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The Geography Of Tree Claims In Grand Forks County, North Dakota, James R. Schimmer

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Demand Determinants For Residential Telephone Service In North Dakota, Tom Pomonis

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The Effect Of Winter Conditions On Allozymic And Morphological Variation In House Sparrows (Passer Domesticus), Gerald A. Retzlaff

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The Effects Of Mood State And Gender On Interpersonal Impression Accuracy, Donna J. Greifer

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The Understanding Of Medical Terminology As Perceived By Family Members Of Hospitalized Patients, Glenn R. Ermer

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Clastogenic Effects Of The Insecticide Parathion On Cultured Human Lymphocytes, Scott Allan Goecke

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Analysis Of Nursing Assessment And Documentation For Urinary Tract Infections In Elderly Nursing Home Residents, Debra A. Filer

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Electrochemical Kinetic And Mechanistic Study Of The Reductive Cleavage Of Dinaphthyl Ethers, Jeffrey O. Warwick

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The Relationship Between Home Environment And Ninth-Grade Students' Mathematics Achievement, Brenda B. Campbell

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One hundred thirty-five ninth-grade students served as subjects for this study on the relationship between home environment and mathematics achievement. Each student was given a score on a home-environment questionnaire which was recorded with the student's score on the mathematics section of the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills. To determine the relationship between home environment and mathematics achievement the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient were computed, There was a positive correlation between home environment and mathematics achievement, significant at the ,01 level for all students, for male students, for female students, and for black students. The correlation coefficient was significant …

Encouraging A Positive Self-Image, Lois W. Atkins

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This project was designed as a workshop to teach a method of encouraging better self-images in students. A series of self-improvement imagery exercises are outlined. Steps include choosing goals; writing them in behavioral terms and specific measurable outcomes; and using self-recording, self-reward and self-punishment. By aiding students early in their school career to develop positive self-concepts, good work habits, and high motivation, ultimately a lower dropout rate and higher percentages of self-actualized persons is visualized.

An Investigation Of The Relationship Between Locus Of Control And Achievement In Third And Fifth Grade Students, Elaine Sheats

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between internal locus of control and academic achievement in third and fifth grade students. The Nowicki-Strickland Locus of Control Scale was used to determine a locus of control score for each subject. The Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Form 8 was used to obtain an achievement score for each subject. The study implemented a correlational research design. The Pearson product moment correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between the test scores. Results indicated a significant relationship between the internal dimension of locus of control and academic achievement.

A Chronicle Of Professional Baseball In Columbus, Georgia: 1885-1987, William W. Ridenour

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The history of professional baseball in Columbus, Georgia, is a long and varied one. Columbus has been in professional baseball longer than most cities in the United States and its history is filled with both success and failure. National events such as wars and depressions have affected baseball in Columbus as have changes within the community itself. Attendance at professional baseball games in Columbus has varied from excellent to poor and the success of the local franchise has varied with attendance. Probably the major factor affecting professional baseball in recent years has been the increased use of television to broadcast …

Differences In The. Reading And Mathematics Achievement Between Asian American And Non Asian American Children, Linda B. Price

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Explanations for the achievement or overachievement of Asian Americans are often conflicting and subject to debate among researchers. Four major theories for this achievement are explored in the review of literature. One of these theories concerns the idea that Asian American's beliefs are the result of Confucianism and its influence on the lives of Asian Americans. Another theory examines the parent's positive attitude toward education and its influence on achievement. A third theory suggests that Asian American babies are more alert and sensitive at birth. The final theory examined proposes that the Asian American immigration to the United States is …

Differences Between The High School Grade Point Average And The Sat Mathematics Score In Predicting Success In The Three-Quarter Mathematics Sequence At A Post-Secondary Vocational Education Institution, Steve A. Hicks

