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An Analysis Of The Effects Of Negative Accentuated Weight Training With One Set And Conventional Weight Training With Three Sets For College Football Players, Mark V. Fohl

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Effectiveness Of The North Dakota Highway Patrol Personnel Selection Standards, Susanna Wittmier

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Determinants Used By Rural School Districts In Northwest Minnesota For Changing From Half-Day, Daily Kindergarten To Full-Day, Alternate-Day Kindergarten Programs, James E. Hodny

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Public Law 94-142 And Teacher Stress In Bismarck Public Schools, Ann Hauer

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Isolation And Differentiation Of Group B Streptococci From Non-Group B Streptococci On A New Selective And Differential Primary Culture Medium, Bette Rose Wojack

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An Investigation Of The Relationships Between Pure Tone And Impedance Audiometric Screening Results, Diane Quam Sander

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A Study Of The Effects Of Communication Apprehension On Students In Fundamentals Of Public Speaking, Cheryl Jean Viestenz

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Stratigraphy And Sedimentology Of The Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene) Near Lost Bridge, Dunn County, West-Central North Dakota, Bradley D. Nesemeier

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The Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene) near Lost Bridge, Dunn County, west-central North Dakota, is 190 meters thick, and is charac terized by four main lithologies: sand, silt, clay, and lignite. The study interval is ISO meters thick, and lies between the basal sand of the formation and the Bullion Butte lignite bed, neither of which are exposed in the immediate study area. Sand, gray to yellow, makes up about 3S% of the interval studied. It occurs in tabular beds 2-18 meters thick. It is fine to very-fine, angular, and composed largely of quartz, feldspar, rock fragments, with minor amounts of …

Petrology Of The Cenozoic Phonolites And Related Rocks Of The Houston Creek Area, Bear Lodge Mountains, Wyoming, Frederick S. O’Toole

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The purpose of this study was to map and study the characteristics and origin of the Cenozoic phonolites and related rocks of the Houston Creek area, located on the southwestern flank of the Bear Lodge Mountains, 10 km northwest of Sundance, Wyoming. Mapping was conducted on a 2 1:10,000 scale over a 16 km area. Microprobe, optical, and x-ray diffraction procedures were employed to observe and describe petrographic and chemical characteristics of the rocks.

The Cenozoic igneous rocks of the Houston Creek area are classified as phonolite, phonolite porphyry, trachyte porphyry, sodalite-bearing phonolite and altered felsite. These hypabyssal rock types …

The Function Of Physical Education In The Educational Structure Of Plato's Republic, Iain C. Adams

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The 1960s and 1970s have been periods of critical enquiry for education and the school curriculum. Physical education has been unable to provide a united front to its critics due to rival factions within the profession and the lack of established foci and a logical status of objectives. Seemingly to add weight to arguments and positions some of the factions of physical education have cited Plato as an ally. This has brought nothing but confusion and an appearance of contradiction to Plato's ideas.

The major problem is that the ideas of Plato that pertain to physical education have been artificially …

Differential Hemispheric Specialization And Its Relationship To Repression, Shirley K. Tyler

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In Freud’s early formulations regarding a model of the mind, he suggested that repressed material functioned in a separate realm of the mind which was inaccessible to conscious recall or verbal inquiry. Based on studies of split-brain patients and studies of the differential functioning of the cerebral hemispheres, Galin (1977) has suggested that the right cerebral hemisphere may be the locus of unconscious mental contents.

Research with patient populations and normals has shown that each cerebral hemisphere is specialized for a different cognitive style. Right hemisphere cognition is similar in many respects to primary process thinking: global, nonverbal, imaginal, nonlinear …

Achievement Orientation: Projective And Objective Measures Of The Veroff Model And Their Relationships To Job Reward Values Orientation, Catherine Fairchild Sikorsky

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The area of achievement motivation research has been fought with theoretical and methodological controversy. The unitary construct of achievement motivation has been challenged by alternative models suggesting several dimensions of achievement orientation. Assessment methods have also been controversial with some researchers preferring objective measures while others prefer projective measures. A third problem in this research area involves the choice of appropriate behavioral or performance correlates of motivation in order to provide a measure of construct validity.

The purpose of the present study was to further explore one model of achievement orientation, the Veroff (1977) model which posits six distinct orientations …

Personality And Psychophysiological Variables In Maltreating Mothers, William N. Friedrich

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This study was designed to systematically investigate personality, psychophysiological, and cognitive appraisal variables in three groups of mothers, i.e. abusive, neglectful, and low-income control. The first two groups of mothers had been investigated by a county welfare agency and an abuse or neglect charge in the previous 12 months was substantiated with the mother identified as the main perpetrator. These two groups consisted of 14 and 13 mothers respectively, who had been randomly chosen from pools of 26 and 27 mothers respectively. A group of 15 mothers receiving aid from the same county agency was randomly chosen from a pool …

Differential Patterns Of Interference During Concurrent Task Performance For The Two Cerebral Hemispheres, Carole H. Hayne

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In this experiment differential hemispheric processing demands in four cognitive tasks, two verbal and two non-verbal, were measured using a simple reaction time probe procedure. The procedure also measured the interference between the reaction time probe and the verbal and nonverbal tasks. The method used was similar to that found in information processing research using a concurrent task procedure to measure processing demands during primary task performance (Posner & Boies 1971). In the concurrent task procedure the subject is requested to perform two tasks at the same time: a cognitive (primary) task and a reaction time probe (secondary task). The …

Estimation And Forecasting Gross State Product: An Application To North Dakota, Theodore P. Wolters

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Energy Assistance Programs For The Poor, Sharon R. Erickson

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Regulation Of Business, Richard H. Duncan Ii

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This independent study is an attempt to analyze the regulation of business in the United States of America. Its objective is to go back in American history to find and describe the legislative origins of government regulation of business and trace its growth to the present. Using the specific areas of price, transport, and public utilities, the impact of regulation on business as it is manifested in todays modern environment will be analyzed.

