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Studies On Atp-Dependent Co2 Fixation By Desulfovibrio Vulgaris, Maria Alvarez H.

Biology ETDs

Cell-free extracts and whole cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio vulgaris were employed to examine the fixation of ¹⁴CO₂ into acid stable material. Moderate levels of CO₂ fixation occured in the presence of ribulose-1,5-diphosphate, ribose-5-phosphate or pyruvate with only minimal levels of CO₂ fixation occuring with formate, malate, or succinate. The fixation of CO₂ in the presence of pyruvate was attributed to the pyruvate-CO₂ exchange reaction. This exchange reaction was dependent on the presence of an acidic protein fraction but was not stimulated by the additions of ATP to the reaction mixture. The fixation of CO …

The Influence Of Favorable Context On Questionnaire Response, John M. Peterson

Health, Exercise, and Sports Sciences ETDs

Previous research has shown that the responses to items in a test of the affective domain are not affected by context when the items are embedded in different random subtests. Other studies in the affective domain show that the mean responses of items are influenced by the favorableness item compositions of the subtests. In multiple matrix samples, subtests of an entire test are taken by subgroups of a population. The influence of favorableness item composition on the total score of a given dimension in the affective domain has not been studied. This study offers evidence toward the following questions: (1) …

Manuel Alvarez, Empire Builder Of The Southwest, Thomas E. Chavez

History ETDs

Manuel Alvarez was an influential figure in American expansion. A native Spaniard, he was in Mexico during the events leading to Mexican Independence. In 1824 he went to New Mexico via New York. At Santa Fe he opened a store which he would operate for the rest of his life. At the same time he became active in the fur trading business and, in 1828 tried trapping. As a trapper with the Rocky Mountain Fur Company, Alvarez was quickly promoted to captain. He led forty other trappers to the present Yellowstone National Park, thus becoming one of the first men …

A Proof Of Convergence For The Tridiagonal Ql Algorithm In Floating-Point Arithmetic, James George Sanderson

Mathematics & Statistics ETDs

Numerous routines are available to find the eigenvalues of a real symmetric tridiagonal matrix. Since it is known to converge in exact arithmetic, the tridiagonal QL algorithm with origin shift is widely used. Here we analyze the algorithm in floating-point arithmetic. This analysis suggests two modifications to the EISPACK implementation TQLl that enable one to prove correctness and hence convergence of the routine.

Also, it is known that the implicit and explicit versions of the QL algorithm produce the same results in exact arithmetic. A counter-example to the floating-point analog of this theorem is presented.

The Development Of Graphic Tools For The Calculation Of Solar Radiation, Edward Mazria

Architecture and Planning ETDs

World-wide dwindling energy resources have provided the incentive to use solar energy systems to supply a major portion of a building’s heating requirements. In order to understand and be responsive to the effects of the sun on the location and design of solar systems, it is necessary to know at any moment the sun's position in the sky and energy intensity on a given surface. The Cylindrical sun chart, developed in this thesis, provides a simple and convenient way to accurately predict the sun's movement across the sky from any point in the continental United States. By plotting obstructions directly …

Investigation Of Fast Interface States In Mosfets Using A Pulsed Field Effect Technique, Anthony E. Giraudo

Electrical and Computer Engineering ETDs

This thesis is the culmination of an investigation into the pulsed field effect technique. Basically, the pulsed field effect technique is a measurement of the surface conductance of a semiconductor under the influence of a transverse electric field. The pulsed field effect has been used to investigate surface states and interface states at the silicon surface. The nature of this technique allows it to be used in analyzing the metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET). Specifically, the investigation has been to determine if the pulsed field effect technique could be used to investigate fast interface states which are located at the …

Little Epics: More Lively And Choleric, Nancy Conrad Martinez

English Language and Literature ETDs

The number and diversity of works in the mock-heroic mode have long made meaningful discussion difficult. The mode has been and continues to be a glittering, shapeless mass, obscuring all but the brightest or best-known stars in its blur of confused origins, purposes, and relationships. Setting down useful boundaries for one variety of mock­heroic, the little epic, is the purpose of this study. Represented most notably by MacFlecknoe, The Dispensary, The Rape of the Lock, and The Dunciad, the little epic con­stitutes a small but dazzling genre that perfects the mode and epitomizes an age.

The theory of …

Stimulus-Sampling And Encoding Variability, Brian C. Babbitt

Psychology ETDs

A recent formulation has incorporated encoding variability in a stimulus-sampling framework. This conceptualization suggests that an active sample of "encoding operators" encodes each stimulus. On subsequent presentations of the stimulus each operator is checked for a tag/no tag representing the use of that operator in encoding the stimulus. These assumptions produce binomial distributions of noise and signal + noise underlying recognition performance. The present experiment tested the forms of the underlying distributions in the context change situation. Three amounts of context change between training and testing were investigated, with results indicating that recognition performance decreased as amount of context change …

Edward W. Wynkoop, Frontiersman, William Charles Bennett Jr.

