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A Theoretical Study Of Infiltration Into Range And Forest Soils, Joel E. Fletcher, Yehia Z. El-Shafei

Reports

More than 400 rainfall simulator experiments were examined to detect which soil properties could be used to computer infiltration time relationships. Three theoretical equations were tested to determine their efficacy for calculating infiltration time relationships from soil and site characteristics. It was shown that both the modified Green and Ampt and Fletcher equations could by successfully used. Darcian type equations were developed on laboratory type samples which would show the relations between soil, solution and rainfall properties and infiltration. These latter equations have not been tested on undisturbed soils but give excellent agreement between measured and computed values for time …

General Catalog 1970, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1970

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

Hydrograph Synthesis For Watershed Subzones From Measured Urban Parameters, Joseph B. Evelyn, V. V. Dhruva Narayana, J. Paul Riley, Eugene K. Israelsen

Reports

An analog computer program was developed to simulate the outflow hydrographs at four locations within the 38th Street Waller Creek urban watershed at Austin, Texas. Actual outflow was gaged at the final outlet of the watershed. This provided a checkpoint for comparing the simulated and observed final outflow hydrographs. The outflow hydrographs for each subzone were obtained by chronologically abstracting interception, infiltration, and depression storage from their precipitation hyetographs. These outflow hydrographs were then routed through Waller Creek channel to obtain the hydrographs at the four desired locations. The advantages of this model are the flexibility in varying the precipitation …

General Catalog 1970, Graduate, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1970 Graduate

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

General Catalog 1970-1972, Graduate, Utah State University

University Catalogs

General Catalog of 1970-1972 Graduate Bulletin

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

Computer Simulation Of The Hydrologic-Salinity Flow System Within The Upper Colorado River Basin, M. Leon Hyatt, J. Paul Riley, M. Lynn Mckee, Eugene K. Israelsen

Reports

Changes in the hydrologic equilibrium of a river basin resulting from resource development also produce changes in the quality pattern. Since the burden of quality maintenance must be shared by users (just as are quantities) predictions are needed for quality changes which might result from contemplated development at any specified location within the river system. This study reports the development of a computer simulation model of the water and salt flow systems within the Upper Colorado River basin. Because of the close relationship between the hydrologic and salinity flow systems, an understanding of the hydrologic system is essential to successful …

Are Pschological Principles Useful?(A Guid To The Study Of Human Learning), David R. Stone

Faculty Honor Lectures

To some extent, each person is his own doctor, his own economist, his own historian, his own counselor, his own psychologist, and his own teacher.

It is said that a man who is his own lawyer has a fool for a client. Can the same be said of a man's other roles? At least for learning (which professionally intersects education and psychology) any person may have the goal of helping himself to appreciate and evaluate the role of the learning professional.

A knowledge explosion has taken place in the area of learning, as in the many fields of science in …

Utah Science Vol. 30 No. 3, September 1969

Utah Science

Reducing water use by trees - chemical sprays? George E. Hart 55

Our versatile weeds, Lois M. Cox 58

Pesticides - the changing scene, Joseph C. Street 59

A water storage structure for school systems, A.R. Dedrick and C. W. Lauritzen 63

Deciphering a desert, Lois M. Cox 66

Wildlife notes 71

Four keys to pesticide safety 71

Electricity in fishery research and management, W. F. Sigler 72

Freeze-dried sauerkraut - now we have 79

The use of milk replacers for raising dairy calves, M. J. Anderson and R. C. Lamb 80

How to poison a duck - miss your …

A Study Of The Growth And Sheath Shapes Of Sphaerotilus Natans In Response To Inhibitors And Specific Reagents, Lo-Ping Chi

Biology

The sheath forming bacterium, Sphaerotilus natans is generally considered a nuisance organism. It is a causative agent of bulking sludge as well as the nuisance in commercial fishing areas. A unique characteristic of the bacterium is its coherent sheath. The formation, shape, and growth of the cell and sheath was observed by using seven inhibitors: neomycin, streptomycin, chloramphenicol, penicillin, sodium azide, acridine orange, and phenethyl alcohol. In the study, minimal concentration of inhibitors was used to determine their effect on the cell and its sheath. In many cases, the sheaths developed abnormally, and cells appeared fragmented and isolated as if …

