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A Functional Model For Masticatory-Related Mandibular, Dental, And Craniofacial Microevolutionary Change Derived From A Selected Southeastern Indian Skeletal Temporal Series, Donna Catherine Markland Boyd

Doctoral Dissertations

In the present study, 66 metric as well as numerous morphological observations are utilized from 299 individuals representing a skeletal temporal series (Archaic, Woodland, Mississippian) from West, Middle, and East Tennessee. These groups reflect a documented subsistence shift from a relatively hard-textured, hunting and gathering Archaic to a soft-textured, Mississippian agricultural diet. Mandibular, craniofacial, and mandibular anterior dental dimensions are compared within and between these groups in order to evaluate a model of masticatory-related diachronic change in the mandibular complex.

This model proposes strong correlations between mandibular, craniofacial, and mandibular anterior dental measurements within each group. Cumulative age-related functional stress …

Users And Uses Of Full Text Databases, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The increasing variety in full text databases and wider availability means a variety of users and uses. Recent research has suggested that full texts are being used for many different reasons, including: document location, fact retrieval, paragraph retrieval,browsing, and document delivery. The studies reported in this paper show that search strategies may need to differ for different uses or for different types of full text. The reported studies focus on full texts of non-technical magazine articles.

A Study Of The Characteristics Affecting Organizational Behavior Of Nursing Homes And Related Home Care Facilities During Emergency Evacuations, Barbara Muller Vogt

Doctoral Dissertations

Both emergency planners and disaster researchers cite the lack of empirical data on the problems and needs of special populations during emergency evacuations. Although most evacuations of nursing homes and related care facilities are carried out successfully, the effectiveness of an evacuation (as measured by time to evacuate) appears limited by certain constraints. Among the factors affecting such evacuations are resources (such as the number of staff available at the time of the evacuation), type and number of clients, and community characteristics such as population density. This study describes selected organizational characteristics of nursing homes and related care facilities which …

Doing Crime: An Analysis Of Repetitive Property Offenders' Decision-Making, Kenneth D. Tunnell

Doctoral Dissertations

Over the past two decades social theory and research have focused increasingly on issues of criminal decision-making and deterrence. This inter-disciplinary movement draws from criminology, economics, and psychology, which share common assumptions that point toward a model of rational decision-making. Each body of thought considers criminal decision-making as being no different than non-criminal decision-making. Deciding whether to commit a crime is considered a "decision problem," a unique one no less, but a decision that is resolved similarly to other decision problems.

The central objective of my research is to enhance our understanding of decision-making, specifically individual career criminal decision-making about …

Infant/Weanling Mortality In Tennessee's Prehistory: A Comparative Approach, Rick R. Richardson

Masters Theses

Although there is general agreement among many researchers concerning the decline in health and nutrition which accompanied the shift from hunting and gathering to agriculture, few studies have directly addressed the differences in infant\weanling mortality between these two distinct cultural adaptational strategies. This research focuses on infant mortality as an indicator of general health and nutritional status. Results from the present study, which utilizes more than 1,200 skeletal samples from eight sites, indicate a significant difference in infant mortality between prehistoric hunter-gatherers and agriculturalists in Tennessee.

Demographic comparisons were made between six Archaic sites and two Mississippian sites using the …

Social Validation Of A Creativity Measure, Elizabeth Kay Bennett

Masters Theses

A series of three rating forms, based on the Developmental-Ecological Model of Creative Potential in Young Children (Moran, Sawyers & Tegano, 1987), and a checklist were designed to assist preschool teachers in identifying creative children. The rating forms and checklist were completed, one per day for four consecutive days, by 15 teachers who were unaware that they were rating creative behaviors. The Multidimensional Stimulus Fluency Measure (MSFM), measure of young children's creative potential, and an IQ test were individually administered to the 40 children involved. Correlations were computed to assess the relationships of IQ and creativity, as measured by the …

Technical Bulletins: When Is A Mobile Home Not A Mobile Home?, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about the definition of a mobile home and about mobile home statutes.

Database Selection Tools, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Recommends tools for librarians in selecting databases for library patrons. Directory of online periodicals; Online dictionary files; Automatic database selection procedures.

