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Differential Patterns Of Interference During Concurrent Task Performance For The Two Cerebral Hemispheres, Carole H. Hayne

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In this experiment differential hemispheric processing demands in four cognitive tasks, two verbal and two non-verbal, were measured using a simple reaction time probe procedure. The procedure also measured the interference between the reaction time probe and the verbal and nonverbal tasks. The method used was similar to that found in information processing research using a concurrent task procedure to measure processing demands during primary task performance (Posner & Boies 1971). In the concurrent task procedure the subject is requested to perform two tasks at the same time: a cognitive (primary) task and a reaction time probe (secondary task). The …

Achievement Orientation: Projective And Objective Measures Of The Veroff Model And Their Relationships To Job Reward Values Orientation, Catherine Fairchild Sikorsky

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The area of achievement motivation research has been fought with theoretical and methodological controversy. The unitary construct of achievement motivation has been challenged by alternative models suggesting several dimensions of achievement orientation. Assessment methods have also been controversial with some researchers preferring objective measures while others prefer projective measures. A third problem in this research area involves the choice of appropriate behavioral or performance correlates of motivation in order to provide a measure of construct validity.

The purpose of the present study was to further explore one model of achievement orientation, the Veroff (1977) model which posits six distinct orientations …

Differential Hemispheric Specialization And Its Relationship To Repression, Shirley K. Tyler

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In Freud’s early formulations regarding a model of the mind, he suggested that repressed material functioned in a separate realm of the mind which was inaccessible to conscious recall or verbal inquiry. Based on studies of split-brain patients and studies of the differential functioning of the cerebral hemispheres, Galin (1977) has suggested that the right cerebral hemisphere may be the locus of unconscious mental contents.

Research with patient populations and normals has shown that each cerebral hemisphere is specialized for a different cognitive style. Right hemisphere cognition is similar in many respects to primary process thinking: global, nonverbal, imaginal, nonlinear …

A Philosophy Of Mutuality In Martin Buber's Writings--Implications For Mainstreaming, Dorothy M. Rath

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The study suggests a relationship which exists between Martin Buber's philosophy of mutuality and a humanistic educational mainstreaming. Mandated by parent-initiated legislation, mainstreaming is intended to reduce the isolation of the handicapped by including them as nearly as possible within the larger group in the regular class, and by giving them greater access to educational resources. This becomes problematic even for those handicapped children in nearest physical proximity. Among the obstacles are society's frequent exclusionist response to the different reflected in the school's preference for homogeneity, and the ideas of competition which dominate education.

The literature indicates that mainstreaming in …

Regulation Of Business, Richard H. Duncan Ii

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This independent study is an attempt to analyze the regulation of business in the United States of America. Its objective is to go back in American history to find and describe the legislative origins of government regulation of business and trace its growth to the present. Using the specific areas of price, transport, and public utilities, the impact of regulation on business as it is manifested in todays modern environment will be analyzed.

Trucking Industry Deregulation: An Effort To Increase Market Competition, Robert W. Byrd

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Valuation Of Closely Held Corporate Stock, Steven M. Haines

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An Exploration Of Fiscal Policy, Political Participation, And The Enactment Of Taxation And Expenditure Limitations In The American States, Dana W. Frey

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An Alternate Energy Study For The Proposed Sunrise Project, Clarence A. Bina

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Eneactment And Impact Of Geographical Isolation Factors In Public School Revenue Legislation In Three Selected States, Gerald R. Bass

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This research was conducted for the purpose of studying geographical isolation as it relates to schools. Geographical isolation is defined in the study as the particular circumstances in which schools are in need of supplemental revenue due to a combination of small size and geographical factors which inhibit reorganization or consolidation. The procedure was to investigate, document, and synthesize the actual enactment, implementation, and impact of geographical isolation factors in selected states which have employed such factors in their school revenue legislation.

Chapter II contains a review of the literature regarding the problems of small and isolated schools and the …

Ranching In Western North Dakota, 1887-1920, Scott R. Neevel

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Several historians have dealt with the topic of ranching in the American West, but generally they have presented a broad overview of what took place over the entire western United States. Those who have dealt with ranching in western North Dakota generally have covered the early 1880s, but they have used the calamitous winter of 1886-1887 as a stopping point.

