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Perceptual Motor Match: Impact Of Two Motor Training Programs, Jo B. Cleek

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Purpose. The purpose of the study was to compare the impact of two motor training programs upon a selected perceptual motor task, verbal intelligence and motivation of kindergarten children. (Abstract shortened.)

A Critical Evaluation Of Rhetorical Processes In The Preaching Of Pearl Howard Welshimer Through An Analysis Of Representative Sermons, Keith Peter Keeran

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The, purpose of this study was to describe, analyze,

and evaluate the preaching of P. H. Welshimer. Within the

frame of reference of classical rhetorical theory, as

amplified by twentieth century rhetoricians essentially

within the classical tradition, this study sought successively

(1) to determine the biographical and influential

factors that accounted for Welshimer's success as a

speaker; (2) to trace his phenomenal preaching career;

and (3) to describe, analyze, and evaluate his rhetorical

practice on the basis of five selected sermons.

A Study Of Needs Assessment Methods Used For Program Development In Adult Education, Richard L. Gilmore

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The Problem. The problem of this study was to evaluate methods employed in identifying needs for program development in adult education among selected public community colleges in the United States. (Abstract shortened.)

The Effectiveness Of The Tarmac Reading Program, Dan G. Wilder

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Statement of the Problem. It was the problem of this study to determine if educationally-deprived students participating in the TARMAC Diagnostic-Prescriptive Reading Program would show significant differences in reading abilities compared with educationally-deprived students who were not participants in that program. Limitations of the Study. The following limitations were imposed upon the study: 1. Initial grade levels in reading in control and experimental groups were measured by California Achievement Test scores as criteria for defining educationally deprived. 2. The 1975-76 school year was used as the experimental period. 3. The results were limited to one school and forty student participants. …

Analysis Of Aerial Surveys And Tolerance Of Landowners For A Canada Goose Flock In Northeastern South Dakota, Thomas C. Tacha

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Four hundred rural landowners were interviewed in Day and Marshall counties in South Dakota in 1974 and 1975. These 400 interviews included 200 interviews with landowners living within 6.4 km of the three major summer-fall goose concentration areas and 200 interviews from a random sample of landowners living in the study area. Eighty-six percent of the interviewed landowners indicated that it was a good idea to expand the northeastern South Dakota Canada goose flock from 2,000 to 5,000 birds. Only 6 percent of the landowners had complaints about the geese, despite the fact that 23.5 percent of them had received …

Factors Associated With The Acceptance By Nursing Students Of Role Functions As Characteristic Of An Expanded Role For Nurses, Sharon Leech Hofland

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A study of graduating nursing students was conducted to determine: (1) the extent to which these students would be willing to accept specified role functions as characteristic of an expanded role for nurses; and (2) what factors are associated with and seem to explain the graduating nursing students' acceptance of these specified role functions as characteristic of an expanded role for nurses. An interview schedule was developed, pretested, and administered to students enrolled in their final year of study at one of the nine schools with state board approved programs for Registered Nurse licensure. The interview schedule included questions relating …

The Development Of Validated Metric Teaching Materials : Length, Joanne Parry Dankey

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The purpose of the present study was to develop a Metric Length self-instructional program to teach adult male and female consumers how to use the meter, the basic unit of length in the metric system. The goal of the project was to create a self-paced program containing instructional materials that were totally individualized. The researcher chose this approach because adult education programs have found individualized instruction to be very effective. Self-instructional programming has been found to be effective for mastery level learning. The goal of this program is to help consumers think metric and to use these units in their …

The Auditory Sensitivity Of The Coyote (Canis Latrans), Kim Darwin Hanson

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The objective of this study, then was to determine the auditory sensitivity of the coyote so that optimal repellant frequencies might be selected for further study. The procedures, apparatus, and methodology that were developed for measuring the audiogram using two different approaches are discussed in the following text. The first approaches was to use changes in respiratory patterns as an indicator of the coyote’s auditory sensitivity. The second was to determine the audiogram using operant behavioral techniques.

