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An Assessment Of The Problems Of Recruiting And Retaining Substitute Teachers For The Elementary Schools Of The Jackson Public Schools, Jackson, Michigan, William Henry Sumner

Masters Theses

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Foliage Production And Consumption In An Oak Forest, David A. Boyce

Masters Theses

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The Availability And Adequacy Of Some Spanish Translated Tests, Nelson Diaz-Mora

Masters Theses

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An Evaluation Of The Community School Program Springfield Public Schools Battle Creek, Michigan, Robert Bruce Sellers

Masters Theses

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School Library Supervision In Michigan, Mary Ann Hanna

Masters Theses

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Effects Of Disrupted Taction On Certain Dimensions Of Speech In An Adventitiously Deafened Individual, George Graham Helliesen

Masters Theses

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A Program For Teaching Beginning Language Skills To Mentally Retarded Children, Thomas James Elzinga

Masters Theses

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Skin Color, Race, And Self Image: An Exploratory Study Of A Group Of High School Youths, Zelte Crawford

Masters Theses

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Illinois Agrarianism And Shelby Moore Cullom, Richard F. Wells

Masters Theses

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Comparison Of Articulation Severity Ratings By Mothers, Teachers, And Speech Pathologists, Blaise Demuth

Masters Theses

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John Steinbeck's Method Of Characterization, Claudette Oliver

Masters Theses

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A Five Year Study Of The Macon School District For Directions And Dimensions Based Upon Growth Patterns, Billie G. Mcclard

Masters Theses

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An Indeterministic Approach To The Investigation Of Cbd Commuter Flows In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Bruce Richard Bullis

Masters Theses

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Investigation Of Target Detection In Noncoherent Systems With Colored Noise, Edward Windsor Bailey

Masters Theses

"Design efforts concerning the problem of detecting moving ground targets from an airborne platform with a noncoherent radar have been concentrated in the area of video filter design. The filter formulation generally follows an empirical path with no generally acceptable criterion for an optimum processor. This Thesis considers several problem formulations which are based on a Neyman-Pearson detection criteria. A square-law second detector is assumed and the resulting likelihood ratio shown to be too complex for closed form solution. The problem is reformulated in terms of sequences using complex random variable representations and the likelihood ratio is investigated. A test …

A Geochemical Study Of The Maquoketa Formation In Pike County, Missouri, John Siegfried Trapp

Masters Theses

"Statistical interpretation of geochemical data was used to determine the environment of deposition of the Maquoketa Formation in Pike County, Missouri. A cyclic sequence was noted which can be best explained by cyclic climatic changes. During the study it was found that elemental relationships which would be expected in a freshly deposited sediment can be found in core samples. In samples from outcrops and quarry faces these relationships have been destroyed. As these elemental relationships reflect mineralogical relationships, serious doubts have arisen as to the validity of petrographic studies of samples taken from outcrops. This study indicates weathering may be …

An Investigation Of The Application Of Photoelastic Coatings To Soil Studies, James Kenneth Meisenheimer

Masters Theses

"The purpose of this investigation was to determine if photoelastic coatings could be adapted to soil systems and used as a workable tool for analyzing deformation and stress distribution. The required physical properties of a photoelastic coating on soil is discussed and a number of photoelastic materials are investigated as possible soil coatings. Mixing procedures, coating application techniques, curing methods, testing procedures, and results are discussed for gelatin and several plastics. Compacted soil samples and extruded soil samples from a Vac-Aire extrusion device were coated with reflective and photoelastic coatings and then loaded in an unconfined compression machine. The stress …

Reporting Standardized Test Results To Children And Parents, Sharon R. Jennings

Masters Theses

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An Evaluation Of Three Stimulus Media For Evoking Verbalizations From Preschool Children, Twila Estelle Yuncker Strandberg

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

The Effects Of Interest And Scholastic Ability Upon Listening Retention, David Emil Mrizek

Masters Theses

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The Effects Of Ego-Involvement And Fear Appeals Upon Task Performance, Stephen Steinmetz

Masters Theses

Researchers and scholars in the fear appeal area have been unable to determine what factor or factors make fear appeals effective. Two studies, Hewgill and Miller (1965) and Powell (1965), suggest that the personal involvement of the audience with who or what is threatened is the factor which causes fear appeals to be effective. If ego-involvement is the personal involvement factor indicated by these studies, then it would appear to be the key to fear appeal effectiveness. Therefore, the present investigation was designed to experimentally compare the effects of ego-involvement and fear appeals upon task performance.

Sixty nine undergraduates enrolled …

A General Semantics Model For Speech Evaluation, Harold Lee Drake

Masters Theses

No abstract provided by author.

A Rhetorical Analysis Of Robert F. Kennedy's Speaking On The Issue Of Peace In Vietnam, As Revealed In His Kansas Address, "Conflict In Vietnam", Jeanine I. Rishel

Masters Theses

Many Americans have marshaled their rhetoric to support or to denounce the Vietnam war. One of the most insistent voices heard was that of Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

Hypothesis. It was the hypothesis of this study that Robert Francis Kennedy’s speaking on the issue of peace in Vietnam was intelligent and responsible.