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Thirty-seven current and former Engineering Technology students at a postsecondary vocational education institution were used as subjects for a comparison of the high school grade point average and the SAT mathematics score as predictors of success in the three-quarter mathematics sequence during the first year of the two-year program: The Pearson Product-Moment Correlation was used to compute two correlation coefficients; one between the high school GPA and the mathematics sequence average, and the other between the SAT mathematics score and the mathematics sequence average. These correlation coefficients were then compared, using a z calculation, to determine that the difference between …

Thinking Skills In Young Adult Literature: An Annotated Bibliography Of Thirty Novels, Janis H. Eberhardt

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This project provides teachers a method of teaching thinking skills to students through the use of specific adolescent novels. Thirty novels were selected with an attempt at an even distribution between male and female protagonists, first and third person point of view. A large number of novels were examined to determine the presence or absence of protagonists whose thinking abilities determined their actions .

Thirty novels were found to have protagonists who demonstrated good thinking abilities in several of the ways targeted by the NCTE publication "Essentials in English." Characters' demonstration of specific thinking skills was noted on an identification …

Anti-Mormon Pamphleteering In Great Britain, 1837-1860, Craig L. Foster

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The introduction of Mormonism into Great Britain was met with both success and resistence. The major form of British resistence to the Latter-day Saints was through the press. From the introduction of the Church into Great Britain in 1837 to 1860, numerous anti-Mormon pamphlets were published to discourage people from associating with what was considered to be a strange American sect.

The major themes of a number of these tracts have been analyzed in order to gain a better understanding of how the Mormons were perceived by the British. Some of the major themes included the evil character of Joseph …

A Hermeneutic Of Sacred Texts: Historicism, Revisionism, Positivism, And The Bible And Book Of Mormon, Alan Goff

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As methods by which texts are to be understood, positivism and historicism have a long tradition and continue to exert wide influence in all academic disciplines. Other approaches to textual concerns have recently emerged to challenge the dominance of these two approaches. Foremost among these new approaches are hermeneutics and deconstruction. Both of the latter approaches recognize that interpretation is inescapable. The latter challenges even the possibility of determinate meaning. A theoretical discussion of historicism and positivism uncovers questionable and troublesome difficulties. Hermeneutics in its conservative or radical variations overcomes the difficulties of interpretation that positivism and historicism can't explain. …

Saints In The Secular City: A History Of The Los Angeles Stake, Chad M. Orton

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Beginning in 1847 and continuing to the turn of the century, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) were encouraged to gather to Utah, where they formed communities seperated from the evils of the world around them. While Mormonism continues to be closely associated with Utah, in 1989 it is a world-wide church with nearly seven million members, most residing outside of Utah, and many of these in major urban areas. Nevertheless, few studies have been made of how the Church has developed outside of Utah.

When the Los Angeles Stake was organized in 1923, it …

Competitive Fire: An Historical Descriptive Analysis Of Adherence To Traditional Journalistic Tenets In Television News Coverage Of The Mark Hofmann Salt Lake City Bombings, B. William Silcock

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Television news contains factors of time constraints and deadlines that add pressures to the underlying rules of objectivity, fairness, and bias. This study seeks to determine if the elements of "responsible journalism" dissipate in television news coverage of a highly significant, developing news story. In other words, how well do the rules hold up under pressure? The momentous story selected for observation was the Mark Hofmann bombings in Salt Lake City, Utah. The focus centered on the coverage by local stations rather than the network television news operations.

The History Of The Early Members Of The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints In Preston, Lancashire, England, Paul Floyd Smart

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This thesis outlines the setting for and establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the British Isles. The intent is to identify and analyze who the early converts were that first embraced Mormonism in England, in and around Preston, Lancashire. The study describes the extant records, the social and economic family lifestyle, and religiosity of the Mormon converts from 1837, upon the Church's arrival in Britain, to approximately 1851.

