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Paleocene Coal-Bearing Sediments Of The Williston Basin, North Dakota : An Interaction Between Fluvial Systems And An Intracratonic Basin, Laramie M. Winczewski

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Outcrop and test hole data for 225 sites in a 33,700-km² area of southwestern North Dakota were examined. Seven sedimentation intervals were identified for the Paleocene Bullion Creek and Sentinel Butte Formations. The intervals extend from the top of the Harmon coal (lower Bullion Creek) to the top of the Twin Buttes coal (upper Sentinel Butte). Each interval consists of medium and fine elastics underlying a persistent lignite coal, or some other lithology at the stratigraphic position of the coal. Clastics are finer-grained upwards within intervals and within both formations to the upper Sentinel Butte.

Sand-rich zones align northwest-southeast, …

6 Cubicles (Original Drama)., Daniel Warren Landes

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6 Cubicles is a three act drama that is best labeled a "tragicomedy." The plot revolves around the life of Hilda Stag, an elderly English professor whose obsessive behavior is best typified by her kleptomania and her mania for watching soap operas. Eventually Hilda's bad habits are chosen by her colleagues as the "sins" of the faculty office for which "atonement" must be made. Hilda thus becomes a scapegoat who is "sacrificed" by her officemates by means of a seemingly harmless prank. Suffering a mental breakdown, Hilda fantasizes herself in a religious soap opera but is victimized here as well, …

An Investigation Of The Performance Of Preschool Children On Selected Spatial-Prepositional Items From Three Tests Of Basic Concepts, Michelle A. Sellers

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The Barriers To Effective Intercultural Communication In A Study Abroad Program, Colette Renee Strehlow

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A Study Of Aristotle's "De Anima": Perception As An Epistemological Concept., Muhamad Ndaula Lubambula Sansa

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The research problem is to investigate and analyze perception as an epistemological concept in the writings of Aristotle, using De Anima as the focus for the study.The purpose is to identify and analyze the epistemological premises in Aristotle's theory of perception with particular reference to the intellective process. The Aristotelian concepts utilized as the framework are perception, empiricism, imagination, memory, Aristotle's doctrine of potentiality and actuality and his theory of nous.Aristotle held that perception implies both conception and sense perception. He says that in sense perception the sense organ receives the form without its matter and the object actualizes the …

Petrology, Geochemistry And Economic Geology Of Selected Gold Claims In Rocks Of The Wasekwan Lake Area, Lynn Lake District, Manitoba, Canada, Douglas Scott Kenaley

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The purpose of this investigation was to map and study, both at regional and detailed scales, the units encountered within seven gold claims that were staked by Sherritt-Gordon Mines Limited of Lynn Lake, Manitoba. The claims are located in the wasekwan Lake area, approximately 12. 8 km southeast of Lynn Lake. Regional mapping was conducted at a scale of 1:12000 over a 6.4 km2 area and detailed mapping of potentially economic areas was conducted at a scale of 1:240. Whole-rock geochemistry, microprobe, optical and X-ray diffraction procedures were employed to describe and characterize the rocks. The Aphebian rock units of …

Depositional Environments And Sandstone Diagenesis In The Tyler Formation (Pennsylvanian), Southwestern North Dakota, Stephen D. Sturm

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The Tyler Formation, of Early Pennsylvanian age, in southwestern North Dakota may be divided into upper and lower units, reflecting both a change in lithology and depositional environments. The lower unit is dominated by varicolored, noncalcareous shales and mudstones, siltstones, thin coal beds, and medium-grained sandstones. The upper unit in the areas of the Square Butte to Fryburg fields may be divided into a lower subunit, dominated by dark gray to grayish-black, argillaceous limestones and calcareous shales, and an upper subunit dominated by grayish-red, anhydritic limestones, varicolored to reddish-brown, calcareous shales, and locally, thin anhydrite. In the area of the …

Dysfunctional Influences Of External Financial Reporting On Internal Decision Making, John M. Rudrud

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A Comparative Study Of Empathic And Comprehensive Listening Skills And Act Assessment Composite Score, Kris M. Neumann Koester

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A Study Of The Current Status Of The Grand Forks Public School System And The Extent To Which It Is Meeting The Requirements Outlined In Public Law 94-142 As It Relates To Physical Education And The Handicapped, Phillip Laird Yagla

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A Comparison Of The Effect Of The Language- Experience Approach And The Basal Approach On Reading Achievement, Larry L. Copeland

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The purpose of the study was to examine and compare through objective literary research the effectiveness of the basal method versus the language experience method on reading achievement. The review of the literature covered a wide variety of sources including several books, journals, dissertations, and reports by professional organizations.

