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Indian Slavery In Spanish Guatemala, 1524-1550, William L. Sherman

History ETDs

Some understanding of the state of native labor in the Indies is fundamental to an appreciation of post-Conquest society in the New World. The social and economic implications of Indian servitude are of such magnitude that they transcend other more dramatic aspects of Spanish domination in the sixteenth century. For Indian labor--certainly in the first decades--was the base upon which Spanish society reated; without it there waa a very real possibility of the abandonment of many American kingdoms. The degrees to which the conqueror depended upon the vanquished at once reflects the weak edifice of colonial society and defines the …

The Doctrine Of The Naqshabandi Order: A Study Of Mysticism In Islam, Madelain Farah Habib

Dissertations and Theses

The word mysticism in the English language has been corrupted and abused by its difference usages in the various disciplines such as religion, poetry, and philosophy. In Islam the only word which refers to a mystic is a Sufi. Sufism, according to its adherents, is the highest form of human experience, the ultimate reality of God. The Sufi theme is "Know thyself and thou wilt know God."

Sufism has been considered by Sufis and by Orientalists as the ancient school of wisdom, of quietism, of attaining the highest union and of purification of the soul. It embodies the strains of …

Birds As A Source Of Pictorial Creativity, Sylvia Bornarth

Theses

None provided.

Electronic Technique For Resolving Ambiguities Of Sinusoidal Function Transducers., James W. Campbell

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

A circular function transducer is a device whose output is a circular trigonometric (sinusoidal) function of the input to the device. The sinusoidal nature of this class of transducer's output results in identical responses for many admissible inputs. Consequently, an ambiguity exists as to which of the many possible input values produce any particular output value. Even a history of the output from an initial reference input becomes ambiguous once the output completes one cycle of the sinusoid. To be a generally useful instrumentation component, the ambiguity of circular function transducers must be resolved.

Circular function transducers are currently used …

Predicting Scholastic Success In A School Of Law, Louida Dare Murray

Psychology ETDs

Professional training is a costly undertaking both for the individual being trained and the institution that trains him. Each year, all over the United States, many young men and women embark upon their professional training as potential lawyers; each year many of these same young men and women withdraw from the law program. Some of the students admittedly withdraw because they ascertain that they will not be able to complete their law training due to inability to cope with the material which they are expected to master. Others, fully capable of dealing with the material in the intellectual sense, find …

Shakespeare's Henry V: Christian Prince Or Machiavellian Prince?, Mary Jane Moore

Student Work

The purpose of this thesis is to survey the two conflicting Renaissance theories of kingship leading into Elizabethan England and to asses the critical dichotomy created by those critics who have sought to identify William Shakespeare’s Henry V as the “… mirror of all Christian kings” or as a Machiavellian statesman.

Geology Of The Chilhowee Group And The Ocoee Series In The Southwestern Bald Mountains, Greene And Cocke Counties, Tennessee, Denny Neil Bearce

Doctoral Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Use Of Cationic Agents To Increase The Efficiency Of Titanium Dioxide In Paper, Richard Clapp

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Handsheets were made with a bleached sulfite pulp, titanium dioxide and cationic agents. The optical properties of these sheets were studied in order to determine and compare the efficiency of the titanium dioxide retained. The cationic agents used in this study were a quaternary ammonium salt, a polyamide, cationic starches made with these two chemicals, and a commercial cationic starch.

When the optical properties of handsheets made from these substances were compared, it was found that the quaternary ammonium salt gave the highest opacity but the lowest retention. The polyamide gave lower opacities but higher retentions. The cationic starches made …

An Evaluation Of Crop And Soil Management Systems On Selected Farms In Dyer County, Tennessee, Clarence Homer Jent

Masters Theses

Since 1960, crop and soil management systems that do not provide adequate protection against soil erosion on sloping land have come into widespread use by farmers in West Tennessee. This has been the result of an increasing demand for soybeans and the favorable prices that farmers have received for this crop in recent years. The acreage of soybeans harvested for beans in Tennessee has steadily increased each year for the past six years. In 1960, Tennessee farmers harvested 394,000 acres of soybeans (8). In 1966, the forecast is that 941,000 acres will be harvested (9). The acreage of other cultivated …

Responce Of Sweet Potato Vine Cuttings To Physical And Chemical Root Inducing Treatments, Farouk Khairi Abdulla

Masters Theses

Impomoea batatas, the sweet potato, is the only representative of the Convolvulaceae considered to be an important vegetable crop in tropical and sub-tropical countries. They are a good source of carbohydrates and vitamin A. They are used in alcohol and starch preparation.