History ETDs

Edward Wansaer Wynkoop was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on June 19, 1836. In 1856 he moved to Kansas where he was employed in the Pawnee Land Office in Lecompton until 1858. He then joined a group of entrepreneurs and journeyed to the Rocky Mountains and was one of the founders of Denver, Colorado. From 1859 to 1861 he was a prominent citizen of Denver and Jeffer­son Territory. After Congress created the Territory of Colorado, and with the advent of the Civil War, Wynkoop became a lieutenant in the First Colorado Regiment of Infantry Volunteers. He was promoted to the position …

Glenn L. Emmons Of Gallup, Debra R. Boender

History ETDs

Glenn L. Emmons was Commissioner of Indian Affairs from 1953 to 1961 during the administration of Dwight D. Eisenhower. Since this was the decade during which the controversy over the policy of termination began, Emmons' administration of the Bureau of Indian Affairs was important and of interest to students of Indian policy, Questions exist concerning the nature of the man, his background, and reasons for his appointment to that post. This biography hopes to answer some of these, as well as provide some insight into Emmons' policies and programs which tended to extend government involvement with Indian tribes, contrary to …

Cardiorespiratory Responses To Submaximal Exercise In Water, Karen Ann Carlberg

Biology ETDs

Maximal oxygen consumption is consistently lower when measured during swimming than during running or bicycling. A number of factors could contribute to this difference, including size of active muscle mass, body position, heat exchange mechanisms, breathing patterns and adjustments to water immersion.

In this study, the effects of water immersion on submaximal exer­cise were isolated by having subjects perform identical work in air and water. The exercise consisted of rowing on a rowing machine, with rate of movement controlled so that the subjects always worked at the same relative workload and oxygen consumption. To compare the physiological responses to exercise …

The Effects Of Tsh And Culture Conditions On Nucleic Acid Synthesis In Thyroid Cells In Vitro, David J. Orlicky

Biology ETDs

Cells enzymatically dispersed from ovine thyroid tissue were cultured in Ham's F-10 medium supplemented with 8.33% Fetal Calf Serum and 8.33% Lamb Serum. Cultures were maintained in a humidified 37° C incubator having a 5% CO₂ - 95% air atmosphere. At 48 hours post isolation, cell culture medium was replaced and experiments begun. Altering the serum content (between 4.76 - 16.66%) of the nutrient medium had little effect upon either DNA content or ³H-thyrnidine incorporation into DNA. Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone (TSH) seemed to have a stablizing effect upon DNA content (between 0 and 7 days post TSH addition), and …

The Contemporary Shaman, Harry Alvin Paynter Jr.

Art & Art History ETDs

Craft design and fine art have been considered unrelated fields since the Renaissance. In the ensuing four hundred years the field of craft design had been debased by commercialism to the extent that art or artistic expression were moot points to the craftsman. In the later half of the twentieth century, however, a new Renaissance is taking place in the field of crafts. As a jeweler and an artist my work is part of the Craft Renaissance movement. The body of work presented here is created in the style of mystical artifacts and its roots are in non-industrial, non-western primitive …

Notes On The Formation Of A Photographic Aesthetic In Great Britain, 1839-1890, Philip R. Flower

Art & Art History ETDs

The thesis examines the development of a coherent photographic aesthetic in Great Britain during the 19th century. It proceeds from the idea that the history of photography during this period should be viewed as a series of formal approaches to the problem of how best to utilise the medium; both for the production of art and also for the dissemination of specific information. These two uses of the medium are not seen as being mutually exclusive of one another. The thesis advances the idea that both these genres of photography offer evidence of formal attitudes towards the medium itself, which …

An Architectural Answer To A New Format For Education, Nicholas C. Markovich

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Architecture should be a physical response to the needs and requirements of human beings. It can enhance and compliment the functional, aesthetic and mental re­quirements for those it's intended to serve. This architectural response comes, usually, in answer to a philosophy or fulfills a method of purpose. This thesis is a study of educational philosophies and alternative educational philosophies for the future. A viable alternative for the future is chosen and applied to a prototypical architectural solution.

