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Heterogenous Catalysis Of Solvent Refined Lignite To Obtain Chemical Feed Stocks, John R. Rindt

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Continuous catalytic depolymerization of solvent refined lignite (SRL) was investigated by reacting it catalytically with hydrogen in a fixed bed trickle reactor, using tetralin as the solvent. At a reaction temperature of 450° C , a hydrogen atmos phere at 1,000 psi, and a liquid hourly space velocity of 1.0 to 1.5 hr“^, 58 runs were made using eighteen different catalysts. Yields of light oil ranged from 0.010 to 0.211 grams of light oil produced per gram of SRL fed. Using a gas chromatograph-mass spectrophotometer, light oils were shown to contain toluene and ethyl benzene, in substantial quantities. Conversion of …

A Comparison Of Statistical And Non-Statistical Sampling In Accounting Auditing, James Ryan

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Essentials Of Electronic Circuits For Selected Medical Technology Instrumentation Applications, Lowell P. Stanlake

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The concern of this research was to investigate the applications of basic medical electronic instrument concepts pertinent to instrument operation for the education of medical technologists. A second concern involved a literature review regarding medical electronic instrument theory and the operational instructions included in instrument manuals supplied by manufacturers.

This study attempted to: (1) investigate medical electronic instrument theory and the operational instructions included in instrument manuals, (2) collect information from medical electronic instrument manufacturers pertaining to medical electronic instruments used by health personnel, (3) discern and identify the sectional circuit functioning of selected electronic instruments, and (4) illustrate common …

Spring And Summer Ecology Of Female Greater Prairie Chickens In Northwestern Minnesota, W. Daniel Svedarsky

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The spring and summer ecology of female greater prairie chickens in northwestern Minnesota was intensively studied from mid-April through August during 1975, 1976, and 1977. Twenty-one females were radio-tagged and monitored for an average of 57.1 days, yielding 1,113 locations. Female visits to booming grounds peaked around 12 April and copulations peaked around 20 April. Habitats disturbed by culti vation, grazing, haying, and burning accounted for 60.6% of all loca tions of monitored females during egg laying and incubation with crop land used by 10 of 17 females. Egg laying commenced an average of 3.8 days after copulation at a …

Analyzing The Relative Equity Of School Aid Distribution Relating To Oil And Gas Tax, Employing Impact Aid, Property Tax, And Severance Tax Systems, Harry Lee Weisenberger

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Statement of the problem: The purpose of this study was to define "relative equity" and then propose an alternative to the present system for more equitable financial assistance to school districts in which taxes on severed resources are substituted for taxes on increment of property wealth related to existence of resources.

There apparently was a great deal of dissatisfaction among school administrators in North Dakota, as well as those individuals in the public sector who are informed of the issues, concerning the present system of generation and distribution of oil and gas tax revenues in North Dakota. It has been …

Baseball: The Origins And Development Of The Game To 1903, Jeffrey Lawrence Haven

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The purpose of this study was to narrate a history of baseball from its origins to the merger of the National and American Leagues in 1903. The author endeavored to produce a work that was interesting to sports enthusiasts and informative to researchers. He also attempted to relate the significance of the development of the institution of baseball to nineteenth-century American society.

Based on accepted historical research and writing procedures, a study was completed which exposed the true birth of the game, the expansion and development of the sport from amateur clubs to professional teams, the growth of professionalism under …

Mormon Montage: Mormons In The World: A Production Script, Kris Marele Morgan

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This project makes available material that will help help drama directors cast young people in an improvisational show. This thesis includes suggestions for try-outs, a play manuscript with specific stage directions understandable to an inexperienced director, preparation exercises to help actors develop necessary dramatic skills, an index to these exercises arranged by areas of skill development, notes to the director, an extensive bibliography, and additional references for further research. The exercises can also be used for development of actors in any production and may be applied to education programs.

