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The Relationship Between Teacher Immediacy And Teaching Effectiveness., Janis Frageman Andersen Jan 1978

The Relationship Between Teacher Immediacy And Teaching Effectiveness., Janis Frageman Andersen

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This investigation examined teacher immediacy as a potential predictor of teaching effectiveness. Teacher immediacy was conceptualized as those nonverbal behaviors that reduce physical and/or psychological distance between teachers and students. Teaching effectiveness was examined in light of teacher ability to produce affective, behavioral and cognitive student learning.

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Home Economics: Past, Present And Future., Marian Beth Liddell Jan 1978

Home Economics: Past, Present And Future., Marian Beth Liddell

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The purpose of the study was to examine the evolution of the home economics philosophy from 1910 through 1975 and to outline the trends and developments in the profession over a 65 year period. Four structural components of home economics were traced 65 years through the Journal of Home Economics including: science as a base and its tie to agriculture; men in home economics; home economics1 skill orientation but broad-base; and the public image of the profession. The study examined selected developments in West Virginia home economics to note similarities and differences that existed between the State program and the …

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Criteria For Coal Reserve Evaluation Of Some Breathitt Formation Coals In Eastern Kentucky Using Depositional Systems Analysis., Larry Ralph Powell Jan 1978

Criteria For Coal Reserve Evaluation Of Some Breathitt Formation Coals In Eastern Kentucky Using Depositional Systems Analysis., Larry Ralph Powell

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This study is directed towards better insights into the sedimentological variables which affect coal exploration and development. With continuing growth of the coal industry, a better understanding of the geologic conditions governing coal quality and quantity is necessary for efficient coal development and utilization. With most of the strippable, thick coals under development, the importance of understanding depositional systems within the ancient coal-forming swamps becomes more important as more deep mines are opened in thinner seams. The development of these coal mines benefits from an understanding of rapid facies changes characteristic of coal swamp environments that anticipate coal-seam discontinuities, coal-seam …

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Graduates' Perceptions Of The Adequacy And Value Of Their Undergraduate Preparation Program In Elementary Education At West Virginia University (1965-1975)., Pamela Mae Balch Jan 1977

Graduates' Perceptions Of The Adequacy And Value Of Their Undergraduate Preparation Program In Elementary Education At West Virginia University (1965-1975)., Pamela Mae Balch

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The overall purpose of this study was to ascertain the answer to the question "How do the graduates from the elementary education program at West Virginia University perceive the adequacy and effectiveness of the preparation they received?" A secondary purpose was to determine if the perceptions of the adequacy of the training were different if comparisons were made between the various graduating classes from 1965-1975. In addition, an attempt was made to determine strengths and weaknesses of the program.

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Unified Arts: An Integrative Approach To Curriculum Design For The Art, Home Economics, And Industrial Arts Subject Areas In The Middle Grades., John Michael Ritz Jan 1977

Unified Arts: An Integrative Approach To Curriculum Design For The Art, Home Economics, And Industrial Arts Subject Areas In The Middle Grades., John Michael Ritz

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The problem of this study is to develop a conceptual model of unified arts to serve as a base for interdisciplinary curriculum development by art, home economics,and industrial arts educators of the middle grades. A clear indication of the aims of the unified arts approach to curriculum design is a prerequisite to achieving significant improvements in mankind's aesthetic and technical qualities. This entails a description of what unified arts is and how it might be implemented in the middle grades setting.