Sweet potatoes are grown from plants produced from roots of the previous crop or from vine cuttings. In regions with short growing seasons, and for early production, the crop is grown from plants produced from roots bedded in a hot bed or cold frame,

Meyer (21) found that planting Porto Rico sweet potatoes slips deeper in the soil …

The Effect Of Neurosecretions From The Cerebral Ganglia On Blood Glucose Levels In Lumbricus Terrestris, Joan Vanderpol Craig

Masters Theses

Introduction

The presence of neurosecretory cells in the suprapharyngeal ganglia of Lumbricus terrestris has been well established (B. and E. Scharrer, 1937). Since these cells may well be the only source of hormones in this organism (B. Scharrer, 1959), the question arises as to their role in the animal's regulation of metabolism The particular aspect of this problem investigated here concerns the effect of these neurosecretory substances on the blood glucose levels in L. terrestris.

Preliminary studies by this investigator on glucose levels in earthworms revealed that blood samples of approximately 15 microliters could be obtained from each animal and …

A Report Of Early Professional Experiences, Joy Rogers

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Deprivation Level On Resistance To Extinction: A Test Of A Single Organism Design, Enzo Richard Valenzi

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Nickelous Nitrate Hexahydrate And Its Effect On Reproduction In The Mouse, Marvin R. Guthaus

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Pain Elicited Aggression As A Function Of Withdrawal From Morphine Addiction, Brian G. Teel

Masters Theses

One branch of aggression research has concentrated on the elicitation of aggressive behavior by means of exteroceptive stimulation. Electric shock or similar painful stimuli (Ulrich & Azrin, 1962) are well known to produce fighting in the laboratory rat. This basic method has allowed experimental analysis of a wide scope of associated variables.

Ulrich and Azrin (1962) investigated several different parameters. They found that laboratory rats increased their fighting behavior as the frequency of shocks increased from 0.1 to 38 shocks per minute. With frequency fixed, the fighting response rate resembled an inverted U-shaped curve when shock intensity was increased from …

Six Dimensions Of Religiosity And Riesman's Inner/Other-Direction, Edward E. Mckenna

Masters Theses

First three paragraphs:

To what extent do different types of religious behavior vary with different levels of inner- and other-direction?

Religious behavior is multi-dimensional in nature, with several qualitatively distinct dimensions. Hypothesized relations between different dimensions of religious behavior and inner/other-direction, together with the assumed shift from inner-direction to other-direction, have been formulated to explain the now familiar, but nevertheless controversial, religious revival in American society. This revival is controversial in the sense that it extends only to certain types, or dimensions, of religious behavior. There have been increases in church membership, identification, and ritual observance, but not in other …

Strain Differences In Alcohol Preference On Guinea Pigs And Experimental Manipulation Of Preference By Forced Alcohol Consumption, Gerald L. Appleman

Masters Theses

Introduction

The study of the determinants of alcoholism, one of the most perplexing diseases of mankind, entered its most fruitful era of discovery in the laboratory of the animal researcher. A pioneering study of the determinants of alcohol consumption by Richter (1940) indicated that laboratory rats show a preference for alcohol over water beginning at 1.8 per cent ethanol (v/v) solution, and continue to prefer alcohol over water up to a 6 per cent ethanol (v/v) solution. Richter made two important contributions to alcohol research which had broader implications than the presentation of an index of alcohol consumption in rats. …

The Effects Of Pentobarbital Upon The Gross Activity Of The White Rat And Modification Of These Effects By Means Of Water Immersion, Dominic Amante

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Productivity In Hampshire, Dorset And Southdown Flocks Of Sheep And Evaluation Of Factors Affecting Performance Of Lambs, Ben Thomas Powell

Masters Theses

Agriculture is entering an age where, to survive, the Tennessee farmer must either purchase more land or improve production on the land he has. Most of the time it is more economical to improve one's production per acre or per animal. One method of accomplishing greater production is through selection of superior producing animals. Selection has been done for centuries through visual observation. To justify their existence as a group, breeders of registered sheep must produce a type of sheep superior to those in the hands of the commercial producers they serve. This superiority must be expressed in demonstrated ability …

The Effect Of Avitaminosis E On The Incorporation Of 35S-Sulfate By Rat Tissue Components, Sara Frierson Fulton

Masters Theses

(Introduction) Previous work in this laboratory has shown that there is a decrease in sulfate production when ³⁵S-cysteine is incubated with liver homogenates prepared from vitamin E-deficient rats as compared with the sulfate produced by homogenates from vitamin E-sufficient rats. In avitaminosis E the lowered incorporation of a test dose of ³⁵SO₄⁼ into cellular lipoprotein and the mucopolysaccharides isolated from rib cartilage and lung has been shown. A decrease in the breaking strength of rats' aorta, presumably the result of impaired collagen production, was obtained when the aortas from vitamin E-deficient rats were compared …

Small Woodland Owners In Rhea County, Tennessee : Problem A: Characteristics Of Rhea County Small Woodland Owners And Their Farms : Problem B: Management Practices Of Rhea County Small Woodland Owners : Problem C: Factors Influencing Woodland Management Practice Adoption By Rhea County Small Woodland Owners : Three Related Special Problems In Lieu Of Thesis /, Robert William Wilkerson