Five questions were formulated to help guide the probe through the vast amount of literature and to narrow the scope and breadth of the research report. The questions asked about the significant differences of reading achievement by: (1) method of instruction, (2) socio-cultural background, (3) sex, (4) intelligence levels, and (5) …

Glacial Geology And Stratigraphy Of Southeastern Pierce And Southwestern Benson Counties, North Dakota, Arthur W. Schnacke Jr.

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The study area includes 220 square miles in southeastern Pierce and southwestern Benson Counties, North Dakota (T. 152 N. through T. 154 N., R. 70 W. through R. 73 W.).

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Field mapping and subsequent analyses were attempted to differentiate the drifts of the Leeds and Souris lobes, to determine the sequence and duration of events during and subsequent to glaciation, and to aid in correlating the drifts. Landforms of the area include: ice marginal ridges, ground moraine, proglacial plains, abandoned river channels, and sand dunes.

In the laboratory, very coarse sand lithology percentages, till fabric, texture, and gross lithology …

Bonding In Diene-Ml₂ And Arene-Ml₂ Complexes : Stereochemistry And Structures Of Two Arene-Ml₂ Complexes Of Fe(O) And Two Diene-Ml₂ Complexes Of Ni(Ii), Marc W. Eyring

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United States Diplomatic Relations With The Holy See Since 1928, Harry Robert Keller

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A Comparison Of Listening Skills At The Beginning And End Of A College Fundamentals Of Public Speaking Course, Anne M. Gravesen

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Plankton Populations In Three Lake Discharge Channels During Extended Zero Flow, Richard E. Jacobsen

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An Investigation Of The Type-Token Ratio, Kelley Patricia Ritchie

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A Geographical Study Of Chinch Bug Infestations In Eastern Kansas, Stephen G. Sexton

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Identification Of University And Community Desires For The Development Of An Aquatic Program For The University Of North Dakota, Michael M. Stromberg

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A Survey Of The Offensive Formations Employed By 1981 State Champion High School Football Teams, Michael C. Berg

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Stream Sediment Load As A Factor In Estimating Denudation Of The Riding Mountain Escarpment, Manitoba, Patrick B. Donnelly

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A Comparative Study Of The Competitive Levels Of Women At The University Of Minnesota, Crookston, Wayne Arthur Olson

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Pinch Pots Vs Coil Pots : The Effects Of Experience With Clay On Development Of Conservation, Margaret Bergan Nardi

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Recreation Planning : A User Oriented Study In Grand Forks, North Dakota, Bill Holler

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The Interpretation Of Metaphor In Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Joan Livingston-Webber

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The History And Analysis Of The Grand Forks Teachers' Center, Virginia L. Bollman

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Individual Retirement Accounts And The Military Officer, Richard J. O'Shea

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Dipole Moment Functions Of Hydrogen Fluoride And Hydrogen Iodide Molecules Using An Anharmonic Potential Function., Manfred Hermann Kluckner

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The spectral frequencies and line strengths of a number of vibration-rotation lines in the (1-0), (2-0),...,(5-0) bands of HF and HI are available in the literature.In this dissertation the electric dipole matrix elements,(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)obtained from the line strengths, were used to determine the dipole moment coefficients, M(,n), in the expansion(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)where M(r) is the electric dipole moment function, r(,e) the equilibrium internuclear distance, and n = 0, 1, 2,...,5. The M(,n)'s were extracted from equations of the form(DIAGRAM, TABLE OR GRAPHIC OMITTED...PLEASE SEE DAI)by a least squares fit. The wave …

The Developing Concept Of Educational Adequacy And The Relationship To Financing Schools In North Dakota., Charles Dewayne Cheney

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The purpose of the study was to solicit pertinent opinion and data intending to inform policymakers and educators concerning the feasibility and potential consequences of specifying an adequate level of education in North Dakota. National experts and selected North Dakotans interested or involved in educational policymaking were interviewed.Four questions were answered: (1) What are the national trends in defining educational adequacy? (2) Where educational adequacy has been defined, what have the results been? (3) What are the salient issues to be considered if North Dakota undertakes defining/funding adequacy? (4) Who are the predicted "winners" and "losers" if adequacy is defined …

The Planning, Evaluation And Reporting Process: A Study Of Compliance With Accountability Legislation In Selected School Districts Of Minnesota., Robert Anthony Stepaniak

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Eight randomly selected school districts in Minnesota were studied to evaluate the impact of the 1976 "Planning, Evaluation and Reporting" (PER) accountability law. Four districts each from two sizes of school districts (size was based on the number of central office administrators) allowed a comparison of the results from the two groups.Two major sources of data were used--written information and on site interviews with the PER coordinators of the sample districts. Two questions were answered. (1) What is the nature of the compliance and changes in the districts studied as a result of the efforts to comply with the PER …