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A Transcription And Analysis Of A Seventeenth-Century Bolognese Trumpet Sonata, Steven Bradfield

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Separation Of Gas Mixtures Via Batch Parametric Pumping : A Theoretical Study, Jose G. Lopez

Theses

An equilibrium plug?flow model, for the batch isothermal separation of a binary gas mixture in a pressure changing parametric pump, was investigated for the system propane?argon on carbon, with the aid of a G. E. Pack 4020 computer. Separation factors comparable to a temperature changing parametric pump are predicted by the model. A change in pressure of the gas mixture may be carried out very rapidly, compared with a temperature change of similar magnitude. The effects of temperature, pressure, concentration, and penetration are discussed.

Black Response To Anti-Semitism: Negroes And Jews In New York, 1880 To World War Ii, Isabel Boiko Price

History ETDs

This study examines the presumption that black antipathy to the Jews represents a recent and tragic shift in Negro-Jewish relations in New York City. Through research into written material supplemented by oral interviews, it attempts to examine attitudes, encounters, and situations which shed light on the history of Negro-Jewish relations from 1880 to 1943. The study begins during the closing years of the 19th century when large numbers of East European Jews and the van- guard of southern blacks both made their exodus to New York.

The Negro's first response to the Jew was to notice a parallel with his …

Synchrony, Amalgam And Communion: Erico Verissimo's O Tempo E O Vento As Symbolic Complex, Louis L. Ollivier Jr.

Spanish and Portuguese ETDs

Erico Verissimo's O Tempo e o Vento has long been considered his masterpiece more, it would seem, by dint of its quantity than its quality, since relatively little research has been done on this novel. The attitudes reflected in O Tempo e o Vento concerning the relationship of time and space and man's affiliation thereto have been previously ignored and only through a structuralist analysis of this novel have these determinations been discovered.

The structuralist approach comprises certain inherent assumptions of an a priori system of knowledge. One assumption is reflected in the structure of language which presupposes for all …

A Follow-Up Study Of The Employment Status Of The Two-Year Business And Office Graduates Of The Greenup County Vocational Center, Catherine Miller Chaffin

Morehead State Theses and Dissertations

A thesis presented to the Business Education Graduate Committee at Morehead State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Education by Catherine Miller Chaffin on December 14, 1973.

A Study Of The Adsorption Of Some Atmospheric Gases On Soils Of The Willamette Valley River Basin, Thomas R. Quale

Dissertations and Theses

Recent work indicates that microorganisms present in soils can remove carbon monoxide from the atmosphere and as such constitutes a major sink. B.E.T. adsorption studies were carried out on representative soils from the Willamette Valley River Basin in order to determine their adsorptive characteristics for carbon monoxide and other gases. Attempts were made to isolate, through a non-soildestructive sterilization, the adsorptive characteristics of the soil microorganisms as well as of the test soil.

The carbon monoxide studies show physical adsorption equivalent to the coverage of a few per cent of the surface area at 25.0° and 76 cm-Hg. Adsorption studies …

Environmental Geology Of The Marquam Hill Area, Roger Alan Redfern

Dissertations and Theses

This work on Marquam Hill area in Portland, a relatively undeveloped urban hillside area, is a pilot study in which environmental factors are evaluated quantitatively in order to delineate limitations on development. The study was undertaken at the request of and in cooperation with the City of Portland Planning Commission and with the State of Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries. Factors considered include various aspects of the land, vegetation and attitudes of inhabitants. Findings are not intended to satisfy need for individual site studies by qualified experts but should show where that expertise is needed.

Field data were …

A Preliminary Investigation Of The Land Use Limitations Of The Major Landforms Along A Portion Of The Lincoln County Coast, Oregon, Richard Kent Mathiot

Dissertations and Theses

This study of a portion of Oregon's Lincoln County coast describes the physical limitations to land use of the various landforms in the study area. Seven major landform types comprise the study area: beaches, active dunes, stabilized dunes, marsh land and tidal flats, marine terraces, basaltic headlands, and uplands. Descriptions and evaluations of their physical characteristics, distribution, geologic and and engineering characteristics, and potentially hazardous processes are contained in the maps, figures, and text.

