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The Use Of Sensory Extinction In The Treatment Of Self-Injurious Behavior, Michael F. Dorsey

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Maintaining Psychological Fail-Safe Systems Of Performance: A Proposed Theoretical Model For Explaining Resistance In Psychotherapy, Daniel Rosen

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The Effects Of Standardized And Personalized Hypnotic Induction Techniques On Depth Of Trance, William C. Schirado

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The Perceived Practicability Of Human Skills In Expanding Community Education Settings: Selected Descriptors And Environmental Conditions, J. Patrick Mcmahon

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A Study Of An Administrator's Use Of Authority As It Relates To Teacher Loyalty, Job Satisfaction, And Alienation In The Public Schools Of Guam, Jose S. Leon Guerrero Jr.

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A Comparative Study Of Effectiveness Of Users And Non-Users Of The Management-By-Objectives System In Student Personnel Divisions In Baccalaureate Institutions, Berthold Michael Price

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Noise Performance Of The Klapper-Kratt Low Delay Fm Detector, Allan Brown Tarbell

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In this dissertation the dual differentiator version of the Klapper-Kratt FM detector family is investigated with additive Gaussian noise. Prior analysis of this new detector family has been limited to the noiseless case.

The investigation was conducted both analytically and experimentally. First, the dual differentiator version of the Klapper-Kratt detector was mathematically analyzed, assuming an unmodulated carrier plus additive Gaussian noise. This analysis was verified by assembling the detector and measuring its performance in the laboratory.

It was discovered that the Klapper-Kratt detector without limiter performs identically to the conventional limiter discriminator in the linear improvement region. When compared to …

The Use Of Natural Sorbents For The Treatment Of Industrial Sludge Leachate, Mung Shium Jack Sheih

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A sorbent treatment process has been developed which uses natural clay soils and fly ashes as sorbents in the treatment of the hazardous contaminants of potential sludge leachate emanating from industrial landfills. Natural sorbents (i.e., vermiculite, illite, kaolinite, zeolite, acidic and basic fly ashes) were evaluated for the removal of specific cations, anions, and organics from leachates generated from three industrial sludges (i.e., calcium fluoride, metal finishing, and petroleum). The laboratory results indicate that, rather than a single sorbent, a combination of acidic and basic sorbents in a layered system is required to reduce for the measurable contaminants present in …

Signal Processing Techniques For Analysis Of Heart Sounds And Electrocardiograms, Alan D. Bernstein

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Audible heart sounds represent less than 5% of the vibrational energy associated with the cardiac cycle. In this study, experiments have been conducted to explore the feasibility of examining cardiac vibration by means of a single display encompassing the entire bandwidth of the oscillations and relating components at different frequencies. Zero-phase-shift digital filtering is shown to be required in producing such displays, which extend from a recognizable phonocardiogram at one frequency extreme to a recognizable apexcardiogram at the other. Certain features in mid-systole and early diastole, observed by means of this technique, appear not to have been previously described.

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Synthesis Of Multiarea Grid Power Systems, Bharat C. Patel

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This dissertation presents improved development in the formation of a generalized transmission loss (B)-matrix for a multiarea grid power system. In the procedure, the individual tie powers of each area are replaced by the net interchange, sneak and circulating powers. The latter two variables are directly eliminated in the power reference frame using actual impedances, unlike current methods that require the elimination of sneak and circulating currents, the formation of complex tie current model and the complex tie power model. Consequently, manipulation of large complex current, power and impedance matrices is avoided reducing both computer time and memory requirement. Further, …

A Descriptive Analysis Of The Characteristics And Achievements Of Black Upward Bound And Black Non Upward Bound Students At Western Michigan University From 1971-1976, Luther Roseman Dease

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Personality Correlates Of Endometriosis, Mary Lou Collins

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The Use Of Advance Organizers In The Teaching Of English Grammar To Emotionally Impaired Adolescents, Garrett Boersma Jr.