Masters Theses

Rhea County was organized from a part of Roane County in 1809. The settlers, largely of Scotch-Irish descent, came from southwestern Virginia, upper Tennessee, and North Carolina (13).* Rhea County is. located in southeastern Tennessee, thirty-nine miles from Chattanooga. Part of the county is.in the valley and ridge region and partly on the Appalachian Plateau. The northwestern third of the county is on the Appalachian Plateau and is characterized by high lying, relatively smooth areas interspersed with deep, narrow valleys of dentrite pattern. The rocks that underlie this part of the .county are mainly sandstone (13). Rhea County has an …

Evaluation Of Experimental Teaching Approaches For Use With Above And Below Average Burley Tobacco Production Groups In Greene County, Tennessee, James O. Cunningham

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to evaluate two separate Extension teaching approaches (based on intensive survey of the tobacco growers and their practices) as evidenced by changes in knowledge and practice use by two different Extension audiences, namely "above average" tobacco growers, referred to hereafter as Group A, and "below average" tobacco growers, referred to as Group B in the study.

Effects Of Oxytocin Administered In The Dry Period On Subsequent Lactation In Cows, George Martin Gorman

Masters Theses

The need for a dry period in dairy cows has been established for more than a century, but the optimum length of the period and reason for the benefit derived from the pause in lactation has been studied only recently. On the basis of survey studies a dry period of 60-90 days has been shown to result in maximum production. Until a few years ago the stimulus of a dry period to lactation was thought to be due solely to a rebuilding of the nutrient stores in the animal. More recently the involvement of hormonal factors such as an interaction …

Heterosis And Combining Ability In Winter Wheat (Triticum Aestivum L.), Krishna K. Gyawali

Masters Theses

A diallel cross involving seven parents and 21 hybrids was adopted to study heterosis and combining ability in wheat. F₁ hybrids and parents were compared in space-planted experiments in two years. Ten hybrids gave significantly higher yield than the highest parent in the cross. The range for all hybrids was -13.8 to 75.9 per cent over the highest parent. Heterosis was obtained from hybrids within the soft red winter wheat group as well as from hybrids derived from hard red and soft white winter wheats. Heterosis was observed for all characters measured in some of the crosses. Greatest heterosis …

The Results Of The Combined Isotonic-Isometric Execution Compared To The Isotonic Execution In Terms Of Strength Development And Muscle Girth, Arnold William Pedersen

Masters Theses

INTRODUCTION

Although many studies have been made to determine a method of weight training which produces the greatest increases in muscle strength and muscle girth, the conclusions vary in theory and methodology.

Weight training has been subjected to much research in the past. Many of the researchers agree on a method of weight training which produces the best results. However, some advocate the use of isometric contractions as the most desirable method of gaining strength. Others state that isotonic exercise is the only logical way to increase one's strength. Still others say a combination of the two will produce optimum …

An Estimate Of The Value Of Advertising Rights To Landowners From Billboard Site Rentals, Lewis S. Pipkin

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Effects Of Soil Moisture, Nitrogen And Several Climatic Factors On Yield And Evapotranspiration Of Corn, Bobby Ray Hathcock

Masters Theses

A knowledge of the moisture content of the soil is important in irrigation experiments, in field experiments in general, and in irrigation practice on the farm (45). Measurement of soil moisture content has received much attention in the past several years with the increased concern and investigation into the area of consumptive use (evapotranspiration). In recent years, the emphasis on water use by various crops has led to the development of several methods for estimating evapotranspiration (ET.) In order to estimate ET, it is necessary to have a record of the soil moisture content throughout the growing season. The neutron …

Suggested Formats For Collecting Agricultural Economic Data On Smallholders Agricultural And Recommendation For Establishing And Agricultural Economic Branch In The Department Of Agriculture Of Malaysia, Khairi Bin Haji Mohamed

Masters Theses

Malaysia covers an area of about 130,000 square miles occupying two distinct regions: (1) the Malay Peninsula, and (2) the northwestern coastal area of the Borneo Island. The two regions are separated by about 400 miles of the South China sea. Malaysia lies close to the equator between latitudes 1 and 7 degrees north, and longitudes 100 and 119 degrees east (Figure 1). The average rainfall is between 120-160 inches, and average temperatures vary from 70 to 90 degrees fahrenheit. Relative humidity is generally high.

The Malay Peninsula consists essentially of an east and west coastal plain between which the …

A Study To Determine If The Self Concept Is Changed Measurably As A Result Of Test Interpretation, Janet Ruth Baron

Masters Theses

This study was concerned with investigating the effect of test interpretation upon the self- concepts of college students.

An Extension Of The Reinforcement Contiguity Issue – The Effect Of Retention In The Goal Box After Reinforcement, Marilyn L. Grey

All Master's Theses

This study investigated one prediction of Guthrie's theory of learning (1936, 1952)--that retention in the goal box after reinforcement increases the likelihood of incompatible responses to the goal stimuli and, thus, decreases learning. Three measures of learning were used: number of trials to criterion, total number of correct trials in the first twenty trials, and number of subjects who met criterion of five successive correct responses within forty trials.