Edge Detection And Adjacency Classification In Digital Data Via The Gradient Vector, Michael John Russell

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Detection of edges in imagery represented by the matrix of data and classification of the data surrounded by an edge are investigated. An edge detection algorithm is developed and used to locate edges in digitized imagery. An algorithm called the adjacency classifier is developed to classify all groups in adjacent data points that are surrounded by edges. These two algorithms incorporate three important characteristics of the gradient vector: high gradients are inherent at edges, low gradients are inherent at edges, low gradients are inherent within homogeneous objects and gradient vector directions are perpendicular to the edge direction. Computer programs which …

Development Of An Inventory To Measure Attitudes Of Adolescents Toward The Elderly, Julie A. Gullickson

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The initial intent of the study was to measure adolescent attitudes toward the elderly by using an inventory that had previously been developed by authorities in the field. As a result of clarifying attitudes toward the elderly, innovative and successful classroom experiences to change any negative attitudes toward the aged could be developed. No satisfactory inventory could be found. For this reason the purpose of this study was to develop an inventory to measure attitudes of adolescents toward the elderly. An inventory of this type would help teachers to determine the feelings of students about people who are in the …

Correlates Of Leadership Attractedness Among Instrumental And Expressive Voluntary Service Organizations In Fall River And Meade Counties Of South Dakota, William Wakefield

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A study of the voluntary service organizations in Fall River and Meade counties of South Dakota was conducted during 1975 to determine: 1. The various voluntary associations in Fall River and Meade counties and their functions. 2. The leaders of the various voluntary associations in these two counties, their socioeconomic characteristics, and their attractedness to these organizations. 3. Whether those leaders who are characterized as either instrumental or expressive members have joined voluntary associations because of the association's perceived instrumental or expressive orientation, or because of some other not so apparent reasons. The respective leader of the voluntary associations is …

An Anatomy Of Civil Disorder : Memphis, Tennessee February 12-April 16, 1968, Eli H. Arkin

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Attitudes Toward Sex-Role Orientation Of Women At The University Of Mississippi / By Katherine Sabel Sullivan, Katherine Sabel Sullivan

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Admiration, Abhorrance, Admiration : The Criticism Surrounding The Harmonious Painting Of Henri Matisse / By Elizabeth White Reed, Elizabeth White Reed

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A Study Of A Personality Model And Its Predictions For Presidential Decision-Making / By Jolene Richardson, Jolene Richardson

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Misogynistic Attitudes Shown In Three Of Edward Albees Plays / By Rebecca Gayle Sanders, Rebecca Gayle Sanders

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A Methodology For The Elucidation Of The Object-Choice Phenomenon In Drug Addiction : A Comparison Of The Jungian, Castanedan And Laingian Paradigms / By Michael Jay Sturman, Michael Jay Sturman

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To Be Or Not To Be : Suicide In Shakespeare's Plays, Patti Ann Prewitt Hill

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The Attitudes Of Mississippi Legislators Toward The Establishment Of Public Kindergartens In The State Of Mississippi, Martha Patricia Jobe

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A Behavioral Approach To Obesity : The Differential Effects Of Social Reinforcement Versus Soicial, Irwin Lee Greenbaum

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Effect Of Phenoxybenzamine, Propranolol, Or Methysergide On Thecardiovascular Responses To Several Methoxyamphetamines In The Conscious Dog, Meredith Neal Mitchell Guinn

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An Analysis Of The Decline Of The First International In Britain, 1864-73, Thomas Lester Ponder

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An Experimental Study Of The Effects Of Film And Videotape Shownon Television Upon The Viewers' Perception Of The Context Of Each Mode, Donald Phillips Hinman

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A Comparison Of Behavioral Time-Sampling Procedures : A Replication And Extension, Charlotte Steele Mchardy

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Satirical Sculpture To Reflect Specific Traits In Homo Sapiens, Wallace Lynn Mallette

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The 16pf As A Comparative Measure Of Traditional And Non-Traditional High School Students : A Discriminant Analysis Approach, Cynthia Ann Lee

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A Proposal For A New Speech Degree Program At Alabama Christian College, Montgomery, Alabama, William Henry Proctor

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Modification Of Insomnia : A Controlled Investigation Of Relaxation Training And Stimulus Control Procedures, M. Susan Clayton

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A Study Of The Perceived Stress On Pharmacists In Mississippi, Burnis Delbert Breland

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Using Music With The Mentally Retarded And Physically Handicapped Child By Marilyn Sager Herrera, Marilyn Sager Herrera

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