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An Investigation Into The Factors That Influence The Desired Outcomes Of Upward Bound Projects Comprised Primarily Of Native American Youth, Bette Mcgugin Haskins

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The purpose of this study was to assess whether a relationship existed between certain resource characteristics and designated outcomes within Upward Bound programs whose student enrollments were predominately American Indian. Positive outcomes included achievement test gains in both comprehension and reading, high school retention, the number of high school graduates, and enrollment in post-secondary education. Ten Upward Bound projects from an eight-state area were involved in the study.

Data were collected from directors and staff using a questionnaire, the Bogardus Social Distance Scale, and Hersey and Blanchard's LEAD Self and LEAD Other.

Factor analysis, stepwise multiple linear regression, and Pearson …

The Relationship Of Personality Type To Excellence In College Teaching, Eloise Ann Iverson

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Flexible Engineering Software: An Integrated Workstation Approach To Finite Element Analysis, Brant Arnold Ross

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One obstacle preventing more engineers from using finite element analysis (FEA) is the difficulty of transferring data between steps in the modeling process. A Fortran computer program, Rosetta.BYU, has been developed to open data paths between finite element preprocessors (mesh generators) and finite element analysis programs, using a custom data structure. It accepts neutral data files, Version 2.0 IGES data files, and Movie.BYU files for input/output. An application of Rosetta is described. A general workstation manager program, Davinci.BYU, is reviewed that provides a support layer between the engineer and the operating system, organizes software and data files, and facilitates on-line …

Elder Stephen L. Richards On Peace And War: An Examination Of Elder Richards' Views On The Causes Of War And His Prescription For Peace, Based On The Analytical Framework Contained In Kenneth N. Waltz' Man, The State And War, Gordon John Stirling

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In Man, the State and War, Kenneth N. Waltz claims that for a peace prescription to be valid, it must be based on a proper view of the causes of war. Waltz analyzes the validity of three basic causes of war: man himself, the characteristics of the nation-state, and the international system.

I have examined the views of Elder Stephen L Richards on peace and war in the context of the Waltz framework. Elders Richards believed that the failings of men were the primary causes of war. His prescription for peace was widespread acceptance of the Gospel. He disagreed …

Petrology Of The Sentinel Butte Formation (Paleocene), North Dakota, Nels F. Forsman

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Sedimentary materials of the Sentinel Butte Formation have been petrographically examined using optical and scanning electron micro scope/microprobe techniques. The formation consists of fine-grained materials which generally are classified mineralogically as volcanic litharenites or feldspathic litharenites. Most rock units in the formation are siltstones and mudstones. Multiple source rock types, including volcanic, metamorphic, and sedimentary, are represented by mineralogic constituents, but volcanic rock fragments are most abundant. Petrographic distinctions between basal and uppermost sandstone units suggest that a change in sediment supply took place near the end of Sentinel Butte time. Authigenic cement development appears concentrated in more porous and …

Science Laboratory Equipment In North Dakota High Schools During 1954-1984, Including Effects Of Federal Funds Authorized In Title Iii Of Public Law 85-864 (National Defense Education Act (Ndea), Elementary And Secondary Education Act (Esea), Pl85-864)., Patricia Andrea Giese

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The purpose of this study was to analyze information about science laboratory equipment in North Dakota high schools during 1954-1984 and to determine if past experiences and present conditions warrant new federal aid to schools for purchasing science laboratory equipment. A history was written about all federal legislation funding school science laboratory equipment and about the administration of funds from that legislation allocated to the North Dakota state education agency, the Department of Public Instruction (DPI). Most of the federal funds used for school science laboratory equipment in North Dakota were authorized by Congress under Title III of Public Law …

Perceived Needs For Computer Applications Instruction In Accounting Within Two-Year Post-Secondary Educational Programs In Canada's Prairie Provinces., John Bujea

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The problem of this study was to determine whether recent graduates of two-year post-secondary technical and/or vocational institutions in Canada's three prairie provinces of Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan were perceived by employers and educators to have the necessary education in computer applications in accounting to meet entry-level job requirements.The survey method was selected as the research method for this study which was designed to determine the perceived needs of instructors, employers and students for curriculum offerings of computer applications in accounting in two-year post-secondary institutions. Questionnaires were sent to: (1) all the two-year post-secondary institutions in the three prairie provinces, …

The Influences Of Selected Government Legislation On The Development Of The Community Colleges In Manitoba (Canada, History)., Agnes Marie Glenn

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Statement of the Problem. The problem of this study was to determine the influences of selected federal legislation on the development of community colleges in Manitoba.Purpose of the Study. The purposes of this study were to identify and describe specific federal legislation and federal-provincial agreements which influenced the development of community colleges in Manitoba, and to determine specific and perceived outcomes in the community colleges in Manitoba resulting from the legislative acts and agreements.Procedures. The historical research method was used. Documents studied were federal legislation and federal-provincial agreements related to technical/vocational education; annual reports of the federal Departments of Agriculture …