Municipal Courts In Tennessee - A Constitutional And Statutory Primer, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This paper will first examine the constitutional and statutory underpinnings of municipal courts in Tennessee. Then it will briefly review the jurisidiction of municipal courts, the selection of municipal court judges, and municipal court penalties. Finally, it will take a look at the recent case of Summers v. Thompson, Tenn. Sup. Ct., No. 23, filed May 23, 1988. That case has a significant bearing on all of those topics, and it has some implications for what municipal courts will look like in the future. No pretense is made that every important thing is said or every important case is cited …

The Sparta/White County Experience: An Attempt To Unify Governments, Ron Fults, Joe Muscatello

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This report is an account of the unification efforts between the governments of the City of Sparta and White County, Tennessee. The compilation of records and the documentation of events leading up to and through the consolidation attempt in White County inc1uding the election results of the referendum is the basis of this report.

Search Strategies For Full Text Databases, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Managing Text: Software Choices For Textual Databases, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Decision Making By Reference Librarians, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Presents guidelines for choosing alternatives for reference materials in the library. Effects of adding technological reference sources to a library; Use of online searching in academic research; Benefits of online database; When to choose CD-ROM and printed reference materials.

An Interface For Self‑Service Searching, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Features the self-service database searching interface developed under a Council on Library Resources grant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapaign. Developers of the system; Capabilities; Link to the university's online public access catalog (OPAC); Description of a typical search session; Continuous testing of the system.

Victorian Material Culture In Memphis, Tennessee: The Mallory-Neely House Interiors As Artifact, Lawrence Allen Ray

Doctoral Dissertations

The interiors of the Mallory-Neely House are valuable surviving documents of nineteenth century American culture warranting careful research, preservation and interpretation. Victorian Village, where the mansion is located in Memphis, is a nationally recognized enclave of nineteenth-century domestic structures. Previous research has centered primarily on the genealogical background of the owners and to a much lesser degree on the architectural history of these houses; none had focused in a scholarly manner on the interiors and furnishings. This is especially true of the Mallory-Neely House, the only one containing its original interior decor. These represent stratification of occupation and renovation by …

An Experimental Study Of Small Animal Remains In Archaeological Pit Features, Thomas R. Whyte

Doctoral Dissertations

Shells of terrestrial snails and bones of small vertebrates such as toads, frogs, shrews, and mice are often recovered from pit features on archaeological sites in eastern North America. Attempts by archaeologists to reconstruct human subsistence behavior are impeded by an inability to determine whether these small animal remains represent cultural refuse or natural entrapment. An exploratory experimental program aimed at mitigating this dilemma was conducted along the Tennessee River near Knoxville, Tennessee from May 1985 to June 1986. The goals of this experimental program were to determine (1) the causes of natural entrapment of animals in pits, (2) the …

Lithic Analysis And The Discovery Of Prehistoric Man-Land Relationships In The Uplands Of The Big South Fork Of The Tennessee Cumberland Plateau, Terry Andrew Ferguson

Doctoral Dissertations

Prehistoric man-land relationships within the uplands of the Big South Fork River valley in east-central Tennessee were studied by lithic based settlement analysis. Lithic artifact assemblages from 45 sites located within three study areas in contrasting biophysical environments were investigated. Investigations were designed to identify culturally meaningful patterning in the information content of the archaeological record and to draw inferences concerning adaptive behavior. Patterns were evaluated for the study areas, viewed holistically and synchronically, and for individual sites viewed diachronically. The analytical investigations focused on the assemblage variability present within and between the study areas and concerned variation in patterns …

The Social Reality Of A Group Of Rural, Low-Status Appalachian Women: A Grounded Theory Study, Judith Ivy Fiene

Doctoral Dissertations

This study was designed to develop a deeper understanding of the social realities of low-status, rural Appalachian women. Its methodological base is to be found in phenomenological philosophy which points to the power of the social context in the construction of social meanings.

