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A Comparison Of Inpatient And Outpatient Treatment Programs For Bulimia Nervosa, Claudette M. Richter-Reno

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The current study was designed to investigate the effectiveness of an inpatient stay followed by outpatient treatment for bulimia nervosa, in comparison to an outpatient program only. It was hypothesized that bulimics in the inpatient/outpatient group would be receiving the combined benefits of both inpatient and outpatient treatment, thereby demonstrating greater changes in reduction of bulimic symptomatology than subjects in the less intensive outpatient treatment. Thirty-four, adult, caucasian females meeting the DSM-III-R criteria for bulimia nervosa served as subjects. Nineteen subjects received inpatient/outpatient treatment, while fifteen received outpatient treatment. Subjects completed an initial test packet, including the Beck Depression Inventory …

From Villain To Hero: Traces Of The Gothic Villain/Hero In Four Modern Films, Richard N. Van Eck

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The Gothic novel of the 19th century js often viewed as the beginning and end of the "true" Gothic. While its role in creating or contributing to other genres, such as Science Fiction, Horror, and Romance, is widely recognized, the view of the Gothic as a "dead" genre often persists. The Gothic tradition has continued to the present time, however, and has experienced a recent resurgence of popularity in modern film.

This thesis proposes to examine four modern films as manifestations of the modern Gothic. A working definition of the original Gothic will be formulated, and then refined through the …

A Comparison Of Student Perceptions And Uses Of Accreditation At Selected Minnesota Technical Colleges, Kenneth W. Henry

Theses and Dissertations

The study compared perceptions and use of accreditation among students attending Minnesota technical colleges holding three different types of accreditation.

A total of 777 students from three different academic program areas were surveyed. The students were selected from eight technical colleges. Four colleges were accredited by the NCA Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, two colleges were accredited by NCA Colleges and Schools, and two colleges were accredited by the Minnesota State Board of Technical Colleges.

Students do use and possess some awareness of accreditation. Accreditation was used by 36.5 percent of the students in their choice of colleges and …

Neutron Fluence And Dose From A Varian Clinic 1800 Accelerator, Richard A. Jackson

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The goals of this study were (1) to verify calibration factors determined by previous experiment for relating counts from activated gold foils to neutron fluences, and (2) to use the method to determine neutron fluences under various operating conditions of the Varian Clinac 1800 (18-MeV) electron accelerator at the WPAFB Medical Center. For comparison similar measurements were made of the CGM Saturne 1 at Kettering Memorial Hospital, Dayton, Ohio. Cadmium-difference pairs in a standard graphite pile were employed to verify the counting efficiency of the Geiger-Mueller beta counting system used to count the foil activity. They were also used to …

"Training The Young Idea How To Shoot" : Teaching In Barnes County, The First Thirty Years, 1879-1909, Lori Ann Lahlum

Theses and Dissertations

Traditionally women and their role in history has been overlooked or under-represented. This thesis will look at teachers and education in Barnes County, Dakota Territory and North Dakota, from the years 1879 to 1909. By 1879 the feminization of the teaching profession had occurred, and most Barnes County, and North Dakota, youth were taught by women. However, this is not only a study of female educators. To understand teaching and education in Barnes County, one needs to include male teachers, for they too played important roles.

The material for this study came mostly from primary sources: Barnes County school records, …

The Antiballistic Missile System: North Dakota's "Safeguard", Douglas H. Harler

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The political issues surrounding the deployment and dismantlement of the Safeguard antiballistic missile system and the impact that this Safeguard system had on the communities of northeastern North Dakota are shrouded in controversy. In this paper, the history of the Safeguard complex is reviewed; however, primary attention is devoted to the 1976 Congressional decision to dismantle the Safeguard Complex at Nekoma, North Dakota and the effects it had on the surrounding communities. This thesis analyzes the arguments of the proponents and opponents of the Safeguard deployment and dismantlement. The study concludes that the final decision of the Congress to dismantle …

A Study Of Perceptions Of Special And Regular Education Teachers About Integration Of Handicapped Children, Gwyn K. Marback-Tschosik

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Eric Overmyer's On The Verge A Production Focusing On Feminine Values, Beth Stadem-Carlson

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Eric Overmyer's play On the Verge focuses on three women who leave their world in the year 1888 and enter Terra Incognita, a fanciful world that propels then into the future until they land in the year 1955. The women in Overmyer's play are three extraordinary explorer/adventurers whom, I believe, are based upon three women explorers who actually lived in the late 1800s. The thrust of my thesis focuses on identifying the values displayed by the women in the play, and their real-life counterparts, and determining whether or not these values can be identified as "feminine" or, if indeed, there …

Higher Education Instructional And Student Services Expenditures In Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin, North Dakota, South Dakota, And Wisconsin (1978-79 Through 1987-88), Randall R. Fixen

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A Case Study In Production Efficiency Analysis, Arne C. Sturlaugson

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis is a case study of a wood products manufacturing facility - the Clawson Manufacturing Company. The study included a three month on-site field investigation focusing on manufacturing processes and material flow related to facility design and plant organization.

