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Self-Esteem And Goal Difficulty As Influences On Task Performance And Task Satisfaction, John W. Johnson

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A Study Following-Up On Master's Degree Graduates In The Department Of Communication Arts And Sciences At Western Michigan University, David Louis Lau

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The Ducks Nest Site: A Small Mississippian Site In Warren County, Tennessee, Gerald Wesley Kline

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Archaeological investigations conducted at the Ducks Nest site (40WR4), situated on a ridge in the Barren Fork drainage in the Eastern Highland Rim of Middle Tennessee, resulted in the excavation of a small Mississippian component consisting of two superimposed wall trench structures and six features. These cultural remains and the artifacts and ecofacts recovered in association are described and discussed. It is concluded that the Ducks Nest site was occupied on a year round basis over a limited number of years during the first half of the twelfth century A.D. by a small social group that was trophically self-sufficient.

A Multivariate Analysis Of Palatal Measurements In Four Populations, David M. Glassman

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This study presents a multivariate analysis based on sets of twenty-six palatal measurements from males and females of three racial groups. The analysis examines the occurrence and degree of inter- and intrapopulational relationships. Morphological interpretations are provided whenever possible for the multivariate functions and factors identified. Additionally, discriminant functions from which individuals may be classified into their proper racial and sexual group are calculated and their degree of accuracy discussed.

The data for this investigation were obtained from two skeletal collections. Representatives of Negro and White populations were provided from the Terry Collection housed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural …

A Descriptive Study Of Parish Clergy And Their Counseling Practices, Gregory J. Ludlow

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First paragraph:

It has been the function of societies throughout history to provide comfort and support for it's troubled members. In the past, this function was performed by the society's religious institutions.Today, as in the past, people who want solutions.to the problems they experience, or who want to gain pathways to possible solutions, look to their religion, their church organization, their clergyman, to their God. The clergymen of a community are apt to be the first professionals of that community to be consulted when the need for help is felt.

Acquisition Of Problem-Solving Behavior Via Precurrent Training, Diane E. Nelles

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A Study Of User And Nonuser Reactions To Wmu Online Automated Retrieval System (Oars), Janet Dommer

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A Conceptual Analysis Of Radical Behaviorist Epistemology, Marcia L. Bennett

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Archeological Site Survey Of The Lower Kalamazoo River Basin: Results Of The 1976 Field Season, Phillip D. Neusius

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The Lithic Assemblage Of The Hacklander Site, Allegan County, Michigan, Jerrel H. Sorensen

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Introduction

Orientation

In A History of American Archaeology Willey and Sabloff (1974) outline the development of archaeological method and theory in the Western Hemisphere. The authors defined 5 periods through which they traced advances in archaeology from the time Europe first discovered the New World. Each other these periods is characterized by certain attitudes and orientations toward archaeological data. Old ideas changed as new information, new tools of discovery, and new ways of interpretation and explanation transformed archaeology into what it is today.

Archaeologists are now in the Explanatory Period (Willey and Sabloff 1974:178). This period's theoretical orientation can be …

The Mississippian Component At The Eoff I Site, Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, Lloyd Norris Chapman

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Analysis of the Mississippian component features from the Eoff I site in the Normandy Reservoir, upper Duck River, Coffee County, Tennessee, has indicated that the component represents an Early ,Mississippian Banks phase occupation dating from between A.D. 1068 and A.D. 1170. The spatial distribution of features at the site along with the artifactual content of these features suggests that a major cluster of features was placed in consistent arrangement with each of two semisubterranean structures. A storage zone is possibly indicated by a cluster of features with morphological characteristics usually associated with storage facilities and also by the significantly larger …

A Study Of The Influence Of The Naturalistic Philosophies In The Development Of Political Science In America, James Michael Graham

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The Effect Of Counseling On The Leisure Behavior Of Patients Discharged From Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, Patsy Mitchiner Harris

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The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) it implement a three-month pilot study to determine the feasibility of setting up a leisure counseling program at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, 2) to discover if leisure counseling influenced the utilization of the community resources following discharge of patients from Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, and 3) to begin an investigation into the influence of recreation and leisure counseling on the recidivism rate of patients at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.

