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Technical Bulletins: Ordinance Prohibiting "Brown Bagging" In Beer Taverns Upheld, Don W. Ownby

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On December 8, 1986, the Tennessee Supreme Court upheld an ordinance of the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County which makes it unlawful for the holder of a Metropolitan beer license to allow any alcoholic beverage with an alcoholic content in excess of five percent to be brought onto the licensed premises unless the establishment is also licensed to serve liquor by the drink. Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County vs Donald D. Shaw, SW2d (Dec. 8, 1986).

Cd‑Rom Database Update, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Presents news updates pertaining to CD-ROM database products in the U.S. as of December 1986. Increasing number of database products available on optical digital discs; Digital Equipment Corp.'s decision to exit from the CD-ROM database publishing to produce and market subsets of their databases on CD-ROM; Instability of CD-ROM products.

Technical Bulletins: How To Reduce Phone Costs, Robert W. Freson

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin lists several possible steps intended to help cities reduce their telephone costs.

Technical Bulletins: A Public Official's Guide To Measuring Distance Restrictions In Beer Regulations, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the two principal methods (straight-line and by-the-streets) of measuring distance requirements between beer establishments and churches, schools and, occasionally, other institutions.

Technical Bulletins: A City Attorney's Guide To Distance Restrictions In Beer Regulations, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the two principal methods (straight-line and by-the-streets) of measuring distance requirements between beer establishments and churches, schools and, occasionally, other institutions.

Faunal Resources, Butchering Patterns, And Seasonality At The Eastman Rockshelter (40sl34): An Interpretation Of Function, Bruce Louis Manzano

Masters Theses

This study presents a model on the role the Eastman Rockshelter (40SL34) played in settlement-subsistence systems of prehistoric human groups who once occupied northeastern Tennessee. Expectations generated from the model are tested through the analysis of a faunal sample recovered from the shelter. These remains date from the Late Archaic to Mississippian time periods. The fauna is well preserved and represents a variety of species including the first archaeological occurrence of an extinct fish, the harelip sucker.

The model assumes a shift in shelter use from earlier residentially mobile hunter/gatherer groups to its later use by task force hunting groups. …

The Value Of A Videotaped Storyboard In A Non-Broadcast, Client Oriented Video Production: A Case Study, Clifton Duane Willard Ii

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to demonstrate the value of using the videotaped storyboard in the pre-planning and pre-production approval of a client oriented, corporate videotaped training program.

The methodology in this study is as follows: (1) to undertake the production of a corporate videotape training program; (2) to gather the necessary pre-production information about the topic, the audience, the manner in which the videotape program will be used; (3) to develop a storyboard based on the information obtained; (4) to present this storyboard for production approval; (5) to videotape the storyboard; (6) to present this videotaped version of …

The Easynet Gateway, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Highlights the EasyNet Gateway computer system for libraries. Features of EasyNet; Vendors of the technology; Method of use; Costs.

Why Don’T More People Use Databases?, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Explores the barriers to the use of databases in libraries. Purchase of hardware; Software problems for the user and the vendor; Unrealized expectations of end users; Problem of costs for databases.

Guide To Compliance With The Fair Labor Standards Act For Tennessee Municipalities, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The application of the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act to municipal government has proven to be one of the higher impact items with which Tennessee Cities have been required to deal with over the past several years. MTAS has prepared several technical bulletins on this issue and has participated in state-wide briefings that were held in the past year. In an attempt to provide you a comprehensive look at the Fair Labor Standards Act and its overall impact on your municipality, MTAS is providing you with this publication, "Guide to Compliance With the Fair Labor Standards Act for …

Technical Bulletins: Cities And The Hazardous Chemical Right-To-Know Law, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In May, 1985, the Tennessee State Legislature passed the "Hazardous Chemical Right-To-Know Law." This Technical Bulletin goes over the main points of the law and its implications for cities.

Infotrac: A Laser Disc System, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Features InfoTrac, the online database of Information Access Co. Background information on the database; Users' reactions; Document delivery.

