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Semi-Synthesis And Characterization Of Novel Derivatives Of The Carbomycin Class Of 16-Membered Macrolide Antibiotics, David C. Limburg Jan 1996

Semi-Synthesis And Characterization Of Novel Derivatives Of The Carbomycin Class Of 16-Membered Macrolide Antibiotics, David C. Limburg

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Synthesis Of Ferrocene-Type Organosulfur Compounds With Two Different Redox Centers, Lang Lin Jan 1996

Synthesis Of Ferrocene-Type Organosulfur Compounds With Two Different Redox Centers, Lang Lin

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The Commodification Of Women In Kate Chopin's The Awakening And Edith Wharton's The House Of Mirth, Sherry Gayle Jeffries Jan 1996

The Commodification Of Women In Kate Chopin's The Awakening And Edith Wharton's The House Of Mirth, Sherry Gayle Jeffries

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The Chick Social-Separation Stress Model : Specification Of Dose-Response Functions For The Benzodiazepine Agonist Chlordiazepoxide And The Benzodiazepine Inverse Agonist Fg-7142 (N-Methyl-B-Carboline-3-Carboxamide), George Stennis Watson Jan 1996

The Chick Social-Separation Stress Model : Specification Of Dose-Response Functions For The Benzodiazepine Agonist Chlordiazepoxide And The Benzodiazepine Inverse Agonist Fg-7142 (N-Methyl-B-Carboline-3-Carboxamide), George Stennis Watson

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American Widowers With School-Age Children : An Exploratory Study Of Role Change And Role Conflict, Douglas Edward O'Neill Jan 1996

American Widowers With School-Age Children : An Exploratory Study Of Role Change And Role Conflict, Douglas Edward O'Neill

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This study assessed the effects that the death of a wife has on the roles of the widower when he becomes a single parent with school-age children. The literature review guided the study towards the areas of the family, roles of husband and wife, crises in families, specific crises which men become a single parent and men as single parents. An interactionist perspective was used with Znanieckis' Social Role theory to gain insight on the widowers processing of roles and social position. An exploratory survey of a sample population (N=46) of widowers with school-age children was used to gather data …


The Use Of Pcr-Rapds And Similarity Indices To Assess Genetic Intergradation Of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) Subspecies In 15 Mississippi Populations / By Leslie L. Rutherford, Leslie L. Rutherford Jan 1996

The Use Of Pcr-Rapds And Similarity Indices To Assess Genetic Intergradation Of Largemouth Bass (Micropterus Salmoides) Subspecies In 15 Mississippi Populations / By Leslie L. Rutherford, Leslie L. Rutherford

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The Synthesis Of Quinone-Type Acceptor Molecules With Methyl Sulfide Functional Groups For Self-Assembled Monolayers On Gold, Peter Wei-Jen Fan Jan 1996

The Synthesis Of Quinone-Type Acceptor Molecules With Methyl Sulfide Functional Groups For Self-Assembled Monolayers On Gold, Peter Wei-Jen Fan

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Biocell Treatment Of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils, Michael R. Burchell Jan 1996

Biocell Treatment Of Petroleum Hydrocarbon Contaminated Soils, Michael R. Burchell

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Swimming Performance Of Bigmouth, Ictiobus Cyprinellus (Valenciennes), And Smallmouth Buffalo, Ictiobus Bubalus (Rafinesque), Steven Reid Adams Jan 1996

Swimming Performance Of Bigmouth, Ictiobus Cyprinellus (Valenciennes), And Smallmouth Buffalo, Ictiobus Bubalus (Rafinesque), Steven Reid Adams

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The Search For The Sacred : A Study Of Cormac Mccarthy's Child Of God And Outer Dark, Sean Stanley Krause Jan 1996

The Search For The Sacred : A Study Of Cormac Mccarthy's Child Of God And Outer Dark, Sean Stanley Krause

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Development And Evaluation Of An Assay For Inhibitors Of Complement Activation / By Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiaoyan Zhu Jan 1996

Development And Evaluation Of An Assay For Inhibitors Of Complement Activation / By Xiaoyan Zhu, Xiaoyan Zhu

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Chaos Theory In Educational Systems: Principals' Perceptions Of Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions, Suzan B. Baker Dec 1995

Chaos Theory In Educational Systems: Principals' Perceptions Of Sensitive Dependence On Initial Conditions, Suzan B. Baker

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This study investigated the characteristic of chaos theory called sensitive dependence on initial conditions or butterfly effect in schools and school systems. The purpose of the study was to develop insight into school systems by determining if categories or factors of behaviors or decisions have been observed in school systems which are sensitive to initial conditions and are therefore likely to produce exponential effects. A modified critical incident technique was used to collect data from experienced principals in three moderate sized regions in Tennessee, North Carolina, and Virginia. Participants reported incidents that were sensitive to initial conditions during interviews. The …


Teacher Attitudes Toward The Professional Evaluation Process, Sandra L. Sanders Dec 1995

