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Unionization Of The Military, Ltc. Lavern E. Hammers

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Reciprocity Of Self-Disclosure At High Levels Of Intimacy, William P. Hampes

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Modeling theorists, norm of reciprocity theorists, and social exchange theorists predict that person A will reciprocate person B's level of intimacy from low levels of intimacy all the way up to high levels of intimacy. Trust theorists predict that reciprocation will occur at low and moderate, but not at high levels of intimacy. Siirdliarly, trust theorists would predict that subjects high in social desirability, due to their suspicious nature, would not reciprocate at high levels of intimacy. The other theorists would predict reciprocation at high! levels of intimacy due to the conforming nature of the subjects high in social desirability. …

Three Methods Of Evaluation, Catherine J. Pery

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Clause-By-Clause Listing Of Teacher Association And School Board Agreements In Effect In Selected North Dakota School Districts To June 30, 1976, Charles W. Potter

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The North Dakota legislature provided for negotiations between boards of public school districts and their certificated employees with statute 15-38.1 (see Appendix B). The Teachers' Representation and Negotiation Statute has been in effect since 1969!

The purpose for negotiation legislation was to promote the improvement of personnel management and relations between school boards and their certificated employees by providing a uniform basis for the negotiations process. The success or failure of this process may prove to be the most important factor in determining how effectively school boards, teachers, and administrators can and will work together in the future. The need …

Auditor Independence: Some Important Issues, Scott T. Beiswenger

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A Comparison Of Groups' Judgments During The Screening Of Normally-Developing And Language-Impaired Children, Karen Louise Ruttledge

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The purpose of the present study was to determine whether classroom teachers, student clinicians, and public school speech- language pathologists judge child language performance differently when using personal criteria and when using selected criteria to screen child language performance.

The subjects in the present study were ten public school speech- language pathologists with one to thirteen years of experience, ten student clinicians with one to three semesters of supervised clinical practicum, and ten classroom teachers with one to six years of experience. Two videotapes of one-minute start/stop language samples of ten children, five of whom were language normal and five …

An Analysis Of Job Task And Organizational Environment In Relationship To Human Needs, Allen K. Nichols

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Problem: Work for many individuals is a necessity. Most organizations must employ individuals to perform services and tasks so that the organization's purpose is fulfilled. When an individual and an organization are brought together to do a job, a relationship is initiated. How this relationship affects the individual in terms of productivity, attitude, life style and so on, is the subject of a good deal of motivational research. The Contingency Theory of Motivation stresses the importance of a possible congruent relationship betxveen three worksite factors: the individual, his task and the organizational environment. It is hypothesized that if one were …

The Educational Cooperative Service Unit As Perceived By School Board Presidents, Administrators, And Teachers In Planning Regions One And Two Of Northwestern Minnesota, William R. Nachatilo

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the attitudes of school board presidents, superintendents, elementary principals, secondary principals, elementary teachers, and secondary teachers of the Governor's Planning Regions One and Two of Northwestern Minnesota regarding the establishment of the Educational Cooperative Service Unit (ECSU). A survey questionnaire was used to compare the attitu- dinal differences between respondents: (1) from the different roles; (2) from school districts of various size enrollment—i.e., 0-300, 301-700, 701-1200, and above 1200; and (3) from each of the twelve counties within this area.

The study has also identified the potential programs and/or services that …

Antonio Callado's Reflections Of The Ball And Some Reflections On Its Translation, Harriet S. Mcclelland

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This thesis consists of a translation of Antonio Callado's Reflections of the Ball (Rio de Janeiro: Paz e Terra, 1976) from Portuguese to English, an analysis of some of the problems involved in the translation process with proposed solutions to the specific problems of this work, and a critical analysis of some of the literary aspects of the book.

The following procedure was followed: (1) a first draft translation was made, and a native speaker of Brazilian Portuguese was consulted to see if the meaning was retained in the target language at all points; (2) then, the translation was gone …

Sex-Linked Mental Retardation Without Physical Stigmata (Martin-Bell Or Renpenning Type) : A Genetic And Psychometric Approach, Craig L. Hanis

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Screening the Utah State Training School (a resident institution for the mentally retarded) for kindreds having at least two institutionalized sibs generated 54 sib groups. Of these, 20-male only sibships had histories compatible with sex-linked mental retardation without physical stigmata (Martin-Bell or Renpenning type). Affected males had no characteristic physical stigmata (an appreciable number did have speech problems and/or seizure disorders) and exhibited IQs ranging from 5 to 74 with a mean of 34.2. Obligate carrier females had a mean IQ score of 91.9 (range, 79 to 106), which is as would be predicted due to random X-inactivation. Carrier females …

Perceptions And Images Of The Living Environment: Potential Applications To Planning, Richard W. Gray

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Isolation, Purification, Scanning Electron Microscopy And Bacterial Dna Uptake Of Plant Protoplasts, Bronwyn G. Hughes

