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Development Of A Computer-Aided Analysis Package For Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics, William E. Warkentin

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This thesis develops an interactive computer-aided analysis package for solving linear elastic fracture mechanics problems. CHILES 2 (an existing finite element fracture mechanics program) was modified to be interactive. The modified program is named CHILES.BYU and is used in conjunction with QMESH.BYU and MOVIE.BYU to form the total software package. An analysis of glass ceramics and glass ceramic/metal interfaces was performed demonstrating the capabilities of the package. This study demonstrates the usefulness of an interactive package of computer programs to allow an engineer to rapidly investigate different crack configurations.

Provo In The Jazz Age: A Case Study, Gary C. Kunz

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Many historians have suggested in their writings that much of the social behavior that made the decade of the twenties unique had their origins in the urban centers, leaving the small towns taking no active participation in the Jazz Age.

The purpose of this paper is to show that Provo, Utah, a small, isolated community took a very active part in the Jazz Age, contrary to what has been suggested. There was a considerable quantity of drunkenness, bootlegging, wild dancing and partying in Provo during the decade, much more than historians suggest there should have been in a community the …

Planned Change : Some Implications For School Administrators And Future Research, Raymond A. Lavoie

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A Quantitative Analysis Of The Synaptic Arrangements In The Adult Cat Cuneate Nucleus, Lavaun Melby Mccann

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Perceived Similarity And Value Agreement Identification With Parents Among Lds Adolescent Males, Thomas Lee Partridge

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Four models of parental identification (perceived similarity with father, perceived similarity with mother, agreement with important parental values and agreement with more trivial parental values) were constructed. The effects of several parenting behaviors (i.e., support, undifferentiated control, guilt and love withdrawl) as well as various structural variables upon the parental identification of a sample of LDS adolescent males were tested. Data were obtained from 565 adolescents and their parents and the data for each boy was linked with that of his parents.

Parental support and family religious and recreational activities were found to be the most reliable predictors of parental …

Stylometry And Wordprints: A Book Of Mormon Reevaluation, Brian Curtis Roberts

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This thesis is a project which investigates the science of stylometry and wordprints; the analysis of writing style characteristics. The focus is placed on reexamining a wordprint study done by Wayne Larsen and Alvin Rencher wherein the Book of Mormon was analyzed against texts by those who are purported to have written it. The difference in this study from the first was that new wordprint definitions were developed using a junction grammar program created by Eldon Lytle, the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon was employed as the base text, the phrase "it came to pass" was deleted and …

A Descriptive Study Of Welfare Services Audience, Allen B. Alexander

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This study conducted an audience analysis investigating welfare attitudes for Welfare Services, a division of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The data and results of this study were used by Welfare Services to prepare and present its message to its Mormon and non-Mormon audience. The sample population consisted of 170 respondents (130 Mormons and 40 non-Mormons). The study examined three areas: (1) Where people go when in need of assistance; (2) Rights and obligations associated with assistance; (3) Attitudinal perspectives of welfare and assistance.

The findings of this study indicate that when in need, most people will …

A Burkeian Analysis Of Selected Speeches On Energy Policy And Environmental Management By William L. Guy, Noel P. Labine

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Aged Interest Groups And Politics, Richard Hill

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Studies On Selected Developmental Mutants In Maize, Yvonne R. Potts

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Two Modes Of Eliciting Phonological Processes : Delayed Word Imitation And Spontaneous Speech, Theresa P. Ramsey

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Body, Blood, And Soul : The Roman Catholic Church In Contemporary American Indian Literature, Joseph Michael Delorme

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An Investigation Of The Differences And Similarities In Vocational Selection Processes, Self-Concepts, Interests And Attitudes Between American And Canadian Communication Disorders Majors, Susan M. Briercliffe

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Child Performance Of Phonological Processes Elicited With Imitation And Object Stimuli, Lisa Katherine Coley-Donohue

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Phonatory Avoidance : An Investigation To Determine If Misarticulating Adults Avoid Words Containing Their Errored Sound, Sharon L. Cook

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An Analysis Of The Effectiveness Of The Press Releases From The University Of North Dakota Division Of Athletics, Mary Elizabeth Dalglish-Bergstrom

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Samoan For Missionaries, Scott C. Dunn

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This thesis is a textbook designed to assist LDS missionaries studying the Samoan language both in a two-month intensive language-learning school (the Missionary Training Center) and in individual study in the Samoan Islands. The thesis is prefaced with a rationale for and explanation of the Missionary Training Center language program and the design and purposes of the text itself.

The textbook contains fifty Samoan language lessons, divided into ten units of five lessons each. At the end of each unit is a review module, or test. Except for two overview lessons (designed to introduce grammatical terms and pronunciation), each of …

Belle S. Spafford: Leader Of Women, Gayle Morby Chandler

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This historical/descriptive study analyzes the speaking career of Belle S. Spafford and attempts to document the relationship between her speaking and her influence with her peers. For over fifty years, the dedicated woman served as a spokesman for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the National Council of Women, briding the gap between the secular and religious world of women. A rhetorical analysis of four speeches indicates the following findings: Mrs. Spafford appealed to her audiences through a focus on shared values; she had credibility because of her positions of authority and used it wisely; she effectively …

A History Of Mormon Periodicals From 1830 To 1838, Richard G. Moore

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The "Mormon" Church has published over one hundred different periodicals since the purchase of its first printing press in 1831. The early Latter-day Saint newspapers set many precedents for the myriad of Mormon publications that would follow. This is a study of the periodicals of the Church from its origin in 1830 to the exile of its members from missouri in 1839. It discusses the reasons and purposes behind early Mormon journalism and the effects of this printed material on Mormon history.