Teacher Attitudes Toward The Professional Evaluation Process, Sandra L. Sanders

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This study identified teacher attitudes toward the professional evaluation process as preparation for moving from the current traditional process toward a more authentic process. The descriptive study utilized survey methodology. The Teacher Evaluation Survey, developed by the researcher, was administered along with a demographic data sheet to a stratified random sample of 475 public school teachers in the Sullivan County Tennessee school system. A 60% return rate was obtained. Analysis of the data, collected to answer the five research questions and ten hypotheses, revealed the following: Teachers feel that the current evaluation process closely resembles a competency-based process and that …


Prediction Of Student Completion Of An Associate Degree Radiologic Technology Program, Donna R. Shehane Dec 1995

Prediction Of Student Completion Of An Associate Degree Radiologic Technology Program, Donna R. Shehane

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The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the admission/selection process of the Radiologic Technology Program at East Tennessee State University to ascertain predictive validity of the admission process and to identify specific indicators leading to program completion. The population for this investigation consisted of 510 students who had applied to East Tennessee State University and the Radiologic Technology Program from 1991 through 1993. Data were collected from institutional and program academic records. Correlation research was chosen to establish validity. One-way Analysis of Variance and t-test were applied to investigate different admission parameters and discriminate analysis was completed due …


Fertility Effects Of Genes Causing Reproductive Isolation Inferred From Three-Way Hybrids In Phacelia, Helen Zhujun Hou Aug 1995

Fertility Effects Of Genes Causing Reproductive Isolation Inferred From Three-Way Hybrids In Phacelia, Helen Zhujun Hou

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Prior studies of reproductive isolation among three varieties of Phacelia dubia have found that gene loci encoding isozymes of glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (GOT) were associated with hybrid sterility. In the first part of this study, I generated three-way hybrids to determine if the genetic or chromosomal region linked to GOT encoding loci has major effects on hybrid sterility and if any observed effects were similar in different genetic backgrounds. In three-way crosses, F1 hybrids of two varieties were crossed to a third variety. Fertilities of three-way hybrids were estimated and their GOT genotypes were ascertained by starch gel electrophoresis. A …


Global Coherence And The Teaching Of Composition., Frank A. Davis 1953- Aug 1995

Global Coherence And The Teaching Of Composition., Frank A. Davis 1953-

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Within the discipline of rhetoric and composition, the notion of coherence possesses the status of sine qua non, yet this notion has been treated unevenly or been taken for granted, much as the process of composing itself was taken for granted for the better part of this century. This practice has occurred for the following reasons: coherence is the "unmarked" condition of speech, and by transfer, also the "unmarked" condition of writing; the surface language of a composition has traditionally been the focus for solving any problems of coherence; and, collateral disciplines have not been sufficiently drawn upon in understanding …


Preprocessing Of Microcirculatory Images., Mohamed S. Mansour Aug 1995

Preprocessing Of Microcirculatory Images., Mohamed S. Mansour

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This thesis project consists of the development of a computerized image processing system to preprocess microvascular images of the mouse Latisimus Dorsi Muscle (LDM). This research has been conducted in association with the Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Louisville. The input to the system is a set of 35 or more overlapping microscopic fields or sub_images containing segments of the LDM microcirculation, the output is an adjacent single montage encompassing the entire LDM microvasculature. The developed system presents practical solutions to the problems of image registration, overlap resolution, and image segmentation, in addition, the results …


Validation Of An Instrument To Measure The Change In Ecological Vocabulary Of Teachers Attending Texas Environmental Education Advisory Committee Endorsed Programs, James Isleib May 1995

Validation Of An Instrument To Measure The Change In Ecological Vocabulary Of Teachers Attending Texas Environmental Education Advisory Committee Endorsed Programs, James Isleib

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An instrument was developed and evaluated for measuring the effect of the Texas Environmental Education Advisory Committee (TEEAC) endorsed teacher inservice programs on participants' ecological vocabulary. Principal study objectives were to establish a basic ecological vocabulary essential to environmental education and evaluate the instrument's effectiveness in measuring change in participants' ecological vocabulary resulting from exposure to TEEAC programs. The Ecological Vocabulary Survey (EVS) was developed from 57 ecological terms. A comparison of EVS terms with terms selected by ecological and environmental education organizations indicated the EVS terms were essential to environmental education. A total of 148 matched pairs of pre …


Persistent Oral Dyskinesias Induced By Long-Term Haloperidol Treatment Is Dissociated From Changes In Neostriatal B(Max) And Mrna Content For Dopamine D(2) Receptors, Nuoyu Huang May 1995

Persistent Oral Dyskinesias Induced By Long-Term Haloperidol Treatment Is Dissociated From Changes In Neostriatal B(Max) And Mrna Content For Dopamine D(2) Receptors, Nuoyu Huang

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Due to the presumed associations of dopamine (DA) receptor supersensitivity phenomena in both long-term neuroleptic-treated tardive dyskinetic rats and neonatal 6-hydroxydopamine (n6-OHDA)-lesioned rats, we studied the influence of haloperidol on n6-OHDA-lesioned rats. At 3 days after birth rats received 6-OHDA-HBr (200 $\mu$g, bilateral intracerebroventricularly; desipramine pretreatment, 20 mg/kg, 1h) or vehicle. Two months later haloperidol (1.5/kg/day $\times$ 2 days/week for 4 weeks, then 1.5 mg/kg/day, every day for 10 months) was added to the drinking water. Spontaneous oral activity of intact and n6-OHDA-lesioned rats receiving haloperidol was reached and maintained at significantly higher levels after 15 weeks of haloperidol treatment. …