Existing studies of low-status Appalachian women present conflicting pictures of the women and contain little information regarding the women's point of view. Some observers have portrayed the women as members of a traditionalist subculture -- unable to adapt to the modern world -- exhibiting dysfunctional personality characteristics (Looff, 1971; Photiadis, 1970; Polansky, 1972; Weller, 1965). Other observers …

Feedback And Learning Style In Concept Teaching Computer Assisted Instruction, William Bruce Allen

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of informative feedback in CAI and to examine possible interactions between learning style and type of feedback. An additional focus of the study was a subject matter error analysis that provided the basis for two of the six types of feedback studied. These two types of feedback were hypothesized to be more effective than the four types of feedback that were developed without consideration for common errors in the subject matter.

The study involved a two factor (feedback and learning style) repeated measures design. The participants were 106 undergraduate students …

Software Choices For In‑House Databases., Carol Tenopir, Gerald W. Lundeen

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

A number of software packages are available to help create an in-house database on a microcomputer. Because these packages vary so widely and because different programs are suited to different applications, it is useful to categorize packages by general characteristics. In-house database software can be divided into 2 broad types: 1. general purpose, which includes text retrieval, file managers, and database management systems, and 2. special purpose, which covers information storage and retrieval (IS&R) packages, integrated bibliographic systems, and library automation applications. Each type of software is appropriate in different circumstances. For example, INMAGIC and Personal Librarian, both IS&R packages …

Evaluating Online Systems, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Focuses on the importance of evaluation skills in relation to studying library online systems. Factors that should be considered in selecting an online system; Various systems used by libraries.

Community, Violence, And The Nature Of Change: Whitecapping In Sevier County, Tennessee, During The 1890'S, William Joseph Cummings

Masters Theses

During the 1890s, a series of extra-legal and illegal activities known as "whitecapping" occurred in Sevier County, Tennessee. While the early episodes were based on traditional responses to deviant behavior in rural communities, whitecapping reflected the loss of community within the county. This study examines the relationship of whitecapping and community in Sevier County and how it changed during the 1890s. The several, often contradictory, social conditions which affected the life of every Sevier Countian are also examined to show the decline of community consensus during this period. Finally, the events galavanizing public opinion against the whitecaps are analyzed to …

Technical Bulletins: Information System Funding Available For Municipal Law Enforcement Agents, Phillip A. Keith

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses opportunities for Tennessee municipalities to obtain funding for the purpose of developing or enhancing computerized information systems. The available funding aimed to provide Tennessee law enforcement agencies with newly developed technology and to upgrade the quality of law enforcement data across the state.

Searching Full‑Text Databases, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Provides information on full-text databases and how to use them. Commercial online systems that offer a number of full-text databases and that are used in U.S. libraries including Lexis and Nexis, BRS, DIALOG and STN International; Types of full-text databases; Search strategy and uses.

Availability Of Japanese Scientific And Technical Periodicals In Major English Language Databases, Carol Tenopir, Keiko Ikushima

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: 1988-89 State Revenue Estimates / Local Sales Tax Outlook, Ken Joines, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides the per capita amounts that Tennessee cities were expected to receive for the fiscal year 1988-89. At the time this bulletin was published, the State General Assembly had not yet adjourned and the state budget had not been passed. Therefore, the per capita amounts presented in the bulletin were estimates only and subject to change.

Five Years Into The Past... Five Years Into The Future, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Examines the issues affecting online databases. Quality control; In-house databases; Changes in database visuals; Pricing policies; Market changes.

Art, Science, Areté, Neil Greenberg

Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

No abstract provided.

Precolumbian Flaked Stone Assemblages In The West Indies, Agamemnon Gus Pantel

Doctoral Dissertations

The present work examines the history of the development of West Indian lithic research and proposes a new classificatory mechanism for West Indian flaked stone tool analysis based on technological process. Precolumbian flaked stone assemblages in the Caribbean have been classified in the past using continental models of hunting and gathering societies and stylistic variation in the artifacts has been used to explain cultural variation among early precolumbian periods. Samples of lithic assemblages from Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands are the materials used in the present research. The effect of raw material on …

Is Connect Time Pricing Obsolete?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses the growing obsolence of connect-time pricing in the library system. Transmission speeds; Downloading and uploading; Chemical abstracts service; Flat-fee pricing.