A Critical Study Of Sun Allah Ibrahlm S Novels, Nadia A. Badran

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The Multiprocessor System With A Fairly Weighted Global Bus Arbitration Circuit, Shinobu Doi

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The objective of this thesis is to investigate various multiprocessor system structures and to implement and test the resultant system configuration that offers high reliability and availability, ease of expansion, ease of programming, and increased computing performances. The resultant system is a MC68000 based tightly coupled multiprocessor system with large local memories and local I/Os, arbitrated by a specially designed arbitration circuit to implement pseudo random global bus granting. Each of the computer modules is an enhanced independent uniprocessor system with channel access switches to access the global memory. In its multiprocessor mode one computer module cooperates with the other …

Sedimentary Depositional Cyclicity, Mission Canyon And Charles Formations (Mississippian), Williston Basin, North Dakota, Jean L. Hoff

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Workers within the Williston Basin have repeatedly reported the presence of sedimentary cyclicity within the carbonate and evaporite succession of the Mississippian Madison Group. Descriptions of cyclicity are diverse and commonly conflict. Previous work has been exclusively qualitative. This study used a group of statistical techniques in a method designed specifically for the objective identification and evaluation of cyclicity in the lithofacies sequence of the Mission Canyon and lower Charles Formations in North Dakota.

Twelve cores were sampled at every visually distinguishable lithologic unit. Forty-six lithologic components were counted in each sample on a presence-absence basis. The phi association coefficient …

Sensory Regression Time From Subarachnoid Block With Hyperbaric 0.75% Bupivacaine In The Obese Patient, George Leslie Hilton

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The purpose of this study was to determine if obese patients have a different sensory regression time from subarachnoid block than non-obese patients using hyperbaric 0.75% bupivacaine. A quasi-experimental design was used. Twenty patients were separated into two groups; one group was classified as obese, and the other group was classified as non-obese. The data consisting of age, height, weight, sex, and surgical procedure were recorded preoperatively. All the patients received hyperbaric 0.75% bupivacaine via subarachnoid puncture. The levels of spinal anesthesia were recorded at the highest level achieved. The injection time was also recorded. When the surgery was completed, …

Survey Of Georgia's Public School Systems With Self-Contained Language Classrooms, Brenda J. Jones

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Twenty-two teachers of self-contained language programs throughout the State of Georgia served as respondents for a survey of the operations of their programs in terms of students, teacher training, referral process, assessment process, entrance criteria, curriculum, and exit criteria. Results indicated that although the self-contained language programs are operating without standardized regulations, there is a great deal of similarity in their procedures, particularly in the areas of students, teacher training, referral process, entrance criteria, and exit criteria. The results of this study may be of benefit to state department personnel in developing regulations/procedures for self-contained language programs within the state.

Biochemical Characterization Of The Association Between Glycolytic Enzymes And Clathrin Coated Vesicles Using Centrifugation, Electrophoretic, And Ligand Blotting Techniques., Roxann Ranee Karkhoff-Schweizer

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Clathrin coated vesicles (CCVs) are complex organelles reported to bind specific glycolytic enzymes. The purpose of this study was to further biochemically characterize the interactions of selected enzymes with CCV's by conventional and new techniques.Purified brain CCVs were observed to retain, in varying degrees, endogenous glycolytic enzymes, with glyceraldehyde 3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPDH) and pyruvate kinase (PK) having the highest specific activities. Furthermore, Scatchard and Hill plot analyses of saturation binding data suggested that the binding of pure aldolase (ALD) and GAPDH involved heterogenous binding sites or cooperativity. Moreover, increasing concentrations of added ALD could not completely release bound GAPDH from …

Electronic Learning : The Marriage Of Composition And Television, Adonica Nan Seaver

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Mule Deer (Odocoileus Hemionus) Home Range And Habitat Use In An Energy-Impacted Area Of The North Dakota Badlands, Ronald A. Fox

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The Novels Of Toni Morrison : The Search For Self And Place Within The Community, Patrick Bryce Bjork

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Acceptance And Maintenance Of Professional Values In Occupational Therapy, Sonia S. Zimmerman

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