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Ratios Of Tax Payments To Income By Income Classes New Mexico, 1949, Gerald J. Boyle

Economics ETDs

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A Consideration Of The Relationship Between Memory As Measured By The Stanford-Binet And Reading Achievement As Measured By The California Reading Achievement Test At The Fifth Grade Level, Alfred Owen Fonkalsrud

Student Work

In the remote past the reading of written and printed symbols had Its origin when man first began to use pictures and other characters to send messages and to record events. It occurred very slowly and took a lot of effort to change from picture writing to the use of letters In representing specific sounds.

The Egyptians as early as twenty-five centuries before Christ had analysed words and syllables into sounds and had developed a series of symbols to represent them. As a result of the ingenuity of the Semites these sounds and symbols were the beginning of the Phoenician …

The Degree Of Localization Of Function For Handedness In The Rat, Jeanne Rivoire

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. Peterson and Fracoral (1938) studied Localization of the handedness area in ambidextrous rate by the technique of the thermocautery destruction. By this process they were able to locate a small area for handedness, situated at approximately 250 microns posterior to the genu of the corpus callosum and lying directly over the caudate nucleus. Destruction of this area produced transfers of handedness in their rats.

However, this method of locating a specific structural area by finding a common area for a group of animals is at best relatively crude because of the variation in individual animals.

The …

Survey Of Student Opinion Toward Desegregation At The University Of Tennessee, Barbara Stone

Masters Theses

The South is currently undergoing a period of transition for the traditional values, basic to a southern way of life, were upset by the 1954 Supreme Court decision concerning the desegregation of public schools. This ruling intensified the conflict between these traditional beliefs and attitudes of white supremacy and the fundamental principles of Christianity and democracy. Such conflict will not easily be resolved because it inevitably involves emotional behaviors which are not subject to logic or reason. The decision of the Supreme Court permitted the process of desegregation to be worked out by the local educational boards with all possible …

A Study Of The Air Force Recruiting Service, Frank J. Biro

Political Science ETDs

This thesis will be divided in two parts. The first part will deal with the recruiting service, the recruiter, and the recruiter's prospect and candidate lists. The second part will deal with the persons who are to be the Air Force airmen. Conscription measures will be considered in the second part of the thesis because the relationship is in that area.

An Empirical Study Of Personality Variables Related To Efficiency Of Problem Solving, Sylvia G. Dickerson

Master's Theses

During the last few years there has been an increasing interest in problem solving behavior and closely related area such as concept formation, decision making and creative thinking. This can be seen by the large number of papers published within the last few years. Taylor and McNemar in the 1955 Annual Review state that between 1949 and 1953, in the United States only, 125 relevant doctoral dissertations have been written and about 60 papers presented at the A .P.A . meetings besides the books written on the subject by Bruner, Vinacke, Humphrey, Rapaport. Despite the amount of work which has …

A Validity Study Of The Wonderlic Personnel Test, William Daniel Buckley

Master's Theses

Business and Industry is turning more and more to the use of standardized psychological tests as an aid in the selection and placement of personnel. Many concerns want to have, along with all other pertinent information, a measure of a potential employee's general intelligence. Therefore, some sort of intelligence test is found in their test batteries. Management, in most cases, prefers these various tests to be as simple as possible in their administration and evaluation, thus avoiding unnecessary time am expense. There are a number of short intelligence tests which meet the above requirement One of these, the Wonderlic Personnel …

An Evaluation Of The Accuracy Of Two Meter Calibration Procedures And The Readability Of A Variety Of Voltmeters, Dan A. Peterson

Psychology ETDs

Statement of the problem. The purpose of the study was (1) to determine the comparative accuracy of two electronic meter calibration procedures, and (2) to evaluate the readability of a variety of voltmeters.

These were accomplished by the analysis of distributions of psychophysical errors and psychological mistakes which were produced by the undergraduate engineering students as they made specified voltage settings, read the various meter scales, and computed the resulting correction factors.

Threat Anticipation In Adolescents, C. Eugene Hampton

Student Work

No abstract provided.

Populist Fusion Movements As An Instrument Of Political Reform, 1890-1900, Lee A. Dew

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

The importance of the People's Party of the 1890's is not to be found in the record of the party itself, but the effect which the existence of the party had on the two major political organizations, and the significant contributions made by ex-Populists who returned to the old parties after obtaining a liberal education in Populism. Beginning with the election of 1890, and continuing through the election of 1896, the Populist party became progressively more important in American politics as the agent of the dissatisfied American farmer unwilling to realize and unable to adjust to the new conditions of …

An Evaluation Of Patient Health Teaching In A Selected Hospital, Grescilda Ruth Morris

Loma Linda University Electronic Theses, Dissertations & Projects

Statement of the problem: The purpose of this study was to find out to what extent the responsibility of health teaching is being met by the health team in the medical and surgical departments of a selected hospital.

Method and procedure used in securing the data: The data for this study were collected by the questionnaire technique. One hundred questionnaires were used in the study. This study was conducted during a five weeks' period using medical and surgical patients who were physically and mentally competent to answer the questionnaire and who were hospitalized from four to fifteen days.

Summary of …

An Ethnological Study Of Tortugas, New Mexico, Alan James Oppenheimer

Anthropology ETDs

The village of Tortugas, New Mexico consists of an amalgam of Tiwa-Piro, Spanish-American, Anglo-American, and Mexican Indian cultural elements. These varied influences have been reformulated and unified into a meaningful and peculiarly individual pattern. For this reason the village presents an interesting laboratory for the study of cultural dynamics.

