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An Interpretation Of Ecstasy As Found In The Poetry Of Emily Dickinson, Thomas B. Mccary

Master's Theses

Emily Dickinson was indeed used to grief, as the record of her life clearly indicates. She was disappointed in love and and disappointed in her efforts to achieve literary fame. Yet there was moments of happiness and even ecstasy in Emily Dickinson's life. The purpose of this thesis is to examine those moments of ecstatic elevation--the "Soul's Superior instants" as Emily called them--in order to achieve a better insight into the mind of the poet and the nature of often curious verse.

An examination of ecstasy requires a study of Emily's religious background her psychological make-up. It also behooves the …

An Orientation Of The Theoretical Aspects Of Verbs In English, Mostafa Hedayatnia

Master's Theses

Traditional grammar originated in Greece in the fifth century B.C. and has been closely connected with philosophy and literary criticism ever since. Through the course of centuries, numerous grammars have been presented, with new ideas and definitions each "varying greatly in purpose, quality, basic assumption, and method of analysis." Each system of grammar has been productive in its own way as well as erroneous and has been succeeded by other systems still faulty. Consequently, in spite of the tremendous amount of theoretical data processed by investigators and experts, neither an explicit nor a complete grammar of a language has ever …

Industrialization And Image Of The Sciences: The Interaction Of Economic And Pure Theory, A. Thomas Ferguson

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Ferroxidase-Ii: A Blood Serum Lipo-Protein, Christine Shih Ming Sung

Master's Theses

Ferroxidase-II was definitely identified as a lipoprotein. Cholesterol and phospholipids remained tightly associated with the ferroxidase-II protein following extensive purification. Quantitative analysis showed that it is a high-density lipoprotein. Thin-layer chromatographic analyses indicated that phosphatidylcholine accounts for the majority of the bound phospholipid with lysophosphatidyl choline and sphingomyel in accounting for the remaining phospholipid.

Treatment of purified ferroxidase-II with phospholipase C or A resulted in a loss of ferroxidase activity which paralleled the hydrolysis of phospholipid. Phospholipid D treatment also resulted in the loss of ferroxidase activity, yet the loss was not as great as with other phospholipases. A lipid-depleted …

On The Success And Limitations Of Science, William S. Hill

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Nonverbal Play And Intelligence In Normal Children, Michael J. Downs

Master's Theses

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A Three-Dimensional Cinefluorographic Analysis Of Bolus Placement During Mastication, Joseph A. Ruscheinski

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Fixation And Stimulus Control Of Behavior, David S. Stark

Master's Theses

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Ldh Localization In The Fallopian Tube Of The Albino Rat (Rattus Norvegicus) During The Estrous Cycle, Bernard H. Haberman

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Temporal Separation In Reversal And Reversal-Mixed List Verbal Discrimination Learning, Stanley J. Pasko

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

William James And Phenomenology, James Mullane

Master's Theses

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Vilfredo Pareto: The Sociologist And The Man, Gastone Pozzobon

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Philosophy Of Science In Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations, Michael. Budarz

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Ddt Inhibition Of (Na+, K+)-Activated Atpase In Gill Tissue Of Fundulus Heteroclitus, Nancy Mccutcheon Slate

Master's Theses

The DDT inhibition of (Na+, K+) - activated ATPase in gill preparations of the euryhaline teleost, Fundulus heteroclitus, was measured. The (Na+, K+) -activated ATPase was found to be sensitive to DDT, with 74.6% of the enzyme's specific activity inhibited by 20 ppm DDT. The (Mg++)-activated ATPase was also sensitive to inhibition bv DDT but not to the extent of the (Na+, K+) - activat ed ATPase . Due to previous work which showed that DDT antagonized valinomycin-induced K+ conductance in a synthetic membrane, the effect of K+ on DDT inhibition was examined kinetically. The Km for K+ in gill …

Principles Of Control Theory As Applied To A Thermostat, Joseph Peter Stidham

Master's Theses

The recent development of solid state electronics has opened new possibilities in instrumentation design. One development has been the availability of compact, low cost, high gain, D. C. amplifiers which can be used in the design and construction of sensitive laboratory instruments (11). Using these amplifiers a thermostat capable of precise control can be constructed and its performance compared with the performance expected by an analysis of the closed loop control equations.

The Orderly Chaos Of Camilo José́ Cela, Christian William Hearon

Master's Theses

Camilo José Cela, a philosopher and a consummate artist, has produced a series of works which individually and as a group, are a careful combination of idea and form. One work cannot adequately be understood unless it is also seen in context with Cela's other works. Each of the novels, short stories, essays and travel books, is united to the others by Cela' s overall existential philosophical outlook, and each rests on and at the same time illuminates the others.

A Correlation Of The Idealized Heat Of Vaporization To Molecular Weight, Harold Earl Bennett

Master's Theses

Using the Clausius-Clapeyron equation as a base, many investigators have tried to develop variations to better describe both ideal and non-ideal systems. The literature is abundant with correlations of vapor pressure to temperature and associated correlations of latent heats of vaporization to molecular characteristics; often molecular weight or carbon number.