The period from 1887 on through the first two decades of the twentieth century was an era marked by recovery of the stock industry, the change from open to closed range, and the change from the old open range methods …

A Critical Appraisal Of James Whale's The Old Dark House, Christopher P. Jacobs

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This study uses various critical approaches to analyze James Whale's 1932 film, The Old Dark House, and to some extent, the J. B. Priestley novel, Benighted, upon which it is based. The greatest difference between the two works is in their endings—the character Penderel dies in the novel but survives in the film version. The film also emphasizes the plot more than the characters, cutting much of the novel's character-developing monologues. This sacrifices, as well, much of Priestley's social commentary. The film nevertheless has more depth to its characters than many plot-oriented films of the period.

The Old Dark House …

The Relationships Among Family Structure, Family Environment And Satisfaction With College, John R. Lorenz

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This study investigated the relationships among family structure, family environment, and satisfaction with college. Items taken from Minuchin’s descriptions of Enmeshed and Disengaged family behaviors were compiled and placed in questionnaire form along with the Family Environment scale of the Minnesota Counseling Inventory. The Family Environment scale was chosen in this study as a way of assessing concurrent validity for the newly selected scale items, which comprised the Enmeshed and Disengaged scales. These three family scales and a modified form of the Hoppock Job Satisfaction Blank for assessing college student satisfaction were administered to seventy-one female and twenty-five male college …

An Investigative Approach To The Collagraph, Melissa B. Walker

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This thesis investigates the development of my imagery through the media of the collagraph.

"Night Journey To Meridian" And Other Stories, Lillie Marie Francis

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"Night Journey to Meridian" and Other Stories is a group of interrelated short stories dealing with various psychic experiences of one major character, Stella. Each story is an independent unit, but the stories together show psychic development through the life of the character. The stories are arranged chronologically.

"The Bite of the Turtle" deals with a nightmare experience of Stella in which she is in a strange place and gets bitten by a giant turtle. Stella insists on the reality of the experience that night and thereafter. "Aunt Callie's Visit" is an incident in which Stella has a precognitive dream …

Design And Testing Of An Externally Powered Elbow Prosthesis, David E. Weston

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There continues to be a need for an externally powered prothesis which can be used by above elbow amputee patients who cannot effectively operate a conventional body powered prosthesis. This device must be reliable, economically constructed, and easily maintained in the field. A device employing a drive mechanism powered by a small DC motor has been designed to meet this need.

The device is based on an inversion of the belt driven pulley system and is a continuation of previous work employing this mechanism. A prototype was designed using this system in a size suitable for patient application. The model …

University Of North Dakota Student Athletic Interests At The Intramural, Club-Recreational And Intercollegiate Level, Terry Syvertson

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The purpose of this study was to determine the. interests and levels of competition preferred by University of North Dakota students. One hundred and forty students, 58 females and 82 males, were asked to express their interest in 34 sports listed in a questionnaire which was completed by students enrolled in physical education classes at the University of North Dakota. Students were asked to indicate whether or not they enjoyed the sport as a spectator or participant. If the student indicated an interest at the participant level., he/she was then asked to indicate the level of competition preferred at the …

A Grammatical Sketch Of Berik, Peter N. Westrum

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This paper is a grammatical sketch of the Berik language based on language data gathered while living with the Berik people in Irian Jaya, Indonesia. The levels of the grammatical hierarchy described are words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. The tagmemic model has been used as the model for analysis

Words, isolatable units which cannot be further divided into "free" forms, are divided into classes which are distinguished from one another according to principles of affixation.

Phrases consist of at least one obligatory tagmeme with one or more marginal tagmemes whose fillers are typically words. Several different phrase types are identified. …

The Use Of Special Mmpi Scales For Prediction Of Response To Chemical Dependency Treatment, James H. Thrower

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The purpose of this study was to investigate how selected special scales of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) are related to treatment completion and treatment outcome in a privately operated chemical dependency treatment program. Multiple regression analyses, discriminant function analyses, and canonical correlation were used to analyze the data.

