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The Effects Of A Kinesthetic Training Program On The Acquisition Of Industrial Skills Among University Students, John V. Mockler Jan 1979

The Effects Of A Kinesthetic Training Program On The Acquisition Of Industrial Skills Among University Students, John V. Mockler

Dissertations and Theses @ UNI

Training workers for specific jobs is receiving much attention in industry. The demand for skilled workers is increasing constantly and as this happens newer and more efficient methods of training are sought In the psychomotor/sensory area. skills that appear to offer a wide amount of transferability are those dealing with fine sensitivity, manual dexterity, and coordination. Even though these skills lend themselves well to training, this area is somewhat deficient in current educational and training programs (Sjogren, 1977, p.23). Presently, on-the-job training is widely used for training workers in the actual tasks they will perform during their job.

The process …


Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 49, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association Oct 1978

Ua77/1 Western Alumnus, Vol. 49, No. 6, Wku Alumni Association

WKU Administration Documents

Alumni magazine published by WKU. This issue has the following articles:

  • Dero Downing Steps Down
  • Douglas, Michele. Top Banana – Gary Riggs
  • Egan, Sherry. WKU State Climatic Center
  • Gibson, Debbie. I Kind of Believe It’s a Gift – Burt Feintuch, Folk Music
  • New on the Gridiron
  • Adams, Bob. Digital Voltmeter – Engineering Technology
  • Schock, Jack. The Projectile Point – Archaeology
  • Armstrong, Bryan. Confessions of a Journalism Intern
  • Highland, Jim. Terry Climer
  • Beauchamp, Donnie. Commonplace Things – Photography
  • Miller, Richard. The Exceptional Student – Psychology, Biology
  • Harry Snyder Speaks at Commencement
  • Douglas, Michele. Students Take Advantage of Study Trips Abroad
  • Western …


Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln Oct 1978

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

From the Vice Chancellor ................... 2

EFNEP Teachers Learn, Too ............................... 3

Learning to Live with Death....................... 4

How Prepared Were They to Teach?............................ 7

Effects of Production, Marketing Choices....................... 9

Close Rows Can Boost Yields .............................. 11

Financial Choices in Wheat Farming ........................ 13

Black Walnut is Prized Crop ............................... 15

Profits Fly Out When Insects Invade Stored Grain ............ 17

Computer Makes Drapery Calculations Easier ................ 19


Attributes Of The Deer Hunting Experience: A Cluster-Analytic Study, Jacob Hautaluoma, Perry J. Brown Oct 1978

Attributes Of The Deer Hunting Experience: A Cluster-Analytic Study, Jacob Hautaluoma, Perry J. Brown

Forest Management Faculty Publications

Using data from Washington State deer hunters, this paper reports on a cluster analytic study of the attributes of the deer hunting experience. The data were collected by mail questionnaire from 3,924 deer hunters by Potter, Hendee, and Clark (1973). Scaled data were subjected to a variable cluster analysis, and then variable clusters were used in an object cluster analysis of hunters. Several dimensions of the deer hunting experience which add to or detract from satisfaction, and groups of hunters reacting differently to these dimensions, are identified. Nature, harvest, equipment, out-group contact, and skill are identified as important attributes of …


Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendations For Research, T. Carding, M. W. Fox Aug 1978

Euthanasia Of Dogs And Cats: An Analysis Of Experience And Current Knowledge With Recommendations For Research, T. Carding, M. W. Fox

eBooks

1978 Special Report prepared by the Institute for the Study of Animal Problems


Leisure Preferences Of The Elderly In Bowling Green Nutrition Programs, Lawrence Prochazka Aug 1978

Leisure Preferences Of The Elderly In Bowling Green Nutrition Programs, Lawrence Prochazka

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The objective was to identify the leisure preferences of elderly in Bowling Green Nutrition Programs. This objective was to be accomplished through the utilization of a leisure preference test. Since no leisure preference test was found, the study was significant not only for the results obtained but also to evaluate this new test.

The test was designed after the format utilized in the Edwards Personal Preference Test. Major categories were selected and each was composed of five leisure opportunity statements. Each category was placed in opposition to every other category four times to comprise the test. A test was then …


Nutritional Aspects In The Care Of The Child With Cleft Lip And Palate, Mary E. Keitel Jul 1978

Nutritional Aspects In The Care Of The Child With Cleft Lip And Palate, Mary E. Keitel

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

Proper nutrition is essential in the care of the infant with cleft lip or palate, as these infants are often plagued with feeding difficulties from birth. This paper reviews recent literature on the many feeding practices in use today and discusses the current trend toward a multidisciplinary approach to treatment for the cleft lip/palate child. It also presents a brief review of experimental animal studies which have implicated nutritional deficiences in the causation of cleft lip/palate.


Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln Jul 1978

Farm, Ranch And Home Quarterly Institute Of Agriculture And Natural Resources, University Of Nebraska- Lincoln

Farm, Ranch and Home Quarterly

In this issue:

From the Vice Chancellor ............................... 2

Good Management Controls Feedlot Flies................. 3

Tractor Day-Something for Everyone...................... 5

How Not to Hit Your Children ........................... 7

Cottonwoods for Nebraska.......................... 9

Agricultural job Openings Forecast ........................ 11

Range judging-An Outdoor Classroom ................... 12

To Expand or Not to Expand? ............................ 14

Dry Bean Disease Plagues Farmers ........................ 16

Pest Center Serves Growers, Gardeners .................... 19

joint Venture Beef Fabrication ............................ 21

Rural Services: Worth the Cost? .......................... 23


1977 Publications Of The Staff Of Henry Ford Hospital Jun 1978

1977 Publications Of The Staff Of Henry Ford Hospital

Henry Ford Hospital Medical Journal

No abstract provided.


Material-Specific Processes In Tactile Short-Term Memory, Christina Anne Meyers May 1978

Material-Specific Processes In Tactile Short-Term Memory, Christina Anne Meyers

Dissertations and Theses

Studies concerning tactile short-term memory (short-term memory or the sense of touch) have often been contradictory. Some of these studies support the existence of modality-specific tactile memory, a separate, independent storage system for tactile information. Other studies do not support such a system. Further, confusion has arisen regarding the tactile test materials, since many of them use common shapes which are easily labeled verbally. It is hypothesized that information which can be labeled is stored in material-specific verbal memory in the left hemisphere, while patterned or spatial information is stored in material-specific nonverbal memory in the right hemisphere.

This paper …


Antipredative Function Of The Gelatinous Coating Of The Eggs Of The Frog, Rana Pipiens, Walter Stanley Jennings May 1978

Antipredative Function Of The Gelatinous Coating Of The Eggs Of The Frog, Rana Pipiens, Walter Stanley Jennings

Master's Theses

The eggs of Rana pipiens, the southern leopard frog, were offered in several forms to Lepomis macro­ chirus, the bluegill. The fish were offered random trial discrimination tests while in groups of one or five in 40 1 aquaria. L. macrochirus learned to make distinct discriminations and rejected fertilized and unfertilized egg masses, boiled egg masses, dried frog eggs and gelatin made with homogenated frog eggs. In contrast, Shrimp-el-etts, Shrimp-el-etts dyed black, gelatin made with peptone, and ovarian eggs were accept­ ed readily. The results suggest a protective function for the gelatinous coat: both physical and chemical . The chemical …


The Social Behavior Of Brown Bears At Mcneil River, Alaska, Allan L. Egbert May 1978

The Social Behavior Of Brown Bears At Mcneil River, Alaska, Allan L. Egbert

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The social behavior of brown bears (Ursus arctos) was studied during the summers of 1972 and 1973 as bears fished for salmon at McNeil River, Alaska. Study objectives were to determine behavioral characteristics of bears in relation to sex and age, changes in social behavior over a 40-day long fishing season, social and environmental parameters correlated with the occurrence of behavior, and to test the hypothesis that brown bears modify social behavior in a feeding aggregation to exploit a resource limited in time and space.

Over one-half of the agonistic interactions consisted of passive deferrals. Encounters that included …


Conflict In Outdoor Recreation, Gerald R. Jacob May 1978

Conflict In Outdoor Recreation, Gerald R. Jacob

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The causes of conflict among users of outdoor recreation resources have received little attention from recreation researchers. Knowledge of factors responsible for conflict might assist recreation planners' attempts to reduce future instances of conflict and help management focus its conflict resolution efforts. A theory of conflict is offered as the first step in systematically procuring such knowledge. A definition and characteristics of outdoor recreation conflicts are presented; four comprehensive causes of user conflicts are proposed. Ten propositions are used to link these factors to conflict and suggest future research hypotheses. The social psychological dynamics of conflict, as described here, have …


Bait Shyness And Neophobia In Several Species Of Osteichthyes: An Extension Of Taste Aversion Studies To The Superclass Pices, Brent W. Roberts May 1978

Bait Shyness And Neophobia In Several Species Of Osteichthyes: An Extension Of Taste Aversion Studies To The Superclass Pices, Brent W. Roberts

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Three experiments were conducted with five species of tropical fish to investigate the phenomena of taste aversion and food neophobia. In addition, an experiment determined specifically if position in the tank could acquire conditioned aversive properties.