By random selection, the populations, consisting of sixty-two Knox County patients housed in the Admission Unit at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, was divided …

A Comparison Of Total Communication And Traditional Speech Training Methods With Hearing Noncommunicating, Severely Mentally Retarded Individuals, Michael E. Wells

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The Development And Feasibility Of Supplementary Materials Utilizing The Computer In The Introductory College-Level Accounting Course, Richard Walker

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Chapter I

The Problem and Its Background

Introduction and Description

Among the many problems confronting the college accounting teacher today is how to best utilize the computer in a meaningful way in course instruction. Encouraged by an increasing reliance on computers in business and motivated by the desire to make course offerings more relevant and attractive, the computer has emerged as an extremely useful tool in accounting analysis. With the availability of computer facilities on most college campuses today, accounting faculties are devoting more attention to expanding and enriching the computer applications in a variety of accounting courses. The introduction …

Anthropological Approaches To The Study Of Nepali Shamanism, Christopher J. Busick

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An Analysis Of The Generalization Of Multiple-Word Response Forms Across Stimulus Conditions, James E. Nofziger

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Narcotics And Violence: An Examination Of The Addict And Non-Addict Offender's Involvement In Certain Types Of Crime, Terrence H. Murphy

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The Rhodesian Crisis: The Struggle For Majority Rule 1965-1978, Richard W. Stekette

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Preface

On November 11, 1965, Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Rhodesia, proclaimed his country's unilateral declaration of independence (UDI) from Great Britain. His proclamation set off a storm of protest around the world from the United States to the Soviet Union. The criticisms were generally the same: the white minority government of Rhodesia was accused of illegally seizing power. Although most countries felt that the Rhodesian UDI was a British colonial problem, leaders from Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia convened in Nairobi , Kenya, to discuss the potential need of taking matters out of British hands. The issue to them …

Ethnography For Archaeology: A Functional Interpretation Of An Upper Great Lakes Prehistoric Fishing Artifact, Donald E. Weston

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Introduction and Problem

One of the basic and challenging tasks in archaeology is the interpretation of artifacts and the reconstruction of prehistoric cultures. Difficulties arise primarily because (1) not all past human behavior is manifest in the archaeological record, and (2) that which remains is only adequately represented. Our success at understanding prehistory is further limited by differential preservation, lack of representative samples, and loss of contextual data. Even with the use of sophisticated recovery techniques, vigorous analysis, and statistical manipulation it is seldom possible to arrive at neat reconstructions. Prehistory is, after all, the indirect study of human behavior …

A Replication Study: The Police And Cynicism, Trenia B. Brown

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A Comparison Of Choice Procedures: Positive Reinforcement, Michael Joseph Boivin

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A Comparison Of Choice Procedures: Negative Reinforcement, Raul Rene De La Garza Cano

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Conditioned Reinforcement: An Attempt To Replicate The Thomas Procedure With Children, Michael B. Oberlin

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A Behavior And Cost Analysis Of Two Remediation Procedures, Theodore D. Apking

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Comparison Of Work Samples And A Psychological Test In A Vocational Evaluation Program, Charles Dircken

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Negative Behavioral Contrast As A Function Of Response Effort, Nile Elliott Warner

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Goal Achievement In Two English New Towns: An Analysis Of Occupational Class Mixing In Crawley And Hemel Hempstead New Towns, Phillip J. Zimmerman

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Introduction

The decision of the British Government to publicly finance New Town building was a landmark event. The decision was, however, a result of many years of prior experimentation. These experiments ranged from trial-and-error to plans well thought out, that contained within them many philosophical goals.

The first widely accepted formulation of a New Town was that of Ebenezer Howard. The theoretical plan contained several goals that were to be developed, used, and modified by later British planners. Although Howard borrowed many goals from other "planners," he was one of the first to incorporate many identifiable goals into a single …

Color Preference As A Function Of Personality, Robert J. Russell

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The Exploration And Exposition Of Factors Related To Lunar Influence On Suicides, Suicide Calls And Crisis Calls, Scott Gene Cook

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