Social Class Differences In Cognitive Development Of Children, Jalaine P. Jensen

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The social class differences in experiences which lead to cognitive development of children were investigated. A sample of 20 middle-class mothers with children enrolled in the Child Development Laboratory school and 18 lower-class mothers with children enrolled in the Head Start program in the Ogden City School District was chosen by placing the children's names in an age-ranked order. Two mothers who met the qualifications of being lower- class, but not having children enrolled in Head Start, were also included in this study. An interview outline was devised to attempt to standardize the interviews. It was concerned with five areas: …

A Method For Plotting Isohyetal Maps Using An Analog Computer, Maurice George Kirwan

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The ability of the analog computer to stimulate physical phenomena is used in conjunction with a resistance paper model of the Walnut Gulch watershed in Arizona to plot constant precipitation maps from data obtained from recorded rainfall. Voltages which are proportional to rainfall at a specific raingage, located at scaled points of the resistance paper model, set up an electric field on the resistive sheet which is detected and processed by the computer. The detected potential is compared to a reference potential, or "precipitation value", and the necessary analog networks allow plotting of the equipotential line which is directly analogous …

A Case Study Of The Sewer Bond Issue In Logan, Utah: 1957-1965, Barbara Stoll Sinclair

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A single political issue, public financing of a sewage treatment facility for the city of Logan, was studied in an attempt to determine the effect of certain variables on the formation of public policy.

The case study method of research was followed, and conclusions were based on data obtained through personal interviews as well as through study of public documents.

Among factors which influenced the decisional process was the degree to which technological knowledge was accepted. Policies developed by the state legislature and the federal bureaucracy to deal with environmental pollution also affected the local situation. A conflict which arose …

A Study To Discover The Supply And Demand Of Industrial Arts Teachers In Utah, L. Gyle Hollingsworth

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

With the increase in population and corresponding growth in school enrollment in the state of Utah, the need for more adequate educational facilities becomes ever more apparent. New schools will have to be built and older ones enlarged in order to accommodate the increasing enrollment and need. As a natural consequence , additional teachers will be needed to fill the positions made available by the expansion of the present educational facilities. This requirement will be supplemented by the need for maintaining the present level of teaching staff in view of the outflow of teachers from the system, some through retirement, …

The Capability Of The Utah State University Drainage Farm As An Irrigation And Drainage Demonstration Project, Mario Perez

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

There are in Cache County 20,000 acres of poorly drained land similar in many respects to the other wet lands of Utah, estimated to total a half million acres, which are mostly natural meadows. In order to turn those lands more productive either for forage or other crops, adequate management practices must be developed regarding control of the surface water, leaching, reduction of artesian pressure, and improved water application techniques.

Studies carried out at the Utah State University Drainage Farm, west of Logan, Utah, which is representative of those poorly drained lands, have already shown successful ways for these areas …

A Review And Construction Of Career Development Programs In The Elementary School, Chase Driggs

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

Overview

Every child has a right to acquire his own realistic selfevaluation of the career he intends to pursue, and the process of exposure to occupational information should be permitted and encouraged to start at an early age. From this point of view we need to foster concepts and techniques designed to facilitate the vocational maturation of the child. Interaction with counselors, teachers, parents, and community will increase the student's ability to understand the opportunities of the world of work as it relates to his aptitudes and interests and values and to enable him to be more aware of the …

A Study Of Evaporation And Evapotranspiration In Peru, Fernando Chanduvi-Acuña

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Twenty-four equations for estimating evaporation and/or evapotranspiration were compared with measured Piche evaporation. At least 1728 months of records from 12 Peruvian stations were analyzed in this study.

Computer programs were developed to work this study and the results were compared by plotting.

It has been found that the equation that best fits the Piche evaporation in the low elevation stations in Peru is Christiansen's formula (ET2) which was used as a base for his formula for Class A pan evaporation (EVC).

