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Brisket Disease: Influence Of Hypoxia And An Induced Calcium-Potassium Imbalance On The Mineral Composition Of Blood, Heart, Liver, Kidney, And Bone, David Eugene Bailey

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Brisket disease, an affliction of cattle, is important because of: (1) economic losses, (2) similarities to chronic mountain sickness in humans, and (3) the provision of experimental animals for cardiac research. In afflicted cattle, right cardiac ventricular hypertrophy and dilatation occur and are manifestations of attempted compensation for reduced alveolar oxygen by increasing pulmonary circulation.

Geographic variations in occurrence of brisket disease in Utah indicate that hypoxia is not the sole causative factor. From the findings that afflicted cattle exhibit hypocalcemia and hyperkalemia, and the disease occurs most commonly in wet meadowland environments where potassium is high and calcium low …

Aggressive Man And Aggressive Beast, Allen W. Stokes

Faculty Honor Lectures

Whether man can live in harmeny with his environment depends in great measure en his ability to' live with his fellew man. Can man learn to' engineer human seciety in time to' prevent a helecaust? Mere specifically, can we learn to' prevent aggressien er to' channel it harmlessly? The ethelegist leeks upen man's behavier as just part ef the tetal spectrum ef animal behavier. Therefere, much of what we learn abeut the behavier ef lewer animals sheuld relate to' human behavier.

Aggressien is in the headlines every day, and in the past few years there has been a 'Steady stream …

Area Agricultural Outlook And Adjustment Conferences, N. K. Roberts, L. A. Clement, D. B. Nielsen, R. A. Christensen

Economic Research Institute Study Papers

We live in a dynamic world, and whether or not changes are "good" for an individual or a group of people depends upon their ability to use them to an advantage. In some parts of the world farmers and ranchers are just as up-to-date in their methods at the close of their productive life as they were at the beginning because nothing has changed. The same was true in America for our grandfathers. It is not true anymore. Now days man's management ability can become "obsolete" three or four times during his productive life if he does not change with …

A National Program Of Research For Bees And Other Pollinating Insects And Insects Affecting Man, U.S. Department Of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture and State Agricultural Experiment Stations are continuing comprehensive planning of research. This report is a part of this joint research planning and was prepared under recommendation 2 (page 204, paragraph 3) of the National Program of Research for Agriculture.

Phoretic Behavior Of Four Species Of Alkali Bee Mites As Influenced By Season And Host Sex, Earle A. Cross, George E. Bohart

All PIRU Publications

No abstract provided.

Study Of A Uintah And Ouray Reservation Urea Fertilizer Manufacturingn Plant And Economic Development Potential Of A Charcoal Industry, Economic Development Operations

Elusive Documents

No abstract provided.

State Organizational Patterns For Comprehensive Planning Of Water Resources Development, Daniel H. Hoggan

Reports

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Utah Science Vol. 29 No. 3, September 1968

Utah Science

New USU President takes office - as of July 1 63 Food retail price differences, Roice H. Anderson 63

The green belt amendment and its probable impact on assessed values, taxes and mill levies in Salt Lake County, Rondo A. Christensen and Fred Degiorgio 64

New rules for an old game - bioclimatology - a practical science, Lois M. Cox, Gaylen L. Ashcroft, and E. Arlo Richardson 69

Growth rates for dairy herd replacements, Robert C. Lamb and Lamon L. Perkes 75

New publications 79

Research - the solid base of agriculture and industry, Director K. W. Hill 80

Hungry? …

General Catalog 1968, Summer, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1968 Summer

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

Interest As A Factor In Vocational Choice, Leland J. Smith

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

As the complexities of modern life increase, greater caution has to be exercised in the selection of an appropriate vocational choice. Norris, Zeran and Hatch (1960, p. 5) state, "The dramatic changes which have taken place in the world during the past twenty-five years have created new demands on the training programs which furnish the skilled leaders in all vocational pursuits." The foregoing statement certainly points out the vocational implications of our changing society. Mortensen and Schmuller (1951, p. 199) report, "The entire area of interests is today receiving added emphasis." The study of interest continues to occupy an important …

A Survey To Determine The Potential Training Stations Available For Distributive Education Students In Logan, Utah, Bruce E. Lind

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

All youth need to develop salable skills and those understandings and attitudes that make the worker an intelligent and productive participant in economic life. To this end , most youth need supervised work experience as well as education in the skills and knowledge of their occupations.