Chelation Of Two Polyhydroxyamines With Copper (Ii) Ion, David H. Powell

Master's Theses

Two polyamines, 2,8-bishydroxymethyl-2,8-dimethyl- 3, 7-diaza-1,5,9-nonanetriol and 2,8-bishydroxymethyl-2,8- dimethyl-3,7-diaza-l,9-nonanediol, were prepared and the coordination of these compounds with Cu (II) ions in solution was investigated. Spectrophotometric study of the solutions of these compounds gives evidence of the formation of two complexes, containing one mole of ligand per metal ion and two moles of ligand per metal ion, respectively. The two stability constants for these complexes and the basicity constants for these ligands were calculated from potentiometric titrations at 30°C. A compadson of the stabj lity constants and basici ty cons tan ts for the two compounds was made to determine the …

A Study Of The Kinetics Of Light Induced Modulation Of Absorption In Zinc Selenide, Herbert Seth Berman

Master's Theses

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A Spectrophotometric Study Of The Reaction Between Benzoyl Peroxide And N, N-Dimethyl-P-Phenylenediamine, Bertha Cosby King

Master's Theses

A special need for methods to determine low concentrations of organic peroxides originated because of their hazardous and harmful effects, Even the small amounts of organic peroxide formed by autoxidation in ethers exposed to air make the ethers highly explosive and unsuitable for use as anesthesia or laboratory solvents. The formation of organic peroxides in fats and oils causes rancidity. They have been named as pollutants, and some of them are known to have detrimental physiological effects.

The purpose of this research was to improve this method of analysis and to determine better conditions for the measurement of color by …

Development Of An Instrument To Measure Student Attitudes Toward God Using Semantic Differential, Joyce A. Morse

Master's Theses

The study had two objectives

(1) to construct an instrument, which would, measure students' attitudes toward God, and

(2) to use the instrument in a small pilot study to test its usefulness.

The instrument was patterned after the format of Osgood's Semantic Differential and each subject was asked to make judgments on five different concepts about God. Each concept was judged by pairs of bipolar adjectives on a rating scale of one to five, with five, being the most-positive.. The thirteen bipolar adjective pairs used in the. final .instrument were used only after two item analyses proved them to be …

The Effect Of Kindergarten Attendance On Later School Experiences, Janice Louise Trevan

Master's Theses

Problem

It is estimated that about one-half of our nation's six-year-olds receive their initial formal education when entering first grade. Many authorities in the field of education feel that an early childhood educational experience may be a causative factor in a child's later academic and social adjustment in school.

The purpose of this study was to: (1) compare the academic achievement and social adjustment of first-grade children who have had kindergarten experience and first grade children who have not had kindergarten experience; and (2) compare the academic achievement and social adjustment of fourth grade children who have had kindergarten experience …

The Relationship Between Athletic Success And Scholastic Achievement, Norman Bruce Province

Master's Theses

Recently the Berrien Springs Senior High School Board members voted to transfer from one interscholastic athletic league to another, since the high school's football and basketball teams had been having very poor athletic success. The faculty and administration felt that always losing was having a demoralizing effect on the entire school body, which was carrying over into their academic success.

This study covered a twenty year period running from 1953 to 1972 at the Berrien Springs Senior High School. The purpose was to see if the interscholastic athletic success in varsity and junior varsity football and basketball during this period …

The Relationship Between The Self-Concept And School Achievement In The Disadvantaged Child, Aneesi B. Nakhle

Master's Theses

PURPOSE

The purpose of the study was to determine the extent of the relationship between the self-concept and the academic achievement of the disadvantaged child.

METHOD AND PROCEDURES

The subjects studied were randomly selected from an inner city elementary school. The sample consisted of 97 black and 8 white children of ages 9 to 13, in a nongraded school. The pupils were administered the California Achievement Test Level 3 Form B, and the California Test of Personality, Level 2, Form AA. Both tests were administered during the month of April 1972. The statistical treatment of the data consisted of obtaining …

The Ecology Of Insanity, Dominic F. Burke

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

The Development Of A Test For The Measurement Of Drug Information Gained From Practical Experience By Undergraduate Students In Pharmacy, Henri R. Manasse

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Certainty As Regards The Existence Of Physical Objects In The Later Philosophy Of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Robert Mishlove

Master's Theses

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A Mensural Assessment Of The Interrelation Of The Glenoid Fossa, The Curve Of Spee, The Gonial Angle, Posterior Cusp Angulation, Overbite, And Overjet As Factors Of Occlusion, Edwin C. Liedtke

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

An Historical Analysis Of The Language Controversy In Indian Education - 1614 To 1970, Peter Sinnappan

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.

Idea And Absolute In The Philosophy Of Josiah Royce, William Joseph Zanardi

Master's Theses

No abstract provided.