A Study Of Precipitation Characteristics For Utah, Tsing-Yuan Chang

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Data on monthly precipitation for three areas of Southern Utah--Beaver, Cedar City and Ephraim--and three areas of Northern Utah--Salt Lake City, Ogden and Logan--where a series of measuring stations were arranged as traverses from the valleys to the mountain tops; were assembled and analyzed.

The relationships between elevation and precipitation amounts were shown. The Southern Utah stations were drier at the same elevations than the Northern Utah stations and the differences became greater as the elevations increased. There was a close correlation between the high elevation and low elevation stations in the same traverse even with the above divergence.

A …

A Forecast And Analysis Of Educational Events Identified By Utah Educators, David Thatcher Handley

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to determine how Utah educators and school board members view the future of education in the state. This was done by comparing the ratings for importance and the predictions on the time of occurrence of 53 educational events. An event was an incident or happening which might effect the education of the state. The hypotheses were based on the assumption that the various educational groups would hold differing views concerning the future of Utah education.

Procedure

The study provided data on the perceptions of 236 individuals representing five groups of educational participants (State …

Dew Point Hygrometer With Constant Resistance Humidity Transducer, Curtis B. Campbell

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The hygroscopic and electrical resistance characteristics of lithium chloride are investigated. Then an evaluation is made of the lithium chloride characteristics that would be suitable in development of a dew point hygrometer with measurement accuracy of ± 0.3 C.

The development of a 12 volt battery-powered hygrometer is presented with circuit details and performance characteristics. Lithium chloride phase transition hygrometers tend to oscillate under certain conditions. A damping control is presented as part of the circuit details and recordings of the response characteristics and effectiveness of damping are presented showing effective control of the oscillations with a wide range of …

An Evaluation Of Vocational Shorthand Competency Attained In Utah High Schools, Alden A. Talbot

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A sample U. S. Civil Service shorthand test was given to 2,336 students of 66 Utah high school shorthand instructors to determine the efficiency of shorthand students in taking shorthand at 80 words per minute and transcribing it with 95 per cent accuracy. The test was also used to compare shorthand achievement through the use of typewriters in shorthand instruction, the location of the school, the size of class by number of students, and the length of the class period. Test scores were used as the means of comparison.

The test results were coded and punched into cards. These cards …

The Role Expectations Of The City Manager -- A Comparison Between Some City Managers In Los Angeles County, California, And The State Of Utah, Narong Kemavuthanon

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study attempts to find out the role expectations of the city managers in the policy processes of urban government by using the survey research method. Fourteen managers from Los Angeles , California, and eight managers from Utah selected at random were administered a questionnaire with ten specific statements about a city manager's role in urban· politics. The main hypothesis of the thesis was:

The policy role expectations of the city managers in Los Angeles County, California, and in the State of Utah differ because of:

1. the rise of the political boss or the mayor;

2. the discretionary powers …

The Legal Authority Of Local School Boards In The State Of Utah With Respect To Teaching Personnel, John Claud Haws

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Problem: The problem of this study was to: (1) identify those laws, court decisions, legal opinions of the Office of the Attorney General of the State of Utah, the legal opinions and policies of the Office of the State Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Utah, trends and extra legal practices of local school boards in the State of Utah with respect to teaching personnel, (2) organize such data into topical categories in terms of subject matter, and (3) develop some suggested guidelines and recommendations for local school board policies and legislative enactments in the State of Utah. …

Need For Post-High School Technical Training In Ornamental Horticulture In Davis, Salt Lake, And Utah Counties, Paul Peterson

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

The need for a technician training program in Ornamental Horticulture was studied in Davis, Salt Lake and Utah counties utilizing interviews and mailed survey instruments.

The greatest job increase during the next five years is anticipated for nursery workers, landscape helpers and greenhouse workers. The smallest anticipated increase is for florists, floor foreman and nursery technicians.

Skills requiring the highest degree of competency for workers in ornamental horticulture, according to employers, are retail salesmanship, plant identification and disease and insect control.

