient, and inexpensive method for the analysis of the hydrogen isotopes would be a valuable addition to many laboratories, especially those where a mass spectrograph is unavailable. This problem was undertaken in an attempt to develop further the chromatographic method for the separation and quantitative determination of hydrogen …

A History Of The Development Of The University Of Tennessee, Martin Branch, Elmer B. Inman

Doctoral Dissertations

The University of Tennessee, Martin Branch, has developed through four distinct states in response to educational needs in upper West Tennessee. The State failed to support education adequately and other groups organized schools in response to this failure to meet the need in education. The local Baptist Association organized and supported Hall-Moody Institute in response to this need, and the school continued to operate until 1927, when the college was consolidated with Union University at Jackson, Tennessee.

At the time that the Junior College was established at Martin, local citizen support was strong in the General Assembly. In fact, the …

In-Service Educational Needs Of A Selected Group Of Homemakers Who Entered Or Re-Entered The Teaching Of Homemaking., Mary Jane Scott

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: The increasing tendency of homemakers to have qualified to teach homemaking, but have never taught or have not taught for several years, to enter or re-enter the teaching profession has been reported for more than a decade. The importance of providing special in-service education for these teachers has been pointed out by leaders in home economics education, but little evidence in regard to the kinds of help the teachers need or desire has been reported.

An Analysis Of The Social Studies Teacher Education Curriculum In Selected Tennessee Institutions, Ralph Lee White

Doctoral Dissertations

(From Purpose of the Study)

The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which social studies teacher education curricula in selected state institutions of Tennessee met recommendations and requirements established by state and national organizations and selected educators.