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Physiological Responses In Initial Psychological Interviews, Robert R. Perkinson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this study was to determine the physiological responses of subjects to an initial psychological interview, and to study the effect of physical proximity and touch on these responses. Heart rate and total skin conductance variability were the responses monitored. To assess the subjects' like or dislike of the psychologist interviewer, a measure of interpersonal attraction, the Interpersonal Judgment Scale, was employed. The California Psychological Inventory was utilized to investigate possible personality correlates with the physiological responses.

Sixty females, between the ages of 18 and 28, responded to the California Psychological Inventory and were then connected to the …

The Use Of Token Reinforcement To Facilitate A Therapeutic Style Of Verbal Interaction In Groups Of Psychiatric Patients, Henry G. Martin

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study evaluated the use of a token, operant conditioning technique as a treatment procedure in a group setting with chronic, hospitalized, psychiatric patients. Fifteen patients were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and to one control group; each group included five patients. The two experimental groups received tokens during phases of contingent reinforcement for "Therapeutic Responses" and under a yoked-control phase of non-contingent token reinforcement; the sequence of these phases was the major difference between the two experimental groups. The control group met under conditions of no tokens, and the frequency of "Therapeutic Responses" was recorded on those subjects. …

Reported Attitude And Behavior Change As A Result Of Participation In Parent Training Groups, Lorene Allen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study investigated the value of participation in a Dreikurs Parent Training group and in a Combination Dreikurs and Parent Effectiveness Training group. The value of participation was measured in terms of three variables: (1) problem behaviors of the child as reported by the parents on a Checklist of Child Problem Behaviors; (2) problems of parents as reported by the parents, themselves, on a Checklist of Parent Problems; and (3) parental attitudes as measured by Hereford's Parent Attitude Survey.

Parents, who volunteered to be included in parent training groups, were assigned to two treatment groups and one control group. All …

Economic Feasibility Of Controlling Big Sagebrush (Artemisia Tridentata) On State And Private Rangelands In Utah, Stan D. Hinckley

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Spraying with the chemical herbicide 2,4-D is the most widely used method of controlling big sagebrush. Spraying is very effective in increasing forage production and generally is not poisonous to either man or animals.

Two procedures can be used to calculate the internal rate of return to big sagebrush control: standard and modified discounting. Standard discounting assumes all nonuse costs are incurred in the year of treatment, and the annual income stream is constant throughout the effective life of treatment. Modified discounting correctly assumes the nonuse cost is incurred in the period of deferment, and the income stream does not …

A Study Concerning Sources Of Information And Knowledge About Fluoride In Logan, Milford, And Helper, Utah, Marilyn Lorraine Geddes

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A considerable amount of research has been conducted concerning the characteristics of people who are in favor of fluoridation. However, there is little information available as to what the electorate really knows about fluoride when they are forced to vote on this scientific issue.

Thus, the objectives of this study were to determine the general public's level of knowledge about fluoride, to discover what sources of information have been the greatest influence on their opinion and knowledge about fluoride, and to estimate the level of participation of dentists, general practitioners, pediatricians, and gynecologists in the education of Utahns about the …

Some Feasible Long-Run Policy Alternatives For The Agricultural Sector In Bolivia, Franklin Bruce Brown

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this paper is to construct a model that will aid in analyzing present agricultural policies along with feasible alternatives. Recently completed studies of production costs, crop prices and yields, and experimental technologies were used as sources of data. A linear programming model was used to project suggested investment for agriculture in land, labor, and capital inputs in order to achieve specific crop production targets. The paper is divided into four major parts: the theory of policy-making, the model description, the application of the model to Boliva, and the results and conclusions, in that order.

Relationship Between Opinions Toward Fluoridation And Socioeconomic Status Of Salt Lake City Residents, Craig D. Kunz

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of the study was to determine if a relationship exists among opinions toward fluoridation of public water supplies, income, and level of education of the people of Salt Lake City, Utah. There were also two secondary concerns. One was to determine if a relationship exists between opinions toward fluoridation and other controversial social issues. The issues identified for investigations were: (1) the Supreme Court decision on abortion, (2) the Equal Rights Amendment, and (3) capital punishment. The second was to determine the factors on which opinions regarding fluoridation were based.