An Electrochemical Investigation Of The Reductive Carbon-Oxygen Bond Cleavage Reactions For Some Model Ether Compounds (Intramolecular Cyclization, Phenyl Halide Reductions, Radical Anion Dimerization)., Miles Duane Koppang

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The radical anions of 2, 3, and 4-cyanoanisole and 2 and 4-cyanodiphenyl ether have been electrochemically generated and shown to react by a variety of pathways in dry N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF). The 2-cyanoanisole radical anion dimerizes (k = 320 M('-1) s('-1)) to a dimeric dianion which undergoes carbon-oxygen bond cleavage (k = 0.019 s('-1)) to 2-cyanophenoxide, methide, and 2-cyanoanisole. The 3-cyanoanisole radical anion is relatively stable (t(, 1/2) > 10('3) s). The 4-cyanoanisole radical anion undergoes unimolecular fragmentation (k = 7 s('-1)) to yield 4-cyanophenoxide and methyl radical. The radical anion of 4-cyanodiphenyl ether undergoes dimerization (k = 110 M('-1) s('-1)) to …

"Do What The Spirit Say Do": John Beecher And His Poetry (Social Protest, Political Poetry, Alabama), James Alfred Helten

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John Beecher lived for nearly half of the twentieth century in the vanguard of social protest in the United States. His personal protest manifested itself primarily in two arenas which are often considered to be mutually exclusive, art and politics. In neither arena was he an organization man, but rather a "free radical." He belonged to no particular school of poets, and he espoused racial equality and freedom of ideology at times when neither of those issues was popular. Beecher felt no reticence about conjoining poetry and politics, confident of the benefits that might more than offset the detrimental effects. …

A Qualitative Study Of Beliefs, Values, And Practice In Literacy Education: Portraits Of Three High School Teaching & Learning Teachers, Karla Smart

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This study is a description of teachers and teaching. The lived-in experience, including memory, beliefs and values, and teaching practice, of three high school teachers of Teaching & Learning is its concern. Literacy is the study's entry point, the concept that drew me to seek conversation and classroom observation with Teaching & Learning teachers. Observation, in-depth interview, conversation, and my own journal writing as researcher are its processes of information gathering.The meanings individual Teaching & Learning teachers ascribe to literacy in their own lives and in their teaching practices are described in this study. Teachers' personal recollections clustered around the …

Professional Development Of Practicing Public School Teachers: Dakota Territory (1861-1889) And North Dakota (1889-1911), Sandra Johnson Phillips Potter

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Historical research methods are used to investigate three types of professional development opportunities available to practicing public school teachers in the Dakota Territory and the state of North Dakota until 1911. The purpose of the project is to describe the origins, purposes, organization, practices, and content of teachers' institutes, the Teachers' Reading Circle, and regional educational journals as they developed in Dakota.Two categories of primary source materials form the base for much of the research: (1) the reports submitted to the legislatures by the Superintendents of Public Instruction; and (2) issues of two journals, The Dakota Educator, published in Scotland, …

An Investigation Into The Temporary Auditory Effects Of In-Cabin Helicopter Noise On Flight Students And Flight Instructors At The University Of North Dakota, Janet Lois Turner

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The Auditory Effects Of Exposure To Single-Engine Aircraft Noise, Marta Lydia Wasylkewycz

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A Burkeian Analysis Of Dr. Jerry Falwell's Speech At Yale, Melanie Vennes

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Applying Japanese Management To The U.S. Air Force, Paul J. Burnett

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Final Project Report On Treatment Of Coal Gasification Wastewater Using Bench-Scale Rotating Biological Contactors, Kevin B. Wernberg

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Awareness Of Speech, Language, And Hearing Services Within The University Of North Dakota Student Population, Shannon K. Lyttle

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Solvent Extraction Of 5,5 Dimethylhydantoin And Phenol From A Simulated Gasifier Wastewater, James Clarence Meyer

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Serving God And Government : The Grey Nuns On Devil's Lake Reservation, 1874-1901, Eleanor E. Merrow

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A Quantitative Analysis Of Shoreline Erosion Processes, Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota, Mark D. Millsop

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Shoreline erosion is a problem at Lake Sakakawea and Lake Audubon, North Dakota. Land is lost, water quality is adversely affected, and reservoir storage capacity is decreased.

Instrumentation of the eastern shores of both lakes began in 1983 to quantify bank erosion by process (e.g., wave erosion, rainsplash and runoff, and frost-thaw failure). Other data gathered included: pool level fluctuations; wind velocity, direction, and duration; precipita tion; soil moisture; frost penetration; freeze-thaw cycles; and geology (e.g., texture, clay mineralogy and structure).

