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A Study Of Life Crisis Magnitude Of Psychiatric Patients And A Non-Therapy Group, Helen B. Morris

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A group of hospitalized psychiatric patients and a randomly selected non-therapy group responded to the Schedule of Recent Experiences questionniare. In order to determine the magnitude of life change events for the two groups, Life Change Unit totals were derived for the years 1966 and 1967.

To test the hypothesis that patients in psychiatric treatment have experienced a quantitatively significant greater amount of life change than a group of non-therapy subjects, an analysis of variance was used to determine whether there were significant differences between the scores for the two groups.

For the year 1966, no significant difference was found …

Student Achievement Effort As Related To Achievement And Self Concept, Michael Lynn Maughan

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study was designed to investigate more completely the variable of achievement effort (effort in school) as related to self rating, teacher rating, student self concept, actual achievement, and sex differences.

A group of 198 sixth grade students were used as the experimental subjects. Five sets of data were obtained on the students: (a) students' self ratings on an achievement effort rating scale, (b) teachers' ratings of their students on the same achievement effort rating scale, (c) students' scores on a self concept scale, (d) students' performances on an achievement test, and (e) students' performances on an intelligence test. Partial …

The Relationship Between Grade Point Averages Of The Henmon-Nelson Test Of Mental Ability And The American College Test, Eda Alene Hansen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Grading within a single school was studied by comparing the grades with the policy of grading recommended by the high school, and the relationship between the grades and two tests administered by the school.

Six hundred fifty-five graduates from the 1964, 1965 and 1966 graduating classes made up the sample. The grades used were those received during their three years in high school. The tests were the Henmon-Nelson Test of Mental Ability administered in the tenth grade and the American College Test which was taken in the twelfth grade. The Pearson r Correlation Coefficient was used to make the correlations. …

Remedial Reading: Evaluation Of A Reading-And-Study Course With Implications For A College Reading Center, Antoine T. Powell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The main purpose of the study was to evaluate the effectiveness of the method of teaching a "How to Study" class in helping students more adequately meet their reading needs.

Research was conducted to test the reading gains made by students in the program with respect to ability and group size. The results indicate that group size had the greatest effect as to changes in reading behavior.

Instruction was based on diagnosing student needs. It was shown that a significant number of students who decreased in rate of reading, increased in comprehension. The same diagnostic principle was observed for those …

The Relationship Of The Wechsler Preschool And Primary Scale Of Intelligence (Wppsi) To The Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale, Duane Reeder

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Correlational comparisons were made between the Stanford-Binet, Form L-M, and the Wechsler Preschool and Primary Scale of Intelligence using children enrolled in a Head-Start program. The study was concerned with three hypotheses:

1.The correlations found between the I.Q. scores obtained on the WPPSI full scale, verbal, and performance scales and those obtained on the Stanford-Binet using Head-Start children as subjects would be significant at the .01 level.

2. The correlation between the WPPSI and the Stanford-Binet utilizing Head-Start children would not be significantly different from the correlation reported by Wechsler in the WPPSI manual.

3. Scores on the WPPSI verbal …

The Effects Of A Programed Text Of Contingency Management Procedures On The Ability Of Teachers To Write Behavioral Prescriptions, Lanny E. Morreau

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

An informational source where teachers and teacher-candidates could gain a functional knowledge of contingency management techniques had not been developed. A programed text was written to provide this source. Five teachers and teacher-candidates were exposed to the text for a period of three days. As a result of this exposure, learning gains, significant at the 0.01 level, were found in the students' abilities (a) to write behavioral prescriptions and (b) to write the principles of contingency management when presented with open-ended questions pertaining to these principles.

