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Population Education Through The Curriculum, Pat U. Boquiren

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An Evaluation Of Tin Can Recycling In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Rose Ann Husted

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An Overview of Tin Can Recycling

Recycling Rationale

The economic system of the United States is based on taking natural resources, converting them into consumer products by industrial processes, and selling these products to consumers. It is assumed that consumers will use up all of these products. But this is not the case. The consumer uses only parts of these goods and discards the unwanted remains.

Latent Conflict In The Classroom, Joel H. Henderson

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The Problem

The Study of Conflict

The purpose of this study is to examine social conflict. More specifically, latent conflict in the classroom will be the focus of this study. Three classes of variables will be discussed: 1. teacher characteristics, 2. student characteristics, and 3. contextual variables. These variables will be examined as to their ability to explain variation in latent conflict in the classroom.

The following discussion will focus on conflict in education as a "social problem." Previous literature will be examined as to the theoretical and empirical importance of the concept of conflict in social research and a …

Some Implications Of Occupational Socialization: The Case Of The State Police, Paul G. Aldo

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Assimilation Of Chinese Families In Kalamazoo, Michigan, Lily Shu-Hong Sun

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The Effects Of Instructions With And Without Contingencies On Parent’S Attending Behavior, Betty Lou Fry

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Mother attending to appropriate child behavior and accompaning changes in appropriate child behavior were measured to assess the effects of various instructional conditions. Several appropriate behaviors for a group of child subjects were measured con currently under various stimulus conditions using interval recording procedures. A multiple baseline design was used with instructional conditions of (a) no instructions to mother, (b) instructions to mother to attend to all appropriate behaviors and only to appropriate behaviors, (c) instructions to mother to attend to specific behaviors as defined by one-word definitions, (d) instructions to mother to attend to the same specific behaviors as …

Contrast Modulated Schedule-Induced Polydipsia, Thomas L. Fisher

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The Administration Of The North Central Association Study And Visitation In The Parchment Public Schools, Richard D. Buehler

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A Study Of Visual Pollution From Overhead Wires And Associated Structures, Robert J. Schodorf

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An Examination Of Countervailing Forces In Canadian Foreign Policy, James F. Hettinger

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Preface

Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau pointed out in 1968 that some seventy percent of Canadian foreign policy is directly affected by the relationship of Canada and the United States. Trudeau expressed hope that ways could be found to derive maximum independence from the remaining thirty percent. At the same time, Trudeau pointed out the need to decrease the presence of the United States in Canada's foreign policy. One of the ways Trudeau proposed to meet these objectives was the expanded use of countervailing forces. Since the time of this statement, Trudeau has turned words to actions, seeking a wider diversification …

Conflicting Perspectives And Policies: An Analysis Of The Failure Of The United Nations Capital Development Fund, Marjon Vashti Kamara

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The United Nations Capital Development Fund was established by the U. N. General Assembly under Resolution 2168 (XXI) of 13 December 1966. Its expressed purpose was to assist developing countries in the development of their economies by supplementing existing sources of capital assistance by means of grants and loans, particularly long-term loans made free of interest or at low interest rates.

More than its actual or potential role, the Fund has a symbolic meaning for the developing nations. To them, it represents the best hope of overcoming their problem of capital shortage. It symbolizes also the expected role of the …

A Measure Of The Differential Effects Of Two Language Training Sequences: Expressive-Receptive And Receptive-Expressive, Melbourne Frank Hovell

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Dimensionality And Internal Composition Of The Twenty-Two Item Mental Health Inventory, John William Fox

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Chapter I

Introduction

Social scientists have long been concerned with the relationships between mental disorder and various sociocultural factors, such as, social economic status, ethnic background, sex, age, and marital status. Until quite recently, the majority of studies that have investigated these relationships have defined cases of mental disorder solely in terms of whether or not an individual was in psychiatric treatment (see Faris and Dunham, 1939; Rose and Stub, 1955; Hollingshead and Redlich, 1958).

The utilization of psychiatric treatment as the only criterion of mental disorder, however, has been criticized by a number of researchers. Felix and Bowers (1948), …

The Replicability Of Behavioral Definitions: Implicit Vs Explicit Definitions, Robert W. Dobes

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Racial Integration And Educational Policy In Kenya, Suhashni Datta

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Concept Acquisition As A Function Of Two Verbal Training Sequences: Nonvocal-Vocal And Vocal-Nonvocal, Kim Thomas Pisor

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Introduction To Behavior Therapy Terminology, Alexandre Pacheo E Silva Nucci

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No abstract provided.

Fried's Theory Of Political Evolution: An Empirical Test, Diana Battjes Mckenna

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Pyramidal Instruction: The Use Of Elementary Students As Instructors Of Infants, Walter C. Williams

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No abstract provided.

My Internship Experience At The Western Michigan University Counseling Center, Bruce Vern Weller

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No abstract provided.

The Christian Commonwealth Of Otto Iii, James E. Walker

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No abstract provided.

Political Verbal Behavior, Paul Richard Shukovsky

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No abstract provided.

Organizational Traits Affecting Change In The Michigan Division Of Vocational Rehabilitation, Mary Jo Deegan

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A Study To Determine The Effectiveness Of An Interest Grouping Classification For Primary Grade Children, Dianne T. Mcafee Williams

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The purpose was to determine if a subject arrangement of easy fiction books, based on the interests of primary-grade children, and denoted by picture symbols, would make the students more satisfied with, and independent in, their book selections, as compared to an author arrangement of easy fiction books.

The study was divided into two parts, the former dealing with the author arrangement and the latter dealing with the subject arrangement. Tally sheets of student subject requests were kept by the librarian in a comparison of the two arrangements. Followup included questionnaires to primary grade teachers and librarian, and interviews with …

An Acquisition Of New Administrative Skills With Vocational Rehabilitation Services, Jerry B. Van Leeuwen

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Report Of An Internship Experience With The Calhoun Intermediate School District, Robert G. Lowman

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The Mental Patient As Machiavellian: An Exploratory Study, Louise B. Leader

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A basic question in the study of mental illness has been whether mental patients were victims of society or manipulators of their own careers. Four hypotheses were developed to investigate the manipulative aspect of this question. Patients were selected from three different mental institutions: a state hospital, a Veteran's Administration Hospital, and a private church-related hospital. The patients' records and a group-administered battery of test instruments provided the data used to test the hypotheses. Only one of the hypotheses was supported and the basic question remained unanswered. Lack of support for the remaining three hypotheses was not seen as conclusive …

Perspectives For Industrial Arts Administrators, Peter G. Burke

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The Study Of Sulfur Dioxide Distribution Surrounding A Lead Smelting Industry In The New Lead Belt Of Southeastern Missouri, Jeng-Sheng Hwang

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"The purpose of this investigation was to study the magnitude and distribution of sulfur dioxide in the air surrounding the smelter of Missouri Lead Operating Company (now AMAX Lead Company of Missouri) in southeast Missouri, and evaluate the inter-relationships between sulfur dioxide incidents, meteorological factors, and plant operations.

Field research was conducted employing two weather stations and three sulfur dioxide monitoring stations. The data obtained from strip charts at each station were recorded and analyzed manually as well as by UMR computer facilities. From the studies conducted, it was found that the annual predominant winds occurred from S and SE …

Landscapes Unique: Manuscripts To Paranoics, Mark Alan Trumper

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No abstract provided.