Education is considered by many philosophers to be the vehicle through which society achieves the goals it believes to be significant. The cooperative distributive education program is one of the vehicles that educators have created.

The first statement points out the need for supervised work experience as a part of America's educational program. The …

The Effect Of Age, Skf 525-A Hydrochloride, And Chlorcyclizine Dihydrochloride On The Toxicity Of Parathion To Adult Alkali Bees, Nomia Melanderi Ckll, Mohammad J. Moradeshaghi

Biology

Technical parathion, 98.5 per cent pure, was further purified by column chromatography in a darkened room. The purity of this parathion was measured by a manometric technique (Nakatsugawa and Dahm, 1962; 1965). Only 5 per cent inhibition at 2.5 x 10^-5 molar parathion was observed with horse serum cholinesterase. Alkali bee prepupae were dug from their natural sites, and reared under the laboratory conditions until they emerged. The bees were kept in one quart mason jars, and they were fed a 25 per cent aqueous sucrose solution. All biological assays were conducted by topical application of 1 microliter of …

Development Of Eimeria Bovis In Cultured Mammalian Cells, Ronald Fayer

Biology

Cell line and established cell line cultures were tested for their ability to support in vitro development of Eimeria bovis. Among the cell types tested were embryonic bovine kidney, spleen, thymus, testicle, intestine and trachea cells, embryonic human intestine cells, mouse L cells, and Madin-Darby adult bovine kidney cells. Monolayer cell cultures were serially propagated in disposable prescription bottles and transferred to Leighton tubes for use in experiments. Coverslips from Leighton tube cultures inoculated with sporozoites were examined with phase-contrast or Zeiss Nomarski interference contrast microscopy for as long as 21 days after inoculation. After examination, coverslips were fixed …

Organizing For Guidance In The Willcox Elementary Schools, Agnes M. Briggs

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

The director of Guidance in the Arizona State Department of Public Instruction realizing the great need for more experimental programs, proposed that part of the [National Defense Education Act of 1958] monies in Arizona be used for the purpose of developing pilot projects in the elementary schools. Schools that had expressed interest in a possible elementary guidance project were contacted and invited to write a proposal with the assistance of the State Department. Forty districts submitted plans for elementary guidance programs. Of these, ten were selected on the basis of the nature of the proposed program, the geographic location of …

A Study Of The Self-Concept Attitudes Of Incarcerated And Nonincarcerated Male Adolescents, Joseph Petty

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Three general comparisons were made in the present study: (1) Four groups of subjects were compared with one-another on the four Bills' Index of Adjustment and Values variables. The variables included: (a) Self-concept (perception of self), (b) self-acceptance (feelings about perception of self), (c) ideal-self (aspired self), and (d) the discrepancy score between self-concept and ideal-self. The four main groups consisted of: (a) Nonincarcerated nondelinquents (adolescents, in public school, without a police record), (b) nonincarcerated delinquents (with police record), (c) incarcerated adolescents attending the institutional academic school, (d) incarcerated adolescents not attending the institutional academic school. (2) The two incarcerated …

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 …

The Effects Of Paternal Absence On Male Children, Martha H. Rigby

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

The society in which our children are living and growing today is complicated by strife and conflict both internally and externally . It is a time when statisticians are telling us that 481 out of 1,000 marriages, or nearly one out of every four, will end in divorce; many others will end in separations not legally terminated (Bureau of Census, 1966). Many families are also separated because of the military action which at present is keeping 500,000 men at war in a country many thousands of miles from their families. During the year 1967 over nine thousand of this number …

The Role Of Agonistic Behavior In Regulation Of Density In Uinta Ground Squirrels (Citellus Armatus), Richard J. Burns

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Agonistic behavior of ground squirrels was studied for two years in north-eastern Utah at an elevation of 6,300 feet. The main objective was to determine what role agonistic behavior had in regulating density in a population. All individuals in an unconfined population were trapped I marked I and observed from towers. Detailed data on behavior and density were recorded.

