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Reit Vs. Direct Investment, Richard L. Bain

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The Measurement And Reporting Of Human Resources - Its Feasibility And Utility, Wesley J. Simonson

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Financial accounting is dynamic. It's generally accepted accounting principles are the result of an evolutionary process that can be expected to continue. Accounting is not an art which is an end in itself, rather it is an activity with a purpose. It is an information system whose principles change in response to changes in economic and social conditions, to new knowledge, and to demands of users for more serviceable financial information. Human Resource Accounting (H.R.A.) is a part of this evolutionary process. It is a response to a need for information in an area previously considered to be outside the …

A Critical Analysis Of The Aapher Youth Fitness Test, Lee Nagel

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The Shade-Grown Tobacco Industry In The Connecticut Valley, Walter A. Upham

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This independent study examines the Shade-grown Tobacco Industry in the Connecticut Valley. This study follows the historical development of the cigar wrapper tobacco in the region. It details the current production methods and evaluates the structure of the industry. This study also presents some of the new methods appearing the the industry and will focus upon what may be the future of the industry

The interviews conducted with Mr. Anthony F. Amenta, executive director, Shade Tobacco Growers Agricultural Association, Incorporated and Mr. Raymond Garcia, general manager, Windsor Shade Tobacco Company, provided invaluable information concerning the present structure and marketing practices …

An Explanation Of Why The Securities And Exchange Commission Reversed Its Position On Publishing Financial Forecasts, Wayne M. Schmaltz

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Various Tax Options For Farmers And Ranchers, Karen Helland

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The Effects Of The North Dakota Interest Restrictions On Deposits Of Commercial Banks , 1968-1974, Byron Bennes

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The Role Of The Senate State And Federal Government Standing Committee During The 1975 North Dakota Legislative Assembly, Paulette C. Hansen

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Relationship Between Student Participation In A Secondary School Reading Program And Selected School Performance Variables, Marylin Jean (Walter) Guy

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Problem: The purpose of this study is to investigate four questions: 1. Are Students' reading achievement gains that are attained through participation in a remedial reading program during the sophomore year retained thoughout high school? 2. Does participation in a secondary remedial reading program affect students' general school-related behavior? 3. What benefits do students perceive from participating in a remedial reading program? 4. What recommendations can be made to improve the existing remedial reading program at Red River High School in Grand Forks, North Dakota?

Identified from reading achievement and nonverbal IQ scores and selected from the 1973-74 sophomore class, …

Relationships Among Teacher And Pupil Self-Concept And Pupil Reading Achievement At The First Grade Level, Verna L. Brantley

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to examine relationships among teacher and pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement at the first grade level. To accomplish this purpose pupil self-concept and pupil reading achievement were measured on a pre and post basis. Teacher data comprised of scores of teacher self-concept, teacher's views of the teaching profession, and teacher's views of children as students were also obtained. Attention was given to determining whether changes in the pupils' levels of self-concept had taken place during the school year, whether any exhibited changes in pupil self- concept correlated to changes in pupil reading …

The Effect Of The Presence Of An Unfamiliar Peer On Stranger Preference And Separation From The Mother In 15-Month-Olds, Robert Arlyn Harms

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the responses of 15-month-old toddlers to unfamiliar peers in the context of toddler-mother attachment. The subjects were twenty-two 15-month-old toddlers, who were observed singly and in pairs under mother-present and mother-absent conditions. Each toddler was involved in a sequence of six 3-minute episodes in an experimental room with toys. Using a counter-balanced procedure, three of the episodes for one toddler overlapped with three of the episodes for the other toddler so that one experimental session consisted of nine episodes. In both the one- toddler and the two-toddler halves of the six-episode …

Distribution Of Relative Abundance Of Potential Prey Of Spotted Sandpipers (Actitis Macularia L.) On Little Pelican Island, Leech Lake, Cass Co., Minnesota, Donald Louis Rubbelke

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Rot&ntiaJ p*ey Ite-ns ol spotted sandpipers (Actms macularia L.) were sampled during the summer ol 1974 on Little Pelican Island , Leech Lake# Cass County* Minnesota. Most abundant terrestrial food items were Dipitera of the families Chironomidae and Sciaridae. Most abundant aquatic organism# were cladocera, copepods, and amphipods of the class Eucrustaeaa. Three large hatches of insects occurred. The first, during the last week of May, was predominantly midges (Chironomidae). The second and the largest occurred during the last week of June and the first week of July. Mayflies (Heptageniidae and Ephemeridae) were most abundant and comprised the majority of …

An Investigation Of The Effects Of Imagination Enhancement Materiials On The Creative Abilities Of Fifth Grade Students, Michael William Radis

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Problem: The purpose of this study was to determine if enhancement of children's imaginations by activities in a school classroom could improve their creative abilities.

The study was divided into two parts. Part one dealt with the effect of the imagination enhancement materials on the figural and verbal creativity of children as measured by the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Part two looked at the effect of the imaginative materials on children's choice of reading materials and on the fantasy content of their creative writing.

