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Winter Diet And Nutritional Condition Of White-Tailed Deer In The Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, Robert G. Osborn Jan 1994

Winter Diet And Nutritional Condition Of White-Tailed Deer In The Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, Robert G. Osborn

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Habitat deterioration in the northern Black Hills (NBH) of South Dakota may be responsible for declining white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) population levels (Griffin et al. 1992). Because of the relationship between habitat and nutrition, a two-year research project was initiated in January 1992 to evaluate the physical and nutritional condition of white-tailed deer inhabiting five NBH winter subranges. Habitat variables were measured at 100 random locations on each study area. Pellet groups were collected throughout each study area at two-week intervals during January, February, and March 1992 and 1993. Five female white-tailed deer were collected from each study area in …


A Study Of Fund Raising As A Part Of Public Relations : Four Case Studies Of Private Elementary And Secondary Schools In Houston, Texas, Katy Sanderson Creath Jan 1993

A Study Of Fund Raising As A Part Of Public Relations : Four Case Studies Of Private Elementary And Secondary Schools In Houston, Texas, Katy Sanderson Creath

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The United States Supreme Court And The West German Federal Constitutional Court : Two Guardians Of The Constitution And The Principle Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Wolfgang Herbert Josef Deselaers Jan 1987

The United States Supreme Court And The West German Federal Constitutional Court : Two Guardians Of The Constitution And The Principle Of Judicial Self-Restraint, Wolfgang Herbert Josef Deselaers

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Knowledge Of United States Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education Held By Selected Tennessee Public School Personnel (Law), William P. Abegglen May 1986

Knowledge Of United States Supreme Court Decisions Affecting Education Held By Selected Tennessee Public School Personnel (Law), William P. Abegglen

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The purpose of this study was to determine the knowledge of United States Supreme Court decisions affecting education possessed by public school teachers, principals, superintendents, and board members; to determine if significant differences existed among these groups in their knowledge of Supreme Court decisions affecting education; and to determine if significant differences existed within each group depending on years of experience in education and level of education. Five hundred randomly selected subjects from the public school systems in Tennessee were asked to indicate their knowledge of Supreme Court decisions affecting education by completing the survey instrument, Supreme Court Decisions Impacting …


Testing Title, Dennis K. Adjeibaah May 1986

Testing Title, Dennis K. Adjeibaah

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Testing the abstract


The Perceptions Of Foreign News Editors Of U.S. Metropolitan Dailies Regarding Reportage From And About South Africa, Peter Redvers Lee Jan 1986

The Perceptions Of Foreign News Editors Of U.S. Metropolitan Dailies Regarding Reportage From And About South Africa, Peter Redvers Lee

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Fiscal Impact Analysis : An Aid In Growth Management Decision-Making, Wallace Scarborough Chandler Jan 1983

Fiscal Impact Analysis : An Aid In Growth Management Decision-Making, Wallace Scarborough Chandler

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Ascertaining The Problems, Needs, And Interests Of The Wcbh Service Area, Tom Lamont Jan 1982

Ascertaining The Problems, Needs, And Interests Of The Wcbh Service Area, Tom Lamont

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On The Horns Of A Dilemma : The Treatment Of British Loyalists In South Carolina, Allison Mcneese Jan 1982

On The Horns Of A Dilemma : The Treatment Of British Loyalists In South Carolina, Allison Mcneese

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The Louisville (Kentucky) Democratic Party : Political Times Of "Miss Lennie" Mclaughlin., Carolyn Luckett Denning 1943- Aug 1981

The Louisville (Kentucky) Democratic Party : Political Times Of "Miss Lennie" Mclaughlin., Carolyn Luckett Denning 1943-

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This thesis seeks to examine the role of the Democratic Party organization in Louisville, Kentucky and its influence in primary elections during the period 1933 to 1963. A prominent party leader, Lennie McLaughlin, is the focal point of the study. McLaughlin was one of a few female party leaders who functioned as a party "boss" in a metropolitan area during that time. Included is an historical narrative of Louisville's Democratic organization during the McLaughlin era and an analysis of her organization's success in the selection of favored primary candidates. The Democratic organization's accomplishments in general elections are compared to contemporary …


The Common Law Fiduciary Duties Of Directors And Officers Of Corporations, Joe N. Cagle Jan 1979

The Common Law Fiduciary Duties Of Directors And Officers Of Corporations, Joe N. Cagle

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The Cost Of Transporting Grain By Truck In South Dakota With Special Reference To Proposed Rail Line Abandonment, Kenneth W. Keehn Jan 1978

The Cost Of Transporting Grain By Truck In South Dakota With Special Reference To Proposed Rail Line Abandonment, Kenneth W. Keehn

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The objectives of this thesis are: 1. Estimate the cost equations of transporting grain by farm truck and semi-trailer truck in South Dakota, 2. Estimate the cost of transporting grain by farm truck in the Watertown to Doland and Watertown to Stratford branch line market areas, and 3. Use the results of objectives 1 and 2 to evaluate various alternatives if branch line abandonment occurs in the above market areas. The alternatives to be studied are: a. Trucking grain to the nearest elevator without rail service and receiving less for grain, b. Trucking grain to the nearest elevator with rail …


Project Remand : Estimating Probability Of Failure To Appear, Glen Arthur Just Jan 1977