Factors Associated With The Penetration And Colonization Of Tomatoes By Verticillium Dahliae, Terry Dee Miller

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Experiments have demonstrated that Verticillium dahliae is capable of direct cortical penetration of roots and of subsequent distribution throughout plants of both resistant (Loran Blood) and susceptible (Meteor) varieties of tomato. Plants were inoculated by the root dip method and planted in sterile soil. After one week the fungus was isolated from the upper portions of both the susceptible and resistant varieties as indicated by growth petiole sections plated on PDA. The distribution of the fungus in the resistant plants was irregular, but in susceptible plants the fungus was isolated regularly from all petiole sections. In experiments using disposable growth …

Principal Component Factor Analysis, Herbert H. Jolliff

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

Factor analysis came into being around 1900 in the field f psychology to explain theories of human ability. Several methods of factor analysis exist; but according to Harman (1967) principal component factor analysis is unique in the mathematical sense, therefore, quite often the preferred method. The centroid method is computationally easier, and it gives close approximations to the principal component method on some data sets. An example of this is shown in Appendixes B and F by comparison.

Factor analysis is being used in many fields. A few of the fields are sociology, meteorology, political science, medicine, geography, business, economics, …

Computer Analysis Of Consumer Attitude And Consumption Data For Fluid Milk Products, James Reed Fisher

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

The American public, with a per capita disposable income currently at an all time high, has become a source of vital concern to dairy market researchers. The unique socio-economic structure of the present generation causes the dairy industry to be concerned with how the consumer view its products. Effective education and advertising programs must be developed to attract the taste and meet the demands of the consumer.

Two factors which greatly influence market research and advertising programs are the attitude of the consumer toward a given product and the relationship of attitude to the degree of actual milk consumption. To …

Propositions Equivalent To The Continuum Hypothesis, Bernard L. Bohl

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

Two sets A and B are said to have the same power if there exists a one-to-one correspondence between them. All sets which have the same power as the natural numbers are called countable and have power N₀. All sets which have the same power as the real numbers are said to have the power of the continuum will be denoted by 2^N₀, since 2^N₀ can be shown to be equal to c as will be indicated in the preliminary results.

Given an element a of a well-ordered set B, the set of …

Learning Theory As Applied To The Counseling Process, Melvin H. Larsen

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

The literature contains much about learning. But, what do we mean by learning?

Learning is the process by which an activity originates or is changed through reacting to an encountered situation, provided that the characteristics of the change in activity cannot be explained on the basis of native response tendencies, maturation, or temporary states of the organism (e.g., fatigue, drugs, etc.). (Hilgard, 1966, p. 2)

Effective counseling requires that the client learn. Even though client learning is essential to effective counseling, relatively little has been done to relate learning theory to the counseling process. Significant work in this direction has …

Negro Historiography With Special Emphasis On Negro Historians Of The New School, Ella D. Lewis Douglas

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

Except for an occasional Nat Turner, Booker T. Washington, or George W. Carver, the Negro as a person is missing from the textbooks from which the millions learn their history. The race has bulked large as a theme in American historiography, but such treatment has been largely preoccupied with Negroes en masse and as a "problem," and has rarely extended to individual, creative Negroes and their contributions to American society. It may be supposed that white, college-bred Americans can identify very few of the most celebrated Negroes who attained prominence of some sort before World War I.

Nutrition During Pregnancy, Lactation And Infancy, Minodokht Froozani

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

In many countries in South and East Asia, most diets are defective in quality, even when there is not a severe shortage of food. They do. not provide an adequate quantity of essential nutrients. One of the most severe deficiencies is in good quality protein. The solution to this problem is to produce and provide the right kinds of foods and to establish national food production policies which should make it possible to plan a better balanced diet based on sound nutritional principles and modern knowledge of nutritional requirements. Some degree of undernutrition, over-nutrition, or malnutrition occurs in most European …

A Study Of Spelling Errors Made By Milford Second Grade Children During 1966, Athene Roberts

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

Spelling is the writing of symbols to represent to other people the words and thoughts in the mind of the individual who is writing. Rarely, if ever, does anyone want to write a word which he has not used orally or which he has not heard. The task of spelling correctly is to be sure these symbols are the ones which are accepted and recognized by others (Hanna and Hanna, 1959).