A Reexamination Of The Effects Of Prismatic Displacement On Pointing Straight Ahead, Anastasia Houndoumadi

Dissertations and Theses

A fully counterbalanced extension of the Bauer and Efstathiou (1965) study involved exposing 11 Ss to lateral prismatic displacement for five minutes and measuring their adaptation to it. The difference between pointings at a target taken before and after prismatic exposure constitutes an adaptive shift.

Diaries And Reminiscences Of Women On The Oregon Trail: A Study In Consciousness, Amy Kesselman

Dissertations and Theses

This study is an attempt to discover how women participating in the mid-nineteenth century migration to Oregon viewed the westward journey and themselves in relationship to it. It is not a survey of the responses of all women in the westward movement, but, rather, an exploration of the perspective of those women who left a written record of their perceptions or recollections. The thesis focuses on the diaries and reminiscences of women travelling, primarily but not exclusively, in the years 1851-1853.

The introductory material consists of a review of the existing historical literature on women and the West, and a …

The Corporate Identity Game: A Simulation Game Involving Graphic Design Methodology, Alonzo Foster

Theses

None provided.

The Possibility Of Evil: The Fiction Of Shirley Jackson, John Gordon Parks

American Studies ETDs

The dissertation is a critical study of the fiction of Shirley Jackson. It uses a story published shortly after her death in 1965 to express the key to the main themes and concerns of her fiction: "The Possibility of Evil." It is the thesis of the study that Shirley Jack­son's fiction portrays the many incognitoes of evil and the demonic in contemporary life. Through the use of gothic conventions Jackson re­veals the contours of human madness and loneliness in a disintegrating world generally bereft of the meliorating power of love and forgiveness.

Each of her six novels is treated fully: …

Late Industrialization And Political Change: The Case Of Germany, Judith C. Peloquin

Sociology ETDs

The advance of industrialization and the process of modernization in all countries produced significant shifts in the distribution of wealth and massively affected existing relations of power. The transition from the pre-industrial to the modern world is examined in Germany in an effort, to explore the causal factors which facilitated the rise of a fascist political system in Germany, while democratic and communistic political systems resulted in other countries. Barrington Moore's theory of the coalition of economic interests that forms as a result of the inherited social structure remaining from feudal organizations is utilized to explain the rise of the …

A Comparison Of Aphasic And Non-Brain Injured Adults On A Dichotic Cv-Syllable Listening Task, Janet E. Shanks

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

Normal listeners traditionally show a right ear preference for dichotically presented speech stimuli, and a left ear preference for dichotically presented non-speech stimuli. Although some inter-subject variability is observed within and between groups of non-brain damaged subjects, the performance of the group as a whole is rather predictable and homogeneous. However, results from experiments in which brain damaged subjects have been studied have been less straightforward. Although left brain damaged subjects have consistently shown a bilateral deficit in reporting dichotic speech stimuli, a great deal of variability in performance is observed within the groups. Further study of brain damaged individuals, …

Right-Left Visual Field Performances Of Congenitally Deaf And Normal Hearing Subjects, Merle Applebaum-Rosenberg

Speech and Hearing Sciences ETDs

The notion of cerebral dominance has been explored since the time of Broca. Two non-invasive techniques designed to assess hemispheric dominance have subsequently been developed. These two methods are commonly referred to as dichotic listening (simultaneous auditory stimulation) and rapid visual field stimulation (tachistoscopic viewing).

It has been found in dichotic listening studies that when verbal material is presented simultaneously to both ears, the stimuli are correctly identified most often in the right ear. Similar results have been found in tachistoscopic studies, with verbal material eliciting a right visual field advantage. Collectively, these findings have been used to support a …

The Effect Of Training In Seven Categories Of Verbal Behavior On The Performance Of Kindergarten Student Teachers, Alice Sandoval

Individual, Family, and Community Education ETDs

This study investigated the effects of a training program designed to help student-teachers become aware of the importance of verbal interaction and to help student-teachers develop effective and purposive interactional verbal skills. The following verbal behaviors were the focus of study: Initial Open-ended Structure, Restructuring, Settling the Problem, Articulating Behavior, Reinforcing, Clarifying and Elaborating, and Proffering Aid.

