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Do Accountants Communicate?, Kay L. Storbakken

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Your Secretary - A Hidden Asset, Curtis D. Pearson

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Distribution Of Fishes In The James River In North Dakota And South Dakota Prior To Garrison And Oahe Diversion Projects, Dean S. Elsen

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Forty-one species of fish representing 12 families were collected in ®et» 1975, frost the James l i w r basin in Bortli Bakhta smd Sooth Dakota* additional. 18 species and two additional families were reported fey ot’tr estimators* Only three species were present in the headwater region * ®r species appeared downstream in progressive additions to the header assemblage, Some species differed from the general addition pata and showed a localized habitat preference. $11 ration, nutrient i f ^ # > / - 4 ^ .. ;',rvy-vi . ;v 3* low-head dams, and. loss of streamflow are believed to have changed …

Modality Specific Predicate Usage And Imagery Vividness, Joann C. Russell

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Bancller and Grinder (1975, 1976) propose a model oE communication and change which is based on the assumption that the language used by an individual directly reflects the sensory nature of his conscious experience. A preference for some mode(s) over others for representation of experience is purportedly evidenced by relatively more frequent occurrence in the person's speech of predicates specific to the favored mode(s). Further, imagery is said to be more vivid in preferred representational systems.

The present study was designed to investigate the relationship between modality specific predicate usage and vividness of sensory imagery. Subjects were 42 undergraduate students …

A Comparison Of Two Methods For Recording And Analyzing Supervisory Conferences, Pamela J. Anderson

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This study was designed to determine if a significant relationship existed between The Underwood Category System for Analyzing Supervisor-Clinician Behavior (UCA System) and the Content and Sequence Analysis of the Supervisory Session (CSA System) by comparing the information obtained from the two procedures.

Subjects for this study were five faculty members and numerous student clinicians enrolled in clinical practicum at the University of North Dakota Speech and Hearing Clinic. Thirty-four supervisory conferences were audio-tape recorded in the supervisors' offices. The second five minutes of each conference was selected to be scored and analyzed using both of the systems.

A significant …

Curriculum Research In Marketing Education, Robert F. Wood

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This thesis deals with an evaluation of the University of North Dakota's marketing program. The evaluators are past marketing, retail merchandising, and distributive education students who graduated from UND during the years 1965 to 1974 and employers of these graduates.

Most graduates believed the objectives of marketing education had been accomplished. However, the graduates and employers of these graduates felt that more emphasis should be placed upon improving the communication and human relation abilities of students.

A majority of the graduates felt that their marketing courses benefited them to some degree and indicated only one course as having little or …

The Buell Military Commission: A Microcosm Of The Union Command Problem, Mark Peine

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This paper is a study of Union military philosophy during the American Civil War. Its specific purpose is to identify and establish clearly what is classified here as the Union command problem. Simply stated, the command problem was due to the fact that there were two schools of generalship, both inadequate; this meant that top leadership was usually mediocre since, for different reasons, Union commanders had an incomplete idea of war.

The procedure used to study this command problem is, first, to examine its origins in eighteenth century European military theory and then to study its appearance on the battlefield …

A Comparison Of Attitude Change In Senior Citizen And College Age Subjects, Carl R. Westphal

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The present study was designed to examine the validity of generally held assumptions of decreased attitudinal flexibility in the aged. A preliminary study preceded the formal study and identified a target attitude, sources of varying credibility, and evaluated self-esteem as a possible confounding variable. Subsequently 40 college age and 40 senior citizen subjects' attitude toward the Equal Rights Amendment were measured by a paper and pencil survey. Two weeks later an anti- E.R.A. attitude change message, attributed to sources of varying age and credibility, was presented and its impact measured by a posttest survey. Follow-up measures were taken three weeks …

The Use Of Paradoxical Anxiety Instructions In An Interview Setting: An Analogue Study, Peter C. Peterson

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The paradoxical techniques of encouraging and scheduling symptoms have "been used by therapists from a variety of theoretical orientations including communication systems, psychoanalysis, behavior modification, and existentialism. The various techniques have in common the scheduling of problematic behavior tmder specific conditions to promote behavior change. The study examined the effects of paradoxical instructions on state anxiety in an interview ajia- logue setting, The experiment was undertaken to assess the immediate impact of paradoxical instructions in a controlled situation. Existing studies are primarily of the case report variety and are hopelessly confounded with uncontrolled factors such as adjunctive chemotherapy, psychotherapy, and …

Effects Of Length Of Residence On Resident Adjustment In Nursing Homes, Jeanine Elaine Kotschwar Entingh

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Institutionalization is a process which affects 20% of Americans over 65 years. The research in the area has shown that, at least in some cases, this process may have deleterious effects on the elderly. Some suggest that relocation alone can be harmful, and may result in increased mortality or decreased adjustment. Others state that these effects may be moderated or reversed under the proper conditions. Still others propose that a person-situation match is the important factor in adjustment to an institution.