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Mechanical Properties Of The Pittsburgh Coal At Elevated Temperatures., Harold Dee Shoemaker Jan 1976

Mechanical Properties Of The Pittsburgh Coal At Elevated Temperatures., Harold Dee Shoemaker

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While certain rheological-structural properties of some coals have been determined at elevated temperatures, Insufficient data exists to realistically characterize the structural behavior of coal under in situ gasification conditions. Much of the data available is for crushed, crushed and compressed, or otherwise modified conditions of coal from its natural state. The stresses and displacements due to the in situ gasification process and its gradients in the tectonic stress field vary over a wide range of values, thus necessitating the determination of the thermoviscoelastic properties of the Pittsburgh coal. The objectives of this research are: — Determine the mechanical properties (E, …

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The Occurrence Of Prototheca In Nature., Edward Allen Barnett Jan 1976

The Occurrence Of Prototheca In Nature., Edward Allen Barnett

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Prototheca Isolation Medium (PIM) was proven to be effective in selectively isolating Prototheca, even from heavily contaminated natural sources. Measurements of the autospores of 125 isolates of Prototheca indicated that there might exist two sub-genera, one with small autospores and one with large autospores. The addition of one percent sodium acetate to PIM resulted in a medium that inhibited the growth of isolates of the small spored sub-genus while allowing isolates of the large spored sub-genus to grow normally. A survey of various environmental habitats showed that Prototheca was common in aquatic habitats such as streams and sewage. The largest …

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The Matamoros Trade, 1861-1865., James William Daddysman Jan 1976

The Matamoros Trade, 1861-1865., James William Daddysman

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Because Confederate leaders were anxious to avoid the Union blockade and eager to establish desperately needed trade with Europe, Matamoros, Mexico, located about twentysix miles up the Rio Grande opposite Brownsville, Texas, became one of the greatest cotton markets in the world between 1861 and I8 6 5 . Through it the Confederate States, especially Texas, traded more than 320,000 bales of cotton for civilian goods and war supplies during the Civil War. Large, ocean-going vessels unloaded their cargoes and took on cotton in the neutral Mexican waters at the mouth of the river with the assistance of small, light-draft …

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The Hydrogeology Of The Central Monroe County Karst, West Virginia., Albert Edward Ogden Jan 1976

The Hydrogeology Of The Central Monroe County Karst, West Virginia., Albert Edward Ogden

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The purpose of this hydrogeologic study was to define the number and nature of major aquifers of the Greenbrier Group and to chemically characterize both well and spring waters in central Monroe County, West Virginia. This was accomplished in four parts: (1) detailed mapping of the structures and Greenbrier formations; (2) identification of the major aquifers by well inventorying; (3) investigation of the inorganic chemistry of aquifer waters; (4) study of the seasonal and storm trends in spring-water chemistry.

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The Recorder Idiom In The Instrumental Music Of Georg Philipp Telemann., Thomas Richard Mosser Jan 1975

The Recorder Idiom In The Instrumental Music Of Georg Philipp Telemann., Thomas Richard Mosser

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Although Georg Philipp Telemann has long been considered one of the most important writers for the recorder, research into this area of his creative output has not been extensive. Taking into account Telemann's own words that he learned to play the recorder in his youth and modern authors' statements that he writes particularly well for the instrument, this dissertation examines his instrumental works using the recorder in order to discover and isolate those features of the style which are especially well suited to the instrument. It became apparent during the course of the study that Telemann not only understood the …

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The Relative Effects Of Types Of Nonverbal Cues And Social Class On Effective Empathic Communication In Counseling., Preston Jones Jan 1975

The Relative Effects Of Types Of Nonverbal Cues And Social Class On Effective Empathic Communication In Counseling., Preston Jones

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This study examines the relative effect of non-verbal behaviors and the subjects social class on Judged levels of empathy communicated In role-played counseling interviews. Sixty-three randomly selected male subjects representing three social classes, uppermiddle, middle and lower, were used in a randomized block design and rated twelve counselor-client interactions Involving three types of non-verbal behaviors; affect display, regulators and indicators, on a modified Truax-Carkhuff Emapthy Scale. A two-way analysis of variance was used to analyze the data and test three hypotheses. Results of the data analysis did not permit rejection of the null hypothesis at the .05 level of significance. …

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Identification And Structural Analysis Of Instructional Programs For The Underground Coal Miner In West Virginia., Duane Allan Letcher Jan 1975

Identification And Structural Analysis Of Instructional Programs For The Underground Coal Miner In West Virginia., Duane Allan Letcher

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The purpose of the study was to identify, classify, and analyze the instructional system provided for underground coal miners in West Virginia. The research was concerned with the development of a knowledge base to provide "policy relevant" information on instructional programs which were directed toward the underground coal miner in West Virginia.

