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Clastogenic And Mutagenic Effects In White Rats And Human Lymphocytes Induced By 2, 4-D, Thomas E. Turkula

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A Follow-Up Study Of University Of North Dakota Industrial Technology Graduates Of The Period 1973-1983, Bert M. Gumeringer

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Three Essays On Place And Meaning, Reed Evan Richards

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This thesis consists of three personal essays and a postface, in part experiments in genre, mode, and structure, and in large part explorations of the meanings of specific places in culture and on the self-definition of the observer-writer, the first essay being set in Florida and centered at Disneyworld; the second consisting of fragments of observations along the route from St. Augustine to Washington, D.C., and ending with a brief fiction; the third, a speculative/anti-speculative rumination over many things, including meaning, death, faith, and enshrinement, and set in Illinois, Missouri, and South Africa; and the postface a theoretical/descriptive theoretical defense …

Strengthening The Family: A Guide For Lds Single Parent Mothers, Jane C. Beuhring

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Raising a family as a single parent is difficult at best. As an LDS single parent, these difficulties take on a unique challenge. The purpose of this project is to offer specific, LDS related guidelines to assist the LDS single parent mother in strengthening her family and thus acquiring the skills needed in handling the unique challenge of raising a family in a gospel oriented society. A variety of resources were used to include theorists, practicioners, scriptures, and personal experiences. Examples and case studies demonstrate the integration of gospel principles and family practices as they relate to LDS single parent …

Firo-B Profiles Of Physical Therapy Students And Their Performances In Clinical Education, Nora Donohue

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The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a relationship between physical therapy students' personalities and their preferences in clinical education. Associated problems addressed by the research were to determine if there were differences in personality measures between the physical therapy students as well as differences from one another in how they rank ordered a list of clinical education methods and behaviors.

Thirty-four senior physical therapy students who had completed the academic and clinical requirements of the curriculum rank ordered a list of twenty clinical education methods and behaviors which was compiled from factors cited in the …

Preschool Teachers' Use Of Language For Distancing (Communication), Margaret Bergan Nardi

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The ability to cognitively separate oneself from the immediate behavioral environment has been identified in the literature as the concept of distancing. It has been suggested that the child's distancing abilities are a reflection of his early experiences with the distancing language of significant others in his environment. Several curricula have been developed that focus on strategies that teachers can employ for facilitating distancing in children. Very little is reported in the literature, however, about the distancing language of teachers in practice. This study investigates the distancing language of six preschool teachers in their talk to preschool age children.The data …

An Investigation And Analysis Of The Epistemological Premises Inherent In Music Education Which Enable The Student To Actualize The Listening Process (Learning, Individual)., James Lee Croonquist

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The study was undertaken to determine the potential of the listening process in music for use by the learner. It focused on the epistemological premises of the instructional mode, particularly with reference to the use of the creative process as a form of learning which is realized through Susanne Langer's emphasis on actualization. In the study, an examination was made of the nature of the relationships that exist between the subject (the learner) and the object (the music). Emphasis was given to those relationships which enable the learner in his or her use of a knowledge base to transcend it …

Naming Oneself Writer: Three Writing Lives., Helen Jane Lamar

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The purpose of this study was to investigate writers' perceptions of how they came to name themselves as writer. While many researchers have investigated the act of writing, little has been done to discover what the adult writer perceives to have been experientially important as a child and adult in the process of becoming and naming one's self writer. This study focused on the experiences writers perceived to be important in the act of naming.Literary and psychological concepts of the writer throughout history were examined and the philosophical views of Merleau-Ponty and Walker Percy that specifically pertain to naming and …

Visits. (Original Writing; Short Stories, Play)., June Janelle Masters

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Visits is a creative dissertation consisting of eight short stories, a one-act play, and a critical introduction. The stories deal with the members and friends of the Becker family; Zan is the chief character, having a major role in six of the stories. The play is about the characters that were left out of the stories or who were given only minor parts and serves as a humorous afterword. In the critical introduction, I briefly trace the history of the short story and relate my stories to the philosophy of the genre.

The Effect Of Hydrocortisone On Auditory Sensitivity, Rodney J. Haug

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In order to test the effect of cortisol on auditory thresholds, seventy-five volunteer right-handed college males were given either a 10 mg, 20 mg, 40 mg dose of hydrocortisone, or placebo, or were part of a control group in a double blind design. Right ear auditory thresholds were determined for frequencies of 500, 1,000, 4,000 and 8,000 Hz using the method of limits. The results were converted to mean threshold change scores by using threshold scores obtained for the same subject prior to treatment. Results indicated that treatment with 20 mg of cortisol reduced sensitivity at 8,000 Hz as compared …

The Relative Frequency Of Sounds Used In The Initial Position Of Words By Standard Speakers During Reading And Monologue, Theresa Gibbens

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Community Ties And Self-Reported Delinquency : A Test Of Social Control Theory, Stephen B. Constantine

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Nonverbal Communication Of Congenitally Blind Adolescents At The North Dakota School For The Blind, Sheila R. Davidson

