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Technical Bulletins: Changes In Federal Law Will Increase The Costs Of Health Insurance, Harold R. Yungmeyer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses changes in the Federal Social Security Act and in the Federal Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967, changes which affected group health insurance premiums for cities with any employees over 65 years of age.

Technical Bulletins: Revised Estimates Of 1982-83 State-Shared Taxes, Ken Joines, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides a revised estimate of the amount of money cities could expect to receive from state shared taxes for 1982-83. The previous estimate, from April 19, 1982, had factored in an expected upturn in the economy which did not materialize. In addition to the revised estimates, included is a copy of an article by Dr. Harry A. Green, executive director of TACIR, which gives an overview of the total revenue systems in Tennessee local government.

Stimulus, Vol. 7, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Stimulus, Vol. 7, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Items To Consider Before And After Incorporation, William R. Bailey, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Section I of this report is designed to assist Tennessee communities considering incorporating as municipalities. It is not intended to be a comprehensive examination of the question, "Should we incorporate?" The report does attempt to respond to some of the most often-expressed concerns of those trying to reach a decision. Included are the major advantages and disadvantages of incorporation, comparisons of the forms of government available to potential municipalities under Tennessee law, and the steps to be taken to place the question of incorporation before qualified voters.

Patterns Of Association Between Oral Health Status And Subsistence: A Study Of Aboriginal Skeletal Populations From The Tennessee Valley Area, Maria Ostendorf Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study is to identify subsistence associated differences in caries, periodontal disease and attrition between two aboroginal skeletal samples from the Tennessee Valley area. The hunter/gather sample employed in this study dates from the Archaic period (6000-500 B.C.) and is composed of individuals from the Eva(6BN12), Cherry (84BN74) and Anderson (40WM9) sites. The Mississippian Dallas focus (1300-1500 A.D.) site of Toqua (40MR6) practiced maize agriculture.

Contrasts in caries frequency, location on the tooth, and distribution along the tooth row were readily apparent. Cervical caries in the posterior tooth row characterized the Archaic sample. The pattern is attributed …

A Synthesis Of The Late Woodland Mason Phase In The Normandy And Tims Ford Reservoirs In Middle Tennessee, Betty J. Duggan

Masters Theses

From ca. 600 A.D. to 1100 A.D. Late Woodland groups occupied the upper Duck and Elk River valleys in the Eastern Highland Rim Physiographic Section in Middle Tennessee. These Mason phase peoples lived primarily on the older alluvial terraces where they exploited a wide range of locally available resources from three types of habitation loci: base camps, seasonal encampments and task-specific stations. Artifactual and floral data suggest that these people were Woodland hunter-gatherers who were familiar with horticultural practices.

Physical Growth Of Preschool Children Participating In The Cherokee Wic Program, Patricia Anne Driscoll

Masters Theses

Physical growth data of 921 Cherokee Indian children who are or who were participants of the Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) from 1976 to 1982 was collected. Information was obtained from 390 WIC women with children on the WIC program. Distance and velocity data for height and weight were documented for the WIC children from birth to five.

Mean heights for these children tended to be less than those of Native Americans living in Minnesota and less than or equal to those reported in the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) growth charts. Mean weights, …

Technical Bulletins: A Hotel/Motel Occupancy Tax For Your City?, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information for cities considering the adoption of a hotel/motel occupancy tax.

Technical Bulletins: Termination Of Social Security Coverage For Municipal Employees, Dennis Huffer

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The purpose of this Technical Bulletin was to review, in a general way, the pros and cons of withdrawal from the social security system and to outline the steps to be taken to initiate withdrawal. Included is a sample resolution directing a city mayor to request termination of social security coverage for municipal employees, as well as a sample letter by a city mayor requesting termination of that coverage.

Craniofacial Structure, Aging And Dental Function: Their Relationships In Adult Human Skeletal Series, Mark Frances Guagliardo

Doctoral Dissertations

Five human skeletal series were examined to discern if post-adolescent aging, as measured by dental attrition, has significant effects on the morphometrics of the skull. Definite age-related changes were found in the crania of the European, Melanesian and Arikara Indian collections studied. A statistical approach unique to the subject area showed that both size and shape of the adult skull changed with age. Some of the more pronounced aging effects included forward projection of the face, widening of interorbital dimensions, flattening of the frontal bone in profile, retraction of the subnasal region relative to the zygomatic bones, and increases in …

Diet, Anthropometric Characteristics, And Diabetes-Related Attitudes And Knowledge Among Women Residing In The Eastern Cherokee Township Of Snowbird, Rhonda Dale Terry

Doctoral Dissertations

The goal of this study was to gather, analyze, and interpret assessment data related to the problem of diabetes within the Eastern Cherokee township of Snowbird. Information was obtained from 105 Snowbird women, ages 18 to 87, during the spring of 1982. The three specific aims of the study along with related findings are summarized below.

