[Confirmation Invitation for Ahavath Sholom, 2002] (open access)

[Confirmation Invitation for Ahavath Sholom, 2002]

Invitation for the confirmation exercises for the 2002 class of Ahavath Sholom synagogue, including a list of confirmands.
Date: May 17, 2002
Creator: Congregation Ahavath Sholom
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2002 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 2, 2002

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: Manning, Melanie
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
DGS Newsletter, Volume 26, Number 3, May 2002 (open access)

DGS Newsletter, Volume 26, Number 3, May 2002

Newsletter of the Dallas Genealogical Society discussing membership, Society meetings, genealogical workshops and events, and other news of interest to members.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-498 (open access)

Texas Attorney General Opinion: JC-498

Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, John Cornyn, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Interpretation of Texas Government Code section 441.201 concerning the officials records of a former governor (RQ-0468-JC)
Date: May 3, 2002
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Executive and Independent Agency Publications: Where to Get Official Documents (open access)

Executive and Independent Agency Publications: Where to Get Official Documents

This is a directory of telephone numbers and addresses that congressional offices may use to obtain publications from the Executive Office of the President, the executive departments, and the independent agencies and commissions of the federal government. Electronic sources are included for locating copies of government publications on the Internet. The information for each agency was provided by the agency itself.
Date: May 2, 2002
Creator: Campos, Jesus
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Stewardship Science and Technology Requirements (open access)

Long-Term Stewardship Science and Technology Requirements

To ensure technology developed for long-term stewardship will meet existing requirements, a review of requirements was performed. In addition to identifying existing science and technology related requirements, gaps and conflicts of requirements were identified.
Date: May 16, 2002
Creator: McDonald, J. K. & Nickelson, R. A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Financial Management: Extending the Financial Statements Audit Requirement of the CFO Act to Additional Federal Agencies (open access)

Financial Management: Extending the Financial Statements Audit Requirement of the CFO Act to Additional Federal Agencies

Testimony issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "Congress is considering expanding the number of federal agencies required to prepare audited financial statements to include all executive branch agencies that have budget authority of $25 million or more. The Federal Financial Management Improvement Act of 1996 builds on the Chief Financial Officers (CFO) Act by encouraging agencies to have systems that generate timely, accurate, and useful information with which to make informed decisions on an ongoing basis. The 26 non-CFO Act agencies that GAO surveyed reported that they anticipate significant benefits from audited financial statements."
Date: May 14, 2002
Creator: United States. General Accounting Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Tracings, Volume 20, Number 01, May 2002 (open access)

The Tracings, Volume 20, Number 01, May 2002

Newsletter of the the Anderson County Genealogical Society containing genealogical information such as generation charts, family histories, and lists of records (births, deaths, church records, etc.).
Date: May 2002
Creator: Anderson County Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 29, 2002 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 22, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 29, 2002

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: May 29, 2002
Creator: Vanicek, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 2002 (open access)

Věstník (Temple, Tex.), Vol. 90, No. 18, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 1, 2002

Weekly Czech and English language newspaper from Temple, Texas published as the official organ of the Slavonic Benevolent Order of the State of Texas that includes news of interest to members along with advertising.
Date: May 1, 2002
Creator: Vanicek, Brian
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Historian, Volume 62, Number 4, May 2002 (open access)

The Texas Historian, Volume 62, Number 4, May 2002

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Church & Synagogue Libraries, Volume 35, Number 6, May/June 2002 (open access)

Church & Synagogue Libraries, Volume 35, Number 6, May/June 2002

Bimonthly publication of the Church and Synagogue Library Association, containing news and events related to the organization and its members, reviews of books and other materials, and stories of interest to the management of congregational libraries.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Church and Synagogue Library Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organization of Narrative Discourse in Children and Adolescents with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury (open access)

Organization of Narrative Discourse in Children and Adolescents with Acute Traumatic Brain Injury

