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A Comparative Analysis Of Regional Councils In A Five State Area, Sui Shan Au Yeung Jan 1983

A Comparative Analysis Of Regional Councils In A Five State Area, Sui Shan Au Yeung

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Regional Councils are voluntary associations of city and county governments. Their functions are to provide forums and means to assist local governments regarding problems of mutual concern. As part of the NC-144 research project to analyze the effects of regional councils of governments on local governments this study attempts to answer the question: “Do the five states differ in the effectiveness of their regional councils and which selected organizational variables are associated with these differences?” The objectives of the study are to describe the origin, development, organizational structure and activities of the regional councils in the states of Colorado, Iowa, …


The Relationship Between Net Migration Patterns And Selected Demographic And Socioeconomic Factors In South Dakota, 1970-1980, Linda Baer Jan 1983

The Relationship Between Net Migration Patterns And Selected Demographic And Socioeconomic Factors In South Dakota, 1970-1980, Linda Baer

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This study investigated the process of net migration in counties of South Dakota from 1970 to1980. Census Bureau and Vital Statistics data were employed to answer the basic question of how major demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of counties of South Dakota were related to patterns of net migration. A description of net migration was presented and from this specific patterns of net migration from 1970 and 1980 were determined. The net migration patterns were (1) in-migration over both decades; (2) turnaround migration: out-migration in 1970 and in-migration in 1980; (3) reverse turnaround: in-migration in 1970 and out-migration in 1980; (4) …


A Study Of English Loanwords In Chinese Through Chinese Newswriting, Wendy Yeun-Wen Pao Jan 1983

A Study Of English Loanwords In Chinese Through Chinese Newswriting, Wendy Yeun-Wen Pao

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The purpose of the present study, therefore, is to research the signified loanwords found in current newspapers. More specifically, answer to the following questions are to be discovered: 1. How extensive is the standardization of the conventional translation or transliteration of English loanwords in Chinese in terms of explicative hybrid, loan-blend, independent hybrid, word-for-word translation, descriptive translation, and doublet? 2. What kind of proportion of these English loanwords in Chinese exist in selected newswriting in terms of the socio-political, technical-scientific, scholarly, sports, and business-economic terminology?


An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Adolescent Adjustment To Diabetes Mellitus And Parent-Child Relationship Problems, Ann M. Demos Jan 1983

An Exploration Of The Relationship Between Adolescent Adjustment To Diabetes Mellitus And Parent-Child Relationship Problems, Ann M. Demos

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The focus of this study is on adolescents who have diabetes mellitus and their adjustment to that disease. This study explores the relationship between adolescent adjustment to diabetes mellitus and the parent-child relationship. Erik Erikson's Theory of Cognitive Development served as the theoretical framework for the study. The study utilized descriptive methodology. Data was collected using Child's Attitude Toward Mother Scale and Child's Attitude Toward Father Scale, the Diabetic Adjustment Scale, and a researcher developed structured'interview. The study population was ten families each with a diabetic adolescent for the study. Individual case scores and correlation statistics were used to describe …


A Case Study In Establishing An In-House Polling Operation For A South Dakota Political Campaign, Jeff Brockelsby Jan 1983

A Case Study In Establishing An In-House Polling Operation For A South Dakota Political Campaign, Jeff Brockelsby

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Evaluating what voters are thinking and deciding how best to communicate with them are critical to a political candidate planning a campaign strategy. Until recently, a candidate relied on his own instincts and those of his advisers to evaluate what people thought about a particular issue or person and to determine the most effective way of presenting campaign messages. Political polling has changed this. Political scientist Paul Van Riper said in Handbook of Practical Politics "the rapidly increasing utilization of social science techniques to help determine political strategy is one of the most important of the recent trends in American …


Perceptual Regions Of Minnesota, John L. Faundeen Jan 1983

Perceptual Regions Of Minnesota, John L. Faundeen

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Economists, demographers, politicians, recreationalists, and others have divided the state of Minnesota into many different regions. In so doing, each claim to represent a meaningful division of state districts based upon their own particular viewpoint, need, or bias. Whether these regions are logically derived or merely delineated for purposes of convenience can, however, be questioned. Regardless of how the divisions carne about, they do, to a degree, represent an abstraction of space. Whether or not the average Minnesotan agrees with, or can even relate to, such abstractions is debatable. The way in which residents perceive the state and mentally delineate …


Differential Reinforcement Of Incompatible Behavior Versus Nonexclusionary Timeout And The Staff Time Utilized, Deborah T. Orr Jan 1983

Differential Reinforcement Of Incompatible Behavior Versus Nonexclusionary Timeout And The Staff Time Utilized, Deborah T. Orr

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Enhancement Of Parents' Involvement In Training Groups / By Barbara H. Vogel, Barbara H. Vogel Jan 1983

Enhancement Of Parents' Involvement In Training Groups / By Barbara H. Vogel, Barbara H. Vogel

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The Role Of Dopaminergic And Serotonergic Systems In The Behavioral And Lethal Effects Of Dl-Cathinone, D-Amphetamine And Cocaine : A Comparative Study, Dur Huang Jan 1983

The Role Of Dopaminergic And Serotonergic Systems In The Behavioral And Lethal Effects Of Dl-Cathinone, D-Amphetamine And Cocaine : A Comparative Study, Dur Huang