Personality Correlates Of Reticent And Nonreticent High School Students, Nancy Adele Mohrlock

Student Work

The development of communication skills is vital to socialization in the classroom and to personality development. Petty and Starkey (1966) suggest that language is the greatest force for socialization that exists and at the same time is the most potent single factor in the development of individuality. Rosenberg and Coopersmith (1965, 1967) showed that a person's verbal behavior will influence others ’ attitudes toward him, while Mead (1934) indicated that an individual’s behavior is affected by the kind of image that he has of himself. This image comes largely from the individual's perceptions of o thers’ attitudes toward himself until …

The Negro Landholder Of Georgia And His White Counterpart, 1860-1900, Richard L. Parks

Student Work

History, for any generation of historians, will be different from the history written by earlier generations of historians. Events, as well as obscure people who have been ignored by earlier historians, now are beginning to receive the attention they deserve. The history of the Negro in the United States is one of those previously obscure subjects. Individuals seeking information or understanding about the historical role of the Negro in the United States seek special courses or special information. General works in American history deal almost exclusively with white Americans. It has only been with the increasing interest about the Negro …

Common Carrier Catv: Technological, Regulatory, And Economic Aspects, Pauline E. Henderson

Student Work

Electronic communication remained captive of wire for more than a half century before a technique could be found to set it free. A major breakthrough in electronic communication occurred in 1873 when James Clerk-Maxwell published A Treatise on Electricity & Magnetism in which he established the theory of electromagnetic energy, supported by mathematical proofs and based on observation of visible light. Within a decade experiments conducted by Heinrich Hertz which confirmed Maxwell’s concepts served as the scientific basis for the first radio transmissions. Radio telephone instruments were perfected by the inventor Guglielmo Marconi which stimulated experiments in similar areas of …

A History And Development Of Omaha Parochial Schools, Charus Komutdang

Student Work

To understand any system of education, one must understand its history and development. Educational systems must be based on the culture and needs of the people as well as the economic and social conditions of their country. No educational institution can adopt the system of any other. Nevertheless, the struggles and successes of other school systems may be helpful in solving the problems of a given school system.

To Praise And Ignore Classroom Behaviors, Or To Praise And Punish Classroom Behaviors: That Is The Question, Luther M. Kindall

Doctoral Dissertations

The present study involved an experimental analysis of behavior in which the relative efficacy of two behavioral management strategies and their functional relationship to three dependent behaviors (appropriate, time-off-task, and disruptive) were examined. One strategy involved verbally praising appropriate behaviors while concomitantly ignoring disruptive behaviors. The other strategy involved verbally praising appropriate behaviors while concomitantly softly reprimanding disruptive behaviors. The study also incorporated two adjunct investigations. These involved examining the rates of acceleration and deceleration of appropriate and disruptive behaviors during treatment and reversal phases, and examining the teacher's reactions to the two strategies.

Changes In Tenderness And Collagen Of Beef Semitendinosus Muscle Heated At Two Rates, Marjorie Porter Penfield

Doctoral Dissertations

Tenderness, an important quality attribute of meat, is affected by many factors, including rate of heating. The purpose of this investigation was to study the changes occurring in beef semitendinosus muscle and intramuscular connective tissue heated at rates comparable to oven roasting at 93 and 149°C. The sequence of changes occurring during heating was followed by evaluating samples heated to four end points, 40, 50, 60, and 70°C. Cores of meat and isolated connective tissue samples in buffer were heated in a water bath "programmed" to produce the desired rate of heating.

As internal temperature increased Warner Bratzler shear values …

Protein-Phospholipid Interactions In Heated Phospholipid Emulsions Containing Bovine Myoglobin Or Sarcoplasmic Proteins, Sharon Lynn Melton

Doctoral Dissertations

A simplified procedure for determination of myoglobin concentration in aqueous muscle extract was developed. The procedure was used in an investigation of possible interactions between phospholipids and bovine myoglobin, either isolated or as a component of sarcoplasmic proteins. Investigation of the possible interactions was carried out as follows. Solutions containing myoglobin or sarcoplasmic proteins and emulsions (phospholipid, sarcoplasmic protein-phospholipid, and myoglobin-phospholipid) were heated from 25°C to end point temperatures up to 77°C. The following measurements were made on all protein dispersions; (1) pH; (2) percent protein remaining dispersed; (3) myoglobin concentration; (4) available lysine, basic group and acidic group equivalents …

