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Red Penny Pencils, Cynthia L. Hovde Brown

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Upland Sediments And Climatic Episodes Of The Holocene, Bruce N. Dahlman

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Food Habits, Age, Growth And Depth Distribution Of Rainbow Smelt, Osmerus Mordax (Mitchill) In Van Hook Arm Of Lake Sakakawea, North Dakota, Steven R. Dyke

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Leadership And Community Development In Northeastern Minnesota, Richard D. Olson

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An Assessment Of Pain Responses During Stages Of Pregnancy, Ann H. Dunbar

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As physical therapists are becoming more involved with the pregnant population both in traditional patient care as well as in childbirth education, a better understanding of the influence of pregnancy on the pain system is needed. The purpose of this study was to determine if an endogenous analgesia system is present in pregnant humans as has been shown to be present in animals (Ginzler, 1980). Women's affective and intensity responses were measured during late pregnancy, labor and post-partum. Using a repeated measures design, fifteen women responded to thermal stimuli (43-52 degrees C) by marking a visual analogue scale. No significant …

An Overview Of Pedagogical Techniques Of Vibrato For The Flute, Deborah R. Ribelin

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Through a study of flute vibrato, including the historical and pedagogical aspects, and advanced level flute teacher will acquire the necessary knowledge to direct students in developing their own individual vibrato.

The Effect Of Progressive Stages Of Alzheimer's Disease On Speaking Fundamental Frequency, Frequency Range And Perturbation, Nadine Pearl Sahulka

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Stephen Joseph Doyle And Wartime Democracy In North Dakota During The 1918 Gubernatorial Election, Richard W. Whaley

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A Study Of The Binding Of Copper(Ii)-Amine Complexes To Polyacrylic Acid., Marilyn Elizabeth Martin

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A study of the binding of copper(II)-amine complexes to polyacrylic acid was undertaken. Experimental binding curves were generated for polyacrylic acid having molecular weights of 11,050 and 1600 at an ionic strength of.5M and also at an ionic strength of.1M for the 11,050 molecular weight sample. An analysis of the experimental data indicates that the coordinating species is copper(II)-triamine. The formation curves were fit to analytical binding models and it was found that the higher molecular weight polyions exhibit cooperative behavior. The copper(II)-triamine PAA M$\sb{\rm n}$ 11,050 system at an ionic strength of.5M has seven coordinated ligands with an intrinsic …

Breeding Biology, Intrasexual Competition, And Philopatry In Wilson's Phalarope (Phalaropus Tricolor) (Canada)., Mark Allen Colwell

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Intrasexual competition among males is a dominant feature of the mating system of most animals. Far fewer species exhibit female-female competition for mates. However, species showing reversal of the typical sex roles afford special opportunities to evaluate evolutionary generalities concerning sexual selection and mating systems.I studied Wilson's phalarope (Phalaropus tricolor), a sex-role reversed, nonterritorial shorebird, from 1982-1986 at Last Mountain Lake Wildlife Management Unit in southcentral Saskatchewan, Canada. Phalaropes were individually marked and data on breeding biology were recorded during daily observation periods. I focal sampled individual male phalaropes to assess weekly changes in the intensity of female-female competition for …

An Investigation Of Critical Thinking Levels And Prospective Teachers., Amy Lynn Gillett

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The intention of the researcher was to discover the level of critical thinking skills of undergraduate teacher education students attending the University of North Dakota (UND) during the spring semester of 1987. The Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (CTA) was used to identify the level of critical thinking of the participants. A demographic data sheet was prepared by the researcher from which general data were gathered for the study.Data were analyzed by analyses of variance, multiple comparisons of means, and a simple t-test. No significant results were found among the different majors (elementary, secondary, elementary/early childhood, elementary/special education) and their scores …

Depositional Environments And Diagenesis, Winnipegosis Formation (Middle Devonian), Williston Basin, North Dakota, Nancy A. Perrin

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In the Williston Basin, the Winnipegosis Formation is the major carbonate unit of the initial transgressive-regressive pulse of the Kaskaskia sequence. Twenty-two lithofacies were identified by well-log, core, and thin-section studies of Winnipegosis rocks; these belong to seven environments of deposition which include deep basin, deep shelf, shallow shelf, reef, lagoon, tidal flat, and evaporite basin. The deposition of the Winnipegosis and Prairie Formations were inter-related and occurred during six episodes. Following a brief hiatus separating the underlying Ashern Formation from the Winnipegosis, a clear, quiet, shallow-marine environment became established in the North Dakota portion of the Elk Point Basin. …

Evaluation Of The Interaction Between Seepage From A Municipal Waste Stabilization Lagoon, Mcville, North Dakota, And A Shallow Unconfined Aquifer, Paul R. Bulger

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The McVille, North Dakota, Municipal Waste Stabilization Lagoon is situated above the McVille Aquifer, an unconfined glaciofluvial aquifer capable of significant water yields. The site contains a 3-D network of 29 monitoring wells. Standing waste-water is maintained in the clay-lined, primary-operating cell. Operating practices at the site entail periodic discharges of waste-water from the lined cell to an unlined cell, a procedure which results in rapid infiltration.

