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The Effect Of Fiber Length On Tear Strength, Kit Funderburk

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to study the effect that fiber length had on the tear strength. Of utmost importance to the results of this study was the elimination or controlling of variables which have appeared in all related studies to date. With this in mind, an experimental procedure was drawn up which would eliminate or control the variables. Long, whole fibers were isolated, formed into handsheets, and dried without having been pressed. The handsheets were then cut in order to reduce the fiber length. Cutting of the fibers was done with a paper cutter and was followed by …

The Effect Of Changing Dryer Temperature On The Gloss Characteristics Of Coated Paper, Dan Kaiser

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The purpose of this study was to note the effect of varying drying temperatures on the gloss of papers coated with three different coating formulations. The three coatings studied contained Polyvinyl Acetate, a combination of styrene butadiene and casein, and a formula using casein and styrene butadiene as binders in conjunction with a fine particle size clay. Coating applications and drying were accomplished with a Keegan Laboratory Coater.

The results indicated that increasing drying temperatures decreased gloss, and that overdrying increased gloss.

The Affect Of Fiber Length On Wet-Web Rheology, Jeff Lowe

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

A spruce bleached kraft pulp was cut to varying degrees in an attempt to determine the influence of fiber length on the rheological properties of the wet-web. The results indicated that greater fiber lengths increased wet-web strength properties. The rheological data implied surface tension as the basic mechanism of strength properties between 16% and 30% solids, and on this data the mechanism of wet-web behavior under stress was proposed.

Effect Of Dispersant On The Centrifugal Dewatering Of A High Ash Primary Clarifier Underflow, George J. Renner

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

The objective of this study was to determine the effect of dispersants on the centrifugal dewatering of a high ash, paper mill, primary clarifier underflow. By using dispersants a higher cake dryness and smaller sludge volume could save the paper industry money.

With this objective in mind, primary deinking sludge samples were defibered and evaluated as to the effect of a dispersant during centrifugal dewatering. The effect of fiber on the dispersants was determined by evaluating sludges with predetermined amounts of fiber fines added prior to centrifugation.

It was found that use of dispersants during centrifugal dewatering resulted in an …

The Effect Of Surface Tension And Viscosity On Wet-Web Strength, Wayne H. Nay

Paper Engineering Senior Theses

A study of the effects of surface tension and viscosity on wet-web strength shows that they are related. Hand sheets were made and pressed on the Noble and Wood Sheet Mold. Tests were run on sheets with solids varying from 18 to 28 percent. The Instron Tensile Tester gave more consistant results for wet-web testing than did the Brecht Tester. Carboxy propyl methyl cellulose, a cationic starch, oleic acid, and sodium hydroxide were used to vary the surface tension and viscosity of the entrained water in the web. It was found that as the surface tension was lowered, the wet-web …

An Analysis Of Internal Reporting Systems In Commercial Banks, Gordon Eugene Vanbeek

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Are You Going?, Homer L.J. Carter

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

A letter from the editor.

Look What We Got, Louis Foley

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Among people who speak the most careless English, certain kinds of mistakes unfailingly appear, whatever individual idiosyncrasies may accompany them. Almost always, errors of grammar are confusions between forms which have some relationship but should logically be kept distinct from each other. One of the commonest is the confusion between the simple past tense and the past participle of verbs. This can go either way; a person who makes the mistake in one direction is just as likely to do the opposite in another case. So anyone who says "I seen him," "He done it," "He come," or "He run," …

A Caution Concerning The Use Of Standardized Tests, Ronald Crowell

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

As teachers in the schools of this country, we pay lip service to the proposal that we must be concerned with the education of the individual. In our textbooks in college, we are reminded that the aim of good teaching is to bring about a change of behavior in the individual. In our classrooms, because of broad differences in individual reading ability and individual performance, we often find it necessary to group students into small, more homogeneous, groups so that we can meet the reading needs of the individual student.

The Recurring Annual Problem, Dorothy Towner

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The majestic strains of Elgar's "Pomp and Circumstance" being played on a rented organ from the stage of the beautiful new high school floated down the school halls. The joy and happiness of the girls and boys busily stepping into their earned places in the grad uation procession were sobered only by the dignity of the blue caps and gowns to which they were feverishly giving last minute adjustment.

