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Predestination As A Motif In Faulkner's Light In August, Virginia A. Riegel

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The Internship: A Practical Experience, Guy D. Parr Jr.

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The Effectiveness Of An Audio-Tutorial Program In High School Biology, John W. Goudie

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An Interpretation Of The Determinants And Development Of The Cheyenne Council Of Forty-Four, David J. Pfundt

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A Central Administration Internship In The Grand Rapids Public School System, Ronald F. Fite

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An Evaluation Of A Weight-Loss Contract Within A Weight Control Program, Brandon L. Hall

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A Follow-Up Study Of The Kalamazoo Learning Village, Margarita Camacho

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The Bomber Menace, 1917-1933: The Evolution Of The First Ultimate Weapon And The Inability To Cope With It, Ingo E. Banse

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The United States' "Guest Workers": A Case Study Of Korean Temporary Workers On Guam, Rose Marie T. Franklin

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William Turner: Weltanschauung Of An Elizabethan, Dennis J. Clarke

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Generalized Imitation: Review And New Perspectives, Lilia Irene Duran Gonzalez

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A Low-Cost Parent Training Program For Single Parent Families, Joanne Benjamin Bauman

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Preparing Christian Missionaries To Work In Shame Oriented Cultures, Lowell L. Noble

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Dr. Francis W. Schofield And Korea, Doretha E. Mortimore

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Obesity: Etiological And Therapeutic Perspectives, Lois B. Kuipers

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The Administrative Curricular Responsibilities Within A University Regional Center-Specialist Project, Larry James Fairbanks

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Using Ibm's Information Management System To Implement A Relational Data Base, Melvin Arthur Rushton

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"A relational model of data has been the topic of several papers which deal with the question of the underlying design philosophy of data base systems. E. F. Codd, C. J. Date, and others have discussed the application of relation theory to formatted data, the objectives of such an approach, normalization of relations, and languages for manipulating the model (data sublanguages). Few papers have delt with storage constructs or access techniques for a relational data base. Indeed, it was not necessary that they do so, for the user of such a system is only concerned with the information available in …

Toacs : An Interactive Computer Graphic Display Model Of A Theaterwide On-Line Air Combat Simulation, Herman William Blick

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"On-line interactive graphics is a very effective research tool for examining the concepts, components and design parameters of theater warfare involving multiple aircraft. The aim of the present research is to design an on-line computer system which utilizes interactive graphic displays to develop a dynamic, two-sided mathematical model of theaterwide tactical fighter combat operations. The model, called TOACS, is very useful in simulating and evaluating airborne defense systems and the problems common to this type of simulation — such as the formulation of battle strategy for the commitment and guidance of interceptors against threat aircraft -- as well as those …

Tertiary Welded Tuffs Of The Ryan Spring Area, Needle Range, Beaver County, Utah, Peter Carlyle Rauch

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"The Needle Range of southwestern Utah is composed of Paleozoic sediments overlain by a thick sequence of Tertiary volcanic rocks primarily of the welded tuff class. The area has undergone at least four stages of post-eruptive structural deformation. The most significant stage is that which formed the range by normal Basin and Range type faulting. The faults strike northwest and tilt the volcanic layers northeast.

The volcanic section is composed primarily of the Needles Range Formation (Oligocene) overlain by the Isom Formation and underlain by several flows and ash flows, one of which has been tentatively correlated to the Escalante …

Theoretical And Experimental Investigation Of A Viscous Ring Nutation Damper., Roy Alexander Campbell Iii

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"The dynamics of passive dampers applied to high s peed gyro systems is reviewed briefly and the partially filled viscous ring nutation damper is investigated. Particular attention is given to 1 the broken ring or nutation synchronous configuration where the fluid moves as a rigid slug and the damping is greatest. In this mode the damping is assumed to be viscous and expressions for a linear damping constant are presented. Data from an experimental, high-speed gyro is used to verify the theoretical analysis"-- Abstract, p. 1

A Strategic Planning Model For Implementing Community Development Block Grant Programs., John M. Lang

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"As problems of metropolitan areas have multiplied, the federal government has been drawn into an ever-increasing intimate funding association with city governments. Although federal funding for ii urban problems may have been considered a panacea by some, most local government agencies have now discovered that their problem has shifted in emphasis from where to find funds to that of meeting federal standards and requirements of application in order to get the funds.

The impact of federal programs on local government management is evident in the recently enacted federal Housing and Community Development Act of 1974. Title I of the act …

A Study Of Middle To Late Quaternary Sediments In The Karst Trap., David Lewis Rath

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"Quaternary deposits preserved in a karst trap on the Lebanon uplands a e described. The sediments represent the Yarmouthian, Illinoian, Sangamonian, and Wisconsinan Stages. The karst trap is pre-Yarmouthian in age. The lowermost deposit consists of residual fill material on which lies a well-developed Yarmouth paleosol. During the Illinoian Stage about 61 cm (2 feet) of Loveland loess was deposited over the area. Toward late Illinoian conditions favoring erosion rapidly filled the closed system, stripping the loess and reducing the residual slopes. The system stabilized during the Sangamonian Stage allowing for a thick, strong Sangamon paleosol to deve lop on …

Dynamic Testing Of Anchors Buried In Dry Sand., Jim Lee Hillhouse

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"The dynamic pullout resistance of anchors was investigated through the use of model testing under controlled conditions. The soil used for the model tests was a dry sand compacted to a uniform relative density of approximately 92 percent. The dynamic loading of the anchor-soil system was applied by a mechanical device, which applied a specific amplitude and frequency of dynamic load to the anchor-soil system.