Tortugas was originally settled primarily by Tiwas. At present, however, Tortugas culture is very different from that of the other pueblos. Some cultural factors in history must be responsible for this divergence. An attempt has been made throughout to compare Tortugas culture with other Indian groups, especially Isleta and, where data …

Recruitment In Bernalillo County Of Major Party Candidates For The State Legislature, Dorothy Jean Powell

Political Science ETDs

Politics is a great game of sorts no matter where it is played. In New Mexico it is played in the open. Very little skullduggery is totally hidden from view. And it is not a superior press which keeps it this way. It is the general interest of New Mexicans in their politics. New Mexicans are not bored with politics. Perhaps because men are so sparse they each feel they have a greater voice in government. Perhaps the Spanish and Mexican heritage has much to do with it. In colonial and territorial days the governor was an import, but subordinate …

Echo-Reactions In Arctic Hysteria And Latah, Helen Carpenter

Anthropology ETDs

The general problem of the present study is to discover why some forms of mental disorders occur more frequently in some societies than in others. The specific problem is to determine why echo-reactions as a form of mental disorder occur frequently in some groups in Siberia, adjacent regions, and Indonesia, but are rare or absent in other areas.

Political Behavior In A Time Of Crisis, 1865-1905, John Cameron

Senior Scholar Papers

This study has attenpted to explain the nature of the institutions from 1865-1905 that made it inevitable that manipulators of persons on the grand scale should emerge to take control where there was, temporarily, a political-sccial vacuum to be filled. A nation of individuals., accustomed to the idea that each person must fend for himself as an independent unit, moved into an age of interdependence. The people, however. were slow to recognize this fact and slow to organize the institutions which such an era required. Ray Stannard Baker in his American Chronicle has caught the feelings of the average man …

A Performance Analysis Of The Upper And Lower 20% Of A Senior High School Group Compared On Tests Of Interest, Personality And Achievement, Richard E. Jensen

Student Work

Since early civilization man has been faced with a multitude of situations demanding that he make a decision or choice on which a future course of action or behavior will be based. We might correctly assume that decisions made by people have never been of such simplicity that they created no tension.

Civilization has become progressively more complicated, and thus more alternatives are present from which a person must choose, In the earliest days of man’s existence, decisions were of the simplest and most fundamental nature, Man’s decisions and choices ware, for the most part, governed by a few biological …

Vending And Dispensing Milk And Related Products In The State Of Utah, Douglas S. Huber

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The present era in the United States finds the people leaning more and more toward automation. The use of automatic machines in merchandising products is becoming increasingly important in meeting competition and in developing new outlets for dairy products.

The increase in sales of milk and related products has been furthered by the increased use of vending and dispensing machines.

A knowledge of the methods and special characteristics associated with vending and dispensing is important if the dairy industry is to increase sales and develop a greater market for dairy products.

Courses For Managerial Training As Recommended By Managers Of Selected Utah Industries, B. Edward Lepper

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The United States is a growing nation; it is also an industrial nation. In the past century the spinning wheel has given way to the large clothing mills; a great network of miles and miles of electric power lines has replaced the kerosene lamp and provided power for work that was for years done by hand. Small horse-drawn earth moving equipment has given way to giant motor-driven bulldozers and transportation has progressed from the pony express and stagecoach to the huge trans-ocean airliners that make any spot on the globe only a matter of hours away. In like manner colleges …

Controlled Cross Pollination And Hot Water Emasculation Of Crested Wheatgrass, Agropyron Desertorum (Fisch.) Shult, James Hansen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Grasses are more important in our present agricultural economy than ever before, yet the grasslands of the world are far below their production potential. One of the most hopeful approaches to this problem is through breeding better grasses.

A Study Of Aviation Education In The Secondary Schools Of North Dakota, South Dakota, And Minnesota, Edgar M. Byers Jr.

Theses and Dissertations

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Psychological Adjustment Of The Foreign Born Characters In Willa Cather's Fiction, Sister Irene Marie Kerich

Psychology ETDs

It will be the purpose of this study to show by an analysis of inherent qualities and external manifestations how Willa Cather portrayed in her fiction the psychological adjustment which her foreign born characters had to make in America.

The Predictive Value Of The Cattell Infant Intelligence Scale, Patricia Bledsoe

Dissertations

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An Experimental Investigation Of Psychogalvanic Responses In A Threat Situation , Eugene Joseph Albrecht

Dissertations

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The Discriminatory Power Of The Loyola Language Study In Schizophrenia , Anthony James Del Vecchio

Dissertations

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Religious Attitudes And Beliefs In Relation To Adjustment , Gerd Maximilian Cryns

Dissertations

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Speed And Accuracy Of Decision Among Normals And Neurotics , Warren Freiband

Dissertations

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A Study Of Rorschach Characteristics Of Asthmatic Children , Robert Neil Traisman

Dissertations

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A Study Of The Reliability Of The Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale With Eighteen And Nineteen Year Olds , Fred Donnel Whelan

Dissertations

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A Study Of The Effectiveness Of A System Of Awarding Varsity Monograms To High School Football Players, Leonard V. Hale

Dissertations, Theses, and Masters Projects

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The Multiple Choice Rorschach: A Comparison Of Two Scoring Systems In Estimating Psychiatric Aide Efficiency As Rated By Supervisors, Edward O. Treesh

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.