The magnitude of shoreline erosion is highly variable, especially within Lake Sakakawea. For the interval of May 1983 through …

Depositional Environments And Diagenesis Of Carbonates And Associated Evaporites, Frobisher-Alida Interval, Madison Group (Mississippian), Williston Basin, Northwestern North Dakota, Thomas J. Obelenus

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The Frobisher-Alida interval is a subsurface, marker-defined unit, one of several units designated for rocks of the Madison Group (Mississippian) in the Williston Basin of North Dakota. The Frobisher Alida conformably overlies the Tilston interval and is conformably overlain by the Ratcliffe interval. 1t attains a maximum thickness of a little over 400 feet (123 m) and thins to an erosional edge along the eastern margin of the Basin.

The Frobisher-Alida is composed of limestones, dolomitic limestones, and dolostones of the Mission Canyon Formation and anhydrites of the overlying Charles Formation which exist in a complex facies relationship within the …

Personality Types Of Students And Faculty Members Of Speech-Language Pathology, Leane M. Wilson

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Normal Total Emittance Of Quartz, Mehrdad Mansour-Sadeghi

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Study Of Longitudinal Landing Flying Qualities Evaluation Using Pilot Model Theory, Eric D. Didomenico

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Control Anticipation Parameter (CAP), used in MIL-SPEC-8785C as a longitudinal handling qualities criterion does not adequately distinguish between different flight phases. Recent flight test data from the Landing Approach Higher Order Systems (LAHOS) study further indicate the inadequacy of the second order approximations for higher order longitudinal landing flying qualities. Nine Aircraft that fall within the Level 1 boundary reveal pilot ratings ranging from 1.5 to 10 (Cooper/Harper). These nine aircraft are studied by combining their longitudinal dynamics with pilot modelling to examine a better method of landing flying quality prediction and evaluation. Pilot model theory (cross-over pilot model) is …

Application Of Combined Jointed Media And Discrete Slip Plane Characteristics To Subsidence Predictions, David W. Basinger

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This thesis presents an application of a numerical formulation incorporating the effects of joints, cracks, and fractures to a soil subsidence predictions problem, and the extension of that formulation to combined discrete slip planes and jointed media continua formulations. The results obtained are compared to each other and to a physical centrifuge simulation performed previously on the same problem.

Ormsby Macknight Mitchel And The Railroad: A Study Of The Significance Of Lines Of Communications In The Civil War, 1861-1862, Michael Robert Terry

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This thesis analyzes a minor campaign of the American Civil War, but one which illustrates the importance of the railroad, as a line of communications, to strategy. In the Spring of 1862, the Union Army in the west concentrated at Pittsburg Landing, in Tennessee, preparatory to an advance south on Corinth, Mississippi. General Ormsby Macknight Mitchel, in command of the Third Division of the Army of the Ohio, was given the defensive duty of safeguarding the Federal left, which included Middle Tennessee, against any Confederate threat from Chattanooga. Instead, Mitchel advanced to and captured Huntsville, Alabama.

This action provided several …

The Effect Of Hydrogen Partial Pressure On Lignite Liquefaction In A Two-Stage Hot-Charge Batch Autoclave System, Robert O. Ness Jr.

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The effect of varying hydrogen partial pressure in a two-stage liquefaction process on conversion of North Dakota lignite to THF solubles was studied using the UND hot-charge, time sample, batch autoclave system. Approximately one hundred and fifty grams of moisture- and ash-free (MAF) Zap lignite, three hundred grams of AO4 (Anthracene oil) solvent and seventy five grams of water were reacted in the autoclave unit. Carbon monoxide was used as feed gas for the first stage and varying amounts of hydrogen and carbon monoxide were utilized in the second stage. First stage temperatures ranged from 358 C to 370 C …

Solution To Eigenvalue Problems Of Antisymmetric Cross-Ply And Antisymmetric Angle-Ply Laminated Plates Using Affine Transformations, Zaffir A. Chaudry

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Using affine transformations and suitably recasting the buckling vibration differential equations, the eigenvalue problem of anti-symmetric cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply laminated rectangular plates has been reduced to a function of two strong material constants, the generalized rigidity ratio, whose range is in the closed interval from 0 to 1, and the ratio of principal lamina stiffness. With the reduction in number of constants an exhaustive parameter study of buckling and vibration solution trends, is possible. The buckling coefficients decrease with decreasing value of generalized rigidity ratio for both antisymmetric cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply laminates. For a given aspect ratio, and …

The Use Of The Holland Constructs, As By The Act Assessment, To Predict Collard Persistence, Achievement, Stability, Raymond Gerszewski

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This study examined the use of the Holland constructs, as measured by the ACT Assessment, in the prediction of college persistence, achievement, and stability. Specifically, this research measured the combined effects of expressed and inventoried Holland type, congruency, consistency, and differentiation~ along with the predictors of sex, academic aptitude, and achievement, upon persistence, achievement, and stability. In addition, the relationship of the Holland constructs and these other predictors was examined.

ACT Assessment records for a large sample of new, first-time freshmen (N=ll58) who entered the University of Nor.th Dakota in the Fall of 1978 were retrieved and matched with Student …