Statement of Purpose. The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis by analyzing and evaluating “Conflict in Vietnam,” a speech delivered by Robert Kennedy in Manhattan, Kansas on March 18, 1968. This particular speech was selected for the following reasons: (1) The speech stated …

The Field Experience In Administration, Ralph E. Manuel

Masters Theses

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The Background Concentrations Of Copper, Lead, And Zinc In Streams Of The "New Lead Belt", Missouri, Nicholas Howard Tibbs

Masters Theses

"This study was initiated to determine the background concentrations of copper, lead, and zinc in the streams of the Viburnum Trend or New Lead Belt of southeast Missouri. Analytical methods were developed for atomic adsorption spectroscopy. These methods initially consisted of coextraction of cooper, lead, and zinc using the APDC/MIBK system, and finally of extraction of copper by APDC/MIBK and direct analysis of lead and zinc using the newly developed "Sampling Boat" technique. The data obtained from these analyses were arranged in histograms and critically analyzed. The background concentrations were established to be 4-6 ppb for all three elements. Methods …

Internal Friction Of Phase Separated Glasses, Scot Walter Taylor

Masters Theses

"The large internal friction peak observed in a 10Li₂O·10Na₂O·80SiO₂ glass was studied as a function of the degree of phase separation. Transmission electron microscopy was used to evaluate the type and degree of phase separation. No observable changes in the temperature position or height of the internal friction peak were observed at successive stages of phase separation. Phase separation of a mixed alkali borosilicate glass also produced no changes in the internal friction peaks. Phase separation is not considered responsible for the large internal friction peak observed in mixed alkali glasses"--Abstract, page ii.

The Influence Of Several Factors On The Rate Of Secondary Compression Of Soil, William Joel Green

Masters Theses

"This research program has been undertaken to study the influence of load increment ratio, temperature, and sample thickness on Cα (rate of secondary consolidation) for a high organic content and low organic content soil. Consolidation equipment was designed to produce constant temperatures both above and below ambient, and to accommodate both 3/4 and 1 1/2 inch thick samples. Samples were molded into oedometer rings at the liquid limit. It was found that Cα was independent of the sample thickness and load increment ratio for both the high organic and low organic soils. The influence of temperature on Cα was found …

Telecommunications System Design Considerations For Advanced Logistic Spacecraft, James Myron Romberg

Masters Theses

"The telecommunications system design goals and functional requirements for an advanced logistic spacecraft are presented qualitatively. Advanced equipment and techniques that meet these system requirements and goals, that are within the state-of-the-art and that are believed to be economically feasible, are enumerated and described. System emphasis is on unification to minimize RF links and antenna subsystems, and on use of functional redundancy to assure satisfactory performance of critical telecommunication functions. The interaction of the telecommunications system design and the spacecraft mechanical, environmental, electrical, and operational interfaces are described in qualitative and quantitative terms. A practical spectrum of system interface characteristics …

Numerical Simulation Of One-Dimensional Three-Phase Fluid Flow In A Stratified Petroleum Reservoir With No Cross-Flow, Ali Mohammed Akbar

Masters Theses

"A numerical model for linear, three-phase fluid flow in a stratified petroleum reservoir has been developed for the purpose of studying water-flooding performance characteristics. Gravity forces, capillary pressure and cross-flow were neglected, but the fluids were considered compressible and evaluations of dissolved gas concentrations have been accounted for. The model was used in evaluating the performance of a water flood project for a hypothetical reservoir which contained the three phases of oil, gas, and water. The results were then compared with those obtained using the Dykstra-Parsons technique. The model produces results which were found to be similar to those obtained …

A Continuous Method For Determination Of The Evaporation Rate Of Zinc, Paul Alan O'Neill

Masters Theses

"A method for determination of the evaporation rate of zinc using a continuous recording balance has been devised. Tests were carried out under an inert gas over the range 600°C to 750°C with a total pressure of 1 atmosphere. It was found that the rate of evaporation doubled with an increase of 50°C in this range. Scanning electron microscope photographs show the crystalline nature of the condensate and the presence of a thin oxide layer on some solidified test samples. This oxide layer reduced the rate of evaporation by retarding the zinc vapor escape from the evaporating surface"--Abstract, Page iii.

An Investigation Of Transient Negative Resistance In A Cadmium Sulfide Device, John Irvin Giem

Masters Theses

"An analysis has been made of a CdS device which exhibits a transient negative resistance at room temperature and low field strengths whereas previously reported cases of negative resistance in CdS were observed at low temperatures and moderate to high electric fields. The CdS bar was illuminated on one end in the vicinity of an ohmic In contact. Contact was made to the other end of the device with a rectifying Ag contact and the device was reverse biased. Experimental evidence and the analytical results both indicated that it is necessary that the material used to make the negative resistance …