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Technical Bulletins: Dol Preliminary Flsa Regulations On Police And Firefighters, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Friday, November 1, 1974, the Department of Labor issued preliminary regulations governing the minimum wages and maximum hours for police and fire personnel. This Technical Bulletin summarizes the preliminary regulations.

The Relationship Between Expectation, Belief, And Anxiety In A Speaking Situation, George (Tod) William Bossert

Doctoral Dissertations

Subjects were given bogus test results that indicated they would be either "relatively calm" or "highly anxious" in a speaking situation. They were also given either an anxiety-okay belief or an anxiety-not-okay belief. The expectations and beliefs given subjects by the experimenter were called manipualted expectations and beliefs. Subjects also filled out forms indicating whether they expected to be calm or anxious and whether they believed anxiety was or was not okay. The expectations and beliefs of the subject were called prior expectation and beliefs.

Each subject was given an expectation and a belief and then requested to make a …

Obscenity Standards In Canada And The United States: A Comparative Study In Constitutional Law, Ronald Edward Dean

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the comparative constitutional development of obscenity law in Canada and the United States. The research focuses on analysis of case law with particular emphasis of Supreme Court decisions in the two countries. Obscenity law is not static, but is, rather, an active and on-going area of constitutional law.

The central problem in the legal approach to obscenity has been the development of a definition. The original conceptualization of obscenity for both Canada and the United States came from an English decision in 1868, which dominated the field until the late 1950's. The …

A Case Study Of The Consequences Of Displacement Caused By Urban Renewal And Highway Construction On Minority Businesses In The City Of Knoxville, Tennessee, Comer L. Taylor

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to study the consequences of displacement caused by urban renewal and highway construction on minority businesses in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. Efforts were made to find out: (1) What happens to business establishments when they have been forced to move to another location; (2) To what extent does dis­ location lead to business failures; (3) What minority businessmen perceive to be-their problems and needs; (4) What are the characteristics of owners of those businesses that did not survive the move as compared to those that successfully relocated; (5) What are the major problems …

The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox

Masters Theses

The field of political psychology focuses on specific political behavior as it relates to a total measure of the individual. This research effort chose as a possible summation of that totality the value system, defined as any individual's description of his total image of the world and the behavior which he prefers in dealing with that world. Within this perspective, political attitudes are the result of the expression of a broad and abstract value system with reference to a specific attitude object.

The research design utilized Q methodology to gather empirical descriptions of values systems toward a political issue, i.e., …

A Metrical Analysis Of The Morphological Relationship Between Prehistoric Dallas And Historic Cherokee Skeletal Populations In East Tennessee, Moira H. M. Wright

Masters Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to define and quantify the morphological relationship between prehistoric Dallas and historic Overhill Cherokee skeletal populations in east Tennessee in order to test two theories concerning Cherokee prehistory in the eastern Tennessee Valley. One theory states that the Cherokee did not arrive in the Valley until long after European contact; the other theory suggest that the Cherokee have possibly been occupying this area since as early as the Archaic period.

Methods of metrical analysis currently in use in physical anthropological research were used to test these two theories. The morphological distance between Dallas and …

Human Genetic Isolation And Population Structure Of Hancock County, Tennessee, James R. Kirkland

Masters Theses

A study of the population structure of Hancock County, Tennessee, was conducted in order to determine the degree of genetic isolation, and the likelihood of random genetic drift, experienced by the county population. Genealogical information for the study was obtained from a random sample of the population utilizing two series of questionnaires. In all, data were obtained for 275 couples from all areas of Hancock County.

Four main analytical steps were taken with these data to determine: (1) the amount of inbreeding, through a surname isonymy study, (2) the effective population size, (3) the patterns of human movement, primarily marital …

Technical Bulletins: Street Lighting, Energy Conservation, And Crime, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin looks at the debate over the merits of saving energy by turning off street lights.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Exemption From Federal And State Gasoline Taxes, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin explained how, and under what conditions, Tennessee cities might obtain gasoline tax exemptions.

Analysis Of The Proctor And Self-Paced Components Of The Personalized System Of Instruction, Janice Joyner Maclin

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purposes of this study were to determine the effect of modifying the proctor and self-paced components of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). Research has shown that students in Personalized courses score higher on final exams and rate the course higher than those enrolled in lecture courses. The components of the system have not been manipulated to determine the effect on student performance, progress or attitudes. The first purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of the independent variable of proctors' grades being contingent upon the final examination performance of students assigned to them upon the …

An Interpersonal Investigation Of 'Swinging'- An Alternative Style Of Marriage, John Milton Mccauley

Doctoral Dissertations

As demonstrated by statistics and described by experts, traditional marriage is not proving to be a satisfactory relationship for many. The proportion of divorces is annually rising and the institution of marriage has been described aptly as a calamity. This author conducted an interpersonal study of couples involved in one alternative to traditional marriage--"Swinging."