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Professional Values And Faculty Unionism., John Ralph Pisapia Jan 1974

Professional Values And Faculty Unionism., John Ralph Pisapia

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This study inquired into the value structure of educational institutions operating under a collective bargaining contract. Specifically, the purpose of this study was to analyze comparatively the relationship between professional values and the content of collective bargaining contracts. The research directed itself to the study of the degree to which contract content facilitated professional values and to the variation in this Degree of Facilitation due the factor's contract section, bargaining agent, and institutional level. This threefactor design contains five levels of contract section (contract management, general, governance, academic, and benefits), three levels of institutional level (public schools, junior or community …

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The Relative Contribution Of Selected Nonverbal Behaviors To The Communication Of Empathy In A Counseling Interview., George Ronald Mcmullan Jan 1974

The Relative Contribution Of Selected Nonverbal Behaviors To The Communication Of Empathy In A Counseling Interview., George Ronald Mcmullan

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This study investigated the relative contribution of nonverbal behavior to the judged level of empathy communicated in a role-played counseling interview. Thirty master's level counselor candidates rated thirty-two combinations of eye contact, body orientation, trunk lean, hand gesture, and positive head nod, with standardized interaction distance and medium level verbal empathy message on a modification of the Truax-Carkhuff Empathy Scale. The study employed a 2x2x2x2x2 repeated measures analysis of variance design. Results showed that two of the main effects and fifteen interactions significantly accounted for the variability of the subejcts' ratings. The results support the conclusion that empathy is communicated …

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The Effects Of Contingent--Noncontingent Structured Environments On Selected Behaviors Of Federal Youth Offenders., Paul Richard Thomas Jan 1974

The Effects Of Contingent--Noncontingent Structured Environments On Selected Behaviors Of Federal Youth Offenders., Paul Richard Thomas

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Correctional treatment programming for juvenile offenders has been characterized as being without focus and lacking any clear conception of treatment goal or program objectives (More, 1973). The basic lack of widespread agreement on such fundamental assumptions as program goals, objectives, methodology, and definitions is further confused by not having an objectively derived data base from which different correctional programs could be derived or to which programming effectiveness could be compared.

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A Simulator For The Ibm 3705 Communications Controller, J. William Strider Jan 1974

A Simulator For The Ibm 3705 Communications Controller, J. William Strider

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This paper describes a computer program which was developed to simulate the IBM 3705 Communications Controller, using the IBM System/360 and System/370 computers. The architecture of the 3705 is discussed in some detail, and the structure of the simulator is described. Future enhancements to the present program are suggested, along with possible applications.

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A Short-Term Experimental Manipulation Of Classroom Social Contingencies For Isolates In Kindergarten., Charles Robert Parker Jan 1974

A Short-Term Experimental Manipulation Of Classroom Social Contingencies For Isolates In Kindergarten., Charles Robert Parker

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The problem for this study can be stated in the following question: Is there a relationship between classroom environmental contingencies and low social status for children in kindergarten? This research will attempt not only to answer the above question but will seek to describe the nature of such interactions. VII. HYPOTHESES The objectives of the proposed research have been revealed in the above mentioned problem. The following hypotheses were developed and tested in accordance with the procedures to be discussed in this dissertation

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Catalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments., Andre Pierre Larson Jan 1974

Catalog Of The Nineteenth-Century British Brass Instruments In The Arne B. Larson Collection Of Musical Instruments., Andre Pierre Larson

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I t is the purpose o f th is d issertation to present the resu lts of a detailed examination made by th is author of fo rty -th re e nineteenthcentury B ritish brass instruments from the C ollection — s lid e trumpets, a hand horn, keyed bugles, an ophicleide, an a l t horn, cornopeans, cornets, a trumpet, a flugelhorn, a French horn, a lto horns, tenor horns, trombones, and tubas — made by the leading nineteenth-century B ritis h makers: Besson, B ilto n , Boosey, G a rre tt, Grayson, Higham, Kohler, M e tzle …