Though loss from a variety of factors occurred throughout the year I agonistic behavior had an important role in regulating the population at least twice during the year. In spring some squirrels I usually yearling males and late emerging yearling females, …

An Evaluation Of The Recreation Program At Hill Air Force Base, Utah, Neil J. Andrew

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The effectiveness of achieving pre-determined goals by a military recreation department was studied at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. "Evaluation of Community Recreation" was the evaluation tool that was used, It is published by the National Recreation and Parks Association and was validated by the Great Lakes District Program Standards Committee in 1965. This evaluation contains 35 standards of measure involving 125 criteria to determine program effectiveness. These standards are in the general areas of philosophy and goals; administration; personnel; programming; areas, facilities, and equipment; and evaluation.

The study indicated a high degree of performance for programming and areas, facilities, …

Family Life Education In The High Schools Of Utah, Chad B. Howells

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A descriptive study was made of the administrative provisions, teaching qualifications and characteristics, subjects and topics being taught, and resources used in teaching family life education in the high schools of Utah.

"Some" family life education was being taught in 98 per cent of the high schools. Of these schools, 82 per cent were teaching it as a unit in a regular class varying widely from Home and Family Living to Livestock Management.

Home Economics classes came closest to teaching family life education as it was defined in this study; however, these classes were made up almost entirely of girl …

The Father Role As Seen By A Group Of College Student Fathers, Devona Alice Dean Luke

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Some literature implies the modern father has abdicated his place as head of the family, but little research has been done to examine the role of the father in the modern American family.

Intensive interviews of 18 college student men who each had at least two children showed that these men are very much concerned with fatherhood and participate actively in the rearing of their children. They feel the father has at least as much responsibility for the rearing of their children as the mother, possibly more. They are involved more in some dimensions of parenthood than others. Those fathers …

Leisure Time Activities And Interests Of Utah State University Students, Diana E. Weaver

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The problem under investigation was to determine the leisure time activities and interests of Utah State University students. A questionnaire was circulated to a stratified-random sample group of 654 students from the nine colleges chosen by sex and class rank, spring quarter 1968. The students answered questions concerning their participation in recreation activities on campus, off campus, and as a spectator; no interest to participate in certain recreation activities; and desire to participate in recreation activities but did not for various reasons.

The results indicated that the majority of the students satisfy on and off campus activity participation needs through …

Transfer Of Farm Real Estate In Utah, 1961-1964, Howard Rasmus Thomas

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Recorded "arms length" transfers of farm real estate were analyzed to determine factors affecting market value and assessment per acre, and assessment to market value ratios.

The data were aggregated by county and geographical groups. The geographical groups were made up of counties with similar population densities and similar climatic conditions.

Using multiple regression analysis and tabular analysis, size of parcel, quality of land, and distance to Salt Lake City were found to affect market value per acre; size of parcel and quality of land were found to affect assessment and assessment to market value ratios.

The Attitudes Of Caseworkers And Supervisors Employed By County Welfare Departments In Box Elder, Cache, And Weber Counties Toward Public Assistance, Mardell Lorene Fayer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Attitudes of caseworkers and supervisors in public welfare agencies were studied with regard to the following subjects: (1) the public assistance program in Utah, (2) the welfare recipient, (3) family planning as a means of dealing with poverty, (4) government participation in the public assistance program, (5) methods of rehabilitation, (6) community support of welfare agency, and (7) positive and negative aspects of casework. Data were analyzed statistically with regard to age, education, political preference, and sex. An analysis of variance was made, and the F test applied to determine significance levels.

