An Analysis of the Recruitment of Foreign Employees in the Civil Service of Saudi Arabia (open access)

An Analysis of the Recruitment of Foreign Employees in the Civil Service of Saudi Arabia

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Date: May 1980
Creator: Al-Neaim, Hamad Abdulaziz
System: The UNT Digital Library
Herr und Heer: the German Social Democrats and officer corps, a reappraisal (open access)

Herr und Heer: the German Social Democrats and officer corps, a reappraisal

Utilizing the debates of the German Reichstag, the proceedings of the SPD, the memoirs of the leading military and Marxist figures and the principal newspapers of the Second Reich and Weimar Republic, this dissertation attempts to show how the army chiefs and the socialist leaders of Germany altered their policies not only to promote their interests but also to protect the state.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Pierce, Walter Rankin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the effects of personality, subculture and place of residence on college student recreation participation (open access)

A study of the effects of personality, subculture and place of residence on college student recreation participation

The problem of this investigation was to determine whether knowledge of student personality, subculture, or place of residence could predict university student recreation participation for men and women. Factors of age, marital status, class in college, and Greek affiliation were also examined for any relationship to recreation participation of university men and women.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Winfrey, William E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral outcomes of short-term nondirective play therapy with preschool deaf children (open access)

Behavioral outcomes of short-term nondirective play therapy with preschool deaf children

This study was conducted to investigate change (as measured by positive growth changes in total personality adjustment, social maturity, and behavior patterns) in pre-school deaf children with behavioral problems who experienced short-term, nondirective play therapy. Change in behavior of these children was also investigated ten weeks after therapy.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Oualline, Viola Jackson
System: The UNT Digital Library
An analysis and overview of the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community (open access)

An analysis and overview of the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community

This study analyzes the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community (EEC) in the transition period of Turkey's membership in the Common Market. Turkey applied for membership in the EEC in 1959, and the association agreement was signed in 1963. Under the terms of the agreement Turkey's membership includes three stages; preparatory, transition, and full membership.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Ateṣ, Hüseyin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ethical reasoning and risk propensity: a comparison of hospital and general industry senior executives (open access)

Ethical reasoning and risk propensity: a comparison of hospital and general industry senior executives

This research explores whether differences in ethical reasoning levels exist between senior hospital managers and top level general industry executives. Similar comparisons are made between not-for-profit hospital managers and their peers in for-profit hospitals. Also examined are the ethical reasoning levels used most often by practicing executives, regardless of industry affiliation.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Williamson, Stanley G. (Stanley Greer)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transferability of management skills from American parent firms to Pakistani subsidiaries (open access)

Transferability of management skills from American parent firms to Pakistani subsidiaries

This research was designed to study the transferability of American management skills to an underdeveloped country such as Pakistan. The contingency theory framework was used for the general design of the study.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Husain, M. Zakir
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship between parent adjustment and pre-adolescent adjustment to divorce within a specific time sequence (open access)

Relationship between parent adjustment and pre-adolescent adjustment to divorce within a specific time sequence

The problem of this study was to investigate the relationship between parent and pre-adolescent adjustment within intact families, short-term divorced families, and long-term divorced families, and to compare the adjustments of parents from intact families, short-term divorced families, and long-term divorced families.
Date: August 1978
Creator: McGinness, Susan K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reforming the Church of England, 1895-1919 (open access)

Reforming the Church of England, 1895-1919

This study deals with the events after 1895 which led to a major reshaping of the Church of England's policy and organization in 1919. Those events, which included debates in Parliament, a Royal Commission, Prayer Book revision, special Church committees, and Private negotiations by Church leaders, finally resulted in the British Parliament passing the Enabling act of 1919. Significant persons and powerful influences were at work during these years to prevent, as well as promote change in the Established Church. This study will show what those influences were, and discuss persons significant in their work for or against reform.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Zimmerman, John D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analysis of activities in production typewriting and development of a teaching model and standards (open access)

Analysis of activities in production typewriting and development of a teaching model and standards

The problem of this study is an analysis of activities in production typewriting, development of a teaching model, and establishment of production standards. The study has four main purposes which are: (1) to identify the time spent in keystroking, decision making, typing from longhand copy, erasing an original, typing and correcting one carbon copy, and proofreading; (2) to test the correlation between anxiety level and decision-making time, and IQ and decision-making time; (3) to analyze the differences in difficulty level of six production tasks and develop a teaching model; and (4) to discover the mean gross words per minute rate and total number of errors on six production tasks and develop production standards.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Foust, Patsy
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the role of the administrative assistant in Texas public schools as perceived by the superintendent (open access)

A study of the role of the administrative assistant in Texas public schools as perceived by the superintendent

The problem of this study is to determine the role of the administrative assistant in the public schools of Texas, as perceived by superintendents, and to compare the findings with recommendations which are found in the literature.
Date: August 1977
Creator: LaGrone, L. Willard
System: The UNT Digital Library
The effects of organizational climate and leadership behavior on teacher job satisfaction in selected schools (open access)

The effects of organizational climate and leadership behavior on teacher job satisfaction in selected schools

The study proposed to determine the relationship of the teachers' perception of the organizational climate of the school as measured by the Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire (Halpin) and leader behavior as measures by the Leader Behavior Description Questionnaire (Halpin) with teacher job satisfaction as measured by the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Craig, Larry V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An empirical study of the relationship between financial accounting measurements and research and development expenditures in public corporations (open access)

An empirical study of the relationship between financial accounting measurements and research and development expenditures in public corporations