The Relationship Between Student And Faculty Learning Style Congruency And Perceptions Of The Classroom Environment In Colleges Of Teacher Education, Patrick N. Kariuki May 1995

The Relationship Between Student And Faculty Learning Style Congruency And Perceptions Of The Classroom Environment In Colleges Of Teacher Education, Patrick N. Kariuki

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The purpose of this study was to determine the extent of congruence between teachers' and undergraduate education majors' learning styles in selected colleges of the Tennessee Association of Colleges for Teacher Education, and to determine if the style congruence was related to student perceptions of the classroom learning environment. A related purpose was to identify needed changes in classroom environments based on the characteristics of the actual and ideal classroom environments as perceived by students, characteristics of the actual classroom environment as perceived by their teachers, and characteristics of actual and ideal classroom environments as perceived by men and women …


Moraxella (Branhamella) Catarrhalis: A Molecular Epidemiology Study, Lyndell R. Gill May 1995

Moraxella (Branhamella) Catarrhalis: A Molecular Epidemiology Study, Lyndell R. Gill

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Moraxella (Branhamella) catarrhalis is the third-most-frequently isolated microorganism associated with acute exacerbations of chronic bronchitis in patients during their stay at the Mountain Home VA Medical Center (MHVAMC). In order to develop a practical, epidemiologically-meaningful typing method for M. (B.) catarrhalis, we tested two methods based on analysis of chromosomal DNA for typeability, reproducibility, and ability to differentiate between unrelated strains (discriminatory power, D). M. (B.) catarrhalis isolants from MHVAMC from 7/1/87-6/30/88 were grown overnight in broth and embedded in agarose. DNA was isolated by standard methods. The DNA was subjected to: (1) restriction endonuclease digestion (with either Bgl II …


Indomethacin Reduces Splenic Red Pulp Macrophage Populations In Female New Zealand White Rabbits, Thane S. Thurmond May 1995

Indomethacin Reduces Splenic Red Pulp Macrophage Populations In Female New Zealand White Rabbits, Thane S. Thurmond

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In an effort to elucidate the mechanism by which indomethacin (IN) attenuates the stimulatory effect of estradiol (E$\sb2$) on rabbit splenic red pulp macrophages (RPM), thirty-nine female New Zealand White rabbits were divided into 10 groups: ovariectomized (OVX), OVX/IN at 0.1 and 5.0 mg/kg body weight (bw)/day; sham OVX (SOVX), SOVX/IN at 0.1 and 5.0 mg/kg bw/day; OVX/25 mg E2, OVX/25 mg E$\sb2$/IN at 0.1 and 5.0 mg/kg bw/day; intact Control. Quantitative changes in RPM population in response to the treatments were measured using a 0 to 4 histologic grading scale. Estradiol treatment resulted in increased RPM grade when compared …


Characterization Of Subgrade Soils At Simulated Field Moisture / By Ganesh B. Thadkamalla, Ganesh B. Thadkamalla Jan 1995

Characterization Of Subgrade Soils At Simulated Field Moisture / By Ganesh B. Thadkamalla, Ganesh B. Thadkamalla

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A Theoretical Study Of The Catalytic Decomposition Of Tetrafluoroethylene By Molecular Oxygen / By Baoan Yu, Baoan Yu Jan 1995

A Theoretical Study Of The Catalytic Decomposition Of Tetrafluoroethylene By Molecular Oxygen / By Baoan Yu, Baoan Yu

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Modeling The Fate Of Chlorpyrifos In Constructed Wetlands, Monica Ashbrook Darby Jan 1995

Modeling The Fate Of Chlorpyrifos In Constructed Wetlands, Monica Ashbrook Darby

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Microbial Activity On Model Crude Oil Organic Nitrogen Compounds, Abir T. El-Alfy Jan 1995

Microbial Activity On Model Crude Oil Organic Nitrogen Compounds, Abir T. El-Alfy

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The Influence Of Patch Characteristics On Bird Assemblages In A Fragmented Landscape, David Joseph Horn Jan 1995

The Influence Of Patch Characteristics On Bird Assemblages In A Fragmented Landscape, David Joseph Horn

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Purification And Characterization Of An Oxygen-Insensitive Azoreductase From Bacterial Isolate C7, John Robert Logan Jan 1995

Purification And Characterization Of An Oxygen-Insensitive Azoreductase From Bacterial Isolate C7, John Robert Logan

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The Hand And The Spirit, Mary Mallahan Jan 1995

The Hand And The Spirit, Mary Mallahan

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The Expression Of Renal ╬▒Γéü -Adrenergic Subtypes During The Development Of Genetic Hypertension, Matthew Brian Jones Jan 1995

The Expression Of Renal ╬▒Γéü -Adrenergic Subtypes During The Development Of Genetic Hypertension, Matthew Brian Jones

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