Protein And The Pill- A Pivotal Partnership, B. Delworth Gardner

Faculty Honor Lectures

Two fearsome possibilities preoccupy thoughtful men everywhere in the world. These worries are unique to our own age and time. Lord Russell puts it succinctly, "The world is faced, at the present day, with two antithetical dangers: (a) the human race may put an end to itself by a too lavish use of H bombs; and (b) the human population of our planet may increase to the point where only a starved and miserable existence is possible, except for a minority of powedul people."

Each of these dangers has its own characteristics, its own special perils, and its own possibilities …

Utah Science Vol. 29 No. 1, March 1968

Utah Science

Seasonal forage use by pronghorn antelope in western Utah, Donald M. Beale and George W. Scotter 3

The fugue expands - bioclimatology - a practical science, Gaylen L. Ashcroft, E. Arlo Richardson, and Lois M. Cox 7

Meat consumption in Cache and Box Elder counties, 1965-66, Ellis W. Lamborn and W. Duane Evans 14

Wild oats may be foundation for high protein oats 16

Tall bluebell - an important forage plant on aspen range - in Utah, Veri B. Matthews 17

Combating rangeland cripplers, Wayne Binns, Richard F. Keeler, Lynn F. James, A. Earl Johnson, Kent R. Van Kampen, and …

Range Nutrition In An Arid Region, Lorin E. Harris

Faculty Honor Lectures

On the mountains, in the valleys, on the foothills and on the deserts of the Intermountain West grow millions of tons of vegetation. The chemical energy stored bv these plants is a potential source of useful energy for man. Some of the plant material has been used for fuel, other has been used as a source of lumber, chemicals, and paper, but the major part of this vast reservO'ir is useful to man because it is utilized by livestock. This native vegetation is grazed by livestock and they convert the plant energy to' high quality, desirable food energy for man.

General Catalog 1968, Correspondence, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1968 Correspondence

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

Solutions To Axisymmetric Seepage From Ponds Through Homogeneous And Nonhomogeneous Porous Media, Roland W. Jeppson

Reports

No abstract provided.

Hydraulic Characteristics Of A Modified Venturi Section, Muhammad Aslam Rasheed

Reports

The measurement of water in open channels on extremely flat grades is difficult because of the head loss that is necessary. A modified venture section, the contraction of which is provided by a top cover section mounted in a rectangular flume, is proposed to meet the requirements of a suitable measuring device for use in canals of flat gradients. The method of finite differences has been used for the mathematical solution to the idealized inviscid flow problem. This was followed by a laboratory investigation to ascertain the hydraulic characteristics of the proposed design. The experiments were conducted in a 3 …

Air Pollution Control And Abatement Proceedings Of A Symposium, Allen D. Kartchner

Reports

No abstract provided.

Utah Science Vol. 28 No. 4, December 1967

Utah Science

Heavy pigs benefit from protein supplements, Hyrum Steffen 111

Early triers of new food products - powerful consumers, H. Bruce Bylund and David L. Sanders 114

Effects of girdling and gibberellic acid treatments on Thompson Seedless grapes, J. LaMar Anderson and Don Huber 116

Time capsules fight insects 118

Sodium carbonate reseals stock ponds 118

Consumer sentiment and Utah's out•of-state visitor, Perry J. Brown and John D. Hunt 119

Plant scientist retires 120

Consumer response to use of turkey, Gerry Flake and Roice Anderson 121

Nature's unsung middlemen - bioclimatology, a practical science, Lois M. Cox, Gaylen l. Ashcroft, and …

Utah Science Vol. 28 No. 3, September 1967

Utah Science

Rain traps of steel, C. W. Lauritzen 79

Biological clock influences bees 81

Range resources and big game management, George W. Scotter 82

Meeting the protein needs of dairy animals, M. J. Anderson, R. C. Lamb, and G. E. Stoddard 84

USDA scientists identify avian leukosis virus 87

The original go power - bioclimatology - the practical science, by E. Arlo Richardson, Lois M. Cox and Gaylen Ashcroft 88

The effect of water application on soil tilth, Jack Keller 93

Sex hormones and the growth of nursing calves on high mountain ranges in Utah, Joseph T. Blake and Jay W. …

Vocalizations Of The Long-Billed Curlew, Dennis M. Forsythe

Biology

Avian vocalizations have been of great interest to ethologists and ornithologists for many years because of the many forms of interspecific and intraspecific information they convey (Marler, 1959; Armstrong, 1963). Various methods have been utilized to describe bird vocalizations but most, because of their subjectivity, have proven inadequate for detailed investigations. It was not until the development of the Sound spectrograph that a satisfactory method for bio-acoustical analysis became available.