Caseworkers and supervisors responded positively toward the public …

A Study Of Present Basketball Officiating Qualification Practices Of Class "A" High Schools In Utah, Paul A. Salvo

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The objectives of this study was to obtain data on five aspects of officials qualification practices presently used in Utah and to make some justifiable conclusion.

1. Qualification Data requested.

a. Physical Qualification

b. Mental Qualification

c. Previous Experience as an Official and Player

d. Other Related Athletic Experience

e. Basketball Officiating and some existing Problems

The survey compiled was sent to all head coaches of class "A" high schools, in Utah, which included 40 coaches in all, and to 60 class "A" high school officials of Regions 1, 2, and 4. The officials were chosen at random from the …

Knowledge Of The Effects Of Alcohol And Tobacco And Extent Of Their Use By Utah State University Students, Luell J. Perrett

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Student understanding and use of alcohol and tobacco at Utah State University was studied under the following areas: specific knowledge as it relates to smoking and health and drinking and health, student opinions and attitudes toward smoking and drinking, smoking and drinking experiences, the influence of certain factors on smoking and drinking status, and source and credibility of tobacco and alcohol information.

Thirteen hundred seventy-eight students were sampled with the use of a questionnaire. It included 567 freshmen, 274 sophomores, 345 juniors, and 192 seniors. The sample covered each of the eight colleges at the University.

It was found that …

The Feasibility Of Pulp And Paper Production In Utah, Thomas Meyer

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The objectives of this study are:

l. To determine the adequacy of markets for paper products.

2. To identify and quantify the costs of the factors affecting pulp and paper production.

The available information indicates that adequate markets exist for paper produced in Utah.

Chemicals, water, labor, and power are available at costs low enough not to prohibit pulp and paper production. An adequate, low priced supply of wood could be purchased from the United States Forest Service. Intermountain and national paper markets would enable a paper producer in Utah to take advantage of lower comparative transportation costs.

Consumer Attitudes Affecting The Use Of Fluid Milk Products In Metropolitan Salt Lake City, Wayne N. Monson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A survey of 360 respondents in metropolitan Salt Lake City was made to determine their attitudes about fluid milk products and the affect of these attitudes on consumption levels. The fluid milk products studied were regular whole milk, two percent milk, skim milk, and nonfat dry (powdered) milk.

The respondents had the most positive attitudes about regular whole milk. Their attitudes about the other three products were highest for those which most nearly resembled regular whole milk. The consumption levels of the four products followed the same pattern.

The respondents' attitudes about four attitude parameters affected their consumption levels. Those …

Collective Bargaining In Utah's Council-Manager Municipalities, Ronald L. Mckim

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The collective bargaining practices among Utah's council-manager municipalities was studied through a review of existing literature and two surveys, one of which focused upon the policies and practices of Utah's fourteen municipalities governed under the council-manager system and having a population of 2,000 or more. The second survey was a microcosmic study of Ogden City's collective bargaining practices as defined by administrators and employee representatives.

The first survey involving the collective bargaining practices of Utah's fourteen council-manager municipalities indicated that two factors were present. They are: (1) formal employee organizations existed in areas with the largest and densest population structures, …

Student Understanding And Use Of Tobacco In Box Elder Senior And Junior High Schools, Douglas M. Stoker

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Student. understanding and use of tobacco was studied under the following specific areas: specific knowledge as it relates to smoking and health; student opinions and attitudes toward smoking; smoking experience; and the influence of certain factors on smoking status.

About 1155 students were sampled with the use of a questionnaire. It was found that there was no significant difference in the scores of boys and girls. The senior high students were better informed than the ninth grade or junior high students.

The majority (81 percent) of all students surveyed were of the opinion that the pleasure derived from smoking was …