The dynamic testing of the anchors consisted of two phases. First, an initial static load was applied to the anchor. Second, a dynamic load was superimposed over the initial static load. The load applied to …

Universality Of Management Principles And Applicability Of American Management Know-How In Less Developed Countries., Minas Lessanu

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"The title is the Universality of management principle through the history and development of management thoughts. It illustrates the gradual education of management principles. Then it goes on to discuss certain problems of the field of management, in particular the problems associated with semetics.

The thesis then discloses the different management principles in the different managerial functions of planning, organizing staffing and controlling. It then shows these principles to be universal and finally discloses the different environmental constraints that evolved and concludes that they are universal, but their applicability is to a certain extent possible and highly dependent on the …

A Study Of The Potential Performance Improvements Available From The Ga(W)-1 Airfoil As Compared To The Naca 2412 Airfoil., Robert Keith Rice

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"A direct comparison of the current NACA 2412 section general aviation airfoil and the recently developed GA(W)-1 airfoil was conducted in the University of Missouri - Rolla's subsonic wind tunnel. Finite aspect ratio performance of both airfoils equipped with 30 percent chord flaps was studied to predict possible performance gains for general aviation aircraft available from the GA(W)-1 section.

Results show that the NACA 2412 airfoil with a standard slotted type flap gives a maximum lift coefficient of 1.88 with the flap deflected 30 degrees and a test Reynolds number of 4.Sxl0 5 based on wing chord. The GA(W)-1 section …

The Influence Of Oxygen Activity On Sintering Of Strontium Doped Lanthanum Chromite., Leslie Groupp

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"The influence of oxygen activity upon the sintering of lanthanum chromite (La_1-xSr_x CrO₃) with x ranging from Oto 0.2 was investigated using chemically prepared powders of <0.1 microns particle size. The results show that at a temperature of 1740 ° C densities of >92% of theoretical could be achieved if the oxygen activities were maintained in the 10^-11 to 10^-12 atm. range. If oxygen activity exceeds 10^-10 atm., densities of not >80% theoretical could be obtained. For the compositions studied, room temperature X-ray analysis of both the starting powders and sintered compacts show the compositions to be orthorhombic and single phase. The ambient lattice parameters and resistivity measurements decreased …

Ground Control Evaluation Of The Sahara No. 20 Mine Marion, Illinois., Marvin E. Adam

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"Roof falls in coal mines are the single greatest cause of mining accidents in the U.S. today. For this reason it is imperative that the mechanism of roof failures be identified. An investigation funded by the U.S. Bureau of Mines was initiated in 1970 to determine the factors influencing the deterioration of coal mine roof shale. This thesis was a portion of the investigation that concentrated on the Sahara Coal Company underground mine No. 20 near Marion, Illinois.

The regional geology was studied to determine if geological discontinuities might be an influencing factor on roof falls at the Sahara 20 …

An Experimental Study Of Mass Transfer To Droplets In Aqueous Polymer Solutions., Richard Gerard Schafermeyer

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"Instantaneous and time-average mass transfer coefficients for 1 the free-fall period was obtained for transfer of iodine from nonNewtonian continuous phases to carbon tetrachloride drops. The nonNewtonian continuous phases were aqueous solutions of carboxymethyl cellulose and carboxy polymethylene. Although a few exceptions were found, the continuous phase mass transfer coefficients were, in general, found to decrease with increasing time of drop contact. Comparisons of the experimental data to theoretical relations showed that changes in drop internal circulation probably occurred for that data which showed a time effect for the mass transfer coefficient. Several explanations for the time effect were offered, …

Decoupled Explosive Charge Effects On Blasting Performance, Roberto Ucar

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"This investigation was performed to determine the burden at which hard rock would break utilizing decoupled and unstemmed charges when the free surface parallel to the borehole was the wall of an open hole. This open hole was created by burn cuts and by drilling holes of 7-7/8 in. and 12 in. diameter. Additional tests were performed using partially stemmed charges where the stemming was the same size as the explosive charge.

The explosive used was a 0.75 lb. slurry charge, 1.5 in. diameter and 10 in. long. The diameter and depth of the borehole were 2 in. and …

Computer Simulation Of Radiation Effects In Fe₃Al By Using Alternating Direction Implicit Numerical Techniques., Dean Lewis Tibbitts

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"An analysis was conducted to see if the alternating direction implicit (a.d.i.) numerical technique could be applied to a many-body dynamical radiation damage model.

The computer program which resulted was named ADI. It was numerically stable for small time steps used in conjunction with low ev knock-ens. It was also able to relax the a toms in the system simultaneously in the implicit direction. However, an existing explicit computer code, which was to be replaced by ADI, proved to be more numerically stable and about 40% faster"-- Abstract, p. ii