The shape and extent of the groundwater contaminant plume caused by the waste-stabilization process is best delineated by the distribution of chloride. Background wells contain less than 10 mg/L chloride. The area up …

Diagenesis And Porosity Development Of The Mission Canyon And Charles Formations (Mississippian), Treetop And Whiskey Joe Fields, North Dakota, Rebecca L. Durall

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Rocks of the upper Mission Canyon and lower Charles Formations (Mississippian) in central Billings County, North Dakota consist of interbedded limestones, dolostones, and anhydrites which were deposited in a shallow epeiric sea. This study was limited to the upper Mission Canyon and lower Charles Formations of Treetop and Whiskey Joe fields, located along the Billings anticline in central Billings County, North Dakota. Close examination of ap~roximately 260 metres (850 feet) of upper Mission Canyon and lower Charles Formations core in the study area resulted in the separation of rocks into six lithotypes: 1) echinoderm wackestone, 2) dolomudstone, 3) neomorphic wackestone, …

The Deposition And Diagenesis Of The Bluell Zone, Upper Mission Canyon Formation (Mississippian), Flaxton Field, Burke County, North Dakota, Dirk Anson Schwartz

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The purpose of studying the hydrocarbon producing Bluell zone (upper Mission Canyon Formation), Flaxton Field, northern Burke County, North Dakota was to understand and explain its deposition, diagenesis, and hydrocarbon occurrence. The rocks of the Bluell zone were deposited mainly in shallow, sublittoral settings. Seven distinct lithofacies can be recognized in the Flaxton Field area: A) coated grain, intraclastic packstone and grainstone; B) skeletal, peloidal, intraclastic wackestone and packstone; C) fenes-tral, green algal mudstone and wackestone; D) skeletal, slightly intraclastic wackestone and packstone; E) patterned dolomitic mudstone; F) intraclastic, peloidal wackestone; and G) dolomudstone.

The history of Bluell deposition at …

A Mineralogical Study Of The Harmon Lignite Bed, Bullion Creek Formation (Paleocene), Bowman County, North Dakota, Christopher J. Zygarlicke

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Study of the Harmon lignite bed at the Gascoyne Mine in Bowman County, North Dakota showed that most of the minerals in the coal lithobodies were detrital in origin and that variable ash deposition during combustion may be caused by variations in types and quantities of mineral phases.

The Harmon bed is part of the Bullion Creek Formation (Paleocene). Objectives of this study included: to develop scanning electron microscope/microprobe techniques for the study of minerals in coal; to determine the origins of the mineral phases; to postulate a depositional environment for the Harmon lignite; and to ascertain whether variable ash …

The Use Of Algebra Iii As An Effectlve Means Of Improving Mathematical Competencies For Marginally Successful Mathematics Students, Delores Robinson

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The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of marginally successful math students taking a third year of algebra their senior year in high school. A questionnaire was administered to high school graduates who had taken Algebra III in their senior year and to graduates who had taken two years of algebra and a year of geometry but had not taken a math course their senior year. The study compared the grades made by each group in the first course in college algebra. Graduates from three high schools in a large school district In Georgia completed the questionnaire. …

Stress In Teaching: An Exploration Of Possible Sources, William D. Beasley

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For many educators the teaching profession has become a job filled with growing amounts of tension and stress which, when unattended, can lead to occupational burn-out. Through the multiple regression analysis of the responses of 95 west central Georgia classroom teachers to the Clark Teacher Occupational Stress Factor Questionnaire, this study sought to determine the current levels of teacher stress within the group and to determine whether there were correlations between the characteristics of the group and the perceived levels of stress.

The findings indicated that classroom teachers find professional inadequacies and job overload to be the major stress producers …

Estimational Abilities And Mathematics Achievement Of Seventh Graders, Mary Elizabeth Mendenhall

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Computational estimation and mental computation are two of the most neglected areas of today's mathematical curriculum. Much has been written about these two concepts, but little instruction has been carried out in the classroom (Johnson, 1979; Reys, 1986). Freeman (cited in Reys & Bestgen, 1981) states that less than 3% of textbooks had estimation lessons. Reys (1987) found that only 4% of lessons in all fourth-grade textbooks of the early 1980's deal with estimation. Also, Buchanan (1978, p. 2) observes that: "Instruction in. estimation is not something that has been tried and failed; it has not been tried on any …

The Relationship Between The Strategies Of Adolescents On Microcomputers In Problem-Solving Sessions And Problem-Solving Times, Linda Meeks

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The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between strategies used by students in problem solving and the amount of time necessary for the problem solution.

