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Expanding The Attest Function To Forecasts And Management Audits, Donald C. Johnson

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A Study Of Male Professional Physical Education Student Retention At The University Of North Dakota From 1970 Through 1973, Edward H. Gilroy

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There was some concern among certain staff members of the Men's Physical Education Division at the University of North Dakota about the "disappearance" of physical education majors. The enrollment for certain junior and senior major cl*sses for the fall semester, 1973, was lower than expected and the prospects for the second semester were similar.

The HPER-107, Introduction to Physical Education,course was originally designed as a first semester freshman course for prospective majors. Most of the staff members agreed that enrollment figures for HPER-107 had been normal, or above, for the last three or four years. The question arose as to …

Planning, Programming, Budgeting Systems, Gordon L. Mcconnell

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High School Students Achievement Of College Level Work Through The Phase Achievement System (Pas), Dwight D. Lassen

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Senior high school students in a Human Biology course were given college level work through the Phase Achievement System (PAS), a biology course at Brigham Young University (BYU). Statistical analysis showed significant growth in high school student learning through the PAS. When ability to work with PAS was measured, significant differences between the high school and college groups were not evident. A high percentage of college and high school students dropped out of the PAS, probably becasue students could fail at the PAS without experiencing academic failure.

The Effect Of Alpha Brain-Wave Control On The Speech Of Two Adult Stutterers, Randall J. Bjork

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The purpose of this study was to examine, compare and describe the effect of alpha brain-wave conditioning upon the speech of two adult stutterers.

Five sessions of baserate measurement were followed by a sequence of conditioning sessions (in which an electronic brain-wave monitor was used to train subjects to control their alpha rhythms), after which the speech of the stutterers was re-evaluated by a procedure which was identical to the baserate procedure. The four speech activities which were investigated were: reading without feedback of alpha-band brain activity from the monitor, monologue without feedback from the monitor, reading with feedback from …

Student Performance And Attitudes In Principles Of Economics, Loren E. Svor

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A Comparative Study Of Management In Three Hospitals In Minot North Dakota, Denmark Jensen

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This paper is a report on a study made of three hospitals in one city: Minot, North Dakota. The hospitals vrere of three different types as regards the nature of their sponsorship: military; religious; and private association. This study concerns the application of four major functions of management to the field of hospital administration. The functions are planning, organizing, coordinating; and controlling. Policies and procedures of the three hospitals are cited throughout the paper to illustrate their practices in these four functions of management. The study was accomplished by personal interview with administrators at each hospital and perusal of information …

Appropriate Educational Background For Areawide Comprehensive Health Planning Agency Executive Directors: A Survey, Lawrence W. Olson

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Some Applications Of Simulation In Three Areas Of Marketing; Marketing Information Systems, Distribution, And Transportation, James S. Stratton

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Internal Control Techniques To Be Considered When Installing A Computer System, Donna Dietz

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Kinetic Study Of The Bouduard Reaction, C. Venugopala Rao

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Kinetics of the Bouduard reaction (reaction of coal carbon with carbon dioxide) has been investigated in the temperature range 1100°F to 1300°F at atmospheric pressures employing chars from a bituminous coal from West Virginia, a sub-bituminous coal from Montana and two lignites from North Dakota. A simple kinetic model based on the stoichiometric equation C02 + C (K1/K2)2 CO was assumed. Rate data were obtained in an z k2 electrically heated fixed bed plug-flow reactor. The bed was packed with the coal char and the carbon dioxide delivered from a cylinder. The forward and reverse reaction rate constants were evaluated …

Synthesis, Structure And Chirality Of Some Neutral Cobalt (Iii) Complexes, David J. Seematter

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Structures are assigned to the six stereoisomers of the complex 2 , 4-pentanedionatobis(S-alaninato)cobalt(III) and to the diastereomers of bis(2, 4-pentanedionato)S-aminoacidatocobalt(III), where the S-amino acid is S-alanine, S-valine, N-methyl-S-alanine and N-methyl-S-valine. Adsorption column chromatography on alumina was used to separate these neutral complexes which are soluble in water and non-aqueous solvents. Electronic absorption spectra are interpreted in assigning geometric isomers and C-O bond anisotropic deshielding arguments are applied to proton nmr chemical shifts in making chiral assignments of the helical diastereomers. A comparison is made between C-O bond deshielding and N-D steric compression. The proton nmr assignments are shown to be …

The Effect Of Response Cost On Misarticulation, E. Heather Mackenzie

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of response cost on percentage of error production with children who misarticulate.

Six elementary school children enrolled in articulation therapy were selected as subjects. Baseline measures of target phoneme error production were obtained by having the subjects construct sentences, using words presented to them verbally by the experimenter.