The purpose of this study is to attain knowledge on increasing the efficiency of product flow operations of the Clawson Manufacturing Company and to gain insight on possible improvements in manufacturing productivity.

The design of this study consisted of a definition of the enterprise to be studied, preparation of an instrument, collection of data, and analysis of data.

The data …

Relationships Between Previous School And Life Experiences Of Pre-Service Elementary Teachers And Their Attitudes Toward Science And Science Teaching, Carlyn Elizabeth Grutzner Sampson

Theses and Dissertations

This study examined the relationships between previous school and life experiences of pre-service elementary school teachers at the University of North Dakota and their attitudes toward science and science teaching.

The study incorporated both qualitative and quantitative methodologies. The first six pre-service teachers from one of the science methods class who volunteered were selected for taped private interviews. Based on this information a quantitative survey (Sampson Survey I) was designed for discovering the relationship between past experiences of pre-service teachers and their current attitudes toward science and teaching science. Additionally, the Shrigley Science Attitude Scale (Shrigley, 1974b), which assesses attitudes …

Multilayer Perceptrons For Classification, Lisa M. Belue

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Techniques for training, testing, and validating multilayer perceptrons are thoroughly examined. Results obtained using perceptrons are compared and contrasted with two multivariate discriminant analysis techniques- logistic regression and k neighbor. Methods for determining significant input features are investigated and a procedure for examining the confidence to place in the significance of these features is developed. Procedures to evaluate the applicability of high-order feature inputs are examined. These methods and procedures are applied to two very different applications. The first application concerns the prediction of Air Force pilot retention/separation rates for input to force projection models. The second application concerns the …

Person-Centered And Dialogical Counseling: A Comparative Study., Rand Ziemke Rasmussen

Theses and Dissertations

Carl R. Rogers' Person-Centered philosophy and Martin Buber's Dialogical philosophy are often compared with one another. Some scholars conclude that they are merely variations on a theme, while others conclude that they represent two entirely separate world-views. With the advent of Dialogical counseling this debate is brought into the discipline of counseling. The purpose of this study is to continue this debate in the discipline of mental health counseling.The current study is an interpretive inquiry into the similarities and differences of Person-Centered and Dialogical counseling. Utilizing the written works of Buber and Rogers, the written work of counselors who identify …

A Study Of Perceived Stress And Reported Health Problems: Relationships To Other Variables Among Secondary School Principals Of Minnesota., Jerold Everett Horgen

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The purposes of the study were (1) to determine if a relationship exists among reported stress and health problems among Minnesota secondary school administrators, (2) to determine what variables correlate with reported stress and health problems, and (3) to recommend behaviors which would contribute to a healthy lifestyle.In 1989 Minnesota had 431 school districts with K-12 programs. This dissertation focused on the secondary school principalship. The secondary school principals surveyed included senior high principals, assistant senior high principals, junior high principals, middle school principals, and assistant junior high/middle school principals. There were 537 total surveys sent out and 405 returned …

A Study Of The Relationship Of Maternal And Child Risk Factors To Development And Low-Income Status In Grand Forks County., Kay Elizabeth Campbell

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to investigate the correlation between maternal and child risk factors and the variables of development, low-income status, and multiple births. The sample consisted of 193 children referred to the North Dakota Early Childhood Tracking System in Grand Forks County from 1988 to mid-1991. The referral criteria were based on established, biological, and environmental risk factors. The correlation between development and risk factors was not significant. Low-income status was significantly correlated to maternal risk factors (p $<$.001), short term respiratory problems (p $<$.05), neonatal risk factors (p $<$.05), and single parenthood (p $<$.001). Multiple births were significantly correlated to neonatal risk factors (p $<$.05) and prematurity (p $<$.001).

Spousal Bereavement In The Second Year: Differences In Bereavement Outcome Among The Rural And Urban Elderly., Laurie Ann Brustad

Theses and Dissertations

Twenty-five bereaved rural elderly subjects (10 males, 15 females) were compared with twenty-five bereaved urban elderly subjects (16 females, 9 males) in the second year after the death of a spouse. All subjects were drawn from a Hospice population. The rural elderly were found to have higher levels of depression, unresolved grief, and poorer health than the urban elderly as measured by the Multiscore Depression Inventory, the Beck Depression Inventory, the Wahler Physical Symptoms Inventory, and the Texas Revised Inventory of Grief. Multiple regression analyses revealed that several variables influenced scores on the outcome measures. Depression scores were best predicted …

Amy Brown Lyman And Social Service Work In The Relief Society, David Roy Hall

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This thesis examines the life and accomplishments of Amy Brown Lyman, particularly as they relate to charity activities and social service work of the Relief Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It considers her early life, her call to the General Board in 1909, her contributions to the creation of the Relief Society Social Services Department in 1919, her association with national and international leaders of reform, and her efforts in sponsoring and supporting social welfare legislation in Utah. Also examined are her work with the Social Services Department during the Great Depression, her mission to …

Sequence Specificity Of Teniposide-Induced Deletion And Insertion Mutations At The Aprt Locus Of Chinese Hamster Cells, Yi-Hong Han

