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The Closing Of Homer G. Phillips Hospital And Its Effect On The Infant Mortality Rate Of The City Of Saint Louis, Charles E. Crawford

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The infant mortality statistics in any country reflect the social and economic well-being of its citizens. In the United States the infant mortality rate is regarded as a key indicator of the level of health of the population and by implication, as a measure of the effectiveness of the nation's health delivery system. Further , it is believed by some that infant mortality is the single most important public health problem in this country.

The effect on the infant mortality rate as related to the closing of the only acute care public hospital in an economically depressed community is observed …

Motivation, Management Motivation, And Its Perceived Decline In American Bureaucratic Organizations In The Context Of Changing Attitudes And Values, Jon Lawrence Johnson

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This Culminating Project represents an inquiry into the existence, applications, and parameters of human motivation and its impact on perceived management attitudes, values, and motivation to manage.

The topic is examined from three vantage points. Part I embodies a selective indoctrination in human motivation concepts and suggests relevant organizational applications and examples in illustration. The term "motivation" has evolved into a popular but often misapplied catch phrase. Therefore, a foundation in prominent human motivation theory is provided as precedent to issues subsequently discussed in the Project, to offer the reader an accurate base of subject knowledge.

Part II addresses the …

Inventory Control Improvement Within The Discount Stores, Ernie Lee Robinson

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This thesis examines strategies for improving inventory control in discount stores to maximize profitability and efficiency. It highlights four key factors affecting inventory management: optimum order timing, optimum order quantity, stockouts, and inventory shrinkage. Robinson emphasizes that discount retailers must carefully plan their stock replenishment processes to avoid excessive overstocking or running out of essential products during peak seasons.

The study discusses various inventory categories, including working stock, safety stock, remnant stock, seasonal stock, and pipeline stock, explaining their roles in maintaining a balanced supply. It also explores reordering methods, such as fixed quantity and fixed cycle reordering, to ensure …

A Study Of Comparable Identifiably Predictions Of Some Resolving Power Targets By Fourier Spectra Considerations, James Greene

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This report documents a study conducted to examine the correlation between identification thresholds and difference spectra of some resolving power target characters. The experiment included the USAF Tri-bar target, the RIT Alpha-numeric Resolving Power Target, and a set of targets called the Granger Modified Tri-bar targets. Assuming that target identification is a filtering process and primarily a function of its frequency spectrum, this study began with a prediction of targets that would have equal identification thresholds from difference spectra considerations. Target images were viewed at various sizes to confirm/refute the original hypothesis. The USAF targets demonstrated adequate control of experimental …

It's In My Hands Now, Jennifer B. Reed

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What Every Designer Should Know About Visual Semiotics: A Videotape Presentation, Anne Elizabeth Battle

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A Design Of A Master Of Arts In Education Program For The Teaching Of English As A Second Language, Susan Relyea

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This study is undertaken in an attempt to create a viable curriculum for a Master of Arts in Education for the teaching of English as a Second Language. The field of English as a Second Language has evolved into a profession unto its own only in the last thirty years and has been attracting professionals who have had little or no training in pedagogy or English as a Second Language methodology. Much has been learned about the field in the past thirty years. Second language teachers must have special training that is different from English teachers and foreign language teachers. …

Means Of Lowering The Contrast Of Association Product Printing Plates, Ming-Hwa Wang

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The Association Product is a photosensitive coating for continuous-tone litho plates (It can also be used as a plate coating for halftone printing). It consists of phenolic resin and poly(ethylene oxide) and is photosensitized by a water soluble sensitizer. Continuous-tone lithography has better quality potential than the halftone process. Because the halftone process converts the continuous-tone image of the original into small dots of varying sizes, it thus inherently degrades the image quality and adds time and material costs in screening. The water soluble sensitizer converts the hydrophilic Association Product to an oleophilic state in direct proportion to exposing energy, …

Analysis Of Ink Film Thickness On Screenless Lithographic Plates By Microscopy, James Spruill Summers

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Printing without the use of a halftone screen pattern offers many advantages, although most processes utilized are impractical for long run commercial printing. Screenless lithography provides a practical means of making unscreened reproductions. While screenless lithography has been in use for many years, its working mechanisms have only recently been explained. Past studies have investigated many of the factors which contribute to the continuous tone effect of screenless printing, but none have scientifically determined if ink film thickness variation is a contributing factor. Positive working lithographic plates were exposed to control scales, processed, inked, and allowed to dry. These plates …