Courses receiving the highest rating in an ornamental horticulture technician curriculum, as given by owners and managers and by …

A Historical Study Of Educational Broadcasting And Broadcast Training At Utah State University, James Kay Randall

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Utah State University began to present radio programs on a regular basis over KSL Radio in Salt Lake City in 1931. In 1952, its first television program was televised over KSL-TV. Today the University is broadcasting programs over the majority of Utah's radio and television stations.

This thesis covers the development of broadcasting from USU in three major areas: (1) radio and television programs presented over Utah broadcasting outlets, (2) the construction of radio and television stations on the campus, and (3) instruction in broadcasting. There has been no attempt made to evaluate the University's use of these media.

It …

Behavioral Modification Of Trainable Mentally Retarded Children, Cheryl Mayo Frair

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

In Experiment I, contingency management was employed with five non-institutionalized trainable retardates (mean MA=4.l, CA=9.9, and language age=2.6) in a classroom situation. Empirically determined high probability behaviors were displayed as colored cartoon figures in a reinforcement menu. Tasks from the Peabody Language Development Kit defined the behavior strengthened during 15 one-hour sessions. A quantity of low probability task behavior had to occur in order for subjects to emit 4 minutes of high probability reinforcing activity. Through contingency management, amount of task per reinforcement was shaped from a low ratio to a high ratio. Significant gains in language age (p

In …

Effects Of Gold Compounds On Rat Behavior, Jonas Kaye

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

Seven rats were trained on Fixed Ratio 20 and two on Fixed Ratio 12 Escape Schedules until a stable baseline was established. Five of the subjects were administered gold thioglucose, three received gold thiomalate, and one was injected with gold, gold thioglucose, and gold thiomalate, allowing for an intrasubject comparison. Colloidal gold appeared to suppress response rate for one or two sessions, while gold thioglucose and gold thiomalate suppressed normal response rates from several to a number of sessions. This response rate suppression was often followed by gradual recovery, although in several subjects recovery of response rate could not be …

A Proposed Plan For A General Business Course At Sunset Utah Junior High School For Ninth-Grade Students, Renae G. Bodily

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

According to Maze, "A society that guarantees the social and political freedom of its members, through democratic means, and which extends this freedom into the realm of economics, may be expected to place a heavy responsibility upon its members to protect these freedoms through the exercise of sound choices among alternative means to desired ends." The educational means by which the individual learns of these alternatives must be provided.

Botanical Explorations Of The Intermountain Region, Dean W. Hatch

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

After having been studied for many years by the Intermountain Herbarium staff, the Intermountain Region is now recognized as a natural floristic unit. The floristic boundaries as determined by the Intermountain Herbarium staff are indicated on the map on page 3. This area includes all of Utah, the Red Desert of southwestern Wyoming, the Snake River plains of the Columbia Plateau Province which lie south of the high mountains in southern Idaho, the sagebrush area of southeastern Oregon, the portions of California that are included within the Great Basin, most of Nevada north of the Charleston Mountain range, and the …

Ogden's Notorious "Two-Bit Street," 1870-1954, Lyle J. Barnes

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

A history which records the weaknesses and failures of society may serve as its conscience. The history of Twenty-fifth Street in Ogden, Utah is that kind of history. It reminds us that it is possible for evil influences to prey upon society to the extent that it weakens and becomes vulnerable to the influence.

First the people became passive. They began to feel that the influence was there and there was little they could do about it. They then began ignoring it as if by doing so it would cease to exist. But it didn't disappear. Instead it grew and …

A Study Of The Exponential Distirbutions And Their Applications, Michael Chang-Yu Wang

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

The exponential distribution is a widely known distribution i n statistical theory. It can be regarded as the continuous analogue of the Poisson distribution, discussed by S. D. Poisson in 1837. The Poisson is a limiting form of the Binomial distribution which can be t race d back as early as 1700, discussed by James Bernoulli. A paper by Marsden and Barratt (1911) on the radioactive disintegration of thorium gives a typical frequency distribution which follows the exponential law (8, p. 89). The exponential distribution has achieved importance recently in connection with the theory of stochastic process and has found …