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Arsenic: An Analytical Procedure To Determine Its Total Content In Biological Samples And Signs Of Its Deprivation In Rats And Chicks., Eric Oliver Uthus

Theses and Dissertations

The first section of this dissertation deals with the development of a procedure for the determination of total arsenic in biological samples. Arsine generated from arsenic in dry combusted biological samples was measured by using an atomic absorption spectrophotometer equipped with a graphite furnace. Innovations of the method included the introduction of arsine into the interior of the graphite tube via one internal purge gas port only, the use of three traps to remove water from generated arsine, and the use of Erlenmeyer flasks in the generation of arsine. EDTA was added to the sample mixture to prevent interference from …

Sex Differences In Delinquency : A Test Of Popular Explanations, Donna Marie Urff

Theses and Dissertations

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The Atrial Response To Ventricular And Atrial Amputation In The Adult Newt, Notophthalmus Viridescens., Timothy James Mcdonnell

Theses and Dissertations

This study describes the ultrastructure of the amphibian atrium and corroborates light microscopic evidence that atrial myocytes are stimulated to proliferate after ventricular wounding. In addition, the atrial response to a direct injury is described at light and electron microscopic levels.Normal atrial tissue from adult newts was processed for TEM. Fifteen days after ventricular wounding animals were injected with ('3)H-thymidine and atrial tissue was processed for TEM autoradiography. Direct atrial injury (DAI) was achieved by removal of a piece of the atrial wall. DAI animals received a ('3)H-thymidine injection at intervals of 5, 10, 15, 20 and 25 days after …

6 Cubicles (Original Drama)., Daniel Warren Landes

Theses and Dissertations

6 Cubicles is a three act drama that is best labeled a "tragicomedy." The plot revolves around the life of Hilda Stag, an elderly English professor whose obsessive behavior is best typified by her kleptomania and her mania for watching soap operas. Eventually Hilda's bad habits are chosen by her colleagues as the "sins" of the faculty office for which "atonement" must be made. Hilda thus becomes a scapegoat who is "sacrificed" by her officemates by means of a seemingly harmless prank. Suffering a mental breakdown, Hilda fantasizes herself in a religious soap opera but is victimized here as well, …

A Study Of Aristotle's "De Anima": Perception As An Epistemological Concept., Muhamad Ndaula Lubambula Sansa

Theses and Dissertations

The research problem is to investigate and analyze perception as an epistemological concept in the writings of Aristotle, using De Anima as the focus for the study.The purpose is to identify and analyze the epistemological premises in Aristotle's theory of perception with particular reference to the intellective process. The Aristotelian concepts utilized as the framework are perception, empiricism, imagination, memory, Aristotle's doctrine of potentiality and actuality and his theory of nous.Aristotle held that perception implies both conception and sense perception. He says that in sense perception the sense organ receives the form without its matter and the object actualizes the …

Plankton Populations In Three Lake Discharge Channels During Extended Zero Flow, Richard E. Jacobsen

Theses and Dissertations

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Edward A. Burns Of Bowman: Japan, World War Ii, Edward A. Burns

North Dakota Prisoner of War Reports

North Dakota Prisoner of War Report by Edward Burns (1917-1987) of Bowman. Burns was a POW of Japan in the Second World War.

81 pages

North Dakota Supreme Court Review, North Dakota Law Review Associate Editors

North Dakota Law Review

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A Comparative Study Of The Competitive Levels Of Women At The University Of Minnesota, Crookston, Wayne Arthur Olson

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The Interpretation Of Metaphor In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Joan Livingston-Webber

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Gray Partridge Occurrence In Relation To Land Use In North Dakota, James P. Samson

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Mesopotamian Man : His World, James E. Sampson

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Developing Wind Energy For North Dakota, M C. Deitz

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The Geolectric Power Potential Of The Arkansas River Basin Of Colorado : An Appraisal, Thomas Charles Fuller

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A Synthetic Longitudinal Study : Rural People's Ability To Adapt To Change During Rapid Rural Development And Decline, Gregory A. Poremba

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The Relationship Of Frequency And Social Desirability Of First Names With Academic And Sex Role Variables., Debra Ruth Crisp

Theses and Dissertations

Much research has been done to support the notion that name stereotypes exist. These stereotypes appear to be related to the popularity of names. The present study was conducted in an effort to discover whether certain types of names were actually associated with different behavioral or attitudinal factors in the people who possessed those names.For a sample of 1094 University of North Dakota students who were first-time entering freshmen in the fall of 1977, the following data was collected, as much as possible, for every subject: first name; the number of times the name occurred in the population; a social …

Mary And Simon: A Novel., Harry Edwin Eiss

Theses and Dissertations

Mary and Simon: A Novel chronicles a period in the lives of three generations of two families in the Mid-western United States during a period of roughly thirty years, 1880-1910. In an early scene Simon fishes, apparently unconcerned that some twenty yards away Mary hangs from a tree, dead. The novel then moves back and forth through their lives, enriching the meaning and significance of this initial scene.Both the structure and the poetic truth of the novel are based on the principle of Theme-and-Variation, an important principle of art, particularly in music, the principle by which the main idea or …

