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The Developing Chick Aorta: Fine-Structural And Histochemical Considerations., Gregg Elden Olson

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A Communication Study Of The Relationship Between Interpersonal Communication Self-Perceptions And Empathic Listening Skills, Brenda Anderson Kaspari

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Stereo-Scanning Electron Microscopy Of The Canine Subarachnoid Space After Injection Of Defibrinated Chicken Red Blood Cells., Bruce Persky

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Sex, Sickness And Statehood: The Influence Of Victorian Medical Opinion On Self-Government In Utah, E. Victoria Grover-Swank

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In the struggle for self-government which occupied the Mormon population of Utah between their entry into the Great Basin in 1847 and statehood in 1896, the issue of polygamy dominated public discussion. The non-Mormon population of the United States generally objected to the practice of polygamy, in large part because of Victorian attitudes towards sexual activity and the presumed physical and mental results of violating Victorian sexual norms. It was assumed by most Americans that polygamy, by violating those norms, caused real physical damage to the Latter-day Saints in Utah; damage that disqualified them from holding full and equal political …

Utah's Anti-Polygamy Society, 1878-1884, Barbara Hayward

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The Anti-Polygamy Society was established in 1878 to try to encourage Congress to abolish the practice of plural marriage tn Utah Territory. In the brief time that it existed, the women of this Utah-based group sent petitions, circulars, and letters to Congress and many leaders of the country urging that laws be passed to end polygamy. Much of their work was also carried out in the society's newspaper, the Anti-polygamy Standard.

By the time that laws were passed that restricted polygamy, the Anti-polygamy Society no longer existed. Nonetheless, the society was important in the anti-polygamy crusade because it was …

The World And Joseph Smith, Lane D. Ward

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It is felt by some historians that Joseph Smith was a product of his environment; that his teachings were the amplifications of religious doctrines surrounding his life experience in early America.
Some writings which have been published show similarities between Joseph's "Mormonism" and contemporary religions.
It should be rememebered, however, that if Joseph Smith's call, as restorer, were all that he professed it to be (and he was not alone in that profession), there would, indeed, exist paralleling truths surrounding his "restored" gospel. For, as Joseph tells us, the gospel was preached from the beginning. If that is true, we …

The Relationship Between Maternal Self-Concept And Demonstration Of Adaptive Behavior, Barbara Woodland Fleming

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The study examined whether adaptive maternal behaviors correlated with a positive self-concept measurement. The adaptive behaviors observed were those which the literature suggested indicate a positive response to the changes of the puerperium. The study aimed at assisting the nurse in assessing the self-concept level of clients. The researcher also hoped to contribute to the continued development of nursing theories and the application of the theories to the arena of clinical practice.

The Ses And Current Seminary Student Statements: A Descriptive Study, Cory William Bangerter

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The purpose of this study was to show that the present Student Evaluation of Seminary (SES) provides the seminary teacher with an inadequate estimate of his credibility in the classroom, as perceived by his students. To accomplish this goal, a list of student responses to questions about their seminary teachers was developed and analyzed. The results indicated that not all factors of teacher credibility as perceived by the seminary students were being measured by the SES.

Thirty-one students gave a total of 339 responses to the questions asked by the researcher. A comparison of the student statements to statements in …

Geology And Petrology Of The Devils Tower, Missouri Buttes, And Barlow Canyon Area, Crook County, Wyoming, Don L. Halvorson

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Field and laboratory investigations were employed to detmine the mode of emplacement and a petrogenetic model for three igneous localities in Crook County, Wyoming: the Devils Tower, the Missouri Buttes, and the Barlow Canyon area.

X-ray fluorescence, microprobe data, and optimal analyses iden tify the Missouri Buttes rock as foid-bearing alkali trachyte and anal cime phonolite and the Devils Tower and Barlow Canyon rocks as analcime phonolite.