The primary objective of this study is to gain a greater understanding of how the level and type of research and development expenditures are influenced by accounting measurement, if at all.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Nix, Paul E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An investigation of the effects of an inner-city student teaching experience on the attitudes, values, and dogmatisms of student teachers (open access)

An investigation of the effects of an inner-city student teaching experience on the attitudes, values, and dogmatisms of student teachers

The purposes of the investigation were (1) to determine whether differences in attitudes, values, an dogmatisms exist between volunteers for an inner-city student teaching experience and other student teachers prior to a student teaching experience; (2) to determine whether differences in attitudes, values, and dogmatisms exist at the completion of student teaching between the experimental group and a control group composed of student teachers assigned to suburban schools.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Sughrue, Robert L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of positive and negative inquiry (open access)

A study of positive and negative inquiry

The subject of the study is a theory of positive and negative inquiry with emphasis in mathematics. The purposes of this study are to examine the historical development of systematic inquiry in mathematics, to identify the nature of positive and negative inquiry, to propose and develop an interrelated set of propositions regarding positive and negative inquiry, and to relate the proposition of the theory to certain basic concepts of trigonometry.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Peebles, David M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The use of electronic calculators in a basic mathematics course for college students (open access)

The use of electronic calculators in a basic mathematics course for college students

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was that of the determining relationships between attitude and between achievement of students in those classes in college basic mathematics which utilized electronic calculators during class sessions and students in those classes which did not utilize electronic calculators.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Nichols, Warren E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The principle of "sankofa" in elementary music instruction in southern Ghana: selected school personnel's views of and their role in its implementation (open access)

The principle of "sankofa" in elementary music instruction in southern Ghana: selected school personnel's views of and their role in its implementation

The study ascertained elementary school teachers' and supervisors' views about their role in the implementation of Sankofa (Go back and retrieve) in school music. Sankofa mandates the integration of distinctive Ghanian traditional values and practices with Western educational concepts in the school curriculum. In music, it calls for the fusion of multi-ethnic musics of Ghana with Western musical concepts in public school music instruction. Some concerns expressed by Ghanian music educators regarding teachers' negative attitudes toward Sankofa in public school music had prompted the study.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Attah, Joe K. (Joe Kofi)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prisoner classification by behavioral, biographical, and psychometric analysis in cross-validation of the Mini-mult prisoner questionnaire (open access)

Prisoner classification by behavioral, biographical, and psychometric analysis in cross-validation of the Mini-mult prisoner questionnaire

The classification of adult criminal populations for training, treatment, and security purposes has been time-consuming and expensive. The main purpose of this study was to develop a classification system which considered a wide variety of behavioral, biographical, and psychometric variables and yet was efficient in terms of time and money.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Holmes, Robert Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
The scope and nature of music programs in rural public community colleges (open access)

The scope and nature of music programs in rural public community colleges

The purposes of this study are to determine the scope and nature of music programs in rural public community colleges in the United States; to determine the unique characteristics of the rural public community college music program when compared to music programs of the total population of two-year colleges; to propose criteria to serve as a basis for a music program at rural public community colleges and to recommend a music program for rural public community colleges based upon the proposed criteria.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Pollard, J. Marvin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of children attending half-day and full-day state-supported kindergartens (open access)

A study of the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of children attending half-day and full-day state-supported kindergartens

The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a significant difference existed in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of kindergarten children as a function of half-day or full-day kindergarten programs. Four public school district in Education Service Center Region XIII in Texas participated in the study.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Hatcher, Barbara Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the perceptions of presidents and academic deans regarding role expectations and decision-making styles of academic deans in Texas community colleges (open access)

A study of the perceptions of presidents and academic deans regarding role expectations and decision-making styles of academic deans in Texas community colleges

The purpose of this study was to determine whether similarities exist in the perceptions of the roles of academic deans in community colleges. This study attempted to determine whether role expectations and perceptions reflected separate and distinct relationships, or if administrative patterns reflected an overlapping of responsibilities.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Hunt, Larry W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A partial needs assessment of the fashion design program of the Department of Art at North Texas State University with implications for curriculum revision (open access)

A partial needs assessment of the fashion design program of the Department of Art at North Texas State University with implications for curriculum revision

The problem of this study concerned the relationships that exist between the actual practices of designers in the apparel industry and the present academic training of future designers. Purposes of this inquiry were to determine the expectations of designers by questioning commercial apparel manufacturers to ascertain the types of functions the fashion designer is expected to perform, to determine the importance the manufacturer places on that activity, and to make an appraisal of the industry's willingness to take an active part in the education of these designers.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Andrews, Jean
System: The UNT Digital Library
The utility of an ethnic Spanish translation of the Iowa test of basic skills with second grade Mexican-American children (open access)

The utility of an ethnic Spanish translation of the Iowa test of basic skills with second grade Mexican-American children

The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of an ethnic Spanish translation of portions of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Level 7, Form 5, with second-grade Mexican-American children to measure growth in the fundamental skills of listening, vocabulary, word analysis, reading, and mathematics.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Granado, Joe F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
User satisfaction in a government library: a case study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia (open access)

User satisfaction in a government library: a case study of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Saudi Arabia

The problem of this study was the lack of knowledge about user satisfaction with the library services which are provided at the library of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) in Saudi Arabia. The purpose of the study were two-fold: (1) to measure, evaluate, and analyze user satisfaction with the library services provided at the MFA Library for the employees; and (2) to develop a model for evaluation of user satisfaction of library services in government libraries in Saudi Arabia.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Tameem, Jamal Abbas
System: The UNT Digital Library