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Implications Of Photogeologic Linears In The South Long Lake Area, Alpena And Presque Isle Counties, Michigan, Richard E. Kimmel

Masters Theses

There are numerous linear features in Alpena and Presque Isle Counties, Michigan, which are generally visible on aerial photographs. These photolinears trend in two general directions, northeast-southwest and northwest-southeast. These two sets are perpendicular to each other, and represent vector means of two fracture sets.

The development of the photolinears began in Early Devonian. Throughout its history, ground water flowed along underground channels connecting fracture intersections. This underground drainage network is responsible for many of the photolinears. Some of the photolinears can be attributed tb Early Devonian ground water activity and subsequent collapse of the Salina Salt basin, and some …

Report Of An Internship Experience With The Calhoun Intermediate School District, Robert G. Lowman

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effects Of Types Of Music On Worker Productivity In A Sheltered Workshop, Wayne D. Veneklasen

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Mental Patient As Machiavellian: An Exploratory Study, Louise B. Leader

Masters Theses

A basic question in the study of mental illness has been whether mental patients were victims of society or manipulators of their own careers. Four hypotheses were developed to investigate the manipulative aspect of this question. Patients were selected from three different mental institutions: a state hospital, a Veteran's Administration Hospital, and a private church-related hospital. The patients' records and a group-administered battery of test instruments provided the data used to test the hypotheses. Only one of the hypotheses was supported and the basic question remained unanswered. Lack of support for the remaining three hypotheses was not seen as conclusive …

The Meaning Of Selected Educational Or Educationally - Related Concepts As Adjudged On The Semantic Differential By Professional School Personnel In A Public School System, Gerald Edward Smith

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

An Evaluation Of Local Vocational Advisory Councils In Michigan, William B. Rogan Jr.

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Loss Probabilities In Queueing Processes, R. P. Singh

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Perceived Effects Of Physical Distance, Intervening Obstacles, And Race During Interviews Between Administrators And Teachers, James L. Kraai

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

Conflict Theory: Concepts, Techniques, And Stages, Thomas Kramer

Honors Theses

The social worker of today is being placed in situations which call for him to devise new tools and strategies of intervention which are relevant to present day problems. It is recognized that many of our current social problems are inherent in some of our institutions and that only by changing these institutions can real results be achieved. Problems arise due to the fact that these institutions often stringently resist change and conventional methods employed by professional practitioners have often only been able to solve or ease individual difficulties or maladustments. There have been a growing number of social workers …

Perspectives For Industrial Arts Administrators, Peter G. Burke

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

An Analysis Of The Relationship Between The Instructional Emphasis Of Two Filing Textbooks Commonly Used In Secondary Schools And Their Relation To The Filing Procedures In The Business Office, Patricia Ann Skinner

Masters Theses

This study compared the instructional material in two textbooks commonly used for high school filing instruction with the perceptions of records supervisors and office practice teachers.

A questionnaire was designed for each of the two major groups of respondents. Usable survey instruments were completed by supervisors of 67 offices in the Benton Harbor-St. Joseph area and office practice teachers in the 13 high schools in the same geographic area.

While the records supervisors and office practice teachers were in agreement on a number of points relating to the filing process and instructional emphases (using a rank-order mismatch formula), they were …

Operant And Classical Conditioning Of Single Units In Area 18a Of The Rat’S Cortex, Francis E. Butler

Masters Theses

The effect of the previous history of a single unit on its present firing pattern was studied using classical and operant conditioning. The units were in area 18a of the rat's cortex. It was found that there are polymodal units in that area. The firing pattern can be changed using classical conditioning. The rate of firing can be increased one standard deviation above the mean rate by reinforcing with brain stimulation. The rate can also be changed one standard deviation below the mean rate. This occurs when the trials come at a fixed time and when the trials come at …

Characterization Of Streptozotocin Induced Small Colony Phenotypes In Bacteria, David M. Zimmer

Masters Theses

Streptozocin-induced small colony variants of E. coli were characterized and found to have a genetic basis. Both E. coli and S. typhimurium were susceptible to the mutation causing small colonies. Small colony cell lines exhibited a greatly increased generation time and were shown to be non-motile, electron microscopy revealing a complete loss of flagella. The small colony phenotype was revertible by streptozotocin and nitrosoguanidine. The locus responsible for small colony phenotype in one strain of E. coli was found to map within a 19 minute segment of the chromosome between HfrH and HfrC.