Psychological Factors Associated With Minority And Majority Student Status In University Settings, Julie Elizabeth Williams

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to evaluate whether minority students, regardless of race, experienced more common emotional stressors, and had more similar behavior and attitudes toward integration than their racial counterparts enrolled in institutions where they were in the racial minority. This goal was accomplished by studying 289 subjects from the following student groups: black minority students (48), white minority students (65), black majority students (90), white majority students (86). Minority status was assigned to black and white students who attended a university where students of a different race from their own were predominant; majority status was assigned …

Drainage Management, Robert Alley, Gene Puett, Cathy Moore-Jansen, Frank E. Kirk

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Surface Artifact Assemblage Variability: A Consideration Of The Natural Factors Influencing Artifact Recovery, William B. Turner

Masters Theses

The purpose of this research was to examine the effects of naturally occurring variables on surface artifact recovery. This was accomplished by isolating and reviewing pertinent variables, which are rainfall and soil factors. Information from this review was incorporated into an experiment designed to measure the effects of rainfall on artifact exposure and recovery. The results from the surface recovery experiment were used to form baseline data that allowed meaningful interpretation of three additional plowzone data recovery exercises. These were (1) artifact detection by shovel test, (2) prediction of surface density from plowzone excavation data, and (3) reliability of surface …

Technical Bulletins: Required Group Health Care Coverage For Former Employees And Dependents, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), which requires cities with more than 20 employees, that offer health care plans, to extend continuing health care coverage to their employees or their dependents when certain "qualifying events" have occurred.

Technical Bulletins: Grease Traps, Sharon Rollins

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses why grease traps are necessary and provides a list of design criteria, as well as a diagram of a typical grease trap and instructions for their maintenance.

Four Options For End User Searching, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Focuses on libraries' options for end user searching in the United States. Front-end software; Access to databases.

Technical Bulletins: Summary Of 1986 Public Acts: Supplemental, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The 94th General Assembly adopted a total of 942 new public acts, 482 in the 1985 session and another 460 in the recently completed 1986 session. This bulletin contains summaries of public acts which, for one reason or another, were not summarized in the Summary of 1986 Publications of Interest to Tennessee Municipal Officials.

Technical Bulletins: Epa Regulations On Contractor Retainage Interest Change, Edward C. Archer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about a ruling from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) which made it extremely important that bid documents contain a section stating that interest will be paid on retainage.

Technical Bulletins: Sunshine Law Codification Problem Corrected, Don W. Ownby

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter No. 290, Public Acts of 1985, entitled "AN ACT relative to meetings of the board of directors of certain nonprofit corporations and to amend Tennessee Code Annotated, Title 8, Chapter 44, Part l" (the Sunshine Law) was codified in Section 8-44-102, Tennessee Code Annotated, in such manner as to reflect a broader application than apparently was intended.

In 1986, when the General Assembly approved the codification of the 1985 Acts by Chapter No. 523, it changed the way Chapter No. 290 had been codified and reflected in the 1985 Supplement.

Modeling The Highway Transportation Of Spent Fuel, Ivor Glen Harrison

Doctoral Dissertations

There will be a substantial increase in the number of spent fuel shipments on the nation's highway system in the next thirty years. Most of the spent fuel will be moving from reactors to a spent fuel repository. This study develops two models which evaluate the risk and cost of moving the spent fuel. The Minimum Total Transport Risk Model (MTTRM) seeks the efficient solution for this problem by finding the minimum risk path through the network and sending all the spent fuel shipments over this one path. The Equilibrium Transport Risk Model (ETRM) finds an equitable solution by distributing …

Audience Perceptions Of Five Types Of Radio Humor, Larry Zane Leslie

Doctoral Dissertations

Humor, a natural part of the human environment, is all around us; from newspaper comics and television sit-coms to popular movies and the latest joke. Yet the phenomenon of humor on radio, i.e., humor used by air personalities, has remained largely unstudied.

Can the variation in listener response to radio humor be accounted for? The relationship of five demographic variables to five types of humor was tested by regression analysis. The intent was to learn the extent to which each variable contributed to appreciation of each type of humor.