In this paper, research is done, to gather know­ledge of the background of various societies' attitudes toward education. This author studies what directions …

Renovation As A Partial Solution To Housing Problems In Old Quito, Ecuador, Oswaldo Cesar MiñO

Architecture and Planning ETDs

Quito has no distinct marginal belt, or barrio, section within the city. Rather, there are tugurios (or poor) living throughout the city, with higher concentrations in the historical city center of Quito. This historical center is rich in culture and history, as seen especially in its attractive colonial-style buildings. However, these buildings are being neglected at present and are losing their charm and historical value because they belong to the tugurio. The author feels it is impor­tant to preserve the historical relevance and charm of the old city center and at the same time provide adequate housing for those in …

The Manuel Areu Collection Of 19th Century Zarzuelas, Mary Caroline MontañO

Music ETDs

In November of 1952, a collection of musical and dramatic manuscripts were discovered on a garbage dump in the mountainside mining town of Jerome, Arizona. They were donated to the University of New Mexico and stored at Zimmerman Library until 1973 when they were transferred to the Fine Arts Library. The majority of the manuscripts were discovered to be handcopied orchestral parts and scores of 19th-century Spanish zarzuelas with handcopied or printed librettos. The original owner of the collection was Manuel Areu (1845-1944?), singer, director and producer of the zarzuelas.

This thesis attempts to provide an historical review of the …

Respiratory Physiology Of The Scorpion Paruroctonus Aquilonalis, Wayne A. Riddle

Biology ETDs

The scorpion Paruroctonus aquilonalis (Stahnke) was studied to better understand the influence that six potentially important factors (size, sex, temperature, nutrition, season, and humidity) have on its respiratory metabolism. Respiratory rate: temperature relations of oxygen consumption from 5°C to 36°C, and standard metabolism estimates at 20°C and 25°C were employed. Respirometry was performed on both freshly collected mature and immature scorpions and on laboratory-maintained animals.

Inverse weight: metabolism relationships were noted for males and females above 24°C, but below 24°C live weight did not influence metabolic rate among females. For mature males positive weight: metabolism patterns were found below 24 …

Francis Bedford, 1816-1894: English Landscape Photographer Of The Wet-Plate Period, Bill Jay

Art & Art History ETDs

This dissertation examines Francis Bedford's ancestry, his early careers in architecture and lithography, and the growth of his reputation as a landscape and architectural photographer; it explores his photographic techniques and concepts, reflected in the views of exhibition notices and society discussions; it reviews Bedford's photographs in the form of single prints, cartes-de-visite, stereographs and tipped-in book illustrations; it describes the circumstances and achievements of his Royal tour; it traces his influence through the work of his son, William, and his other known associates.

An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Physical Attractiveness Of Defendants In A Simulated Jury Setting, Dennis Alan Ashley

Communication ETDs

The subjects for this experiment were chosen from seven undergraduate beginning Speech Communication classes at The University of New Mexico. These subjects were asked to look at either an attractive, neither-attractive-nor-unattractive, or unattractive person who was posing as a defendant in a negligent homicide case, and sentence that defendant to from one to twenty-five years in prison for the crime.

A 3x2 factorial design was constructed, testing two variables -- level of physical attractiveness (attractive, neither attractive- nor-unattractive, unattractive), and mode of presentation of the defendant (photograph, in person). Different effects of these two variables were measured by comparing the …

The Michigan Agricultural Frontier: Southeastern Region, 1820-1860, Raymond Labounty Puffer

History ETDs

The paper which follows is a systematic study of the cultural and economic history of a portion of southeast Michigan during the critical phase of the first American period of development. Although a great many published and unpublished sources have addressed them­selves to various aspects of this area during its territorial and early statehood years, there has been curiously little attention directed toward Michigan on a regional basis, or upon attempts to synthesize the many different facets of its physical and social his­tory into a single work. The area of land sales has been especially neglected. It is anticipated that …

Variations Of Sexual Stimuli And Subject Personality Variables In Immediate And Delayed Paired-Associate Learning, Flynn O'Malley

Psychology ETDs

Previous research using affective stimuli in learning and· memory tasks has yielded conflicting results regarding the effects of such stimuli on performance, and there has been little research employing affective photographs in such tasks. The present study was conducted in order to determine the effects of highly explicit sexual photographs of individuals used as stimulus terms in the immediate and delayed paired-associate (P-A) learning of college students. Of particular interest was the extent to which high arousal would differentially affect immediate (Session 1) and delayed (Session 2) P-A performance. The research consisted of a stimulus scaling study and three experiments. …

The Cloze Procedure: Its Sensitivity To Constraints Across Sentences, Tetsuro Chihara