Round Robin, Dorothy E. Smith

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Letters to the editor.

Reading Horizons Vol. 7, No. 3

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Complete issue of Reading Horizons volume 7, issue 3.

Book Review, Suzanne Thorsen Schoen

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Miller, Lyle Maintaining Reading Efficiency, Revised Edition Laramie, Wyoming: Developmental Reading Distributors, 1966, 393 pages, $4.50

Did You See?, Dorothy J. Mcginnis

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Reading for the Gifted: Guided Extension of Reading Skills published by the Los Angeles City School System? The aim of this publication is to provide suggestions for teaching character development, plot development, and elements of style.

Ten-Second Reviews, Blanche O. Bush

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

No abstract available.

Echoes From The Field, Lois Vandenberg

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The West Ottawa Public Schools, Holland, Michigan, are using the SRA Reading Laboratories on a rotating basis throughout our eight elementary buildings. The staff of each building may use this supplementary tool for one semester in whatever way seems most satisfactory in relation to the basic reading program.

Personalizing The Development Of Initial Reading Vocabulary At The Campus School Western Michigan University, David W. Fraser, Ruth Bosma

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

The Campus School at Western Michigan University recently has been experimenting with the Language-Master Machine as a means of developing initial reading vocabularies with children in the first grade. Realizing that the act of learning to read is unnecessarily complicated when the pupil is asked to deal with printed word symbols whose meaning and sound are foreign or uninteresting to him, the objective here is to identify a personalized reading vocabulary from the actual speaking vocabulary of each individual child. It is hypothesized that such a personalized vocabulary should be an even more effectual device for beginning reading instruction than …

Metal Complexes Of 1-Substituted-3-Hidroxyueeas, James C. Dabrowiak

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Charcoal: Its Multifarious Effect In A Rural Guatemalan Community, John G. Hehr

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Geographic Interpretation Of The Growth And Development Of Constantine, Michigan, Mary Jeanne Dowty

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Yugoslav Ideology And Its Importance To The Soviet Bloc: An Analysis, Christine Deichsel

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Junior High School Librarian And Requirements Beyond The Daily Library Schedule, Brenda May Branyan

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Development Of A Method For Measuring Magneto-Optical Rotatory Dispersion, Donald K. Loving

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

A Normative Analysis Of Psychological Test Results Of Students Selecting Graduate Counselor Education, Buena Flor H. Mendoza

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

We Suggest, Eleanor Buelke

Reading Horizons: A Journal of Literacy and Language Arts

Almy, Millie Young Children's Thinking New York: Teachers College Press, Columbia University 1966, Pp. xii +153.

The Effect Of Indicator Velocity On Observer Response Time, Brian F. Briggs

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Alliance For Progress: Policy Continuation Or Actual Reform?, Mario Mion

Honors Theses

The Alliance for Progress appears to falter within its own objectives. As such this is not unique to this aid program; other programs have encountered difficulties in their operation. However, the extent of the Alliance's failure to meet its stated goals raises the question of the efficacy of the program itself and, what is more significant, of the intent of the Alliance as a program of aid and as a tool for reform. In fact, the operational or mechanical difficulties per se are not surprising considering the obstacles Involved. Traditionally divergent economic and political patterns and social attitudes, here in …

On Reduction Of Order Of A System Of Linear Nonhomogeneous Ordinary Differential Equations, Otis D. Shouse

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

The Effect Of Ribonucleic Acid On Learning In The White Rat, L. Duane Dove

Masters Theses

No abstract provided.

Western Michigan University Newsletter, February 1967, Western Michigan University

Western Newsletter (1955-71)

• Board of Trustees Approves Four New Department Heads
• D. B. Leonardelli Beginning Six Year O.C.C. Trustee Term
• WMU Economics Seminars Feature Six Nations Through March 29th
• Off Campus Course Mail Registration Successful at WMU
• Dancer-Choreographer Agnes de Mille to Be WMU Graduation Speaker
• Dr. George Mallinson and Wife Edit Index of School Science & Math
• State Public School Administrators Being Studied Under U.S. Grant
• Three WMU Summer Institutes Receive NSF Grants Worth $191,610
• WMU Offers Summer Institute for Advanced Econ. Education Studies