Project Remand : Estimating Probability Of Failure To Appear, Glen Arthur Just

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The study investigated the following problem: What is the best estimator of failure to appear (FTA) for felons in Ramset County, Minnesota, who are released into the community during their pretrial period? An estimator of FTA and nonFTA probabilities was derived with the aid of stepwise discriminant analysis. The method demonstrates the expost facto ability to correctly place 98 percent of the nonFTA’s and 30 percent of the FTA’s in the 1975 sample. The overall total group placement, due to the large percentage of nonFTA’s in the sample, was approximately 90 percent. Even though it is recognized that multiple regression …


Social-Structural Effects On The Adoption Of The Snowmobile As A Recreational Innovation, Sandra H. Ramynke Jan 1976

Social-Structural Effects On The Adoption Of The Snowmobile As A Recreational Innovation, Sandra H. Ramynke

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Social structural factors and individual characteristics related to innovativeness were studied in a random sample of 402 South Dakota owners of registered snowmobiles. Data collection employed a mailed questionnaire. The objectives of the study were to determine: (1) Which, if any, sociopsychological and sociodemographic individual characteristics explain variations in innovativeness with regard to purchasing of snowmobiles; (2) Whether community norm as a structural effect contributes to the explanation of variations in snowmobiler innovativeness when individual characteristics of adoptors are partialed out or controlled; and, (3) Whether the general contours of the adoption-diffusion model may be extended to the area of …


United States And South African Apartheid Policy, Anthony Raphael Edet Jan 1976

United States And South African Apartheid Policy, Anthony Raphael Edet

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A Study Of Selected Factors Associated With Environmental Attitudes Of Big Stone Lake Area Residents, Bradford George Perry Jan 1972

A Study Of Selected Factors Associated With Environmental Attitudes Of Big Stone Lake Area Residents, Bradford George Perry

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A study of Big Stone Lake area residents was accomplished to aid in determining the following: (1) The existing attitudinal orientations of area residents relative to an incoming electrical generating facility (the Big Stone Power Plant); (2) The degree of association between selected variables and respondents' environmental attitudes; (3) The capability of the areas existing institutions to accommodate the local population, and possible effects of plant construction and operation; (4) The potential reference groups utilized for behavioral orientation. The unit of analysis consisted of Big Stone Lake area residents within a three county universe of discourse. Primary emphasis in sampling …


Planning For Jails As An Element Of The Community Facilities Plan And Program, John J. Huebner Jan 1971

Planning For Jails As An Element Of The Community Facilities Plan And Program, John J. Huebner

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Operation Breakthrough : A Proposed Federal Government Solution To The Housing Crisis, Colbert Wear Jones Jan 1971

Operation Breakthrough : A Proposed Federal Government Solution To The Housing Crisis, Colbert Wear Jones

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No abstract provided.


Historical Preservation In Alabama, Nadia Wowk Cameron Jan 1971

Historical Preservation In Alabama, Nadia Wowk Cameron

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Zoning In Mississippi, Emile Joseph Gex Jr Jan 1971

Zoning In Mississippi, Emile Joseph Gex Jr

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The Ku Klux Klan In The United States: Its History, Organization, And Recruitment Practices, Chester Leland Quarles May 1970

The Ku Klux Klan In The United States: Its History, Organization, And Recruitment Practices, Chester Leland Quarles

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A Study Of The Impact Of The Major Thoroughfare Plan On Urban Development, Jeff Chih-Hui Hu Jan 1970

A Study Of The Impact Of The Major Thoroughfare Plan On Urban Development, Jeff Chih-Hui Hu

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Madame De Stael's De L'Allemagne : An Analysis, Richard Snow Lybarger Jan 1969

Madame De Stael's De L'Allemagne : An Analysis, Richard Snow Lybarger

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Private Tax Exempt Organizations : A Study Of Abuses And Revision Proposals, H. Murray Claycomb Jan 1969

Private Tax Exempt Organizations : A Study Of Abuses And Revision Proposals, H. Murray Claycomb

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The American Physical Theatre During The Nineteenth Century, Carol Sue Moore Jan 1968

The American Physical Theatre During The Nineteenth Century, Carol Sue Moore

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A History Of The University Of Mississippi Radio Station Wcbh, Mary Wilhoit Harbour Jan 1968

A History Of The University Of Mississippi Radio Station Wcbh, Mary Wilhoit Harbour

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A Cost-Revenue Approach To Balanced Land Use Development Related To Comprehensive Planning, Gerald George Newman Jan 1967

A Cost-Revenue Approach To Balanced Land Use Development Related To Comprehensive Planning, Gerald George Newman

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The Sowrer Sort Of Shepherds : Ben Jonson's Puritans, June A. Pieschel Jan 1967

The Sowrer Sort Of Shepherds : Ben Jonson's Puritans, June A. Pieschel

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A Study Of Optimum Alternate Patterns Of Land Use Development For Memphis And Shelby County, Tennessee, James Clay Watkins Jan 1966

A Study Of Optimum Alternate Patterns Of Land Use Development For Memphis And Shelby County, Tennessee, James Clay Watkins

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Long-Range Parking Study For The University Of Mississippi, Chester Lee Tate Jr Jan 1963

Long-Range Parking Study For The University Of Mississippi, Chester Lee Tate Jr

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No abstract provided.