Procedure: The research population for this study was one fifth grade classroom consisting of 25 …

Financial Reporting Of Environmental Information, Richard Peters

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Special Problems Of The Small Business, Teresa Kjelshus

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Source And Setting Credibility As Determinants Of Self-Referring Attitude Change, Charles D. Sullivan

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The present study was designed to demonstrate the possible applicability of the concepts and findings from attitude change research to a counseling or psychotherapy situation. Expanding and elaborating on a study by Bergin (1963), the effects of source credibility and setting credibility were investigated with respect to their independent and combined effects upon changes in the self- referring attitude of masculinity following a male subject's reception of communication indicating a discrepancy between his own and the communicator's judgment. Changes in anxiety as a result of receiving the discrepant communication were also measured.

Each of 60 male college student volunteers was …

Futures Research: A New Approach To Long-Range Corporate Planning, Conley A. Byrnes

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This study is an attempt to illustrate the potential use of futures research in long-range corporate planning. The basic purpose of futures research is to involve the corporate concern with an active role in creating future conditions. Outcomes and even the seemingly inevitable can be changed.

The paper will study the development of futures research, discuss various techniques and approaches, apply these to the corporation and discuss problems of forecasting. The paper will show that futures research concentrates on the development and application of systematic processes and procedures which are intended to unveil alternatives available to companies over the long-run. …

The Effects Of The North Dakota Interest Restrictions On Deposits On Commercial Banks, 1968-1974, Byron Bennes

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Revenue Sharing: A Local Perspective, Wallace T. Mcintosh

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Independent Study Of Congressional Oversight Of The Executive Agencies : The House Committee On Government Operations, Michael J. Flynn

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The Frontier Judicial System Of Dakota Territory, 1861-1873, Bernard F. Hyatt

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It is Lae purpose of this thesis to systematically study in detail the Dakota judicial system as related to its historical background and its formative frontier years from 1861 to 1873. It is an attempt to reveal the true nature of the judicial system and the people involved during this period.

The method used is a thorough research of available materials of the period under consideration. This is done in order to study the judicial system's historical background and that system itself--which includes its court structure, personnel, sessions, and cases. The basic research materials used are: (1) federal and territorial …

A Study Of The Reading Proficiency Of Fourth Grade Children In North Dakota With Special Emphasis On The Disabled Reader, Michael S. Worner

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Purpose of the Investigation: The purposes of the study were two-fold: (1) to determine the reading proficiency of fourth grade children in North Dakota, with a primary focus on the identification of disabled readers and (2) to ascertain the assistance that was provided for disabled readers by the schools and classroom teachers.

Questions of Study: The Study was designed to ascertain answers to the following questions:

1. How Xv^ell do fourth grade children in North Dakota read? The analysis of this question has three parts: how x^ell they read overall, how boys and girls compare in their reading, and how …

Effects Of Emotional Inoculation And Supportive Therapy On Stress Incurred From Nursing Home Placement, Mary B. Carman

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Research indicates that relocation of an elderly person to a nursing home constitutes a major stress to the individual which can be life threatening. The present study was designed to assess the efficacy of two different treatment approaches in attenuating that stress.

Thirty-six elderly persons being placed in nursing homes for the first time were randomly assigned to one of three groups. Subjects in the Emotional Inoculation (El) Group x;ere seen for three consecutive days in the hospital, prior to entering a nursing home, for purposes of giving them information about the facility and preparing them for some of the …

An Empirical Investigation Into The Determinants Of University Faculty Salaries, A Case Study: The University Of North Dakota, Glenn D. Schaible

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An Investigation Of The Vocabulary Recognition And Syntactic Performance Of Normally-Developing And Educable Mentally Handicapped Children, Myrna Fladeland Moore

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This study was designed to investigate the relationship between the performance of normally-developing subjects and educable mentally handicapped (EMH) subjects on standardized measures of vocabulary recognition and syntax.

Nine male and nine female normally-developing subjects, with a mean age of five years seven months, and ten male and seven female educable mentally handicapped subjects, with a mean age of nine years six months, participated in this study. All of the subjects were administered the Full Range Picture Vocabulary Test (FRPVT) (Ammons and Ammons, 1948) and Developmental Sentence Scoring (DSS) (Lee, 1974) in the present study and were administered the Peabody …

The Concept Of Materiality As Exemplified By Court Decisions Relating To Three Dependent Factors Of Morality, Annie Ortega

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Guidelines For A North Dakota Industrial Education Safety Manual, Hubert L. Ivie

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A Revised County Budget Report From For North Dakota Counties, Micheal E. Zainhofsky

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Decision-Making In The Public Service And The Necessity For Ethical Guidelines, Linda S. Mason

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An Analysis Of Perceptions Of Job Specifications For Secondary Principals As Viewed By Principals And Teachers In Selected Minnesota Secondary Schools, Ervin F. Garbe Jr.

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Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine what differences in perception existed between teachers and principals when they viewed the job specifications of a secondary school principal. Further purposes were to determine if any differences existed between teachers and principals in their perceptions of a secondary school principal's general job categories and to attempt to identify those educational and demographic variables whose presence significantly affected the respondents' perceptions.

Procedure: The population of the study was limited to 253 public secondary schools in the state of Minnesota. The study sample included 169 principals and 273 teachers. The teachers and …