The first specific aim was to assess selected aspects of household and individual food behavior. The 71 women in charge of obtaining and preparing food in each home were interviewed concerning household food behavior, and each subject’s previous day’s intake of food and nutritional …

The Black Press Of Tennessee: 1865-1980, Karen Fitzgerald Brown

Doctoral Dissertations

At least 112 black newspapers have been published in Tennessee, beginning with the Colored Tennessean in 1865. William B. Scott, and East Tennessee harness-maker, and his son, William Jr., published the Colored Tennessean in Nashville on or about April 29, making it one of the first black newspapers in the South.

From 1865 to 1899 there were at least 35 black papers published in the state, 52 from 1900 to 1950, and 25 from 1951 to 1980. By the end of the period there were only three black papers being printed in the state: the Memphis Tri-State Defender, Memphis Mid-South …

Craniometric Relationships Among Plains Indians: Culture-Historical And Evolutionary Implications, Patrick J. Key

Doctoral Dissertations

This study presents a broad picture of Plains Indian biological relationships on the basis of craniometric data. It employs a sample of 860 individuals distributed temporally from the Paleo-Indian Period into historic times and distributed geographically among the states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa and Missouri.

The sample was analyzed within a culture-historical framework utilizing a variety of statistical methodologies: some conventional, some implemented here in the face of small samples and unbalanced designs.

The results show strong evidence of biological continuity on the Plains stretching from the Paleo-Indian Period, through the Plains Archaic Period and into …

Insect Activity And Its Relationship To Decay Rates Of Human Cadavers In East Tennessee, William C. Rodriguez Iii

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to collect data on the specific insects which are found in association with decaying human cadavers. Four nude unembalmed human cadavers were each placed, at various times of the year, within a decay research facility located in an open wooded area. Data were collected daily throughout the entire decay cycle on the various insect populations which frequented each cadaver. Analysis of the data shows that there is a direct correlation between the rate of decay and the activity of carrion insect families found in association with a decaying cadaver. Application of this entomological and …

Jean-Paul Sartre's Concepts Of Praxis And History In His Critique Of Dialectical Reason, Kyung Ock Chun

Masters Theses

The primary problem of this study is to clarify Sartre's concept of praxis as a projective action of human consciousness which creates history and makes it intelligible. I focus on Sartre's attempt to combine an existential humanism with a theory of history as a progressive movement generated by individual actors, their social groups, and their environmental surroundings. Sartre's Critique provides the philosophical basis for understanding social institutions and behavior, and describes human action as a complex totality comprising free subjectivity and its unavoidable environment.

This inquiry focuses on the existential root of Sartre's theory of history and the problematic nature …

A Biocultural Approach To The Skeletal Biology Of The Dallas People From Toqua, Kenneth R. Parham

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to present osteological information for the skeletal remains from Toqua, a Late Mississippian site representative of the Dallas Focus, and to assess these data from a biocultural perspective. Analytical considerations included aspects of paleodemography (examination of mortality by life table analysis), metrics and morphology (measurements and indices, stature, and cranial deformation), and paleopathology (porotic hyperostosis, periosteal reactions, and other pathological conditions that were simply described).

Analyses were conducted for the total skeletal series (N=439) in order to assess general conditions of mortality and morbidity for the population as a whole and along age and …

The Ledbetter Landing Site: A Study Of Late Archaic Mortuary Patterning, Katherine French Higgins

Masters Theses

The Ledbetter Landing site (9BN25) is placed in its environmental context and its archaeological background is discussed. The archaeological studies of the subsistence/settlement patterning for the Ledbetter Phase in the Western Valley physiographic province are also investigated, and some of the results of these studies are found to be suspect. The application of mortuary patterning analysis to determine the type of social organization at a site is discussed in general terms. It is hypothesized that the Ledbetter Landing site's Late Archaic, Stratum 2 burials should reflect an essentially egalitarian social organization. This is tested by examining the significant associations among …

An Analysis Of The Aboriginal Ceramic Artifacts From Chota-Tanasee, An Eighteenth Century Overhill Cherokee Town, James Frederick Bates

Masters Theses

The Chota-Tanasee (40MR2-40MR62) ceramic analysis incorporates all aboriginal ceramics recovered during seven excavation seasons at the site. The total ceramic assemblage consists of 154,444 artifacts. Ceramics indicate that the site was utilized sporatically from the Early Woodland Period to proto-historic times. Throughout the eighteenth century the site was intensively occupied by the historic Overhill Cherokee.

A descriptive classification system is developed which is used to define 55 ceramic types and residual categories primarily on the basis of temper and surface treatment attributes. Discrete attributes are further utilized to describe vessel and rim sherd morphology.

The distribution of the various ceramic …

Technical Bulletins: Small Grants Available From U.S. Fire Administration For Arson Investigation, William Gary Head

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin describes efforts by the U.S. Fire Administration to help cities combat arson.