Teacher Education, Educational Leadership & Policy ETDs

This experimental study was to determine whether or not cloze procedure is sensitive to constraints that range across sentence boundaries. Two passages of prose were selected and two cloze tests were constructed over each passage. The sequential type was constructed by a standard word-deletion procedure. In the scrambled type, the sentences of each passage of prose were systematically shuffled. There were 56 items in the sequential type of passage A, and the same 56 in scrambled order in A. There were 48 items in each form of B. The design was counterbalanced for passage and order. Forty-one native speakers of …

The Classroom Behavior Assessment Scale, Linda Beth Brooks

Special Education ETDs

The purpose of this investigation was to test the predictive valid­ity of the Classroom Behavior Assessment Scale (CBAS). The CBAS, a be­havioral checklist, was designed to be used as a screening device for the detection of possible emotional/behavioral disorders in young chil­dren. The investigation was conducted using both mean and median CBAS scores of children who were recommended by the Educational Appraisal and Review committee of Albuquerque Public Schools for Special Education programs, and those who were not recommended for Special Education programs by that same committee. The hypotheses for this investigation were stated in the null form. Hypothesis 1. …

Contribution Of The Electron Transport System To The Energetics Of Growth In Two Species Of Desulfovibrio, Burt D. Ensley

Biology ETDs

The growth of Desulfovibrio vulgaris and D. gigas on various electron donors and electron acceptors was measured in order to determine the influence of the donors and acceptors on energetics of growth. When using lactate, pyruvate, or formate as electron donors, and sulfate, sulfite, thiosulfate, or fumarate as electron acceptors, pyruvate-sulfate medium produced the most rapid growth, and intermediate levels of growth were observed on lactate­sulfate, with lowest levels on formate-sulfate. Both organisms grew best when sulfate was the electron acceptor regardless of electron donor. No growth occurred in cultures containing pyruvate and sulfite, and slight growth was observed in …

Spruille Braden: A Political Biography, Shirley N. Rawls

History ETDs

In 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt and Secretary of State Cordell Hull began a new kind of diplomacy in Latin America known as the Good Neighbor Policy. One key person they chose to implement this policy was Spruille Braden, a former mining engineer and financier who had spent much of his life in Latin America.

Braden was first named as a delegate to the 1933 Monte­video Conference. From late 1935 through 1938, as U.S. delegate to the Chaco Peace Conference, he helped achieve a lasting peace between Bolivia and Paraguay. As ambassador to Colombia from 1939 to 1942, he was instrumental …

The Cost-Of-Service Indexing Clause Concept, W. David Eberle

Economics ETDs

The Public Service Company of New Mexico (PNM) persuaded the Public Service Commission of New Mexico (PSC), in March 1975, to adopt a cost-of-service index (CSI) approach to setting electric service rates as an alternative to setting the service rates through formal rate hearings. This thesis primarily reviews the CSI's impact on the Company and the Commission.

PNM asked for an alternative method of setting service rates because of the electric utility industry's financial crisis in the early 1970s. The rapidly changing, economic environment of this period created severe upward pressure on prices and costs. The inability of regulatory commissions …

The Cost-Of-Service Indexing Clause Concept, W. David Eberle

Economics ETDs

The purpose of this thesis is to describe and evaluate the objectives of the CSI as one possible long-range solution to the crisis faced by the electric utility industry today. Consisting of five chapters, the first presents a brief history of events that led to PNM proposing the CSI. This historical overview lends understanding to the gravity of the utilities’ financial crisis and to the need for reform action to prevent another similar crisis.

Differential Effects Of Instructions To Role-Play Mental Illness On The Performance Of Chicanos And Anglos On Two Subtests Of The Wais, Teresa Y. Makowski

Psychology ETDs

Anglo and Chicano conceptions of mental illness were studied through a cross-cultural comparison of performance on the Information and Comprehension subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale either under standard instructions or under instructions to role-play mental illness. Thirty-two Anglo (22 female and 10 male) and thirty-two Chicano (18 female and 14 male) students from introductory psychology classes participated in the study. It was predicted that both Anglo and Chicano subjects would have decreased performance on both subtests under role­playing instructions. This prediction was based on the concept of mental illness which suggests that the mentally ill are seen as …

Male And Female Family Planning Program Administrators' Evaluations Of Management Training: A Comparative Study, Carol Mendez Cassell

Public Administration ETDs

The major purpose of this study was to determine whether differences existed between male and female family planning program administrators’ evaluation of the value and the implementation of specific topics covered in management training, as well as their reasons for implementing or not implementing training.

The management training topics in this study included subjects in training which deal with human and interpersonal relations, technical family planning information, and a broad range of managerial science principles and techniques.

The topics were: Planning, Program Evaluation, Personnel Policies and Procedures, Governmental Policies, Management Techniques, Interpersonal Communication > Policy Boards and Advisory Committees, and Specific …