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Protoplasts were isolated from tobacco and barley leaves in sucrose or mannitol using commercially available cellulases and macerozymes. Barley growth and protoplast isolation and purification conditions were optimized so that protoplasts were obtained in high yields free of unwanted debris and organelles. A technique for processing barley and tobacco protoplasts for examination by scanning electron microscopy was developed in which protoplasts seem to have maintained their structural integrity. Barley and tobacco protoplasts took up 3H-B. subtilis DNA, 125I-B. subtilis DNA or 125I-M. luteus DNA as a linear function of time (0-6 hr) and DNA concentration (0-200 μg/ml). Up to 16 …

Gender Role Of Male Pseudohermaphrodites In The Dominican Republic, Sara V. Mallea

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This study introduces factors in the post-pubertal change of gender role in a group of male pseudohermaphrodites in the Dominican Republic. The individuals grow up as girls because of ambiguous genitalia at birth. Upon the onset of puberty, with development of scrotum and phallus, they generally select adult male models to emulate as their future role behavior. The essay describes the socio-cultural setting in which the children are raised and proposes a theory that differential socialization of boys and girls and adult access to resources are contributing elements in the decisions to switch gender roles. At the time of the …

The Relationship Of The Satisfactoriness Of North Dakota Vocationally-Trained Employees To Selected Factors Of The Employee, The Supervisor, And The Organization., Jack W. R. Peters

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Development Of A Pictorial Leisure Interest Assessment Instrument For Use In Leisure Counseling, Nancy Ellen Mclennan

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The Effect Of Word Processing On Business Letter Writing., Stephen Dale Lewis

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The Histology Of The Spleen Of The Bush Baby, Galago Senagalensis : A Light Microscopic Study, J Eric Dravland

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Identification, Refinement, And Ranking Of Goals And Objectives For The National Association Of Distributive Education Teachers., Larry Keith Christiansen

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A Communication Study Of How Professional Women Perceive Themselves Trusting Their Male Co-Workers And How They Perceive Their Male Co-Workers Trusting Others, Rebecca C. Monley

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A Study Of Lowell Lundstrom's Conversion Strategies In The Radio Program Message For America 1974-1976, Anthony L. Rustad

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A Fine Microfibrillar Network Of The Extracellular Matrix, Gregg Elden Olson

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Perceived Attributes Related To Adoption Of Food Storage, Connie Jean Roberts

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The purpose of this study is to determine the relationship between an individual's perceptions of the attributes of food storage and his adoption of food storage practices. Food storage is defined as the practice of preserving and storing basic food commodities as a reserve supply. This practice is encouraged as a preparatory measure to provide security for families in the midst of emergencies, whether physical, economic, or social in nature. It becomes especially appropriate in developing areas where physical disasters (such as earthquakes and floods) coupled with social and economic instability, individually and on a national scale, pose constant threats …

Factors Influencing The Use Of Health Services: By Four Wards In The Taipei Taiwan Stake Relief Society Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Candace Sheila Gutzman Hsiao

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The purpose of this study was to determine what sociocultural, sociodemographic, and sociopsychological factors the Sisters in four Wards in the Taipei Taiwan Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints perceived as keeping them from using the health services during the period from June 1975 to May 1976.

Forty-five Sisters, age twenty-one and older, were surveyed by a written questionnaire during Relief Society meetings during the last week in June and the first week in July 1966.

A majority of the Sisters were found to have experienced times when they did not avail themselves of the existing …

Critical Expression And Subsequent Physiological Response As A Function Of Selected Situational Variables, Thomas M. Beall

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This research investigated the influence of two social situational factors, anonymity and expected audience, on the expression of criticism and subsequent physiological and psychological response. The expression of criticism towards a disagreeable stranger was studied under the provision of either anonymity or no anonymity to the critic factorially combined with an expected audience for the criticism of either the person criticized (criticism-relevant expected audience), or someone who knew neither the critic or the person criticized (criticism-irrelevant expected audience).

A series of hypotheses were derived from Zillman's (1972) two factor theory of aggressive responding concerning the expression of criticism and subsequent …

Out Of The Mouths Of Jews : A Rhetorical Analysis Of Jewish Dialogue In Modern Fiction, Susan Urbanc Flynn

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Glacial Stratigraphy Of Southeastern North Dakota, Michael Camara

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Seven lithostratigraphic units are recognized in the glacial sediment {till) of southeastern North Dakota. Five of these units are not formally named; eventually most of these units will be correlated with formations in surrounding regions. Two of these units, Gardar and Dahlen, are formations recognized in northeastern North Dakota {Hobbs, 1975). The seven lithostratigraphic units are differentiated and correlated using the percentage of the sand, silt, and clay fractions of the till and using the proportion of igneous and metamorphic rock fragments, limestone and dolomite fragments, and shale fragments in the very-coarse-sand fraction (1 to 2 mm) of the till. …

The Shapes Of Ideas. (Original Poems)., Harold Melvin Nelson

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Prediction Of Performance On The Royal Society Of Arts Business Examinations In Nigeria., Oluremi Raphael Aina

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Teacher Inservice And Professional Development In The Urban School Divisions Of Metropolitan Winnipeg., Alice Mary-Elizabeth Cheatley

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An Evaluation Of The Northern Plains Indian Teacher Corps Teacher Preparation Model., Bennett Francis Berhow

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