The results of the data that was collected …

Identification Of Landscape Site Development Criteria And Compilation For Fossil Fuel Electric Power Plants Applied To A Critique Of Huntington Canyon Power Plant, Huntington, Utah, Thomas Franklin Manns Ii

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis project will explore the landscape site development of fossil fuel steam electric stations as it is presently practiced by electric utility companies, to determine what architectural, engineering, aesthetic, and climatological problems are being created through the engineering requirements acting upon' the site during site development and construction phases of power stations. It will identify typical problem areas that can be resolved by the Landscape Architect through the practical application of landscape architecture principles, the design use and influence of plant material, topography, and the environment. Design criteria will then be formulated for the site development of steam electric …

A Theoretical Proton-Proton Pair Production Cross-Section Calculation, Jay W. Phippen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The calculation of both electron-pair and muon-pair production cross-sections was made using Feynman's quantum electrodynamics. Pseudo-scaler coupling was used between the nucleons and vector coupling was used between the photon and the Fermions. The protons were considered as Dirac particles and radiative corrections were omitted.

Eight fourth-order Feynman-Dyson diagrams were used. The subsequent sixty-four TRACES were reduced to seven basic topologically different TRACES. From the seven basic TRACES, it was possible to generate the sixty-four TRACES by the proper permutations of the variables.

With the mathematics and the corresponding computer programs written down, data (energies and momenta which represent the …

"In The Toils" Or "Onward For Zion": Images Of The Mormon Woman, 1852-1890, Gail Farr Casterline

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The purpose of this thesis is to identify and discuss various popular images of the Mormon women of Utah between 1852 and 1890, the period during which the Latter-day Saints openly practiced plural marriage. The phrase "in the toils" refers to the basic image present in the minds of many Americans--that the women of the church were an oppressed, unhappy, enslaved group of individuals. This image, expressed in different ways, is found in many published writings of the period examined.

After demonstrating the presence of this "in the toils" image, this study then attempts to analyze and evaluate its significance. …

Educational Opportunities For Pregnant Students In Selected Utah Schools, Pearl Bergeson

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

Education of women has been neglected in many ways throughout history. In recent decades educational opportunities for women have been greatly expanded. Women have become leaders in education and compose the majority of public school teachers. In spite of these strides in women's education, and growing educational provisions for both men and women, some special groups remain neglected.

This investigator is particularly concerned with one special group: School-age girls who are pregnant. Special educational needs of most school-age pregnant girls are not being met. These young women often face insurmountable difficulties in the schools.

A Nitrogen Submodel, H. Parnas, J. Radford

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

Reports Of 1973 Progress: Auxiliary Submodels Section, U.S. International Biological Program

Modeling

No abstract provided.

Incoherent Scatter Radar Observations Of Westward Electric Fields And Plasma Densities In The Auroral Ionosphere, 1, M P. Banks, C L. Rino, Vincent B. Wickwar

All Physics Faculty Publications

This paper reports the results of incoherent scatter radar observations of high-altitude ion drifts and other plasma parameters made February 24, 1972, at Chatanika, Alaska (L = 5.7), during a period of magnetic disturbance. For this experiment, conducted between 0909 to 1303 UT (2309 to 0303 AST), the radar line of sight was held fixed in the magnetic meridian plane so that the observed north-south ion drifts could be interpreted in terms of a westward electric field that ranged in magnitude from −10 to +35 mV m⁻¹. The results confirm many effects found previously through other experimental …

Usu Status Of Women News, Volume Ii, Issue 4

ADVANCE Library Collection

No abstract provided.

Prospectus And Budget For 1975 Program, U.S. International Biological Program

Budget

No abstract provided.

A Simplified Version Of The Desert Biome General-Purpose Model To Simulate The Production Of Dry Matter In Plants, F. Romane

Memorandum

No abstract provided.

A Description And Preliminary User's Guide To The Desert Biome Stream Ecosystem Model: Aquatic Model Section, J. H. Wlosinski, G. W. Minshall, C. W. Fowler, D. W. Goodall, R. W. Jeppson, D. B. Porcella, C. B. Stalnaker

Modeling

No abstract provided.

Utah State University Commencement, 1974 – Main Campus, Utah State University

Commencement Programs

Eighty-First Annual Commencement of Utah State University

Journal Of Mormon History Vol. 1, 1974

Journal of Mormon History

--The Prophet Puzzle: Suggestions Leading Toward a More Comprehensive Interpretation of Joseph Smith,

Jan Shipps, 3

--The Evolution of the Presiding Quorums of the LDS Church,

D. Michael Quinn, 21

--Mormonism's Encounter with Spiritualism,

Davis Bitlon, 39

--The Stenhouses and the Making of a Mormon Image,

Ronald W. Walker, 51

General Catalog 1974-1976, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1974-1976

Contains course descriptions, University college calendar, and college administration.

Multiplexed Dispersive Spectrometers Using Reduced Background Infrared Detectors, Clair L. Wyatt, Roy W. Esplin

Space Dynamics Laboratory Publications

The application of multiplex spectrometry to cryogenically cooled LWIR extrinsic photodetectors is limited by system noise. This noise limitation results in a detector NEP that is directly proportional to bandwidth. Therefore, multiplex schemes that require increased bandwidth are not productive of real advantage. However, doubly encoded systems that are based on 2n - 1 or n + N - 1 measurements have the potential to provide a real throughput gain proportional to the number of elements used on the throughput matrix.

