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General Education Requirements For Elementary Preservice Teachers: A Case Study, Judith K. Mccutchan

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The purpose of this study was to investigate curricular patterns for general education requirements in elementary teacher education during the period 1970-1990 and to examine the general education of elementary education seniors at the University of North Dakota in 1987-88 within the framework of changing views of the purposes of general education in teacher education.

Students were selected randomly from a list of seniors majoring in elementary education, elementary/early childhood education and elementary/special education during spring semester of 1988. Sixty students were contacted by telephone and interviewed during the final two weeks of the spring semester. Twenty-one faculty members whose …

Principal And Teacher Attitudes And Perceptions Toward Implementation Of Site Based Participatory Decision Making In A Small School District, D. Guy Mcdonald

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This study explored the relationship of principals' and teachers' attitudes and perceptions toward a site based participatory decision making model that was implemented in a small school district. The main variables were the teachers' and principals' attitudes regarding the process, their attitudes regarding how the process was functioning in their schools, and their perceptions regarding areas for teacher involvement in the process.

The study incorporated quantitative and qualitative features. The quantitative design included a forty question survey. Thirty questions incorporated a Likert like scale, six questions were demographic in character, and four questions were open-ended by design.

The study was …

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

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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, …

Attitudes Of Elementary Education Majors Toward Mathematics: A Qualitative Study Of Five Student, Mavis L. Kelley

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This qualitative study focuses on five prospective female teachers' attitudes toward mathematics. The meanings each informant ascribes to her experiences surrounding mathematics are described in this work. Each informant was interviewed weekly during her senior mathematics methods course and observed and interviewed weekly throughout her student teaching experience. Interviews were open-ended and was the central focus of methodology. A field diary was used to record the reflective portions of field notes.

Experiences were carefully detailed and the informants directly quoted throughout the portraits and themes. The themes that emerged were: (1) meaning in mathematics, (2) narrow view of mathematics, (3) …

Baptizing Marxism? English-Language Catholic Press Reaction To The Worker-Priest Movement In France, Edward J. Woell

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From 1943 to 1954 a small religious experiment called the worker-priest movement took place in France. Journalists throughout the world, including Catholic writers and editors from Great Britain, Ireland, Canada and the United States, provided coverage of the worker-priest movement. How the English-language Catholic press reacted to the movement, an well as what that reaction represents, is the subject of this thesis.

The introduction outlines the major themes of this study, and is followed by two chapters that, establish the background and context of the worker-priest movement. Chapter I is an explanation of why the worker-priest movement was initiated in …

Bring The Self Back In: An Empirical Critique Of The Oversocialized Conception Of Women In Sport, Kimberly Ann Tyler-Ayers

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This study takes a grounded theory approach to female socialization into sport. It argue* that social learning theory provides an inadequate theoretical framework for understanding female socialization into sport due to its emphasis on external socializing agents. This focus encourages an oversocialized view of the individual that generally falls to recognize the central role of the self in the socialization process. Semi-structured interviews with college level athletes, semi-athletes and non-athletes illustrates the prominent role of the self throughout the life course in socialization and social behavior.

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 …

An Analysis Of The Perceptions Of North Dakota Policy Participants Regarding The Adoption Of Selected Education Policy, M. Douglas Johnson

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Inconsistency of financial resources, increased demand for program results, and growing demographic problems have significantly impacted school districts in North Dakota and are reason for studying the participants and factors associated with the adoption of education policy. Education policy participants--the registered lobbyists, governance personnel, and legislative leaders--were asked to respond to a pre- and post-session questionnaire to determine their perceptions .of differing education policy participants in regard to the usefulness of information provided and about the degree of influence exerted on a legislative agenda. In addition, respondents identified the relative importance of factors which were considered significant in the adoption …

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

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Juvenile Misbehavior And The School: An Educational Cohort Analysis, Timothy G. Driscoll

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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 …

The Past Of Prologue: A Qualitative Study Of The Roles Of Biography And Teachers' Beliefs In The Practice Of Teaching, Renate Schulz

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Conflicting Narratives: Abortion Protest In The Media, Norman E. Clark

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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

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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 …

Computer Modeling Analysis Of A Steel Framed Support Tower For The Energy And Environmental Research Center, Kevin E. Martin

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The Energy and Environmental Research Center(EERC) on the campus of the University of North Dakota conducts coal combustion research in a seven-story steel framed structure called the Tower. The need for an updated structural analysis of the Tower was due to modifications in the interior framing without a complete analysis since design in 1978. A personal computer platform structural analysis and design program was needed that could maintain a database for updating future changes in the structure, provide a current analysis picture, and generate as-built drawings.