Theses and Dissertations

Previous studies suggested that teniposide is a strong clastogen, and that the DNA breakage effect of this drug is mediated by the nuclear enzyme topoisomerase II. Ripley et al found evidence for a correspondence between sites of acridine-induced frameshift mutations in bacteriophage T4 and sites of in Vitro DNA cleavage by T4 topoisomerase II. To identify the sequence specificity of teniposide-induced deletion and insertion mutations in mammalian cells, the CHO-D422 cell line, which is hemizygous at the aprt locus, was employed in this study. Sixty-eight teniposide-induced and 42 spontaneous aprt mutants were analyzed at the DNA sequence level. Compared with …

The Effect Of Body Position Changes On Arterial Oxygen Saturation In Obesity As Measured Noninvasively By Pulse Oximetry, Anna Marie Angela Klosterman

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This study utilized a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest design that compared the effect of body position changes on arterial oxygen saturation in obesity as measured noninvasively by pulse oximetry. The null hypothesis, that there would be no difference between oxygen saturation values measured by pulse oximetry with position change from sitting to supine in obese subjects as compared to nonobese subjects, was tested. Fourteen obese, American Society of Anesthesiologist (ASA) physical class status II subjects and 14 nonobese ASA physical class status I subjects were included in the sample population. Thirteen of the obese subjects were further classified as morbidly obese. After …

Evaluation Of Quantitative Electroencephalography For Assessment Of Central Nervous System Stimulant Response, Patricia W. Slattum

Theses and Dissertations

The objective of this investigation was to evaluate quantitative electroencephalography (EEG) as a measure of CNS stimulation. The reproducibility and sensitivity of quantitative EEG was compared to neuroendocrine, mood, and psychomotor performance measures.

The study was conducted in two parts. The first part investigated the inter- and intra-individual variability associated with a series of pharmacological response measures under baseline (no drug) conditions. It was an open-label pilot study in which eight healthy male volunteers underwent a series of tests (EEG, visual continuous performance task (CPT), a finger tapping task, and self-rated mood scales) repeated eight times over a 12 hour …

Evidence That Nicotine Can Acutely Desensitize Central Nicotinic Cholinergic Receptors In Vivo, John Randolph James

Theses and Dissertations

Current concepts concerning nicotine's central nervous system (CNS) mechanism(s) of action suggest that this drug is producing its effects via an interaction at nicotiniccholinergic receptors (nAChRs) which open a membrane cation channel. Following initial opening of the channel, nicotine appears to induce a rapid desensitization of the nAChRs, closing the channel and resulting in a cessation of nicotine's effects. Research presented here will provide evidence of this secondary desensitization process in vivo by demonstrating nicotine's ability to induce acute tolerance in the discriminative stimulus (DS) paradigm. The ability of nicotine to elicit DS control of behavior was significantly reduced via …

An Analysis Of The Values Influencing Neonatal Nurses' Perceptions And Behaviors In Selected Ethical Dilemmas, Deborah A. Raines

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The purpose of this research was to identify the values influencing the nurse's perception and choice of behavior in a hypothetical clinical situation. The theoretical framework was Rokeach's (1973) Theory on the Nature of Human Values and Value Systems. A descriptive study using a mailed survey was conducted on a random sample of 331 members of the National Association of Neonatal Nurses. Data on individual nurses' values, perception of information and behavioral choices were collected with an investigator developed questionnaire, consisting of a values scale (alpha =.82) and an information scale and choice alternatives related to three hypothetical vignettes: a …

Communicative Ability In Head Injured Children, Patricia M. Fast

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Denitrification In The Elk Valley Aquifer, Northeastern North Dakota, Gale G. Mayer

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Biological denitrification controls nitrate distribution in the Elk Valley aquifer, which underlies approximately 725 square kilometres of northeastern North Dakota and provides drinking water for farms and rural communities in the area. Increased irrigation has raised concerns over potential contamination from agricultural practices. The purpose of this study was to establish the role of biological denitrification in minimizing concentration and distribution of nitrate and to determine the effect irrigation practices have on groundwater flow and nitrate distribution in the saturated zone.

The aquifer is unconfined and consists of up to 20 metres of glacial outwash and deltaic shale-rich sand deposits. …

Effect Of An In-School Farm Injury Prevention Program On Farm Safety Practices And Attitudes Of Rural Farm Families, Colleen J. Holzwarth

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Education On Proper Handling Of Pesticides Reduces The Risk Of Contamination, Mary Long Schlosser

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No abstract provided.

Cost Expenditure And Trend Analysis : Patients With Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Jennifer Nuelle-Dimoulas

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No abstract provided.

Captain Planet : Effects Of Schema On Environmental Learning From Television Programs, Patrick J. Osowski

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Sentencing Disparity : A Study Of Whites And Native Americans In North Dakota, Lewis D. Parrill

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Differences In Friendship Behavior And Intrinsic Relationship Rewards Between Male And Female Subjects Raised In Either Alcoholic Or Non-Alcoholic Family Systems, Raymond List

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No abstract provided.