This study is a cross-sectional comparison of people who have lived in a nursing home for under one year. …

Effectiveness Of Child-Management Training, Candace Joan Varvil

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The object of this study was to compare two different child management approaches (one general and one more specific) and to determine their effectiveness relative to each other. Subjects for this study were 22 parents who responded to a letter sent out by the group leader through four elementary schools in the Grand Forks Public School System. One week prior to the beginning of the sessions the leader visited each of the families to explain the research program and to have the parents fill out the pretest measures. All parents filled out basic demographic data, the Hereford Parent Attitude Survey, …

Systems, Adaptation, And The Business Firm, Jerry Goen

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Combined Law Enforcement Council Grants: An Empirical Study, Bruce Brenner

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The Plant Communities Of Arches National Park, John Stevens Allan

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Arches National Park, located in southeastern Utah, lies in a transition zone between the southwestern hot desert and the western cold desert, but it is floristically most similar to the hot desert. The major plant communities are as follows: Juniper-pinyon, blackbrush, grasslands and sand dune association. Other community types occur but occupy very limited areas. All of the communities studied have a high degree of uniqueness and merit recognition as separate entities. Blackbrush showed the greatest overall similarity to other communities and was most similar to the sand dune communities. The hanging gardens were the most distinctive and covered the …

Audit Committees: Some Considerations, James L. Fandrich

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High Pressure Liquid Chromatographic Methods For The Separations Of Derivatized Alpha-Keto Acids And Thiamine Phosphate Esters, Bruce Clark Hemming

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Improved methods have been developed for separation of a-keto acid derivatives and for thiamine and its phosphate esters. Linear gradient reverse phase chromatography using ion-pair formation provides baseline resolution for a seven-component homologous series of a-keto acid dinitrophenylhydrazones having increasing carbon chain lengths. Branched-chain keto acids can also be separated. Aldehyde derivatives were examined as possible interfering compounds. Peak identification in biological material was confirmed for pyruvate by an enzymic peak shift technique. Monitoring near 365 nm permits low nanogram detection. Preliminary studies of keto acids in biological material illustrate the method's applicability. The same system with slight changes separates …

Bionomics Of A Subterranean Gall Midge (Diptera : Cecidomyiidae) From Artemisia Ludoviciana, Ranasinghe

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Bionomics of a gall midge that emerged from nodulelike structures of herbaceous sage, Artemisia ludoviciana Nutt., was studied as a part of a larger investigation on possible nitrogen fixation by this plant. Infested plants collected from the field were regularly examined in the laboratory where some of them were grown in a liquid nutrient medium. In the laboratory, adult midges were reared from the pupae and induction of infestation was attempted. Apparent nodulation on these plants is caused by the subterranean bud galls of a previously unknown gall midge species, Rhopalomyia subhumilis Gagne. The life history of this midge is …

Qualified Audit Opinions: Some Views, James J. Wosepka

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A Study Of Hermann Hesse's Philosophy Of Education: An Analysis Of His Novel Steppenwolf And Its Relationship To Jung's Individuation Process, Richard Lloyd Anderson

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With the rise of an existential-epistemological philosophy of modern education, the writings of the poet-author Hermann Hesse have gained in significance as a philosophical concept. Although Hesse never claimed to be either an existentialist or educator, the theme of his "inward journey to self" recurs in most of his ^-orks and generates a philosophy which parallels many of the epistemological concepts of the existentialists. The essence of Hesse’s inward journey, i.e., the discovery and the articulation of the manifold aspects of the self and its relation with all other existence in the universe, found structural articulation in Jung's process of …

Milton R. Young: Dirt Farmer To United States Senator 1932-1945, Stephen Grant Sylvester

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Milton R. Young rose from the obscurity of a small farm in North Dakota to the prominence of a United States Senator. He began his political career as a member of the Henrietta Township Board, served one term in the North Dakota House of Representatives, three terms in the North Dakota Senate, and as of January 1, 1977, was the Republican Dean of the United States Senate.