The program selected was STAAD III/ ISDS used in conjunction with Autostaad, a pre- …

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

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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 …

Wing Rock Prediction Method For A High Performance Fighter Aircraft, Robert C. Nolan Ii

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This study is a limited investigation of the nonlinear aircraft behavior known as wing rock. An eight state F-15 model is analyzed using bifurcation theory. The wing rock onset point is identified and small perturbation analysis is used to linearize the equations of motion about this point. The eigenstructure of the model is analyzed and is used to identify the stability modes involved in this motion. A procedure is developed to predict wing rock onset and frequency and the critical stability derivatives involved in this motion are identified. The developed procedure is applied to existing F-4J data and a flight …

A General Three Dimensional All Quadrilateral Surface Mesh Generation Algorithm, Roger Cass

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Among the available all-quadrilateral mesh generation algorithms progressive-front offers the best quality and robustness. The paving algorithm is a progressive-front technique that generates a two dimensional mesh of all quadrilaterals on planar surfaces. The technique is particularly suited to meshing irregular boundaries with interior holes. This thesis presents an extension of the paving algorithm to generalized three dimensional surfaces. The major problems in three-dimensional surface mesh generation are projection of nodes, calculation of interior angles, and connection of mesh fronts. The solutions to these problems are presented. This work is part of the ongoing CUBIT project at Sandia Labs. The …

Feature Extraction And Classification Of Flir Imagery Using Relative Locations Of Non-Homogeneous Regions With Feedforward Neural Networks, Kevin L. Priddy

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The classification of forward looking infrared (FLIR) imagery is explored using Gabor transform decomposition and relative locations of non- homogeneous regions combined with feedforward neural networks. A feature saliency metric is developed from a Bayesian sensitivity analysis of feedforward neural networks. This metric is then used to reduce the dimensionality of the feature vectors used to identify FLIR imagery without any degradation of classification accuracy. Several system architectures are developed using a roving window combined with a series of Gabor filters to produce feature vectors for presentation to a neural network classifier. One architecture uses the Gabor filter coefficients to …

Comparison Of Synchronization Techniques For The Afit Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum System, Edward A. Bednar

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The purpose of this study is to analyze and evaluate the performance of several code synchronization methods that could be used in the Air Force Institute of Technology's (AFIT) Direct-Sequence Spread Spectrum (DSSS) communication system. These methods include the sliding correlator, transmitted reference, sequential estimation, and three types of matched filters. The matched filters are the baseband matched filter, delay line matched filter, and the convolver. The criteria used for the evaluation of these synchronization methods are theoretical synchronization times and probability of bit-error. Advantages and disadvantages of each synchronization method are described and a method is recommended to be …

Strategic Deterrence In The Post-Start Era, David C. Mccormick

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With the Soviet Union's fall there have been widespread calls for drastic reductions in the United States military's strategic nuclear forces. Although a major threat to the United States has been greatly reduced, the number of strategic targets will not decrease as rapidly as the number of available weapons. This research considers how the United States should think about strategic forces in the rapidly changing world order of the 1990s. An extensive literature review of deterrence concepts and conventional weapons capabilities is conducted with special attention paid to the role that precision guided munitions played in the 1991 Persian Gulf …

Experimental Evaluation Of Incorporating Digital And Analog Integrated Circuit Die On A Common Substrate Utilizing Silicon-Hybrid Wafer-Scale Integration Technology, Philip C. Reamy

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The objective of this research effort was to investigate the implementation of analog circuits in a wafer scale integration system. A test circuit composed of analog and digital subsystems was designed and tested through simulation. IC die containing this test circuit were utilized in the WSI system fabrication. Preliminary investigations were conducted to evaluate the potential improvements to the IC die mounting procedure, a key step in fabricating functional WSI systems. These investigations demonstrated a procedure which produced repeatable results in achieving acceptable planarization of IC die and host substrate surfaces. These investigations also demonstrated the successful application of a …