The effect on percentage of error production of two different ratios of token gain to token loss and positive reinforcement alone was investigated. Also, the effects during extinction of the three different contingencies were studied. During the treatment sequence, subjects were placed …

A System Application To The Classical Functions Of Managements, Gregory A. Spilker

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This study compares the traditional approach to the functions of management with the systems approach these same functions, an examination and tabulation of classical management functions is conducted, this approach is then contrasted and compared current innovations in the system concept of management, A model is developed show how systems thinking applies in a classical structure, Overall, it is concluded that the systems approach does have validity of application,

Participative Management: The State Of The Art, Robert D. Schwartz

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A Study Of Minnesota And North Dakota Industrial Requirements For The Employment Of An Industrial Technologist, Patrick A. Remfert

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Trace Metal Analysis Of Hair By Charged Particle X-Ray Fluorescence, George M. Allison

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A method for the trace element analysis of hair by charged particle X-ray fluorescence is presented. The validity of the method is shown by the analysis of NBS SRM 1577--Bovine Liver, obtained from the National Bureau of Standards. Excellent correlation is obtained between results from the analysis by the X-ray method and those certified by NBS. Hair samples are ashed by a low temperature oxidation process and analyzed by the X-ray method. The results from the analysis by the X-ray method are compared to those obtained from the analysis of the same hair samples by atomic absorption. Good correlation is …

A Study Of Reasonable Compensation, Larry R. Olafson

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A Study To Determine The Possible Influence Of Public School Curriculum Development On Course Outlines Used By The Released-Time Seminary Program Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints, Merrill Dean Briggs

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The purpose of this thesis was to analyze and compare the influence of secular educational philosophy upon the curriculum of the seminaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

In order to do this it was necessary to review and record the development of secular educational philosophy and curriculum. This was followed by writing the development of the educational philosophy and New Testament curriculum of the seminaries of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Next a comparison was made of the influence of the secular philosophies and curricula upon the religious educational philosophy and the New …

The Effects Of Ototoxic And Centrally Acting Drugs On The Vestibulo-Ocular Reflex Arc In Guinea Pigs., Clyde Bruce Jensen

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An Historical Study Of Business Letter Writing In England From 1798 To 1900., Jane Fife White

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Environmental Impact Statements : A Content Analysis, Harvey Rex Cain

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Skeletal Response Of Rats To Repeated Short-Term And Continuous Long-Term Hyperbaric Helium-Oxygen Exposure, Glenn T. Syftestad

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Age And Growth, Population Structure, And Relative Abundance Of Several Fish Species In Lake Ashtabula, North Dakota, 1972, Patrick J. Farmer

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A Comparison Of Prototyping And Total Package Procurement In Weapon System Acquisition, Gay D. Blackmore

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Mormonism And War: An Interpretative Analysis Of Selected Mormon Thought Regarding Seven American Wars, R. Jeffrey Stott

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America has been involved in seven major wars, but Mormonism's involvement in these wars has evaded scholarly attention. This has been unfortunate because, for the most part, individual Mormon leaders have taken very definite stands in relation to these struggles, and accompanying these stands have been very definite goals for the outcome of these wars. This, in turn, has prompted many of these LDS leaders to view the wars from a religious perspective.

This transcending religiosity combined the classical Christian wartime positions of the "just" and "righteous" war into one category. The third position however, pacifism, was also utilized during …

A Study Of Early Utah Water Color Painting, James Harvey Taylor

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The intent of this study was to investigate those artists in early Utah art history who played an important part in the development of water color painting.

The Mormon Role In Irrigation Beginnings And Diffusions In The Western States: An Historical Geography, Kelly C. Harper

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Irrigation has played an important part in the development of the Western States. Its beginnings have often been associated with the Mormon settlement in Utah. However, irrigation had its inception in the West long before the Mormons came to the Great Basin in 1847. The spatial extent of irrigation before this date included limited acreage in nearly every Western State.

Before their arrival in the Great Basin the Mormons had become acquainted with irrigation methods. Knowledge of irrigation had diffused to them primarily from the Spanish in the Southwest. Thus, they were well prepared to begin their irrigation enterprises in …

A History Of The Nauvoo Legion In Illinois, John Sweeney Jr.

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The Nauvoo Legion was a branch of the Illinois state militia, located in Nauvoo, Hancock County, Illinois. To obey the state military service requirement, provide adequate protection for themselves, and display loyalty to the state, the inhabitants of Nauvoo organized a militia within their city. Having received necessary state approval, the citizens designated their militia the "Nauvoo Legion," which functioned from February, 1841 to January, 1845, when the Legion charter was repealed by the state legislature.

Organized and staffed mainly by members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Legion was considered by some opponents as a …

The Physical And Petrographic Characteristics Of Formcoke Produced Experimentally From Lignite And Subbituminous Coal, Bruce L. Ramsey

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Formcoke was produced experimentally from a North Dakota lignite and a Wyoming subbituminous coal. The effect of initial charring temperature (600°C or 900°C), of char grain size (less than 18 mesh, less than 35 mesh, or less than 60 mesh), of briquetting pressure (1000, 2000, 3000, 4000, 5000, 6000, 7000, 8000, 9000 or 10,000 psi) of binder percentage (5, 10, 15, 20 or 25 per cent), and of final carbonization heating rate (18°C/:min, 12°C/min or 6°C/min) on formcoke briquet com pressive strength was studied.

A final carbonization heating rate of 6°C/min produced uniform shape briquets. Rates of 12°C/min and 18°C/min …