Young, a lifelong Republican, opposed William Langer, the state's most skillful politician, throughout his career in the state legislature and helped organize the Republican Organizing Committee, a faction of the Republican Party formed …

The Relationship Between Changes In Articulatory Performance And Changes In Oral Sterognostic Ability In Children, Arlene A. Smolak

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between changes in oral stereognostic ability and changes in articulation proficiency in elementary-school children. The subjects for this investigation were seventeen normal-speaking children, with a mean age of seven years four months, and seventeen articulatory- defective children, with a mean age of seven years three months.

All of the subjects were administered the Arizona Articulation Proficiency Scale: Revised (AAPS) (Fudala, 1970) and a test of oral stereognosis twice in the 1977 school-year--both prior and subsequent to a period of articulation treatment with the speech-defective group. The interval between the measures …

Techniques For Preparing 35-Mm Title Slides To Enrich Mediated Instruction In Industrial Arts Education, Keith A. Stenehjem

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The nature and scope of this study was a library-descriptive research project designed to investigate and experiment with selected photographic techniques that can be used by a classroom instructor in preparing 35-mm title slides in industrial arts education.

The specific objectives formulated for this study were: (1) to conduct a literature search, (2) to review and analyze techniques used in preparing title slides for educational media, (3) to identify and select five techniques to be used as the basis of this study by a predetermined criteria, (4) to experiment with the selected techniques used in producing title slides, and (5) …

Effects Of Television On Rural Minnesota Viewer Attitudes Toward Capital Punishment, Beverly Brown Schulke

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This thesis examines the relationship between television viewing and attitudes toward capital punishment by making comparisons between viewers watching Canadian television and viewers receiving United States television. The adult population of three rural Minnesota areas was enumerated providing a sample N of 414. These areas were closely matched in all respects except type of television received. The first area receives only Canadian television signals, the second both United States and Canadian television signals, and the third receives only United States television signals. One adult from each household was interviewed in his/her home. High school youths in corresponding areas were also …

The Relationship Between Degree Of Sobriety In Male Alcoholics And Coping Styles Used By Their Wives, Jack B. Schaffer

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The present study was designed primarily to study the relationship between modes of coping used by wives of alcoholics and the outcome of their husbands' drinking behavior. Previous research had provided some understanding of the wife's personality, but little controlled research had studied the relationship between the wife's behavior and her husband's drinking. Orford and his associates (Orford and Guthrie, 1968, Orford, et aj_., 1975) provided the initial stimulus for this study by demonstrating that relatively consistent modes of coping could be identified.

However, the Orford, et a]_. study found a minimal relationship between modes of coping and the eventual …

Expanding Expressions Involving Experiments In Painting, Sculpture, And Intanglio Printing, Rheta Mae Mason

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This thesis investigates testing of the procedures and demonstrating of the visual images expressed by the artist over the past two years as a graduate student in painting, printing, and sculpturing.

Population Changes Of North Dakota's Rural Trade Centers, 1960-1970, Charles L. Durrenberger

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Research in trade relationships and hinterland analysis has shown that rural trade centers do not exist in isolation, but exhibit an interdependence with other rural and urban places. The purpose of this study is to examine relationships among trade centers by measuring their potential for growth.

The construct selected for growth analysis examines rural trade center population changes in relation to the size of rural trade centers, distance from urban centers, and the size of neighboring trade centers, both urban and rural. Trade centers having populations greater than 2,500 in 1970, were defined as urban. All trade centers considered were …

Administrative Role Perceptions Of North Dakota Elementary School Principals As Related To Five Selected Dimensions Of Administrative Function, Rodney A. Desautel

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Purpose of the Study: The purpose of this study was to determine: (1) the role dimension North Dakota elementary school principals perceive to be the most important in performance of the duties of a principalship; (2) whether North Dakota elementary school principals are functioning in the role dimension they perceive to be most important in performance of the duties of a principalship, (3) the perceived success of performance in each role dimension as judged by North Dakota elementary school principals, (4) what relationships exist between/among certain personality profiles of North Dakota elementary school principals and the perceived importance of and …

Discrimination Learning Sets In Children, Sandra Harrell Fenner

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This study investigated the relationship between the formation of discrimination learning set and children's ability to use logical thinking as indicated by verbalization of the rule of the problem. Twenty-seven seven-year-olds and 27 nine-year-olds, all females, within the average IQ range, were presented four-trial object discrimination problems as a game. Each child was presented 20 problems per day for one to three days until she reached the criterion of two successive problems in which no error was made on trials 2, 3, and 4 of both problems. After every ten problems the experimenter asked the subject questions to determine whether …

An Inquiry Into Practices And Problems Of Transfer Prices, Richard E. Hansen

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The Role Of The North Dakota Electrical Board In State Government, Jack E. Eakman

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