Hardware-Verification Through Logic Extraction, Michael A. Dukes

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A Prolog-based system is described which employs logic-extraction to perform hardware-verification. The extraction rules are built automatically from hierarchical structural VHDL models, enabling the equivalence of a structural VHDL description and a layout specification to be verified. Pin-to-pin critical- path analysis is performed within the logic-extraction process; many noncritical paths are pruned early, making pin-to-pin critical path analysis of large circuits feasible. It is demonstrated that a design methodology based on logic extraction, VHDL, and a layout tool can provide a fabricated functionally- correct IC design without circuit-level or switch-level simulation. This methodology is shown to be practical for VLSI …

A Study Of The Air Force Logistics Professional Development Model, David E. Gressman

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The personnel population in the field of logistics has two major divisions. The first, is to organizations providing logistic support for the Air Force mission and is the Operations and maintenance area. The second area is Acquisition, which supports the Air Force mission to acquire new weapon systems. Until recently, there was no clear plan for logisticians assigned in these two major divisions to enhance their educational development. This research project reviewed several logistic career enhancement programs focusing on two new programs, the Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) and the Logistics Professional Development Program (LOGPDP). The APDP program has received …

Numerical Analysis Of Plasma Transport In Tandem Volume Magnetic Multicusp Ion Sources, Todd R. Vitko

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A one-dimensional fluid model of plasma transport in tandem volume magnetic multicusp ion sources is explored. The model, the positive ion source code pos, by Glasser and Smith, calculates plasma density, drift velocity, electron temperature, and ion temperature in an ion source. The usefulness of the model is limited: (1) The plasma density trend runs opposite to experimental results, and electron temperatures are an order of magnitude higher than experimentally observed. (2) simplification of the reaction chemistry leads to a plasma balance between ionization and outflow instead of the correct balance between ionization and recombination. (3) Wall losses are …

Development Of A System For Survey Of Radon Concentration Of The Dayton Area Using A Liquid Scintillation Counter And Analysis Of The Data, Taewon Kim

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A system to do a large scale survey was developed. The data obtained from the survey was analyzed using a database. The database incorporated an equation for converting cpm into radon concentration pCi/ℓ). The equation of conversion, protocol for measuring radon concentration, survey form, and a database program were modified (from previous theses) or developed for this thesis. The elution time constant, adsorption time constant, and calibration factor were calculated for equation of conversion. Two surveys were during the course of the thesis. On the first survey, the arithmetic average radon concentration with standard error of the mean was 2.9 …

An A Priori Multiobjective Optimization Model Of A Search And Rescue Network, Joseph C. Imsand Jr.

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The purpose of this study was to determine the most robust frequency assignment for a search and rescue network. The focus was to assign weights to the transmitter areas of the network to determine which weight sequence produced the most robust frequency assignment. The DoD furnished weight sequences for twelve two-hour time blocks. These weight sequences were compared to a weight sequence with all weights having equal value. Network and linear programming were used to-solve this problem and generate frequency assignments for all weight sequences. Classical and tolerance sensitivity analysis were used to analyze the frequency assignments generated by the …

Shock Tube Simulation By The Smooth Particle Hydrodynamic (Sph) Method, Luke A. Lorang

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A smooth particle hydrodynamic code (SPHC) is evaluated for performing shock wave simulations by application to 1-D shock tube problems. Results of a shock tube test case with a compression ratio of 10 are compared against a Riemann shock tube problem and theoretical predictions of shock tube behavior to validate the SPH code. A Lagrangian hydrodynamic code is validated in a similar fashion. The resolution capabilities of both codes are compared using 100, 200 and 500 particles for SPHC and 100, 400 and 800 cells for the Lagrangian code. The SPH code exhibits a sharp spike in density at the …

Design Of A Warm X-Ray Radiation Environment For Nuclear Weapons Effects Testing In The Nova-Upgrade Facility, Jeffrey E. Malapit

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This engineering design project examined the creation of a radiation environment for warm x-ray effects testing in the Nova Upgrade laser facility. With the use of the MORSE Monte Carlo Code and the DABL69 Broad-group cross section library, the ignition of an inertial confinement fusion pellet using D-T fuel in a test cassette was modeled in the Nova Upgrade's target chamber. Various x-ray scattering materials were used in the test cassette to include enriched lithium hydride, polyethylene, liquid hydrogen, liquid helium, and liquid methane. The lithium hydride produced the best warm x-ray doses and least neutron dose. The predicted x-ray …