Direct Diffusion Resist For Gravure, Wilson Hurst

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One of the most attractive attributes of the gravure process is its ability to print a variable ink film by virtue of cell depth variation. This cell depth variation is achieved through the use of a diffusion resist. All diffusion resists are negative-working and, after exposure, require transfer to plate or cylinder. A "negative-working" resist is one where the emulsion becomes insoluble to the developing solution in those areas struck by actinic radiation. Presently available resists, which are directly applied to plate or cylinder prior to exposure, are not capable of controlling cell depth variation. Thus, the tone range obtainable …

The Value Of Antiquities: Historical Development And Evaluation Of Trends In The Current Market Through Graphic Analysis And Sales Data Compilation, Mary Thornton Holton

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The purpose of this project will be to examine some of the most central issues in the evaluation and methodology for valuing the category of fine arts known as antiquities. This category covers several historical periods and includes artifacts which originate anywhere in the present countries of Egypt, Greece, or Italy from 4000 BC in the pre-dynastic ages of Egypt through the various dynasties of the Pharaohs, through the Minoan, Mycenaean, Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic ages of Greece, and through the times when the Roman Empire rose and dominated practically the entire known world. The final date which defines antiquities …

The Value Of Antiquities: Historical Development And Evaluation Of Trends In The Current Market Through Graphic Analysis And Sales Data Compilation, Mary Thornton Holmes

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The Application And Analysis Of An Antireflection Coating On A Multilayer Resist System To Generate A 1.0 Μm Aluminum Line Over 0.5 Μm Sio2 Step, Chung-Ta Wu

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An antireflection coating (ARC) containing polyvinyl alcohol and two dyes was applied to a substrate to form a new multilayer resist system.

Based on the results of the application of the ARC on a planar aluminum substrate, an increase of the latitude of exposure and an improvement of the resist image quality were found.

The ARC had a specific concentration of dyes and a specific thickness. The image was a 1.0 µm line and space pattern. By using the ARC, even though the resist thickness varied from 1.2 µm to 1.5 µm, the resulting 1.0 µm image remained within a …

Digitization, Testing, And Evaluation Of A Device For Rapid Determination Of Rms Granularity, Daniel J. Williams

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A rotary stage microdensitometer was interfaced to an Apple II personal computer for the purpose of making rapid rms granularity measurements. An experimentally determined relationship was found between standard deviation in voltage and rms granularity. By using this relationship the device proved accurate to within 7 percent of the known values of rms granularity on a conventional microdensitometer for the same samples with 95 percent confidence.

Proposal And Investigation Of A Method For Measuring Process Color Variation Via Reflection Densitometer, Russell Harris

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This thesis proposes a method of using reflection density readings taken with a conventional graphic arts densitometer to provide a numeric measure of the visual difference between a sample press sheet and a reference sheet. This numerical measure was developed based on the theory that human response to variation in process color printing is more affected by changes in the proportions of process inks to each other than by variation in the overall inking level of the press sheet. The thesis then goes on to explain how the proposed system was tested. First, a set of color samples was generated. …

Nicaragua: A Society In Transition, James Mason Stillings

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Between December 1980 and March 1981, I spent three months in Nicaragua undertaking a documentary thesis project for a Master of Fine Arts degree in Photography. Initial preparation for the trip began in May 1980. My thesis exhibition was held October 11-16, 1981. The purpose of the thesis was to "integrate creative expression with social/political concerns by photographing aspects of societal change that have grown out of the popular revolution in Nicaragua." This report is an accounting of that project from its inception to its completion. The project has been a rewarding experience, full of learning and growth. I have …

Prediction Of Heats Of Mixing By Group Contribution Methods, William Walter Rupp

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Three group contribution methods used to predict heats of mixing were tested: AGSM, UNIFAC with temperature dependent parameters and the modified UNIFAC of Skjold-Jor-gensen et al. The modified UNIFAC provided the best results and was adopted in this study. Primary parameters were obtained for ten groups with alkanes. The simultaneous correlation of cyclic and straight-chain alkanes gave poor results. Attempts to improve the error by changing the group area parameter for cyclic CH₂ failed.

