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The Hydrogeology Of A Landfill Located In Fine-Grained Lacustrine Sediments In A Saline Discharge Area West Of Grand Forks, North Dakota, John T. B. Betcher

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The Grand Forks Municipal Landfill, located in the Red River Valley of eastern North Dakota, accepts household refuse from the city of Grand Forks and from surrounding rural communities including several towns in northwestern Minnesota. The landfill occupies 160 acres (64.8 hectars) and another 160 acres (64.8 hectars) is available for expansion. The trench method of disposal is used at the landfill.

A geologic and hydrogeologic investigation was undertaken at the landfill to determine the characteristics of the shallow, saturated, fine-grained lacustrine sediments for solid waste disposal. Test holes were drilled to collect core samples for textural analysis, clay mineralogy …

Basement Membrane Heterogeneity: A High Resolution Sem Study Of Renal Basement Membrane Ultrastructure Following Enzyme Microdissection., Walter Jesse Berger Iii

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The purpose of this study is to utilize high resolution SEM to examine topographical features of acellular renal cortical basement membranes (BMs) in the rat. Alterations in ultrastructure of protease-digested samples are evaluated in terms of the concept of BM heterogeneity, and an attempt is made to correlate observed changes with known components of BMs.Renal cortical blocks were rendered acellular by sequential detergent extraction, and digested either with 150 $\mu$g/ml Streptomyces griseus protease (SGP) or with 5 mg/ml pepsin and conventionally prepared for SEM and correlative TEM.With both proteases, Bowman's capsular BM (BCBM), tubular BM (TBM) and glomerular BM (GBM) …

Induced Resistance To Ixodid Tick Infestation: Analysis And Isolation Of Antigens., Fred William Olsen Jr.

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Ticks are both vectors and reservoirs for significant pathogens of man and livestock. They are currently controlled through use of acaracides, but have rapidly developed resistance to every new acaracide produced to date. Alternative methods of control are needed. One proposed alternative is immunologic control, achieved through vaccinations which induce resistance to tick infestation. This proposal stems from the knowledge that cattle and laboratory animals actively acquire resistance to infestation. Immunization with crude extracts of different ixodid life cycle stages or organs has induced limited levels of resistance compared to acquired resistance. Defined tick antigens are needed to study the …

Colonial American Freemasonry And Its Development To 1770, Arthur F. Hebbeler Iii

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The purpose of this thesis is to examine the influence of Freemasonry as a social and cultural organization in the development of colonial America and the men who were active in the organization from its introduction to the colonies up to 1770. Since Freemasonry was the first fraternal organization established in the colonies, I wanted to see how, and if, it affected the attitudes and actions of its members during the pre-Revolutionary War years.

In preparing this thesis, I worked closely with lodges and Grand Lodges throughout the country. My research included physical inspection of a variety of Masonic documents …

The Effects Of Hydrocortisone And Caffeine On Memory For Word Lists, Daniel L. Scharf

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Hydrocortisone has frequently been hypothesized to increase arousal. This hypothesis was primarily based on the findings of increased adrenal size in animals who had been exposed to stressful conditions and the enhancement or impairment in cognitive abilities of humans depending on dose. There has been a lack of studies directly looking at the arousal hypothesis of the effects of hydrocortisone. The purpose of this study was to directly assess the effects of hydrocortisone on levels of arousal by manipulating both state and trait arousal. This study used caffeine as a comparison drug that alters state arousal because of its widely …

An Examination Of The Relationship Between Information Content And Readership In Agricultural Advertising, Nathan J. Huso

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The relationship between information content and Starch readership scores in The Farmer magazine from 1979 through 1985 was investigated. The information content of the agricultural advertisements was determined through content analysis using criteria developed to assess the amount of information that contributes to a rational buying decision. The results indicated that 99.4 percent of the advertisements contained information. There was a decrease in the average number of information cues per advertisement over time. There were no significant positive correlations between the information content and the readership score over time for any of the agricultural product categories studied. There were several …

A Feminist Analysis Of Shirley Jackson's "Hangsaman" And "We Have Always Lived In The Castle", Desiree Varner

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This thesis consists of three chapters. The first is a review of selected existing criticism about Shirley Jackson’s work. The criticism is analyzed from a feminist perspective in order t o illustrate three things: (1) The overall shortcomings of criticism that aims to universalize Jackson’s work. (2) The unjust treatment, or rather act of treatment, that Jackson has received from the academy. (3) The agenda that will be followed in the rest of the thesis.