This work also gives a history of the five church periodicals published during the era mentioned above, specifically, …

Mormon Stereotypes In Nineteenth Century German Literature: The Fiction Of Amalie Schoppe And Balduin M Ollhausen, Robert Lee Warthen

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Leonard J. Arrington and Jon Haupt have identified seven stereotypes of Mormons in nineteenth century American fiction which influenced public opinion about them, ultimately resulting in anti-Mormon legislation. Since westerns were also extremely popular in Germany, the writings of two popular German novelists of the eighteen hundreds, Amalie Schoppe and Balduin Mollhausen, were analyzed to determine whether their Mormon characters are similarly stereotyped. Mormon stereotypes associated with adventure writing were found in the works of both authors, but not those associated with polemical novels. It was concluded that their writing still had an adverse effect on public opinion, though the …

The Influence Of Children's Art On Joan Miró And Jean Dubuffet, Linda L. Ferrell

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Children's art has been acknowledged as an important influence on twentieth-century art. Robert Goldwater states that the interest among artists in children's art during the early years of the Twentieth Century marked "a movement away from the exotic primitive toward indigenous sources of primitive inspiration." This new evaluation of children's art as a source of inspiration can be seen in the work of a number of artists including Joan Miró and Jean Dubuffet; their work, in particular, suggests the accent, freshness and energy inherent in the art of children.

The child’s way of making art, which is not based on …

The Relationship Of Sex Role Self Concept And Role Conflict In Female Nursing Administrators, Charlotte B. Hoelzel

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This study investigated the relationship between the sex role self concept of female nursing administrators and the role conflict they experienced. The correlation of age. education and experience with sex role self concept and role conflict was examined. This was a descriptive survey with a purposive probability sample of 126 subjects from three mid-Atlantic states. A mail survey resulted in a useful return of 88 questionnaires, including 81 females.

The Bem Sex Role Inventory was utilized to measure sex role self concept; masculinity and femininity are viewed as two independent dimensions present in every individual. Role conflict was measured by …

Coxsackievirus B4 Induced Diabetes In Cd-1 Mice, Mary C. F. Anderson

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Most evidence to date clearly indicates that CB4 virus can affect the pancreas of both man and mice during acute infection. Yet, conflicting evidence exists relative to the consequence of the infection in both man and mice. The study described here attempted to provide definitive evidence on the relative role of the virus isolate (i.e. heterogenous virion populations vs. purified clones) in induction of prolonged diabetes-like disease in mice.

An Attempt To Modify Attitudes Of Business Leaders Toward Disabled Persons (Rehabilitation, Handicapped), David Courtney Perry

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The purpose of this study was to determine if members of the business community would experience improvement in attitude and behavior toward disabled persons following participation in an awareness seminar. An attempt was made to determine if attitude change would persist for six months after the seminar. In addition, an attempt was made to determine if behaviors toward disabled people also underwent a significant change following the seminar.The one-day seminar consisted of five main components: (1) viewing a firm about hiring the handicapped; (2) participating in a three-hour disability simulation experience; (3) participating in a small group discussion; (4) interacting …

Relation Of Conceptual Systems Of Students And Professors., Douglas Kermit Isaacson

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Purpose. The purpose of the study is (a) to determine the conceptual orientations and reasoning levels of certain students who are enrolled at the University of North Dakota (UND) for the fall semester of the 1982-1983 school year; (b) to determine interrelationships between certain students' and their professors' conceptual orientations and reasoning levels; and (c) to determine what relationships exist among conceptual orientations and reasoning levels of certain students and their professors and students' evaluations of their learning performance and their professors' teaching effectiveness.Procedure. The research population for this study was comprised of 355 UND students and their 20 professors …

Writers And Dreamers: An Exploratory Study Of Ninth-Grade English Students., Linda Peterson Christie

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The purpose of this study was, first, to compare the quality of writing that was generated from remembered dreams with other story writing that was created from beginning sentences, second, was to explore the remembered dream world of ninth graders as to the importance, place, and creative use of dreams in waking life.Twenty students, 10 from each of two ninth-grade English classes in a west-central Minnesota junior high school, composed the research population.The two groups of 10 created three pieces of writing, Group A from dreams and Group B from beginning sentences. Differences in quality of writing were measured by …

Children's Understanding Of The Physical Realities Of Death., William Conrad Devereux

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Children's knowledge of the physical realities of death was explored through the use of an objective answer death concepts questionnaire. A demographic questionnaire was used to identify religious influences and exposure to death-relevant experiences which could influence the acquisition of factual information about death.Knowledge of death was expected to be related to grade level, cognitive level, IQ level, religious influences and death-relevant experiences. Children's exposure to death-relevant experiences was expected to begin at an early age and increase with grade level and with cognitive level.One hundred and thirty-seven children in kindergarten, second, fourth, and sixth grades were individually administered the …

Poe Per Se, Robert Williamson Storrs Iv

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There are four elements involved in this production of Poe per se which make it interesting and suitable as a thesis: the actor, the subject, the format, and the audience. I will discuss the problems posed by each and the methods of attack I will pursue to those problems. I will then describe the evolution of the script from research through performance. My conclusion will be an assessment of the success of the script in solving my acting problems.

The Effects Of Cortisol On Memory And Attention, Cris Ann Scaglione

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Type-Token Ratios And Language Sample Sizes For Normally-Developing And Language-Impaired Children, Karen Marie Sefton

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