Fluometuron And 2,4,5-T Residues In Soil, Sediment, Runoff Water, And Percolation Water, Glenn Gray Davis

Doctoral Dissertations

The rates of disappearance of 1,1-dimethyl-3-(a, a, a-trifluoro-m-toly1) urea (fluometuron) and the propylene glycol butyl either esters and a triethylamine salt of (2, 4, 5-trichlorophenoxy) acetic acid (2, 4, 5-T) from the application site in field plots and lysimeters were determined. Residual herbicide concentrations were estimated for field plot soil, runoff water collected in the plots after rainfall, and permanently impounded drainage water from the plots. Bioassays, spectrophotometry, and gas-liquid chromatography were utilized to detect residual concentrations of the three compounds. Linear and multicurvilinear equations were developed from known concentrations of the herbicide for predictions of residue amounts …

A Delineation Of Functional Economic Areas In Tennessee, Charles Ray Kerley

Doctoral Dissertations

The objective of this study was to define Functional Economic Areas in Tennessee and certain parts of adjoining states. Newspaper circula-tion analysis, driving time plots, and commuter journey-to-work patterns were used as criteria to measure daily economic activity around central places in the state. Seventeen relatively independent labor commuting areas were defined by Factor Analyses of an origin-destination matrix, and its transpose, of 1970 commuter journey-to-work interactions. It was found that the home daily Newspaper-Circulation-Area (NCA) associated with a Standard Metropolitan Statistical Area (SMSA) center city defined a nodal region that is composed of one or more labor commuting areas. …

Physiological Responsees Of Corn And Grain Sorghum Under Moisture Stress And During Rewatering, William Keith Wesley

Doctoral Dissertations

Grain sorghum (Sorghum bicolor (L.) Moench) and corn (Zea mays L.) seedlings were grown hydroponically for two weeks in a growth chamber. Moderate and severe moisture stress treatments were then applied to the plant roots by additions of polyethylene glycol to the growth media. After six days of moderate and three days of severe moisture stress, the osmotica were replaced with nutrient solution only. Changes in shoot length, weight, leaf water potential, and protein, nucleic acid and carbohydrate content were measured prior to, during and following exposure to moisture stress conditions. The effects of moisture stress and rewatering on these …

Analysis And Identification Of Specialized Sounds Possibly Used By The Caribbean Fruit Fly, Anastrepha Suspensa (Loew), For Communication Purposes, J. C. Webb

Doctoral Dissertations

Investigations were made to isolate, analyze, and identify the specialized sound produced by the male Caribbean fruit fly, Anastrepha suspensa (Loew), before pair formation and to determine if this sound is used as one mode of communication in the fly's sexual behavior. Three other sounds were identified and related to specific behavioral activities, These experimental data were to provide information on one of several factors that is needed to develop effective control methods for this and other closely related insect species. These sounds were recorded with the flies located in an anechoic chamber. Calibrated condenser microphones were used as the …

The Southern Appalachian Dulcimer, Stewart S. Nutter

Graduate Student Research Papers

The Appalachian Plucked Dulcimer is an instrument neglected by musicologists for several reasons: (1) its history has been clouded in time due to the lack of written information concerning it, and (2) the plucked dulcimer is often confused with that of the hammered dulcimer, one of the early ancestors of the piano. Very little information is available concerning its history, construction and playing techniques.

Creative Problem Solving As A Proposed Curriculum Addition For Primary Grades: A Stimulus Toward Development Of Positive Self Concept, Joette T. Field

Creative Studies Graduate Student Master's Theses

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Ultrastructure Of Inclusion Bodies In The Transitional Epithelium Of Monkey Urinary Bladder, Alan B. Weckerling

Theses & Dissertations

It has been noted that hematoxylin-eosin stained surface cells in the transitional epithelium of certain animals occasionally contain acidophilic inclusion bodies. These can be observed in monkey kidney pelvis, ureter, urinary bladder, and urethra. In one species of monkey, Macaca fascicularis, the inclusion bodies are quite prevalent and apparently are not related to any pathologic or experimental condition. They are highly refractile under the light microscope, a property which often indicates structures below the resolving power of the microscope. This study was designed to explore the composition and structure of these inclusion bodies. Procedures were selected to detect the presence …