The remaining two chapters analyze two of Jackson’s novels,Hangsaman (1951) and We have Always Lived in the Castle (1962), from a feminist perspective, using various …

Demand Forecasting In The Electric Utility Industry, Clark D. Kaml

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Microcomputers And Managements Role, Bev Collings

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It is a manager's responsibility to plan, organize, staff and control to the best of his/her ability. To operate within the company in the most efficient and effective way possible, while using company resources in a productive way to accomplish its goals. This paper will discuss how a manager can accomplish this by using computer resources and how these resources must be implemented properly and the affects evaluated. Most, if not all, the material addressed could apply to managers of all size businesses. It would be poor Judgement for a manager to ignore computer applications for their business

A Study To Determine The Correlation Between Weight And Achievement Of Secondary School Students, Frances Ida-Dittes Clarke

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Napoleon And Russia And The Teaty Of Tilsit: Its Implications For Europe, Paul A. Hefti

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The Treaty of Tilsit of 1807 between Russia and France was a minor slowing of the flow of the Napoleonic Wars that dominated Europe in the early nineteenth century. It united the two nations against Britain, but, in larger terms, it polarized continental Europe into two separate (or distinct) conflicting spheres. The treaty and its effects provided a foreshadowing of post-World War I Europe and the subsequent twentieth-century concept of peaceful coexistence.

The major personalities involved in making the treaty were Alexander I of Russia and Napoleon Bonaparte of France. Their meeting on a boat in the Niemen River had …

Aging, Cognitive Abilities, And Word Frequency As Factors Affecting The Speed Of Lexical Access, Robert A. Laidlaw

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The present study evaluated the impact of age and several individual difference measures on lexical access. Additionally, eight different levels of frequency were evaluated for the stimulus words. These frequency levels were derived from the frequency of usage of these words in common reading materials. The response measured was latency of reading words out loud as they appeared on a screen. The results indicated no difference between older and younger adults on measures of anxiety, depression, or overall health. The older adults scored higher on a measure of vocabulary skills, while the younger adults scored higher on tasks involving abstract …

Perceived Severity Of Informal Sanctions: A Case Study Of Convicted Dui Offenders In Cass County, North Dakota, Terry D. Stratton

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It Is estimated that alcohol plays a factor in between 35 and 64 c'-rcent of all fatal crashes and between 6 and 25 percent for non-fatal accidents, resulting in alcohol .being involved in about half of the roughly 50,000 annual traffic fatalities in the United States. Clearly, drinking-and driving is a major contributor in both the severity and the frequency of traffic accidents.

The basic concept of deterrence states that people will refrain from behavior defined as socially-unaccc.ptable if the resulting perception and fear of penalties (or sanctions) against such action are adequately undesirable in comparison to the potential benefits …

The Incestuous Family: Development Of An Enmeshed Family Inventory, Loretta M. Petrie

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A systems model has been proposed as useful theoretical framework for the study of incestuous families (Alexander, 1985) and is frequently used in the therapeutic treatment of the victim of sexual abuse and his or her perpetrator (Larson and Maddock, 1986). The purpose of this study was the construction and standardization of an instrument for assessing a multiaxial model of enmeshed and disengaged family systems which is based on the prior work of Minuchin et al. (1978) and Kog et al. (1987).

Minuchin et al. (1978) suggest that enmeshment, conflict-avoidance, over-protectiveness and rigidity are four characteristics that are key to …

A Study Of The Stock Market Crash Of October 1987, Jonathan D. Rudman

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This study examines the situation surrounding the stock market crash of 1987. The research was conducted in current literature and government reports. The goal of the study is to provide a background on the operations of the stock markets, examine factors leading to and contributing to the crash of 1987, and compare the crash of 1987 to the crash of 1929 in order to provide possible insight to weaknesses in the market system.

The conclusions support specific recommendations that are designed to correct market inefficiencies. These recommendations include increasing margin requirements on index futures, monitoring the performance of specialists, and …

Ethics In The Accounting Profession, Rozalyn Maixner

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A Study Of The Auditing Expectation Gap, Dr. Harold Wilde

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Mainstreaming Visually Impaired Preschoolers Into Regular Preschool Classrooms, Barbara J. Delohery

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Vasopressin's Effect On Sex Differences In Cognitive Functions: Verbal And Spatial Abilities And Verbal-Interference Tasks., Karen Kay Knutson

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The effects of a vasopressin analogue, desmopressin acetate (DDAVP) upon cognitive functioning performance was investigated in this study. Forty male and forty female college students were first assessed using the Vocabulary and the Block Design subtests of the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised (WAIS-R) to determine their verbal and spatial-visualization ability levels. Then they were treated intranasally with either DDVAP (60 ug), or an equal volume of saline. Finally, subjects were tested using these cognitive measures: The Paper Folding Test, the Stroop Color and Word Test and twelve lists of semantically unrelated words.Analyses of variance of the test data identified several …

A Psychometric Examination Of The Mac Scale Within A University Sample., Donna Lynn Kleiner