Subjects were obtained via written letter to those swingers who advertised in a swinging magazine. Eight couples participated in the study. The procedure took place in their homes and averaged about six hours. The procedure consisted of the administration of the complete Leary Interpersonal Analysis, the …

Mtas Annual Report 1974-1975, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

In the year ending June 30, 1975, the staff of the Municipal Techincal Advisory Service completed work on 622 projects, made 2,107 field visits to cities, responded to 711 reference questions, provided 239 ordinances and 1,548 other materials, and answered an uncounted number of inquiries and questions from municipal officials. Total expenditures for regular programs (excluding the HUD-TML-MTAS community development program) approximated $765,000. The sources of funds were: cities' share of state sales tax distribution $339,000; State General Fund appropriation $288,000; federal grants $84,000; and reserve $54,000. In this report on MTAS' 26th year of operations we have included descriptions …

Characteristics Of Graduate Student Instructors As Related To Students' Judgments Of Their Competence, Edwin Rice Barnett

Masters Theses

The present study seeks primarily to determine if there is a congruence between the perceived similarity of a student to his instructor and the student's judgment of the instructor's competence. To test this hypothesis, an Interpersonal Checklist, consisting of 160 adjectives, was devised and administered to two sets of 50 students during a period of six months. Three instructional sets were utilized with a five-point Likert response system in conjunction with the checklist. One instructional set asked the student to describe his instructor, another asked for a judgment of the extent to which the student thought himself similar to his …

Bilateral Variation In Man: Handedness, Handclasping, Armfolding And Mid-Phalangeal Hair, Carol J. Loveland

Masters Theses

A study of bilateral variation among individuals from three populations was conducted. One sample consisted of 174 Cashinahua Indians who reside along the Curanja River in the Peruvian rain forest. A second group was composed of 286 students from anthropology classes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Eighty-six families, including 372 individuals, constituted the third sample.

Four laterality traits - handedness, armfolding, handclasping, and mid-phalangeal hair - were analyzed by population and by individual family.

The most interesting variation occurred in the frequency of right and left handclasping and in the presence or absence of mid-phalangeal hair. The percentage of …

Social Psychological And Hormonal Correlates Of Alcohol Consumption: A Psychobiological Study Of Social Behavior, Barry S. Tuchfeld

Doctoral Dissertations

Social psychological and the sparse hormonal literature are reviewed for possible commonalities with respect to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Self-concept, social anxiety, cortisol, and testosterone are proposed as interrelated but additive predictors of alcohol consumption among males in a party-type social setting. The relationships were thought to be amplified for those persons with a self-reported history of excessive drinking.

Sixty-five male collegians from four organizations were invited to attend parties sponsored by the research co-directors. Pre- and post-drinking venipunctures were taken but the subjects were not told of the specific interest in the steroid hormones. Further, the subjects were …

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Gas Systems' Payments And Free Services To Municipalities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin addresses the numerous inquiries that MTAS had received as to whether municipally-owned gas systems pay tax equivalents or make other payments to their respective municipal governments.

Technical Bulletins: $120 Million In Rural Water And Waste Disposal Grant Funds Released, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The information in this report was taken from City Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 10, May 24, 1974, a biweekly federal administrative report of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The report describes a program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that released $120 million in rural water and waste disposal grant funds.

A Phonemic And Phonetic Analysis Of The Folk Speech Of Bedford County, Tennessee, Anthony Patterson Cavender

Masters Theses

Until recently, no systematic study of Tennessee folk speech had been performed. This study, descriptive in scope, will help fill a void and provide valuable data for determining Tennessee's relationship to other American dialects.

Five informants, each one fitting Hans Kurath's Type I, Group A classification, were interviewed using The Questionnaire for the Investigation of American Regional English: Based on the Work Sheets of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada (Orton and Wright, 1972). The phonological material obtained from the five tape recorded interviews is presented in a unitary phonemic system along with characteristic allophonic and free …

A Preliminary Analysis Of The Activities Of Captive Black Bear (Ursus Americanus)--Locomotion And Breeding, Jeanne Crozer Ludlow

Masters Theses

The behavior of the American black bear, Ursus americanus, has been poorly documented in the past. This investigation is a preliminary analysis of the diurnal activities of a hand-reared female and a captive wild male black bear, and the successful breeding of another pair of captive black bears.

Two black bears were kept in a semi-naturalistic enclosure at Tremont within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP). Their daily activities were recorded by a scan sampling technique, supplemented by photographic accounts. Detailed systemic records were kept of behaviors classified into categories (locomotor, non-locomotor). The bears' activities were analyzed in …

Technical Bulletins: Potential Firefighter Schedules Beginning Jan. 1, 1975, William Danielson

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The following analysis was prepared by William Danielson for the National League of Cities to show possible firefighter schedules permissible (without necessitating overtime payment) under the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendments for the next four years.

Technical Bulletins: How Fair Labor Standards Amendments Of 1974 Affect Municipalities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974 extended minimum wage and overtime coverage to include most local government employees, effective May 1, 1974.

Technical Bulletins: Davis-Bacon Requirements For Revenue Sharing Projects, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin is an update of the July 3, 1973, "Revenue Sharing: Wage Requirements" by MTAS, providing cities with the current wage determinations for street construction work statewide as published in the Federal Register.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1974-75, Mtas

Municipal Directories

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date, for 1974-75.