The Effects Of A Selective Membrane Filter Medium On Fecal Coliforms, Donald Jesse Mcgraw

Biology

A bacterium reported to be indicative of human (or mammalian) fecal pollution is Type I (fecal coliform) Escherichia coli. Although this type may be isolated by use of elevated temperature (44.5 C), primary isolation without enrichment is difficult. Direct study without primary enrichment is possible with mFC Medium (Difeo), however, routine work in this laboratory yields poor results when mFC medium is compared with the standard EC elevated temperature technique. Using three strains of Type I E. coli, this study attempted to determine some reasons for the low recovery in mFC medium. The test organisms, preadapted to 37 …

Various Aspects Of Social Organization In Caged Groups Of House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus), John R. Watson

Biology

In order to study various aspects of social organization in House Sparrows (Passer domesticus), eight groups of sparrows were observed under captive conditions from January 1965, through October, 1965. Each group contained one adult male who secured a high win-loss ratio. However, the establishment of a straight line hierarchy was blocked by site-related dominance. The aggression exhibited by the alpha male was in defense of roost site and not a form of social organization. Juveniles were treated as adult females by adults of both sexes. Juveniles showed a marked ability to defend against adult males. Activity patterns were …

Food-Related Movements And Incidental Observations Of The Cliff Chipmunk, Eutamias Dorsalis, Eugene Blake Hart

Biology

Field work for this study was performed at the Beirdneau Cliffs, Logan Canyon, Utah, during May, June, and July, 1965 and 1966. Life history observations and data on the Cliff Chipmunk are presented and discussed. Summaries of seven "sub-seasonal" ranges are presented, based upon frequency of use of eight major preferred food plants.

Seasonal, Diurnal And Species Variation In Forage Moisture Content In Relation To Site On Mountain Summer Range Of Northern Utah, Chaudhry Mohammad Sharif

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Practical assessments of range production and utilization are based on forage weight estimates. In preparing these estimates moisture content in green vegetation offers some problems. The moisture component is not likely to be constant for a given species. Diurnal, seasonal and site variability have been well illustrated for agronomic and tree species (Salisbury, 1848; Jenkins, 1879; Miller, 1917; Pearson, 1924; Watkins, 1940; Parker, 1951; Ackley, 1954; Werner, 1954; Zohary and Orshan, 1956; Slatyer, 1959; Kozlowaki, 1965 and Jame son, 1966). Since variability is also likely for range plants, computations made on green weights are apt to be fallacious. It is …

Economic Analysis Of An Iranian Water Development: The Sefeed Rood Project, Malek M. Mohtadi

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This thesis is an evaluation of the methods and assumptions employed by those groups responsible for preparation of the original benefit/cost data describing the Sefeed Rood project. Benefit/cost ratios reported by the French engineering firm, Cotha Sogreah, and Plan Organization in a joint study range from 2:1 to 2.6:1 (6 and 10). A priori these seem suspect since the dam plus necessary canals and diversion works are obviously large and costly and only primary benefits are considered. The question is whether the potential benefits are likely to ever yield a positive return on investment and, if so, how long a …

A Study Of Input-Output Adjustments, Charles W. Briggs

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The effects of using the United States input-output table to explain Israel's economic structure was studied, by comparing price data generated on the basis of the U. S. tables and prices observed in the two countries. A substantial difference between prices generated and observed led to the conclusion that the technological structure of the United States cannot be used to approximate Israel's structure.

Various adjustments were then applied to the United States coefficient matrix to determine if it could be transformed into a new technological structure which would more closely approximate Israel's economy.

Significant improvements were noted by three of …