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An Evaluation Of The Self Directed Search And The Effect Of Group Or Independent Use In Facilitating Career Development Of Secondary School Students., Charles I. Rhodes Jan 1973

An Evaluation Of The Self Directed Search And The Effect Of Group Or Independent Use In Facilitating Career Development Of Secondary School Students., Charles I. Rhodes

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Primary purposes of this study were: (l) to investigate the construct validity of the Self Directed Search (SDS) based on Holland' theory of vocational choice; and (2) to investigate the effects of administrative mode (group or independent use of the SDS), sex, and grade level on maturity of vocational choice attitudes, interestingness of the SDS results, errors committed on the SDS, and exposure to new occupations hy the SDS.

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Injection Of A Solid-Gas Jet Into A Uniform Transverse Stream., Ronald Norman Salzman Jan 1973

Injection Of A Solid-Gas Jet Into A Uniform Transverse Stream., Ronald Norman Salzman

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The objective of this study was to experimentally determine the behavior of a solid-gas jet issuing into a transverse gas stream. The z’esults of this study should also pertain to other types of two phase jets injected into a cross flow; in particulars atomized liquidgas jets into a gas stream and solid-liquid jets into a liquid stream. Applications for such processes might include the dynamics of liquid fuels injected into turbine combustion chambers and effluents injected into rivers. The application which led to the choice of this dissertation topic was the study by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) involving the …

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Symmetry As A Determinant Of Musical Composition., Larry Joseph Solomon Jan 1973

Symmetry As A Determinant Of Musical Composition., Larry Joseph Solomon

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The purpose of this dissertation is to show how symmetry is a general determinant* of musical composition. Symmetry will be defined as a congruence which results from certain specific operations, namely those of reflection, rotation, or translation and will be applied to any aspect of musical composition. A composition is here to be the combination and arrangement of parts to form a whole. Stated in another v/ay, the purpose is to demonstrate how postoperative congruences define the arrangement and combination of the parts of musical works.

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Factors Related To Children's In-Tune Singing Abilities., Robert Stewart Smith Jan 1973

Factors Related To Children's In-Tune Singing Abilities., Robert Stewart Smith

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The growth of music education within the public schools of America and the philosophy which reflects its goals and objectives should serve as a measure of the desirability for correction of intonation within the elementary schools. If this is the philosophy of music education and elementary students are to develop an esthetic appreciation of music, a performance skill should be taught. This skill should aid in teaching a knowledge of literature and an understanding of the organization of music, which lead to the achievement of musicality.

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John W. Davis As Solicitor General Of The United States, 1913-1918, Troy M. Stewart Jan 1973

John W. Davis As Solicitor General Of The United States, 1913-1918, Troy M. Stewart

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This paper is an examination of the career of John W. Davis as Solicitor General of the United States. Davis was the fifteenth individual to hold this office"*" and is considered by most commentators to be one of the outstanding people to fill the position. One of the chief goals in writing this paper is to emphasize the legal abilities of John W. Davis and the manner in which he used them to fulfill the duties of his office. Hopefully, readers of this paper will no longer think of Davis, if they think of him at all, as "the darkhorse …

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Absorption Of Sulfur-Dioxide By Alkaline Solutions In Venturi Scrubber Systems., Shigeo Uchida Jan 1973

Absorption Of Sulfur-Dioxide By Alkaline Solutions In Venturi Scrubber Systems., Shigeo Uchida

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To successfully design processes for the removal of pollutants from flue gases requires the understanding of the physical and chemical phenomena taking place in the Reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. 5 scrubbing equipment. Although there are many types of scrubbers and process schemes, the present investigation is confined to a venturi-type scrubber combined with a holding tank for recycling the scrubber liquor. This combination is similar to Method (a) described above.