The play "Mormon Montage" concerns Mormon contributions to such fields as …

The Elucidarium Of Honorius Augustodunensis: Translation And Selected Annotations, Clifford Teunis Gerritt Sorensen

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This thesis is a translation of and annotations on the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis. The Elucidarium i s an outline, in dialogue form, of Catholic doctrine. Written early in the 12th century, it was very popular during the Middle Ages and, with adaptations, remained in use until modern times. The translation makes the work available to those who do not read Latin and the annotations provide background, references and source material useful for understanding the text.

Capitation Budgeting In The Military Health Services System, Robert J. Hogg

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Histochemical And Ultrastructural Studies On Migrating Epidermal Cells During The Wound Healing Stage Of Regeneration In The Adult Newt, Notophthalmus Viridescens., Lillian A. Repesh

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The Effect Of Previewing New-Matter Dictation On The Achievement Of Second-Semester Gregg Shorthand Students., Patricia Ann Merrier

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An Analysis Of Subject Matter Content For Four-Year Collegiate Food Service And Lodging Management Programs In The United States., Thomas Anthony Bloom

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The Development And Evaluation Of A Children's Gospel Principles Course, Lynn R. Applegate

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This thesis is the description, defense and critique of a course developed to teach gospel principles to 7- through 9-year-old children. The development process through which the course went, its formative evaluations and summative evaluation are described. The summative evaluation employed the pretest-posttest control group design. Thirty children, ages 7 through 9, were in the evaluation. After the pretest, 15 of the children were taught the 19-lesson course by their parents during a 23-day period. A statistical comparison of the mean pretest-posttest gain scores for the experimental group could significantly more accurately identify examples and non examples of fatih, agency, …

Representative Mormon Short Stories 1890 To 1940: Evolution Of Sentimentalism Toward Realism, Alice Gardner

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Previously, no one has analyzed the short stories of Mormon periodicals from their inception in the late nineteenth century until 1940. The body of this study attempts to do so and has two main aims.

First, it evaluates the literary development of largely sentimental stories written for Mormon youth. Sentimentality in fiction was an extreme form of romanticism which flourished in America throughout the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century. As other forms of realistic writing became more acceptable in the nation, Mormon writers gradually accommodated their literary styles to conform with national trends. They retained a significant amount …

A Home Teacher's Training Manual, Daniel M. Jones

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The purpose of this study was to develop, implement, and evaluate the effectiveness of a training program for L.D.S. priesthood home teachers.

A twelve week workshop was written and field tested in the Fullerton California Stake. The evaluation pointed out the need for a structured and ongoing program with emphasis on the fostering of interpersonal communication and relationship skills among individual priesthood home teachers. The outcome of this project was the development of a functional product entitled "A Home Teacher's Training Manual."

Protection In Mice Against Herpes Simplex Virus Following Corynebacterium Granulosum Or Corynebacterium Parvum Treatment., David Allen Gabrielson

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A Direct Response Test Of Communication Modality In A Fund Raising Situation, David Robert Slone

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Utilization Of Glycolytic Substrates By Rat Testicular Tissue Exposed To Delta-9-Tetrahydrocannabinol, Michael Warren Lamé

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The Effects Of Streptozotocin-Induced Diabetes On Responses To Opiates And Other Centrally-Acting Pharmacologic Agents, Glenn Stuart Simon

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Diabetes mellitus affects millions of people. Although diabetics can lead relatively normal lives, all treatments for the disease are symptomatic and not curative. The purpose of this investigation was to determine whether the sensitivity to opiates and other selected centrally-acting drugs in animals is altered by streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetes. A second objective was to determine which aspect of the diabetic syndrome primarily was responsible for the altered sensitivity. Other experiments were performed in an attempt to elucidate the mechanism whereby this altered sensitivity occurred.

STZ-induced diabetes or dextrose-induced transient hyperglycemia did not have a significant effect on the duration of …

Life Change Events In Patients With Minor Injuries, Janice Vandenburg Keitz

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This study explored the time relationship of life change events in young adult patients with minor injuries for which medical attention was sought in an emergency department (ED). Life change events are those occurrences in life which require an alteration in a person's adaptive and coping responses to ease the discomfort associated with the change. Too much change without an increase in adaptation responses may cause loss of control. The manifestation of loss of control under evaluation in this study was the occurrence of a minor injury.