Associated alloclastic breccia with a crystal-charged volcanic glass matrix, surrounding depressions representing collapse of igneous material back into the vent, striking similarity to known volcante necks, and the occurrence of other extrusive volcan1S11\ …

Kaolinitic Weathering Zone On Precambrian Basement Rocks, Red River Valley, Eastern North Dakota And Northwestern Minnesota, Lynne Irvine Kelley

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A suite of 26 drill cores recovered from the Red River Valley Drilling Project has provided new information on the Precambrian basement of eastern North Dakota and northwestern Minnesota. Basement rocks in this area consist of intermediate to felsic coarse-grained massive or gneissic rocks, and intermediate to mafic metavolcanic and metasedimentary schists. The Precambrian rocks of the region are interpreted to be a buried extension of the Superior Province of the Canadian Shield, and are divided into terranes of granitic rock and mafic schist, on the basis of drill-hole samples, patterns seen in Superior Province rocks which crop out to …

Postglacial Ostracod Distribution And Paleoecology, Devils Lake Basin, Northeastern North Dakota, James B. Van Alstine

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Sediment cores were taken from Main Bay and Creel Bay of Devils Lake (in 1975 and 1976) and East Devils Lake (in 1978), within the Devils Lake basin, and from Red Willow Lake (in 1979), a control lake outside of the Devils Lake basin, northeastern North Dakota. The cores were sampled, for the recovery of the ostracods, at 10-cm intervals. Fifteen species of ostracods were present in the studied cores: 8 candonids, 1 cyclocyprid, 3 cyprids, and 3 limnocytherids. Two distinct faunas are recognized. The Devils Lake-East Devils Lake fauna consists of Candona lactea, C. rawsoni, Cyprinotus glaucus, Potamocypris smaragdina, …

Petrology Of The Cenozoic Igneous Rocks Of The Lytle Creek Area, Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming, Stanely F. White

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The purpose of this study was to map and study the petrology of the Cenozoic igneous rocks that crop out in the Lytle Creek area located in the southwestern Bear Lodge Mountains of northeastern Wyoming. Petro graphic and chemical data is used to interpret the Cenozoic phonolite trachyte rock association.

Cenozoic igneous activity in the Lytle Creek area appears to have been a response to the Laramide orogeny 80-40 m.y. B.P. The majority of the rocks were emplaced as laccoliths and sills at the Pahasapa Formation-Minnelusa Formation contact or at the Spearfish Formation Sundance Formation contact. Porphyritic volcanic textures are …

Periglacial Landforms And Processes In The Southern Kenai Mountains, Alaska, Palmer K. Bailey

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The distribution and characteristics of periglacial landforms in the southern Kenai Mountains, Alaska, were investigated during the summer of 1979. The principal area of study was a 1300-metre high mountain mass which stood as a nunatak during the last general glaciation. Periglacial features in the area include gelifluction lobes, nivation hollows, cryoplanation terraces, tors, a string bog, and various for111S of patterned ground such as sorted circles, sorted polygons, earth hummocks, sorted steps, sorted stripes, and small ice-wedge polygons.

Ground temperature measurements indicate that permafrost recently existed in the area but is no longer present. The sorted polygons, cryoplsnation terraces, …

An Investigation Into The Criterion Validity Of The C:R:F And The Dial, Marlene Margaret Lewis

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Waterfowl And Marsh Bird Use Of Artificial Wetlands In North Dakota, Judith A. Rossiter

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A Reliability Study Of One-Minute Start-Stop Conversation Sampling On A Single Subject, Catherine W. Woidtke

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Communication And Sex-Roles : The Relationship Between The Bem Sex-Role Inventory And Friendship Relations Survey, Marjorie L. Hartman

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The Effectiveness Of Informal Screening In The Identification Of Basic Concept Deficiencies, Margaret Dale

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The Effects Of Intended Audience And Feedback On The Writings Of Middle Grade Pupils., Walter Coyte Prentice

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The present study investigated the development of written communication skills of students in the middle elementary grades. Two aspects of communicative competence served as the focus: (1) the ability to modify writing to fit the needs of the intended audience, and (2) the ability to profit from reader feedback. In addition, the effect of the writing stimulus on students' performance was examined.Thirty-six students, 12 in each of grades 3, 5, and 7, served as subjects. The students were shown one of two stimulus drawings, either a simple line drawing of a tree, hill, house, and sun (the Scene Stimulus), or …

Analysis Of Junctional Complexes Of The Developing Arachnoid Membrane In The Chick Embryo By Means Of Electron Microscopy And Freeze-Fracture., Rybroek John Joseph Van

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The Letter To Father Janssens: The Synthesis Of Experience In Teilhard De Chardin And Its Implications For Educational Theory., Arthur John Spring Jr.