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Technology: A Process Approach., Harold Herman Halfin Jan 1973

Technology: A Process Approach., Harold Herman Halfin

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Processes are those functional skills--som e authors c a ll them in te lle c tu a l sk ills--w h ich are the random or ordered methods, s tra te g ie s , or operations used by a technologist to accumulate knowledge about an a r tif a c t or to solve a technological problem. I t has been proposed in in d u s tria l a rts education th a t i t is ju s t as important fo r the student to learn the processes of a technologist as i t is fo …

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A Study Of The Use Of Concrete And Abstract Stimuli In The Development Ofperceptual Abilities Of Disadvantaged Five Year Old Children., Delbert Allen Lawhon Jan 1972

A Study Of The Use Of Concrete And Abstract Stimuli In The Development Ofperceptual Abilities Of Disadvantaged Five Year Old Children., Delbert Allen Lawhon

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It was the purpose of this investigation to study the use of concrete and abstract stimuli in the development of perceptual abilities of disadvantaged five year old children. Hypotheses to be tested were (1) that subjects who were presented a curriculum of concrete stimuli initially and progressing to stimuli if abstraction would have greater perceptual development than those subjects who were presented a curriculum of abstract stimuli, and (2) that subjects receiving curricula of concrete and abstract stimuli would have greater perceptual development than subjects serving as the Control Group. Subjects (N=44) were enrolled in Head Start and received the …

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An Examination Of Nonverbal And Verbal Instructional Guidelines In Students Developing Abstract Understanding Of Technical Concepts., Everett Nelson Israel Jan 1972

An Examination Of Nonverbal And Verbal Instructional Guidelines In Students Developing Abstract Understanding Of Technical Concepts., Everett Nelson Israel

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At the present time, coherent optical sources exist as discrete components rather than as fully integratable systems. Thus the most pressing problem in the area of integrated optics is the coupling problem: How to excite and, subsequently, recover optical signals which are processed in an integrated circuit. This input and output coupling must be done efficiently.

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Some Applications Of Carbonyl-Bromide As A Reagent In Organic Chemistry., Barry Allen Phillips Jan 1972

Some Applications Of Carbonyl-Bromide As A Reagent In Organic Chemistry., Barry Allen Phillips

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It was the object of this research to investigate the von Braum type degradation of benzamides using carbonyl bromide. It was also our intention, through a better understanding of the mechanism, to improve the yields of this reaction in order to make the procedure synthetically practical.

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Optimization Of An Electromagnetic 'Through-The-Earth' Communication System., Gene Edward Layman Jan 1972

Optimization Of An Electromagnetic 'Through-The-Earth' Communication System., Gene Edward Layman

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This document reports a research effort directed at compiling the field theory, noise theory, and communication theory necessary to perform systems analysis and optimization of an electromagnetic communication system for use within a mine. The field equations and power transfer between loops placed in an infinite, homogeneous, lossy medium is examined and relationships between parameters are determined that provide optimum transfer of signal power. This analysis is extended to cover the case of an infinite, homogeneous, lossy half-space used to model the actual mining situation. Approximate solutions are found to greatly simplify systems analysis. Noise, bandwidth, false alarm rate, missed …

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Analysis Of Benzene And Chloroform Soluble Organic Compounds Of Coal And Their Relationships To Stratigraphy And Paleoenvironments, Donald Lamar Streib Jan 1972

Analysis Of Benzene And Chloroform Soluble Organic Compounds Of Coal And Their Relationships To Stratigraphy And Paleoenvironments, Donald Lamar Streib

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The seven objectives of this study are as follows. 1. To develop an analytical technique for the quantitative separation of the low-boiling constituents of coal. 2. To determine if correlation exists at a significant level between the low-boiling organic constituents and the petrology of the coal. 3. To determine if correlation exists at a significant level between the low-boiling organic constituents and the elemental composition of the coal ash. 4. To determine if a significant difference in the lowboiling constituents exists between different coal seams. 5. To determine if a significant difference exists in the low-boiling organic constituents of a …

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