An Alternate Energy Study For The Proposed Sunrise Project, Clarence A. Bina

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The Use Of Special Mmpi Scales For Prediction Of Response To Chemical Dependency Treatment, James H. Thrower

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how selected special scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) are related to treatment completion and treatment outcome in a privately operated chemical dependency treatment program. Multiple regression analyses, discriminant function analyses, and canonical correlation were used to analyze the data.

In Part I of this study the MMPI scales of Lie, K, Conscious Anxiety, Conscious Repression, Dependency, Dominance, Control, Admission, and Denial were examined to determine their ability to predict treatment completion for 182 males and 48 females. Completion of treatment was associated with lower scores on the Conscious Repression …

A Critical Appraisal Of James Whale's The Old Dark House, Christopher P. Jacobs

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This study uses various critical approaches to analyze James Whale's 1932 film, The Old Dark House, and to some extent, the J. B. Priestley novel, Benighted, upon which it is based. The greatest difference between the two works is in their endings—the character Penderel dies in the novel but survives in the film version. The film also emphasizes the plot more than the characters, cutting much of the novel's character-developing monologues. This sacrifices, as well, much of Priestley's social commentary. The film nevertheless has more depth to its characters than many plot-oriented films of the period.

The Old Dark House …

Printed Maps Of Utah To 1900: An Annotated Cartobibliography, Riley Moore Moffat

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Old maps are valuable research tools in many fields. Finding and identifying them, however, is often difficult. This annotated cartobibliography attempts to identify all maps of Utah printed before 1900. Entries give the distinguishing features, peculiarities, inaccuracies, and a general description as well as the map's provenance and citations in other lists and bibliographies.

The maps are listed chronologically and include all maps located in research collections in Utah, and in the catalogs of the Library of Congress and the Bancroft Library. Although the first entry is dated 1777, the first map of Utah made from actual observation, earlier maps …

Design And Testing Of An Externally Powered Elbow Prosthesis, David E. Weston

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There continues to be a need for an externally powered prothesis which can be used by above elbow amputee patients who cannot effectively operate a conventional body powered prosthesis. This device must be reliable, economically constructed, and easily maintained in the field. A device employing a drive mechanism powered by a small DC motor has been designed to meet this need.

The device is based on an inversion of the belt driven pulley system and is a continuation of previous work employing this mechanism. A prototype was designed using this system in a size suitable for patient application. The model …

Eneactment And Impact Of Geographical Isolation Factors In Public School Revenue Legislation In Three Selected States, Gerald R. Bass

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This research was conducted for the purpose of studying geographical isolation as it relates to schools. Geographical isolation is defined in the study as the particular circumstances in which schools are in need of supplemental revenue due to a combination of small size and geographical factors which inhibit reorganization or consolidation. The procedure was to investigate, document, and synthesize the actual enactment, implementation, and impact of geographical isolation factors in selected states which have employed such factors in their school revenue legislation.

Chapter II contains a review of the literature regarding the problems of small and isolated schools and the …

Developing System Specifications For Selection Of A Business Minicomputer, William Bobertz

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Tax Versus Financial Accounting: The Conformity Controversy Continues, Karen Sue Sando

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General Price-Level Accounting: Monetary Gains And Losses, Robert K. Foss

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A Comparison And Interchangeability Study Among The Ilford, Kodak, And Unicolor Color Transparency To Print Processes, Mitzi Swenson

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The purpose of this research was to investigate and experiment with three selected processes that can be used to produce color prints directly from color transparencies.

This research included: (1) a review the processes available to produce color prints directly from color transparencies, (2) identify and select three processes for producing color prints directly from color transparencies, (3) to experiment with the selected processes used to produce color prints directly from color transparencies for a comparative analysis in terms of processing time, equipment needed, cost, necessary facilities, simplicity of processing, and final results of prints, and (4) to evaluate and …

An Agriculture-Based Finance Model For Indian Community Colleges, James E. Shanley

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This paper presents a finance model for Indian community colleges which proposes that these colleges begin and operate agricultural operations which will generate revenue for the colleges. The paper proposes that the college working with the respective tribe use tribal agricultural resources to produce income which can then be used to meet tribal objectives in higher education. The model was reviewed by a panel with expertise in reservation and tribal community college development.

History of the Problem: This paper traces the status of tribal land and natural resources from early Federal/Indian relationships through the Dawes Allotment Act up to the …

An Epistemological Study Of Goethe's Novel The Sufferings Of Young Werther: An Examination Of Goethe's Educational Philosophy As Reflected In An Analytical Study Of The Character Werther, Mark A. Beckham

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The research problem is to examine Goethe's educational philosophy as identified through an analytical study of the character Werther in Goethe's novel The Sufferings of Young Werther.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the epistemological premises of the learning construct that are within the context of the novel, and to derive from these premises specific learning principles that can be applied to educational theory. Goethe's concepts of the human will, the self, responsibility, choice, and growth are defined and subsequently utilized as the skeletal frame from which to construct the working principles of his thought process. By focusing …

The Representation Of Exceptional Persons In Selected Educational Materials, Carol M. Lange

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A milestone for special education was reached in November. 1975, when the United States Congress passed Public Law 94:142, The Education for All Handicapped Act. Major implications of this document were that disahled children, ages 3-21, now were given an equal opportunity for a free public education; disabled children, would receive that education in the least restrictive environment; due process would be applicable; and the law would be implemented to ensure an education for the disabled ages 3-18 by 1978, and 3-21 by 1980. A result of this law is that disabled children are entering the public school, and a …