One hundred sixty subjects were exposed to fifteen humorous radio segments. …

The Concept Of The Object Scale And The Assessment Of Object Representation, Larry F. Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

This study examined the Developmental Analysis of the Concept of the Object Scale, a measure of object representation based on the Rorschach human response. The general aim of the study was to investigate the scale’s power as a means of assessing two distinct aspects of object-representational functioning, namely, the internal capacity to relate to others and the cognitive-perceptual complexity and organization of images of self and others.

The Rorschach human responses of 29 subjects drawn from both outpatient clinical and nonclinical populations were scored according to the criteria specified by the Concept of the Object Scale. Independent assessments of the …

An Epistemological Analysis Of The Economic Writings Of Sir Dudley North, George Dorian Choksy

Doctoral Dissertations

The existing secondary literature on the life and writings of Sir Dudley North is scant and incomplete, and contains substantial factual errors. In this dissertation, North's complete economic principles are reconstructed from primary sources; North invented a price mechanics of markets, a specie-flow mechanics, and a national income mechanics. The epistemological device of the conceptualized reality is used to analyze the sources of North's economic principles; his economics is decomposed into its constituent parts of historical and empirical fact matrix, and hypothetical and theoretical belief system. North's failure to establish a paradigm is explained, in terms of political considerations

The Effect Of Job Involvement And Organizational Commitment On The Psychometric Characteristics Of Job Performance Ratings, Steven Ronald Gordon

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine a theoretical model developed to predict the influence of rater job involvement and organizational commitment on the process of appraising employee job performance . The model is based upon Fishbein ' s (1967) theory relating attitudes to behavioral intentions and specific behaviors . Organizational commitment is incorporated as an indication of the subjective norm and the performance -- self-esteem definition of job involvement represents the attitudinal component . Hypotheses proposed to test the model addressed the psychometric characteristics of ratings assigned by individuals with varying levels of a composite measure of job …

A Study Of Three Measures Of Ego Development In Foster Adolescents, Scott D. Glass

Doctoral Dissertations

ABSTRACT

The construct “ego” is used within different theoretical models. Various models, however, differ in the inclusiveness of functions subsumed under this construct. The psychoanalytic ego construct is conceptually similar to one proposed by Jane Loevinger in that both subsume aspects of cognition, delay in the gratification of conscious wishes, and social relations. They differ in that the analytic ego is uniquely assumed to mediate aspects of adaptive functioning and the regulation of affective and instinctual demands, while Loevinger's ego is uniquely assumed to mediate character style and the content of consciousness. Comparisons of tests designed to measure the two …

The Relationship Of Loneliness And Social Isolation To Dietary Adequacy Of Noninstitutionalized Elderly Individuals, Dellmar Walker

Doctoral Dissertations

Characterizing older persons as being lonely and socially isolated has been widely suggested, yet it has not been substantially supported. Furthermore, loneliness and social isolation have been identified as contributing to dietary inadequacies among elderly individuals. The purposes of this study were to evaluate the dietary adequacy of elderly individuals in Rutherford County, Tennessee, and to determine whether differences could be attributed to loneliness, social isolation, physi­cal health, functional status, and participation in Title III congregate meal programs .

Sixty-one independently living elderly individuals over the age of 60 years participated in the study. Three-day food records were used to …

Stability And Change In Aboriginal Settlement Within The Lower Little Tennessee River Valley, Roland Parker Stephen Davis

Doctoral Dissertations

Aboriginal settlement systems within the lower Little Tennessee River valley in southeast Tennessee are studied through analyses of archaeological data regarding regional land use patterns, the spatial distributions of settlements, and intrasite structure. These data derive from intensive archaeological survey, regional probabilistic sampling, and excavation, conducted by The University of Tennessee between 1967 and 1981. Analyses of settlement data, representing over 12,000 years of occupation, are preceded by the definition of a settlement typology, an evaluation of the spatial structure of environmental resources, and the development of chronological models of artifact variability for recognizing temporally specific site occupations. Regional land …

What’S New With Wilsonline, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

Discusses some of the changes to be made to WILSONLINE, the online system of H.W. Wilson Co., in the year 1986. Databases to be added to WILSONLINE; Retrospective conversion of indexes; Documentation and training sessions on WILSONLINE; Release of enhancements to the WILSONLINE search software in the summer of 1986.