A portion of the curriculum for 7th grade Life Science, teaching problem solving, was converted into three computer problem-solving tasks to be done by 76 seventh graders who worked in pairs to solve the problems. Each pair of students timed themselves as they worked toward a solution while the computer recorded the number of clues used in order to reach a solution. The Pearson product-moment correlation was used to obtain a coefficient …

Writing Apprehension: Can An Individualized Approach Help?, Elizabeth B. Loftin

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This study was a descriptive investigation of the effects of the Individualized Language Arts (ILA) program חס writing apprehension. Subjects were 152 eighth graders enrolled in a middle school. The subjects were from five language arts classes and were taught writing during the 1986-87 school year by the Individualized Language Art's (ILA) program. The data gathering instrument for this study was the Daly-Miller Test of Writing Apprehension (WAT), administered in August, 1986 as a pretest and again in the spring of 1987 as a posttest. Between the pre and posttests, students were instructed by the ILA, a method of teaching …

Intrinsic And Extrinsic Motivation: Influence On The Creativity Of Children's Poetry Writing, Violet Rich Hayes

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This study tested the hypothesis that creativity in children's writing will be significantly higher (p< .05) when, prior to writing a poem, children are presented a socially-induced intrinsic motivational orientation than when presented an extrinsic motivational orientation. Eighty sixth grade students were assigned to either a control group, intrinsic motivation group, or extrinsic motivation group. After writing the initial poem, students in the intrinsic orientation condition rank-ordered a 7-item intrinsic reasons for writing questionnaire before writing a second poem. The students in the extrinsic orientation rank-ordered extrinsic reasons for writing. A questionnaire was not given to those in the control condition. There were no significant differences in the creativity of the second poems after the experimental manipulations. The level of significance for individual paired-comparisons and also between group paired-comparisons of the pre- and posttest poems was p>.05. The implications of intrinsic and extrinsic orientations upon children's creativity are discussed.

The Relationship Between Teacher Attitudes Toward Standardized Testing And Student Test Scores, Laura J. Anderson

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Standardized testing in the public schools has an increasing impact on students, teachers, and administrators, yielding evaluative data which promise to become even more crucial to decision-making processes for all concerned. Also increasing are the negative attitudes of educators toward the testing program, in contrast to the growing emphasis placed on its importance by the public. Previous research indicates that teacher attitudes affect student outcomes; therefore, this study was developed to address the possibility of a correlation between teacher attitudes toward standardized testing and student test scores.

Ninety first-grade teachers in a selected county in Georgia served as subjects for …

Stress In Education: Comparing Stress Levels In Professional Educators, Angela P. Mitchell

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The stress teachers endure in teaching is becoming a topic of wide interest and concern among educators. This study attempted to compare stress felt by special educators and regular educators as measured by the Wilson Stress Profile for Teachers. It further compared the stress reported by high school, junior high school, and elementary school teachers as measured by the Wilson Stress Profile for Teachers.

Stress level scores were compared to determine if a significant difference existed in the following categories: Student Behavior; Employee/Administrator Relations; Parent/Teacher Relations; Time Management; and the compiled Overal1 Stress Score of all nine categories addressed on …

Prevalence Of Articulation Errors In Stuttering School Age Children, Laura M. Sartin

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Sixty speech-1anguage pathologists throughout the State of Georgia' served as respondents for a survey of school age stutterers exhibiting articulation errors. The questionnaire requested that children between the ages of five and 18 be reported, that dialectal and developmental errors should not be reported, and that stutterers should have been enrolled in a speech therapy program for a minimum of six months. Of those stutterers reported, the following variables were requested: race, age in months, severity of dysfluency, severity of articulation disorder, and length of time in treatment.

Results indicated that of 151 stutterers reported, 45 exhibited articulation errors. Twenty-seven …

First Grade Achievement Predicted By The Metropolitan Readiness Tests And The California Achievement Tests, Frances Wright

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The purpose of this study was to determine if the Metropolitan Readiness Tests (MRT) is a better predictor of first grade achievement than is the California Achievement Tests (CAT). The subjects were 400 representatively selected students from 10 of 38 elementary schools operating in a public school system in the Southeast. MRT scores for 1985 were collected for 200 kindergarten students, and CAT scores for 1986 were collected for 200 kindergarten students. These tests were administered to small groups of kindergarteners in the spring of each year by the regular classroom teachers. The children participated in the regular classroom curriculum …

The Evaluation Of Preferred Teaching Styles Among Traditional And Nontraditional Students, Lisa J. Wutzke-Bleth

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An Investigation Of Rock Music/Video Popularity And Rock Video Violence, Samuel S. Lemon

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A Rorschach Study Of Lateralized Differences In Emotion., Gregory James Tharp

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Several studies in the field of laterality have suggested that the left and right cerebral hemispheres of the brain may play different roles in emotional as well as cognitive processing. A study was conducted to test several specific hypotheses derived from theories proposing that the right hemisphere (RH) may have a generally greater involvement in emotional behavior, may be more expansive and less constrained by rational or conventional thinking, and may be particularly involved in such negative emotions as sadness.Twenty-five male and twenty-five female adult volunteers were each presented five Rorschach slides to the left visual hemifield (LVF) and five …

Topic Manipulation In Conversational Discourse : A Content Analysis, Jule Larsen

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