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Spermatogenesis In Limnodrilus Hoffmeisteri (Clap); A Morphological And Environmental Study Of The Development Of Two Sperm Types, Edward Michael Block

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Cognitive Clusters And The Phenomenology Of Depression In Psychiatric Populations, Steven A. Harris

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The Attitudes Of Students Toward The Social, Political, And Economic Development Of Guam, Franklin S. Cruz

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A Descriptive Analysis Of Bilingual Education Teacher-Training Programs In The State Of Michigan, Gilbert L. Montez

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Degree Of Client Manifest Anxiety As A Function Of Interaction Distance: An Investigation Of The Female-Female Counseling Dyad, Philip H. Knight

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Markovian Multiserver Queueing Systems With Servers In Series, Nancy Jean Boynton

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Community Educational Leaders: A Demographic Description And Investigation Of Marital Status, Lynwood Earle Smith

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A Validation Study Of Blatt's Concepts Of Anaclitic And Introjective Depression, John Robert Hoeppel

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Chromosomal Replicative Forms Of P1 And P1dlac During The Lytic Cycle, John W. Bornhoeft

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Self-Recording As A Method Of Increasing Altruistic Behavior, Raymond Joseph Webb

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A Booke Of The Travaile And Lief Of Me Thomas Hoby, With Diverse Thinges Woorth The Notinge, 1547-1564: A Modern Edition With Introduction And Notes, Steven J. Masello

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Major Contextual Dimensions And Dynamic Factors In The Transmission Of The Judeo-Christian Religious Heritage According To Selected Writings Of Ellen G. White, Juan Navarro

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Purpose. Christianity claims to have directly received by revelation from God a body of knowledge which has been preserved, developed, and handed down through generations. The purpose of this study was to determine what, according to Ellen White, are the major contextual dimensions in the transmission of this religious heritage and the dynamic factors involved in the process.

Method. The approach to this documentary study consisted of (1) carefully reading selected writings of White and collecting every statement related to the investigation; (2) logically arranging the information gathered; and (3) analyzing, interpreting, synthesizing, and presenting the findings in an expository …

A Causal Model Of Selected Work Orientation Factors In The Elderly, Diane Sorenson Kjos

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Confidence In Therapists At The Beginning Of Psychotherapy: An Inter-Action Between Client Characteristics, Therapist Involvement Skills, And Therapist Authority, Helmut Stich

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Historical Analysis Of The Department Of Teacher Training In The Ministry Of Education In Thailand: 1954-1976, Aravan Chamnankit Tulayasook

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A Comparative Study Of Critical Thinking Skills, Dogmatism And American College Testing Program Scores Of Seventh-Day Adventist College Freshmen Graduated From Church Related And Public Secondary Schools, Elizabeth May Wilkins

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Problem. Development of critical thinking skills is commonly accepted as a desirable outcome of secondary education. The Seventh-day Adventist Church has also accepted this as one of the goals for its educational system. It was the purpose of the present study to compare critical thinking skills developed in Seventh-day Adventist young people in Seventh-day Adventist boarding academies, Seventh-day Adventist day academies, and public high schools. Since earlier studies have shown critical thinking to be negatively correlated with dogmatism and positively correlated with intelligence, both dogmatism and intelligence were included as variables in the study.

Method. Three hundred and twelve …

The Apocalyptic "Son Of Man" In Daniel 7, Arthur J. Ferch

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This investigation studies the identity and nature of the manlike figure in Dan 7:13-14 (hereafter referred to as SM). In the first chapter we reviewed the interpretations of the SM in Jewish and Christian literature since the beginning of the second century of our era and noted that with the exception of the seventeenth century study by Carpzov, discussion of the Danielic figure was limited to passing comments. Throughout this period the SM was interpreted mainly messianically or christologically. During the nineteenth century more substantial inquiries attempted to find answers to the identity and nature of the manlike being primarily …