In Experiment 1 , four habituated fish were fed novel meat-flavored pellets on the treatment day. Six were made ill within 30, 60, or 90 minutes (2 subjects each) by intragastric administration of syrup or Epicac. The following day all were fed familiar commercial pellets. On the second day after treatment, all were offered the meat-flavored pellets. Results showed longer latencies, more tasting, and …


The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 21-22, 1978 [Program, 90th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science Apr 1978

The Annual Meeting Of The Iowa Academy Of Science April 21-22, 1978 [Program, 90th Meeting], Iowa Academy Of Science

Iowa Academy of Science Documents

No abstract provided.


The Effects Of Body Size, Hair And Brown Adipose Tissue Upon Fever In The Rabbit, Reginald L. Dean Apr 1978

The Effects Of Body Size, Hair And Brown Adipose Tissue Upon Fever In The Rabbit, Reginald L. Dean

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.


Museum Victory For Animal Rights, Henry Spira Feb 1978

Museum Victory For Animal Rights, Henry Spira

Commentaries and Editorials

No abstract provided.


Quantitative Analyses Of The Ontogeny Of Predatory Behaviour In Coyotes, Canis Latrans, Louis E. Vincent, Marc Bekoff Feb 1978

Quantitative Analyses Of The Ontogeny Of Predatory Behaviour In Coyotes, Canis Latrans, Louis E. Vincent, Marc Bekoff

Ethology Collection

Four infant coyotes (Canis latrans) were studied in order to describe quantitatively the development of predatory behaviour. Our results indicated that prior play and agonistic experience had virtually no effect on later predatory success. Also, there was no relationship between an individual's social rank and its prey-killing ability. Latency to kill was shortened when animals were tested in, pair and hunger level was not related to latency to kill. The results are discussed with respect to current 'functionalist' theories of play behaviour and Leyhausen's concept of the relative hierarchy of moods. The practice theory of play should be reconsidered in …


Circadian Rhythms In Blood And Self-Measured Physiologic Variables In Young People Ages 9-14, Joseph Rabatin Jan 1978

Circadian Rhythms In Blood And Self-Measured Physiologic Variables In Young People Ages 9-14, Joseph Rabatin

Journal of the Minnesota Academy of Science

In order to investigate circadian (about 24 hour) rhythms in young people 9-14 years of age in several physiologic variables, self-measurements of oral temperature, pulse, blood pressure and selected performance tests were conducted by ten subjects. Each subject was also 'hospitalized for a twenty-four hour span in order to have blood sampled to detect a circadian rhythm in several blood constituents and indices.


The Effect Of Novelty And Familiarity On The Conditioning Of Learned Aversions To Gustatory And Nongustatory Stimuli In Coyotes (Canis Latrans), William Eric Swanson Jan 1978

The Effect Of Novelty And Familiarity On The Conditioning Of Learned Aversions To Gustatory And Nongustatory Stimuli In Coyotes (Canis Latrans), William Eric Swanson

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program Jan 1978

Ua35/11 Student Honors Research Bulletin, Wku Honors Program

WKU Administration Documents

Papers representative of the variety of scholarly research conducted at WKU.

  • Adams, Kathy. The Appalachian Language
  • Barnett, Philip. A Study of Deviant Behavior of XYY Individuals in Regard to Environment and Genotype
  • Bell, Brooks. Loving, Loyal Linda Loman: An Interpretive Note
  • Danhauer, Janice. Motivating Workers Through Job Design
  • Davis, Barbara. The Transformation of a Man into a Man of Understanding in Murinbata Society
  • Davis, Diane. The Argot of the Homosexual
  • Jewell, Teresa. The Life Story of the Hero of World War I - Sergeant Alvin C. York
  • Lanham, Wayne. Das Knarrenschiff and a Ship of Fools: A Study in Influence …


Food Deprivation And The Regulation Of Meal Size In Larvae Of Chrysopa Carnea, Alan B. Bond Jan 1978

Food Deprivation And The Regulation Of Meal Size In Larvae Of Chrysopa Carnea, Alan B. Bond

Alan Bond Publications

The course of repletion and the effects of food deprivation on meal size were explored in three experiments on larvae of Chrysopa carnea (Neuroptera). Feeding to repletion was found to occur within the first 30 min of exposure to food. Meal size increased as an ogival function of deprivation, up to the limit of gut capacity. Behavioral components involved in the initiation of feeding were little affected by deprivation and did not appear to be inhibited by distention of the gut. Termination of a meal may be mediated by the stimulation of prey-release behavior, rather than by inhibition of feeding.