One Way Pendulum (The Absurd In The World And The Theatre), Ace Pilkington

Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects

This paper is about human relation with and reaction to the Absurd. The Absurd seen in terms of the theatre, and the Absurd in relation to human images. The "Absurd" is not easy to define; it is more a condition than a concept--understood more easily by reference to an extensive body of metaphor. Ionesco calls it "... that which is devoid of purpose... . Cut off from his religious, metaphysical, and transcendental roots, man is lost... ." Which is not so much a definition as an evocation of a mood, a mood that comes from living in a world or …

Component Description Of Sediment-Water Microcosms, James Hill Iv

Reports

The development and application of complementary variables (potential and flux) for modeling environmental systems are illustrated for the hydraulic and dissolved oxygen subsystems of laboratory microcosms. These sediment-water, semi-continuous flow microcosms were used to determine nutrient interchange and mercury interactions under lighted (aerobic) and dark (anaerobic) conditions. The approach of using complementary variables to describe such systems forces a more complete conceptual understanding of the system and better attention to those parameters (many of which are unknown) requiring measurement. Complementary variables are incorporated into basic linear component equations which describe basic processes of energy transfer and transformation. The components are …

An Analysis Of Water Research Programs Of The Utah Water Research Laboratory And Center For Water Resources Research, Water Resources Research Citizen Advisory Panel

Reports

Foreward: As a means of keeping water research programs at Utah State University responsive to needs in terms of both timeliness and emphasis, President Glen L. Taggart, in 1970, requested a number of Utah citizens to serve as a panel to give counsel and advice to the Utah Water Research Laboratory and Center for Water Resources Research. Membership of this 16-member panel represents a broad spectrum of water-related experience gained from a variety of professional backgrounds and organizational affiliations. The objective was to keep the panel small enough for it to be a "working" group but large enough to obtain …

Planning For Water Quality In The Virgin River System In The State Of Utah, Utah Water Research Laboratory

Reports

No abstract provided.

Nematosporaceae (Hemiascomycetidae): Taxonomy, Pathogenicity, Distribution, And Vector Relations, Lekh R. Batra

Ba

For almost a century (42, 139) certain yeast, or yeastlike parasites of fruits and seeds have been known. They occur on a wide variety of crop plants and cause such diseases as stigmatomycosis," "yeast-spot," "eye spot," and "internal rot." They seemingly represent a phylogenetic unit. They have cylindrical or pyriform asci, and the hyaline ascospores often are characteristically arranged in two fascicles lying end to end. All have acicular ascospores. (See figs. 2, a-c; 5 , c; 11, hand i; 12, A; 13, c-h; 15,j-k.) They have similar habitats, and several species may simultaneously occur in the same fruit or …

So Deep A Logos, Veneta Nielsen

Faculty Honor Lectures

CelVantes, almost as if he would at all costs avoid the incredible fireworks of Chaucer's Dame Prudence as she counsels Melibee on justice, from a vast cascade of learning and proverbial wisdom, in his Prologue to Don Quixote, says "I am, moreover, extremely lazy when it comes to hunting up authors who will say for me what I am unable to say for myself. And if I am in a state of suspense and my thoughts are woolgathering, you will find a sufficient explanation in what I have just told you." Then his clever friend advises the use of "scraps …

A Comparison Of Two Daily Energy Budget Models On Uinta Ground Squirrels (Spermophilus Armatus), Thomas E. Oldfield

Biology

Mean daily energy budgets calculated from the ADMR model for Spermophilus armatus were 45. 50 Kcal/ day for a 300 gm animal at 20°C. 2. Mean daily energy budgets calculated from the ecological model for Spermophilus armatus were 63.64 Kcal/day for a 300 gm animal at 20°C. 3. The daily energy budget calculated from the ecological model was 24.81% greater than the daily energy budget calculated from the ADMR model.

An Investigation To Identify Management Topics To Be Included In The Business Administration Program At Utah State University, Richard E. Zackrison

All Graduate Plan B and other Reports, Spring 1920 to Spring 2023

The development of management techniques which are in keeping with the changing environment has been termed "management science." Thrall points out that "management science has not yet reached a stage in which standardization or freezing of educational programs is desirable. " Further, he states that "we should explore new educational ideas, keeping in mind that many management scientists will become managers."

Management science may be in the rut described by Gordon and Howell. They assert that those businessmen and educators who fail to keep pace with change are forced to "plod in a rut they dug long ago. For them …