A major problem in correlating the experimental data was the multiplicity of roots. The best set of parameters was obtained by using a grid approach …

The Aura Of Femininity In Art, Linda Smolenski

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Bedouin Textiles Of Saudi Arabia, Celia Wright

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During the past year I have had the opportunity of working closely with a collection of Saudi Arabian woven textiles and other crafts. These textiles are characterized by the combination of a great variety of techniques, indicating a diffusion of techniques between the Arabian Peninsula and adjacent cultures. The frequent combination of both warp-faced and weft-faced structures within a single woven piece is particularly fascinating, as it rarely occurs in other cultures. This thesis will research the techniques and designs used in Saudi weaving and in the weaving of adjacent and related cultures in Africa and the Middle East which …

The Printing Industry In Sub-Sahara Africa: An Exploratory Study, H. Richard Harmsen

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The printing industry in Sub-Sahara Africa faces numerous problems inhibiting further growth and development. Because of a scarcity of published information regarding these problems, and regarding the nature of the industry in general, this study hoped to establish a beginning and baseline for researchers, printing managers, suppliers, development planners, and anyone else interested in the development of the African printing industry. Specifically, the objectives of this study were to identify: 1) the general characteristics of the printing industry in Sub-Sahara Africa; and 2) the primary constraints inhibiting its further growth and development. Information was gathered by several means, including a …

The Effect Of Ink/Fountain Solution Emulsion Of Paper Permanence, Thomas H. Spotts

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The permanence of printed documents and books appears to be primarily dependent on paper stability. Other researchers implicate pH as a major factor in the deterioration rate of paper and acidity as major the cause of this deterioration. During the lithographic printing process, ink is in direct contact with fountain solution, which can be acidic or alkaline. Fountain solution is a mixture of water and chemicals used to keep the non-image areas of a lithographic plate moist. On press the intimate contact of ink with fountain solution creates a fountain solution-in-ink emulsion. The emulsion used here is a stable suspension …

A Fool's Paradise, Gary Todak

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The Manifestation Of Personal Philosophies Concerning Material And Form, Mark Methner

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Patterned Rugs, Kristin C. Rowley

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Secret Gardens, Mark A. Fisher

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A Survey On Homework With A View Towards Developing District Guidelines For The Elementary School, Ginger Kinion

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This researcher has been interested in the subject of homework for some time and has felt the pressure from parents to provide more homework for students . Many school districts do not provide homework policies or guidelines for teachers . The purpose of this study was to find answers to such questions as: 1) What has research found about the effectiveness of homework in the elementary schools? 2) What are the opinions of parents, students , and educators on the subject of homework? 3) What are the advantages and disadvantages of homework? 4) How can a homework policy be developed …

A Study On The Use Of Music To Teach Locational Skills In Library Use To Third Grade Students, Nancy Karl

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This study addresses the question : Will the use of music activities to t each locational skills in library use to third grade students be more effective in helping students to acquire and retain these skills than a more traditional multi-media approach?

Locational skills in this study include: alphabetical order, correct use of the card catalog, location of fiction and non-fiction books, recognition of different types of reference materials and their uses and the ten Dewey Decimal classifications.

The music activities include folksongs and original songs and coordinating activity worksheets. The multimedia approach uses sound filmstrips, charts and catalog cards …

Dancing On A Wall, Jane Alden Stevens

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Opinions Of Hollenbeck Junior High Students Regarding The Year-Round Schedule, Teri Timmons

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This study, conducted by Teri Timmons in partial fulfillment of a Master of Arts in Education degree at The Lindenwood Colleges (1982), explores the opinions of junior high students at Hollenbeck Junior High School in the Francis Howell School District regarding Year-Round Schooling (YRS) versus the Traditional School Schedule (TSS). Amid growing interest in alternative academic calendars due to rising student populations and limited funding for new educational facilities, this research sought to evaluate student attitudes toward these two scheduling models.

A random sample of 35 students who had experienced both YRS and TSS during their elementary years was surveyed …

Effect Of Stabilizers On Gold Sensitization, Douglas E. Corbin

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Previous work has shown evidence that some emulsion stabilizers can prevent rearrangement of adsorbed silver sulfide to a photographically active form. Full gold plus sulfur sensitization may be achieved by simultaneous introduction of the sensitizers or by adding gold after sulfur sensitization. As gold sensitization of an already optimally sulfur-sensitized emulsion may instead involve a direct chemical reaction, the effect of stabilizers on gold sensitization may not parallel their effect on sulfur sensitization. The stabilizers 6-methyl-4-hydroxy-l , 3 , 3a , 7-tet razaindene and l-phenyl-5-mercaptotetrazole retard but do not prevent gold sensitization in a sulfur sensitized emulsion. This may suggest …