Quantitative Analysis Of The Neuropil Of Nucleus Gracilis And Nucleus Z., David James Friedenbach

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Minuteman Missile Crew Member Evaluation : A Control Process, Gerald D. Goff

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Fine Structure Of The Developing Ciliary Body And Zonular Fibers In The Chick., Soo-Siang Lim-Spiker

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Speech Writing For A Public Official, A Governor : Problems And Assessment, James O. Kusler

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The Measurement Of Anger In Children: A Multi-Modal Approach, Edward Shirrell Eastman Jr.

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The objective of this study was to utilize self-report, peer-report and teacher-report techniques in measuring (reporting) anger in children; and to determine the intercorrelation between these three approaches in order to determine their relationship to one another and in turn, to assess these reporting tools. Subjects were 38 male and female emotionally disturbed children from the Virginia Treatment Center for Children, a short-term residential psychiatric facility in Richmond, Virginia. There were 28 boys and 10 girls, with a mean age of approximately 11 years.

Each student was given the Children's Inventory of Anger (CIA) and the Peer-Report of Anger (PR). …

Geology Of Igneous Extrusive And Intrusive Rocks In The Sundance Area, Crook County, Wyoming, Earl F. Fashbaugh

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Two major igneous rock types occur in the Sundance, Wyoming area including foyaite of the Bear Lodge Mountain sill and quartz latite of Sundance Mountain and Sugarloaf Mountain. The igneous bodies were mapped on a scale of 1:5000 in an effort to determine petrogenetic relationships between the two rock types.

Sundance Mountain and Sugarloaf Mountain are extrusive in origin. Quartz latite occurs as subparallel units of breccia, tuff, and massive flows without any clear cross-cutting relationships. Fragmental types (breccia and cuff) constitute 41 to 76 percent of the rocks, suggesting that Sundance Mountain is a mixed cone. The quartz latite …

Petroleum Potential Of The Tilston Interval (Mississippian) Of Central North Dakota, John P. Himebaugh

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The Tilston interval sediments were deposited on the eastern flank of the Williston basin of North Dakota, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The interval (Osagian) is composed of a basal carbonate and upper anhy drite in the predominantly carbonate Mississippian Madison Formation. The interval consists of four major facies (subtidal, shoal, tidal flat and supratidal anhydrite), and two geographically restricted facies (lagoonal and elastic) and represents a regressive sequence.

Tilston deposition began with the subtidal facies, deposited on a broad, shallow shelf. As the sea regressed this was followed by deposition of the shoal facies. Further regression resulted in the deposition of …

Applied Geology In The Beulah-Hazen Area, Mercer County, West-Central North Dakota, Gary N. Meyer

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Increased lignite development around the small towns of Beulah and Hazen, North Dakota, will cause rapid growth and necessitate the develop ment of new subdivisions and expansion of present sewage disposal facili ties. A detailed geologic study of a 9 0-square mile area surrounding the two towns was undertaken to provide information valuable to those concerned with proper management of this growth. A surface and near-surface materials map was prepared at a scale of 1:24, 000 showing relative depths and thicknesses of a maximum of three earth materials to a depth of 9 m. Eleven units were mapped at the …

Petrology Of The Cenozoic Igneous Rocks Of The Tinton District, Black Hills, South Dakota - Wyoming, John T. Ray

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The Tinton district is located on the northwest flank of the Black Hills uplift, 20 km west of Lead, South Dakota, along the Wyoming South Dakota border. The Tinton or Nigger Hill uplift comprises a central area of domed Precambrian Xstrata with marginal exposures of Paleozoic sedimentary rocks which dip radially outward on all sides. The area was intruded by Cenozoic igneous rocks that include a stock of quartz latite/quartz trachyte porphyry, an alkalic ring dike complex, lamprophyre dikes and intrusive breccia.

Precambrian rocks are represented by a sequence of metapelites thst have been intruded by metabasite and granitic pegmatite …

The Relationship Of Selected Language, Reading, And Typewriting Skills To Post-Secondary Student Performance In Machine Transcription For Word Processing., Marilyn Walberg Wilkins

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No abstract provided.