In Part I of this study the MMPI scales of Lie, K, Conscious Anxiety, Conscious Repression, Dependency, Dominance, Control, Admission, and Denial were examined to determine their ability to predict treatment completion for 182 males and 48 females. Completion of treatment was associated with lower scores on the Conscious Repression …

Printed Maps Of Utah To 1900: An Annotated Cartobibliography, Riley Moore Moffat

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Old maps are valuable research tools in many fields. Finding and identifying them, however, is often difficult. This annotated cartobibliography attempts to identify all maps of Utah printed before 1900. Entries give the distinguishing features, peculiarities, inaccuracies, and a general description as well as the map's provenance and citations in other lists and bibliographies.

The maps are listed chronologically and include all maps located in research collections in Utah, and in the catalogs of the Library of Congress and the Bancroft Library. Although the first entry is dated 1777, the first map of Utah made from actual observation, earlier maps …

Symbolism In Debussy's Music, Kathryn June Lucas

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The purpose of this study is to determine the extent to which Debussy was influenced by the Symbolist poets. In order to accomplish this objective, biographical details have been incorporated with the findings that Debussy entered the literary milieu early in his life and became directly involved with the new developments taking place in literature. The Symbolist aesthetic is explained first in terms of the unifying characteristics tying the movement together and then in terms of the specific techniques used by the poets to realize their ideals. A similar approach is used to analyze Debussy’s aesthetic; there is a discussion …

Developing System Specifications For Selection Of A Business Minicomputer, William Bobertz

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Tax Versus Financial Accounting: The Conformity Controversy Continues, Karen Sue Sando

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General Price-Level Accounting: Monetary Gains And Losses, Robert K. Foss

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The Individual Taxpayer's Investment In Real Estate: Investor V. Dealer, Timothy M. Moore

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Problems And Limitations Of Long-Term Timberland Leases For Non-Industrial Private Landowners, Stephen M. Butler

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Over seven million acres of non-industrial private forest land are controlled by the forest industry under long-term lease agreements. While many landowners appear to be content with these arrangements, others are dissatisfied. Landowners should be aware of the potential benefits, problems, and costs of the long-term commitments.

The Effect Of International Transfer Of Technology On The Balance Of Trade Of Developing Nations, 1965-1975, Jose Guillermo Antello

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To Make A Prairie, Vonda Kay Somerville

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Diaries, letters, and journals have come to be accepted as valid literary forms, offering personal insights into aii event or a v:ay of life which the more public accounts afforded by the history books have treated lightly or not at all, The settling of Dakota Territory about one hundred years ago provides an opportunity to present the personal perspectives of a number of pioneers as contained in their diaries, letters, and reminiscences. In particular, the women who iztioipated actively and fully in this venture have not been given due recognition for their contributions to the settlement of the plains, Historical …

An Epistemological Study Of Goethe's Novel The Sufferings Of Young Werther: An Examination Of Goethe's Educational Philosophy As Reflected In An Analytical Study Of The Character Werther, Mark A. Beckham

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The research problem is to examine Goethe's educational philosophy as identified through an analytical study of the character Werther in Goethe's novel The Sufferings of Young Werther.

The purpose of this study is to reveal the epistemological premises of the learning construct that are within the context of the novel, and to derive from these premises specific learning principles that can be applied to educational theory. Goethe's concepts of the human will, the self, responsibility, choice, and growth are defined and subsequently utilized as the skeletal frame from which to construct the working principles of his thought process. By focusing …

The Winter Ecology Of The Gadwall In Louisiana, Stuart Lindsay Paulus

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Data on the disabled in textbooks revealed that more disabled males than disabled females were visible. More adults including senior citizens were depicted as disabled characters. Sixty-seven percent of the disabilities were physical in origin. Nearly 70 percent of the disabled characters were Caucasian. Characterization and language were generally positive.

Analysis of flock characteristics indicated paired and unpaired gadwall remained partially segregated and that pairs were dominant over unpaired gadwall. Pairs were involved in less agonistic activity and remained at greater distances from other birds than unpaired gadwall. Pairing cnronology and behavior suggested that although pairs arose from temporary associations, …