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The MacAndrew scale (MAC) has been widely utilized as a tool in the assessment of alcohol abuse since its development in 1965. The MAC has generated a moderate amount of research, yet few studies have examined the psychometric properties of the MAC. Its internal consistency and temporal stability, in particular, have been neglected. This investigation was designed as a general evaluation of the psychometric properties of the MAC with a university population, a population for which the MAC has never been studied, but often employed.Subjects (N = 298) were undergraduate students from the University of North Dakota. Subjects in Sample …

The Elements Of An Effective Principal As Perceived By Rural North Dakota Teachers, Sherryl A. Houdek

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The Relationship Between Top Management Tenure And Middle Managers' Job-Related Stress And Job Satisfaction, Joyce M. Richard

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Change and adaptation are consistent and major characteristics in most of the activities of modern society. The nursing profession is not exempt from constantly changing theories, practices, and environment. Recent literature suggests a great interest in turnover, stress, and job satisfaction of staff nurses. However, few published studies pertain to top management turnover as it relates to middle managers. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between top management tenure and middle managers' job-related stress and job satisfaction.

The perceptions of job-related stress and job satisfaction of sixty middle managers in six Midwest Veterans Administration Medical Centers …

Phonological Processes And Syllable Structure In Tainae, Terry Bruce Carlson

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The aim of this thesis is to present the phonological processes generating surface forms from underlying segments in Tainae, a Non-Austronesian language of Papua New Guinea.

All phonetically occurring segments in the language are examined in varying environments, e.g., in word-initial position, word-medial position, and word-final position. Chapter Two, Consonants in Tainae, concentrates on the consonants on the language, separating them into classes such as bilabial stops, alveolar stops, velar stops, fricatives, etc. Within each of these classes the various consonants which appear on the surface are compared with one another in scope of distribution and regarding which possible phonological …

The Self-Perceptions Of Adolescents With Diagnosed Learning Disabilities, Julie Ann Larson

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to examine the self-perceptions and knowledge of adolescents diagnosed as learning disabled have regarding their learning disability. It investigated the terminology used by adolescents in describing their learning disability. The study looked for discrepancies between the students' definitions of their learning disability as found on their Individual Education Plans. Lastly, it examined the strategies used by the students when they encountered learning problems.

Procedure: The research population for this study was comprised of 40 high school students enrolled in two midwestern public high schools. All 40 students had been identified as learning disabled …

A Look At The Job And Training Programs Of The United States, Elaine Koutsoukos

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Variables Related To Nurses' Awareness Level Of The Language Disorders Associated With Cerebrovascular Accidents, Micheal W. Halpenny

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This study was designed to investigate nurses' levels of awareness of the language disorders associated with cerebrovascular accidents. The subjects consisted of registered nurses from two major hospitals in North Dakota, one hospital in South Dakota, three in Minnesota, and three in Wisconsin. The hospitals and states chosen represent the geographical region known as the Upper Northwest of the United States.

The variables that were investigated to determine levels of awareness were nurses' educational background, years of practice as a registered nurse, and the setting in which the nurses provide patient care. Data were collected through questionnaires that were sent …

The North Dakota Public Employees Retirement System: An Investment Analysis, Milford Ulven

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Lysosomal Enzymes In Undifferentiated And Differentiated Hl-60 Cells, Julie J. Ackerman

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The human promyelocytic leukemia cell line HL-60 has been studied extensively since the time of it's discovery and has been proven to be a valuable tool for the study of the differentiation process. The capacity of the HL-60 cell line to differentiate to macrophage-like cells, which may be immunologically competent, has proven to be invaluable in the study of these cells as a model for macrophage function. A number of hydrolytic enzymes are characteristically found in macrophages. In an effort to further characterize diferentiated HL-60 cells as macrophages, the location and concentration of a number of these enzymes was determined. …

A Comparison Of Motivational Interventions On Learning Disabled, Educable Mentally Retarded And Regular Class Students, Mary Nicholson

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This paper will present an overview of factors related to motivation and motivation as it relates to the learning disabled student. A study is presented that attempts to shed further light on which types of positive reinforcement can best motivate adolescent learning disabled students. The study involved a comparison of motivational interventions used with learning disabled, educable mentally retarded and regular class students. Both learning disabled students and educable mentally retarded students showed improved performance with the use of positive motivational interventions over non-intervention. The motivational variables were verbal praise, concrete rewards, explanation of why the learning is important and …

Determining The Word Processing Software To Meet The Needs Of The Business User, Bernice B. Nelson

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Computerized word processing with computer software packages is common throughout industry today. However, selection of the appropriate software is a complicated procedure_ and requires a careful examination and comparison of the complexity of the software (features available) with the ease of learning to use the software. With the wide variety of products that run on IBM l'Cs and the IBM compatibles, it is possible that the business manager can find one that adequately fills both needs. When selecting an appropriate word processing software package, one must first determine how the product will be used so that the purchaser can weigh …