An Internship To Develop A Screening Process To Determine Probable Pilot Training Success, Ronald Dean Quisling

Masters Theses

The internship with the Department of Transportation Technology at Western Michigan University enabled the investigator to develop a screening method for the department to use in its pilot training program. It provided an opportunity to study the many and varied skills needed in order to successfully complete the pilot training course and to learn the various techniques used in pilot training. After choosing a screening method, it was given to those students enrolled in flight instruction during the 1972 Fall semester. It was the first time any type of research was begun at Western Michigan University in the aviation curriculum …

Workshop Attributes As Predictors Of Effectiveness For Inservice Education Of School Administrators, Wayne Richard Robbins

Dissertations

No abstract provided.

The Informant Volume V, Number 2, Western Michigan University

Informant (1968-1981)

Volume V, Number 2

March 1973

• Trouble with Translation
• Major-Minor Notes
• Faculty-Staff Notes
• Department Notes
• Linguistic Department Alumpersons

Investigation Of The Printing Evaluation Of Gloss Ink Holdout Of Finished Papers, John W. Harwood

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

Gloss ink holdout is a description of an end result of a process involving many variables. The variables are the receptivity or absorbancy of the sheet for ink, the rate of penetration of the ink into the sheet, and the amount and type of ink used.

This experiment kept the amount and type of ink constant and looked at the absorbancy of the sheet and the penetration of the ink into the sheet.

The IGT Printability Tester was used to apply the ink, an infrared heat lamp to dry the sample, and the Hunter lab Glossmeter to measure the gloss. …

Faculty Publications 1971-72, Western Michigan University

Faculty Contributions (1950-1981)

Faculty Publications 1971-72 is the tenth major compilation of the publications of the Faculty of Western Michigan University and is designed mainly to apprise the Faculty of the University of the breadth of writing of their colleagues.

Western Official News, February 8, 1973, Western Michigan University

Western News (1972-2018)

Story highlights: General Education Requirement, General Education Requirement, Process for Selection, External Curriculum

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 2

Perspectives (1969-1979)

No abstract provided.

The New Context Of General And Liberal Education, Harold L. Hodgkinson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

The keynote address for the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies at Oklahoma State University, October 18-October 20, 1973.

Bulletin - Western Michigan University: The Graduate Catalog 1973-1974, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Course Catalogs (1904-present)

• Graduate Calendar of Events
• Board of Trustees
• Administrative Officers
• The Graduate College
• Section I General Policies and Procedures
• Section II Master's Degree Programs and Requirements
• Section III Specialist Degree Programs and Requirements
• Section IV Doctoral Degree Programs and Requirements
• Section V Description of Graduate Courses
• Index

Reading Horizons Vol. 13, No. 2

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 13, issue 2.

A Reading Development Course, Angela M. Labmeier, Edward L. Vockell

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The effects of speed reading courses have been widely researched (cf. Berger, 1968). Stevens and Orem (1963) have suggested that the superior reader entering such a course with a more rapid reading rate, is an average or above average student, and likes to read. Rauch and Weinstein (1968) and Combs (1966) stress "read, read, read" as the best method for gaining speed. However, the National Association of Secondary School principals (1965) has warned that speed and comprehension do not necessarily go hand-in-hand, a finding which challenged earlier research by O'Brien (1921). A study of Air Force personnel (Brim, 1968) suggests …

Austin College's New Design To Instruction, Frank Edwards

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 2

In terms of the nature of the institution, we're an undergraduate liberal arts college. We offer a pretty full spectrum of concentrations. We're divided organizationally into three operating areas, the Sciences, Social Sciences, and Humanities, and offer some 20 to 25 areas of concentration, pretty much the conventional ones. But we also--and especially in our new program-have many ways in which students …

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 3

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

University Magazine Vol. 31 No. 2, Western Michigan University

Western Michigan University Magazine (1963-1980)

• Our University
• Retired Professors
• David Quint Was Not A Name
• The Healing Generation
• WMU Sports
• Alumni News
• Class Notes
• In Memoriam

Developing General Studies: Recollections Of A General Studies Chairman, Benjamin P. Mehrling

Perspectives (1969-1979)

1) General Studies as Introductory Studies

2) General Studies Courses as Common Studies

3) General Studies as Survey Studies

4) General Studies as Nondepartmental Studies

5) General Studies as Interdisciplinary Studies

Tarrant County Junior College's Program Of General Education, Charles N. Johnson

Perspectives (1969-1979)

This issue of Perspectives is devoted entirely to the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for General and Liberal Studies which was held at Oklahoma State University, October 18 through October 20, 1973.

Concurrent Session 3

I hate to start out on a negative note, but I must say that it is entirely possible (and I'll include our programs at Tarrant County Junior College) that community colleges have probably never tried general education. General education, of course, has many interpretations and definitions, but the one I'm speaking of we haven't yet tried.

Perspectives Vol. 5 No. 1 And Supplement No. 1

Perspectives (1969-1979)

Volume 5 No. 1 Spring 1973

Supplement No. 1 Summer 1973