Technical Bulletins: Peace Officer Standards And Training, Mike Pentecost, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin describes the ways that Public Chapter No. 747 amended T.C.A., Section 38-11-105, regarding the standards and training of peace officers.

Osteology Of The Crow Creek Massacre, Patrick S. Willey

Doctoral Dissertations

About 1325 AD in south-central South Dakota nearly 500 American Indians were massacred at the Crow Creek Site. They were mutilated, exposed above ground, then buried in the fortification ditch which surrounded the Crow Creek Village. Their remains were discovered, excavated, and cleaned in 1978 and were available for study the first 5 months of 1979. The general purposes of the Crow Creek osteological study were to describe the remains as fully as time permitted and compare these results with those of other samples. This dissertation presents information concerning the Crow Creek bone elements, paleodemography, cranial affiliations, mutilations, and stature. …

A Functional And Distributional Analysis Of Certain Notched, Grooved And Perforated Stone Artifacts From North America, Gary Ford Coleman

Masters Theses

The distribution and possible functions of notched, grooved and perforated stone artifacts commonly referred to in the archaeological literature are examined. These artifacts are primarily found on sites located in environmental settings which suggest that they were associated with fishing activities. In different regions of North America, however, variations in subsistence activities dictated the manner in which these artifacts functioned. Archaeological and environmental site data and ethnographic/ethnohistoric evidence are utilized as tools for testing the numerous hypothesized functions of notched, grooved and preformed stones. Data examined in a case study involving notched stones from the lower Little Tennessee River Valley …

Technical Bulletins: Payment Of Social Security Taxes On Sick Leave Compensation, Jim Leuty, Mike Pentecost

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin contains information about Public Law 97-123, which provided that payments made on account of sickness or disability caused by accident, with some exceptions, were taxable wages for social security purposes effective January 1, 1982.

An In-House Training Program For Online Searchers, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

At the University of Hawaii, Manoa we have developed a series of courses to provide a complete training program for our present and potential online searchers as well as introductory sessions for all interested library staff members. Because of our relative isolation, lack of travel funds, and desire for a consistent continuing education program, training for all of our staff is an important inhouse function. A series of formal classes, together with additional practice for searchers, ensures an informed staff and skillful searchers. This article will outline the courses we have developed and discuss our ongoing plans.

Stimulus, Vol. 7, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Local Government Risk Management Handbook, William W. Dotterweich, Donald F. Norris, Robert L. Sinclair

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This handbook originated in a series of risk management workshops developed by the authors in 1980 as part of a special project in local government technology innovation at the University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. The workshops, funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation, were sufficiently well-received that the authors decided to expand workshop materials into a practical guide to assist local governments to establish and operate risk management programs. Initially, each of the three authors drafted specific chapters or sections for the Handbook. Dr. Dotterweich was responsible for writing sections on the concepts and …

Skeletal Age Changes In Saguinus Fuscicollis And Saguinus Oedipus, David Michael Glassman

Doctoral Dissertations

The South American tamarin, genus Saguinus is used extensively as a model for interpreting human disease. Recently, techniques for estimating the age from skeletons of wild-caught tamarins have been requested by biomedical researchers. These skeletal aging techniques are subsequently used as an aid in documenting the timing of disease onset and latency periods.

Skeletal age changes are examined in 157 Saguinus fusaicollis and 59 Saguinus oedipus specimens of known age. The entire approximate 15 year life span of these animals is represented within the sample. The species are treated independently for all analyses. Documentation of the ontogenetic skeletal changes in …

An Analysis Of Anglo-American--Cherokee Culture Contact During The Federal Period, The Hiwassee Tract, Eastern Tennessee, Thomas B. Ford

Masters Theses

Cherokee--Anglo-American culture contact during the Federal Period in eastern Tennessee is examined. This study attempts to understand the historic outcome of this particular contact situation by looking at the motivating normative beliefs underlying the actions of each culture. Also of interest is the identification of those core qualities of Cherokee culture that enabled survival of contact and extreme acculturation.

The Anglo-American culture was divided into two subcultures: the Federal Government and Frontier Settler. Both subcultures possessed distinctive beliefs and exhibited dissimilar patterns of behavior. The Cherokee studied embodied an eastern Tennessee regional subculture that was not necessarily reflective of the …

Prehistoric Mortuary Patterning And Change In The Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, Tracy Charles Brown

Masters Theses

A total of 127 human burials dating from the Late Archaic Ledbetter phase through the Mississippian Banks phase was recovered from sites in the Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, and three nearby sites located outside the reservoir area. Formal comparative analyses of mortuary attribute states were performed on phase-level burial samples. These analyses resulted in the isolation of mortuary patterning phenomena involving body disposal, the spatial organization of burials on sites and their integration with community patterns, and the location of burials on functionally differentiated site types within local settlement systems. In turn, these patterning phenomena were assessed for their …