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The research problem is to examine experience as an epistemological concept in the writings of Teilhard de Chardin using the letter to Father Janssens, dated October 12, 1951, as focus for the study.The purpose of this study is to identify and analyze Teilhard's theory of experience as that theory describes the growth and development of man's mind and defines the process by which man comes to know his own nature and that of the world. The study derives from the theory of experience six specific educational principles.Teilhard's theory of experience is identified as a movement of mind in which progress …

Perceived Leadership Styles And Assertive Characteristics Of Graduates From Four Types Of Nursing Programs In Eastern North Dakota And Western Minnesota., Lazette Bevers Chang-Yit

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The purpose of the study was to test for differences in perceived leadership styles and assertive characteristics among graduates from a diploma, and associate degree, a four-year baccalaureate, and an upper-division baccalaureate nursing program. Two research questions were asked: (1) Are there significant differences in perceived leadership styles among graduates of the four programs? and (2) Are there significant differences in perceived assertive characteristics among graduates of the four programs? The sample was comprised of thirty-five diploma, forty-two associate degree, twenty-four baccalaureate, an eighteen upper-division baccalaureate nursing students who were all within a few days of graduation. Three instruments were …

The Effects Of Counselor Clothing Upon College Students' Perceptions Of Counselor Core Dimensions And Willingness To Discuss Various Concerns, Stuart John Waltonen

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The major purpose of this study was to determine whether counselors' clothing would significantly affect college students' perceptions of counselor core dimensions and students' Willingness to discuss academic, career and personal concerns. Another purpose was to determine if the sex of the student and the sex of the counselor were significantly related to the students' perceptions of counselor core dimensions and students' Willingness to discuss concerns.The subjects consisted of 58 female and 53 male undergraduate students at the University of North Dakota. A 2 x 5 x 2 (sex of student x form of clothing x sex of counselor) factorial …

A Sourcebook For The Production Of Musical Dramas And Programs In The Elementary School, Carole Elizabeth Bradley

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The search for educational goals in music productions leads the teacher to a variety of sources for guidance: publications, workshops, and other teachers. None of these sources alone are adequate to the task. The need, then, is to bring together all of this information into one sourcebook. It is this sourcebook that the present study has endeavored to provide.

The purpose of this study has been to develop a sourcebook of practical information for the production of elementary musical dramas and programs and to provide general principles of production as a guide for music teachers. Criteria for creative environments which …

Kierkegaard's Dialectical Self-Creation: Implications For Counselors., Lorraine Angela Dopson

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The counselor brings to the counseling relationship certain assumptions regarding human nature, its limits, possibilities and processes. Usually these assumptions are not articulated and sometimes they are not known. Counseling, as an endeavor which touches human lives, requires examination of its premises. The purpose of this study is to construct a philosophical basis for the counseling relationship based upon the works of Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855), a rich source of such information.The study, which is literary in form, undertakes an indepth examination of those psychological aspects of Kierkegaard's major works which are especially relevant to understanding and facilitating the work of …

Clustering Of Metal Atoms In Alkane Media., Stephen Custer Davis

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A literature review of metal crystallite growth, physical properties of small metal particles, and C-O, C-H and C-C bond cleavage processes on metal surfaces (single crystal, thin films and dispersed metals) and various properties of dispersed metal catalysts were compiled. Investigations were

A Comparison Of Film And Written Presentations In The Pretraining For Group Experiences., Ellen Joy Muller

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The purpose of this study was to examine four different forms of pregroup training to determine their comparative effectiveness. Four randomly-assigned training groups and a control group were used. The four training methods were film and written material combined, film only, written material only and inappropriate written material. The criterion measures were selected to survey personality factors, behavioral preferences, and general knowledge. Personality factors were assessed with the Personality Orientation Inventory (POI). The Reaction to Group Situation Test (RGST) was used to survey behavioral tendencies and the Pre-Group Experience Checklist (PGEC) was used to evaluate the level of appropriate group …

Colville Indian Language Dictionary, James Benjamin Somday

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The purpose of this study was to attempt to begin the process of preservation of the languages spoken on and near the Colville Indian Reservation in Washington State. It was further hoped to stimulate others, native speakers especially, to record, either on tape or in writing, those aspects of the language still in their memories. This work is intended to be used to assist the younger tribal members in learning the languages spoken by their elders.The 'dictionary' is listed in alphabetized form for the Teaching & Learning-Colville section only. That is, the Colville words are not alphabetized in Colville (nor …

An Analysis Of Why Mbo (Management By Objectives) In The Military Failed, William P. Jacobsen

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The Influence Of A Home Program On The Performance Of Basic Concepts By Two Preschool Children, Patricia J. Nedberg

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