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The Relative Frequency Of Various Groups Of Sounds Used In The Initial Position Of Words By Standard Adult Speakers During Reading And Monologue, Nadine E. Ewanchyshyn

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The Use Of Relational Grammar In Teaching English As A Second Language, Jodi Luann Bredahl

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The Refinement And Validation Of A Client Satisfaction Questionnaire, Joan Frances O'Day

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Joan Didion : The Frontier As A Place Of The Mind, Marianne Verbitsky

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The Later Career Of Tom Watson, 1906-1922 : A Study In The Dilemmas Of A Democratic Society, Michael C. Stermock

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A Study Of Determinism And Free Will In The Sound And The Fury By William Faulkner, Myoung Ah Shin

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Reactions Of College Students To Speech Disorders In Males And Females, Timothy Angus Thorne

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English Intensive Reading Lessons For Chinese College Students, Jie Wang

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The Relationship Between Linguistic Complexity And The Development Of Social Speech, Lisa Catherine Light

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Utilization Of Health Care Services By Mexican Americans, Nancy R. Diede

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A Study Of Police Use Of Deadly Force, Todd Randall Bakken

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An Interactional/Social Psychological Approach To Defiance And Therapeutic Paradox, Glenn Thomas Gould

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This study tested the general hypothesis that a client's compliance or defiance of a therapeutic directive could be accurately predicted by manipulating the variables of incongruence and dependency within the client-counselor relationship. An attempt to control the relationship variables was made by using a no-choice, paradoxical directive to increase levels of relationship incongruence. The manipulation of the client's perception of their counselor's level of experience and expertness was aimed at controlling the dependency variables. The hypothesis that clients would report improvement of their symptom, following the delivery of a paradoxical directive, was also investigated.

The subjects of the study were …

A Descriptive Analysis Of The Current Status Of Paid Religious Broadcasting On National Television, Wayne R. Bills

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In examining the use of paid television by various evangelical organizations (the "Electronic Church") as contrasted with its use by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS), several important differences were discovered. First, the programs of the electronic church are usually designed much like a normal Sunday service with a "preacher" and "congregation" (the T.V. viewers). The LDS approach has been to communicate religious principles through the use of a story. Their productions are attractive to a large audience because they often feature a well-known television or motion picture celebrity, and are aired during prime-time viewing hours.

The …

A Comparison Of Spanish Language Proficiency As Related To Location And Length Of Stay In A Foreign Language Environment, Karen Minnette Dawson Mckenna

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This study examined the relationship of Spanish language proficiency as related to location and length of stay in a foreign language environment. The participants took a Spanish diagnostic test that measures Spanish proficiency through grammar principles and then answered a questionnaire concerning their language learning experiences, location and length of stay in a Spanish language environment.
It was found that Spanish language proficiency increased with longer lengths of stay in the Spanish language environment. No conclusive data were found to support the hypothesis that those in one Spanish-speaking environment attain a higher language proficiency than those in another Spanish-speaking area. …

The Incidence Of Obesity In Lds College Women: The Effect Of Selected Physical Socio-Environmental Variables On Total Percent Body Fat In Two Populations Of Lds Women, Carrie Tanner Summers

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The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of selected physical socio-environmental variables on total percent body fat. The sample population consisted of single, LDS, white women attending Brigham Young University (BYU) and California State University at Fullerton (CSUF). Significant data as well as trends that appeared were included in this paper.

From the data collected, it was concluded that the sample populations at BYU and CSUF were the same. The incidence of obesity was determined only among individuals attending both universities. The entire sample population mean was 22.19 percent. This percentage did not meet the obesity criteria. …

Bivalve Associations Of The Cannonball Formation (Paleocene, Danian) Of North Dakota, Rosanne M. Lindholm

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The Cannonball Formation (Paleocene, Danian) is best exposed in southwest-central North Dakota. Here, two major lithotypes, mudstone and sandstone, occur. In this area, the Cannonball can be informally subdivided into four lithologic units: lower (primarily thinly-bedded sandstone and mudstone), lower-middle (sandstone), upper-middle (mudstone), and upper (sandstone). The Cannonball is also exposed in southwestern North Dakota where it occurs as two mudstone tongues (upper and lower).

During July and August, 1982, thirteen Cannonball outcrops were studied. Bivalves, along with other macrofossils, were collected quantitatively in an attempt to determine fossil species dominance. Rock samples were also collected and analyzed for textural …

Conodonts Of The Bakken Formation (Devonian And Mississippian), Williston Basin, North Dakota, Michael D. Hayes

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The Bakken Formation is a thin (maximum 145 ft., 44 m), predominantly elastic unit in the subsurface of the Williston Basin in the United States and Canada. The formation consists of two, mostly non-calcareous, grayish-black to brownish-black shales separated by light to dark gray, calcareous and dolomitic siltstone and fine-grained sandstone. The carbonaceous, black shales of the Bakken produce a distinctive geophysical marker and are a major source rock for hydrocarbons in the Williston Basin.

Conodonts were selectively sampled from cores of the Bakken in North Dakota in an effort to determine the age and thermal maturity of the formation. …