Genetic Method For The Preferential Elimination Of Females Of Anopheles Albimanus, J. A. Seawright, P. E. Kaiser, D. A. Dame, C. S. Lofgren Jan 1978

Genetic Method For The Preferential Elimination Of Females Of Anopheles Albimanus, J. A. Seawright, P. E. Kaiser, D. A. Dame, C. S. Lofgren

Entomology Papers from Other Sources

Recent field experiments demonstrated the possibility of using the sterile male method for the control of Anopheles albimanus Wiedemann, the most impor- tant vector of human malaria in Central America. Until now there was no practical method for excluding females from the releases of sterile males. A genetic method was developed for the preferential elimination of females during any of the four life stages. This genetic sexing system utilizes propoxur (o-isopropoxyphenyl methyl- carbamate) susceptibility as a recessive conditional lethal, a T(Y:2R) translocation, and an In(2R) inversion. The propoxur resistance allele (dominant) was linked to the Y chromosome via a radiation-induced …


Deterioration Of Eggshell Quality And Calcium Metabolism In Laying Hens, Chang Won Kang Jan 1978

Deterioration Of Eggshell Quality And Calcium Metabolism In Laying Hens, Chang Won Kang

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

The present study was undertaken to: (1) develop a reliable method of measuring eggshell quality, (2) determine whether diet alterations that cause a somewhat reduced rate of egg production could influence shell quality, and (3) determine whether certain biochemical parameters involved in calcium metabolism are related to shell quality.


The Opportunity Spectrum -- Concept And Behavioral Information In Outdoor Recreation Resource Supply Inventories: Background And Application, Perry J. Brown, B. L. Driver, C. Mcconnell Jan 1978

The Opportunity Spectrum -- Concept And Behavioral Information In Outdoor Recreation Resource Supply Inventories: Background And Application, Perry J. Brown, B. L. Driver, C. Mcconnell

Forest Management Faculty Publications

The paper describes an outdoor recreation resource (ORR) Supply Inventory and Classification (SIC) System that is being developed for multiple use natural resource planning. Four previously developed ORR SIC’s on which this system was built are described briefly. A general model for natural resource planning is presented to show how the proposed ORR SIC fits into a larger planning framework.

The proposed SIC System is described and its application for regional and unit planning is explained. Relationships between OR consumers' preferences for specific types of satisfying experiences and their preferences for specific attributes of the physical, social, and managerial settings …


A Correlation Study On The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, Lynn Walter Capraun Jan 1978

A Correlation Study On The Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases, Lynn Walter Capraun

Retrospective Theses and Dissertations

Data were extracted from medical records of 202 former patients of a well established central Florida general hospital. Records were selected so as to include an equal number of disease categories dispersed equally over the two years. One hundred records were dated 1973 and 102 were dated 1976. Emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and asthma had been diagnosed in 67, 67, and 68 of the cases respectively. The age, sex, race, smoking habits, and occupations of the patients were recorded and crosstabulated with the diagnostic tests and subsequent treatment ordered by the various physicians. Most of the emphysematous patients were males over …


Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Vi (1978): Table Of Contents Jan 1978

Transactions Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences Volume Vi (1978): Table Of Contents

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

Nebraska Academy of Sciences, Officers, Policy Committee .......... ii

Editorial Board, Instructions to Contributors .......... v

Symposium: "The Ice Age- When dd it begin and has it ended"

Cochairmen: John F. Shroder, Jr. and Lloyd G. Tanner

The comparative method in stratigraphy: the beginning and end of an ice age (T. M. Stout) .......... 1

The Plio-Pleistocene: sediments, environments, and geochronology along the Karari Escarpment, East Turkana, Kenya (Vondra, Burggraf, Jr., and White) .......... 19

Chronology of some Late Cenozoic deposits from the central United States and the Ice Ages (J. D. Boellstorff) .......... 35

Progress on rock glacier research …


Regional Differences In Central Adrenergic Neuronal Activity During Anesthesia, Byron C. Bloor Jan 1978

Regional Differences In Central Adrenergic Neuronal Activity During Anesthesia, Byron C. Bloor

Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Origins Of Biological Thought, John B. Jenkins Dec 1977

Origins Of Biological Thought, John B. Jenkins

Biology Faculty Works

No abstract provided.


The Effect Of Metabolites, Which Accumulate During Phenylketonuria, On The Activity Of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase, Walter Scott Dec 1977

The Effect Of Metabolites, Which Accumulate During Phenylketonuria, On The Activity Of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase, Walter Scott

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.