Studies On Hepatic Glucose-6-Phosphatase And Glucokinase., Phillip Lee Stepanik

Theses and Dissertations

Studies of the effects of micromolar concentrations of a variety of di- and trivalent cations on glucokinase and hexokinase activities of rat liver found potent inhibition of both enzymes by Cu('+2) or Cr('+3). As determined by the Dixon and the Cornish-Bowden graphical methods of analysis for enzyme inhibition, Cr('+3) was a mixed inhibitor of glucokinase when either D-glucose or ATP and MgCl(,2) are the substrates varied and Cu('+2) was a competitive inhibitor of gluokinase when D-glucose is the substrate varied.The preference of glucose-6-phosphatase to catalyze glucose-6-P hydrolysis via the glucose-6-P phosphohydrolase reaction was compared to its synthesis via the phosphotransferase …

The Bantling : An Application Of Dramatic Structure To Gothic Screenwriting, Gerald J. Demartin

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Cortisol (Hydrocortisone) On Information Processing In Human Males, Rodney James Haug

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

United States - Mental Health - The Bill Of Rights Of The Developmentally Disabled Assistance And Bill Of Rights Act Did Not Create Substantive Rights For The Mentally Retarded To Appropriate Treatment In The Least Restrictive Environment, Maureen Holman

North Dakota Law Review

No abstract provided.

Hemisphericity And Flexibility In Problem Solving Strategies In Creative Test Performance, Mark D. Schuler

Theses and Dissertations

The present study was designed to provide further data regarding the contribution of hemisphericity to the creative process. A flexibility variable was suggested as another contributing factor in the creative process. A set of four questionnaires yielding seven scores reflecting behavioral, personal preference, and personality indices was used to assess hemisphericity. A concept formation task that would theoretically reflect analytic and holistic processing was developed to assess flexibility in problem solving strategies. The hemisphericity and flexibility measures, along with the creativity measure, were administered to 37 females and 13 males. All subjects were right handed with no familial sinistrality.

The …

Inflation, Unemployment, And Political Economic Cycles, Larry P. Valk

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

November 1981, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

November 1981 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 12 pages

Volume 64, Number 3

Self-Esteem, Locus Of Control, And Sex-Role Attitudes In Battered Women, Michelle E. Penland

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, there have been numerous approaches to the study of wife abuse, e.g., sociological, psychoanalytic, and environmental. An approach recently suggested by Walker (1977-78, 1978, 1979a, 1980) incorporates the notion of learned helplessness. Her conceptualization of the psychological characteristics of abused women suggests that such women have a traditional attitude toward the female sex-role, a predominantly external locus of control, and low self-esteem. The present investigation was an attempt to validate Walker's model.

Responses to the Attitudes toward Women Scale (AWS), the Rotter Internal-External locus of control scale (RIE), and the Texas Social Behavior Inventory (TSBI) were gathered …

Initial Settlement Patterns In The Vicinity Of Devils Lake, North Dakota, Kurt Paul Schweigert

Theses and Dissertations

The concept that the Great Plains environment has altered or repelled basic institutions of the society which settled the region is examined in this thesis by means of evaluation of the initial settlement patterns in an area of east-central North Dakota. The thesis seeks to identify differences in the traditional or chosen exploitive practices of distinct ethnic or national groups within a sample of Euro-American and American Indian settlers, by means of examination of the ecological sub-zones chosen by each group for settlement locations. The non-ecological historical factors of railroad construction, relative time of settlement, and influences of the Indian …

Winter And Spring Staging Ecology Of Mallards In South Central Nebraska, Dennis Gerald Jorde

Theses and Dissertations

Large numbers of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) winter in or migrate through middle and northern latitudes of the midcontinent region in North America. Although an intensively studied species, the wintering and staging ecology of mallards north of traditional areas has received limited attention, leaving waterfowl administrators with limited information for developing management guidelines for mallard populations during these periods of the year.

Mallard activity patterns, foraging strategy, and physical condition were studied on the Platte River in south central Nebraska from mid-December to early April, 1978-80. Local movements, time budgets, food habits, physiology, and energetics during winter and early spring provided …

The History And Culture Of The Kaska Indians: A Resource Guide For Classroom Instruction, Ernesto Bordynuk

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.

A Comparison Of Two Approaches To Technology And Its Application In Society As Seen Through Louis Kelso's Two-Factor Theory : The Economics Of Reality & The Capitalist Manifesto And E.F. Schumacher's Small Is Beautiful : Economics As If People Mattered & Good Work., Jackie Renner

Undergraduate Theses and Senior Projects

No abstract provided.

May 1981, University Of North Dakota Alumni Association

ALL: UND Alumni Review Master List

May 1981 issue of "The University of North Dakota Alumni Review." 12 pages

Volume 63, Number 9