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The Effect Of Interpersonal Touch In A Field Setting, April H. Crusco Jan 1983

The Effect Of Interpersonal Touch In A Field Setting, April H. Crusco

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The Relationship Of Style Of Loving To Marital Adjustment And Verbal Behavior, Samuel Ernest Fleming Jan 1983

The Relationship Of Style Of Loving To Marital Adjustment And Verbal Behavior, Samuel Ernest Fleming

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The Effects Of Cognitive Dissonance Induction On Emg Response Amplitudes And Self Reported Anxiety States, Mark Edward Hatfield Jan 1983

The Effects Of Cognitive Dissonance Induction On Emg Response Amplitudes And Self Reported Anxiety States, Mark Edward Hatfield

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The Effects Of Varying Levels Of Interviewer Disclosure And Interviewer Race On The Self-Disclosing Behaviors Of Black Female College Students / By Carol Elizabeth Wright, Carol Elizabeth Wright Jan 1983

The Effects Of Varying Levels Of Interviewer Disclosure And Interviewer Race On The Self-Disclosing Behaviors Of Black Female College Students / By Carol Elizabeth Wright, Carol Elizabeth Wright

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Predicting Female's Date Initiation Behavior : A Discriminant Analysis / By Becky Maurine Wright, Becky Maurine Wright Jan 1983

Predicting Female's Date Initiation Behavior : A Discriminant Analysis / By Becky Maurine Wright, Becky Maurine Wright

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A Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Biofeedback Training And A Classical Conditioning Procedure In Producing Temperature Change / By Linda Cheryl Wright, Linda Cheryl Wright Jan 1983

A Comparison Of The Efficacy Of Biofeedback Training And A Classical Conditioning Procedure In Producing Temperature Change / By Linda Cheryl Wright, Linda Cheryl Wright

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Maxwell Anderson : From Pacifist To Activist, Wilfred J. Collins Jan 1983

Maxwell Anderson : From Pacifist To Activist, Wilfred J. Collins

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Cue-Controlled Relaxation : A Multi-Dimensional Assessment Of Generalization From Treated Tountreated Anxieties Relative To A Credible Placebo, Mark Edward Oakley Jan 1983

Cue-Controlled Relaxation : A Multi-Dimensional Assessment Of Generalization From Treated Tountreated Anxieties Relative To A Credible Placebo, Mark Edward Oakley

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Overjustification Effect Versus The Zeigarnik Effect : The Extent Of Undermining Effects Of Reward, Jirina Fiala Jan 1983

Overjustification Effect Versus The Zeigarnik Effect : The Extent Of Undermining Effects Of Reward, Jirina Fiala

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Cortical Event Related Potentials In Normal And Below Normal Readers, John Chester Freeland Jan 1983

Cortical Event Related Potentials In Normal And Below Normal Readers, John Chester Freeland

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A Production Study Of The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail : A Play By Jerome Lawrence And Robert E. Lee, Lawrence R. Crowder Jan 1983

A Production Study Of The Night Thoreau Spent In Jail : A Play By Jerome Lawrence And Robert E. Lee, Lawrence R. Crowder

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The Themes And Fiction Of John Fowles, Peter Longley Jan 1983

The Themes And Fiction Of John Fowles, Peter Longley

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Some Effects Of Neuroleptics On Operant And Reflexive Licking Inrats, Sandra E. Gramling Jan 1983

Some Effects Of Neuroleptics On Operant And Reflexive Licking Inrats, Sandra E. Gramling

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The Scenic And Lighting Design For Antigone, Filipe E. Macias N. Jan 1983

The Scenic And Lighting Design For Antigone, Filipe E. Macias N.

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Folacin Values In Food, Eddie Mitchell Lancaster Jan 1983

Folacin Values In Food, Eddie Mitchell Lancaster

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Acute Effects Of Neuroleptics And Benzodiazepines On Quantitative Measures Of Discriminative Motor Control In Rats, Gregory Lampton Nail Jan 1983

Acute Effects Of Neuroleptics And Benzodiazepines On Quantitative Measures Of Discriminative Motor Control In Rats, Gregory Lampton Nail

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Student Attitudes Toward University Health Services / By Charles Nohuoma Rotimi, Charles Nohuoma Rotimi Jan 1983

Student Attitudes Toward University Health Services / By Charles Nohuoma Rotimi, Charles Nohuoma Rotimi

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The Cosmic View Of Leopold Bloom / By Tess Scogan, Tess Scogan Jan 1983

The Cosmic View Of Leopold Bloom / By Tess Scogan, Tess Scogan

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Native Americans And The Criminal Justice System : A Case Study, Susan Lynn Alpiner Jan 1983

Native Americans And The Criminal Justice System : A Case Study, Susan Lynn Alpiner

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Toward The Prediction Of Binge Eating, Barbara Ann Casasa Jan 1983

Toward The Prediction Of Binge Eating, Barbara Ann Casasa

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Audio Recorded And Directly Observed Parent-Child Interactions : A Comparison Of Observation Methods, David J. Hansen Jan 1983

Audio Recorded And Directly Observed Parent-Child Interactions : A Comparison Of Observation Methods, David J. Hansen

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