Children with a recent history of TBI often demonstrate impaired memory, which can be affected by impaired attention, processing speed or impaired verbal information processing. The purpose of this study was to determine if qualitative differences exist among the narrative recall of TBI patients that is not adequately accounted for by standard scoring methods. Sixty-six TBI subjects ranging in age from 6 to 16 were given the Wide Range and Memory and Learning (WRAML) Story Memory subtest and selected subtests from the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children - Third Edition (WISC-III). Mean elapsed time since injury was 53 days. Recall of the story on the WRAML subtest was hand-recorded by the examiner. A supplemental scoring method accounted for differences in length, errors, and disorganization. Comparisons were made to a randomly selected control group consisting of 16 hospitalized subjects between 7 and 15 years with no history of head injury, neurological condition or event. Findings suggest the WRAML Story Memory subtest is relatively robust in providing information regarding the quality of recall, with the exception of not accounting for the addition of erroneous details. Subjects with both cortical and subcortical injuries were more likely to add superfluous details to their stories. …
Date: May 2002
Creator: Thomas, Kathy Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Ssri) on Auditory Measures in Clinically Depressed Subjects. (open access)

The Effects of Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors (Ssri) on Auditory Measures in Clinically Depressed Subjects.

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) medication on auditory skills in clinically depressed subjects. Experimental subjects prescribed an SSRI were tested in a medicated and an unmedicated condition, and the test results were compared. Furthermore, the experimental group was compared with a control group consisting of normal subjects. Test measures included pure tone audiometry, tympanometry, acoustic reflex thresholds, and auditory electrophysiologic measures such as auditory brainstem and auditory late responses. An assessment scale for depression (Beck Depression Inventory-II) was also used. Results indicated statistically significant differences for the BDI-II between the control and experimental groups for both conditions. Electrophysiologic measures indicated a significantly shorter latency for auditory late potential P1 at 55 dBnSL, and a significantly larger amplitude at 45 dBnSL for the N1/P2 component for the unmedicated group. Although the other measures showed trends, they did not reach significance.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Goodale, Elizabeth S.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Queen of the Confederacy: the Innocent Deceits of Lucy Holcombe Pickens

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From book jacket: "Submissiveness is not my role, but certain platitudes on certain occasions are among the innocent deceits of the sex." A strong character with a fervent belief in woman's changing place, Lucy Holcombe Pickens (1832-1899) was not content to live the life of a typical nineteenth-century Southern belle. Wife of Francis Wilkinson Pickens, the secessionist governor of South Carolina on the eve of the Civil War, Lucy was determined to make her mark in the world. She married "the right man," feeling that "a woman with wealth or prestige garnered from her husband's position could attain great power." She urged Pickens to accept a diplomatic mission to the court of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, and in St. Petersburg Lucy captivated the Tsar and his retinue with her beauty and charm. Upon returning to the states, she became First Lady of South Carolina just in time to encourage a Confederate unit named in her honor (The Holcombe Legion) off to war. She was the only woman to have her image engraved on Confederacy paper currency, the uncrowned "Queen of the Confederacy."
Date: May 15, 2002
Creator: Lewis, Elizabeth Wittenmyer
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Historic Marker Application: T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House] (open access)

[Historic Marker Application: T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House]

Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the T. J. and Mary Lelia Dick House, in League City, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, narrative, and photographs.
Date: May 6, 2002
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Use of the Beck Depression Inventory in Northern Brazil (open access)

Use of the Beck Depression Inventory in Northern Brazil

The Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) is a popular screening and research instrument for measuring severity of depression. The instrument was translated to Portuguese for use in Brazil in 1979; however, it was not until recently that its psychometric properties have been tested empirically for the Brazilian population. The purpose of the present study was to explore the BDI's psychometric properties in a northern region of Brazil and to test for possible relationships between certain demographic variables and BDI outcomes. Samples used in this study were from an urban area in Roraima, the northernmost state of Brazil. The BDI showed adequate levels of internal consistency in nonclinical and clinical samples. Female respondents had significantly higher scores than male respondents. Those who had lower levels of education, income, or occupational status had significantly higher scores than those with higher levels of these variables. Adolescents had significantly higher scores than adults from all age groups except those from age 19 to 22. No significant difference was found between those who identified themselves as “indigenous” and those who identified themselves as “non-indigenous.” Regression analysis results showed that the combination of gender, education, and age best accounted for the variance in BDI scores. An ANCOVA …
Date: May 2002
Creator: Albert, Christopher
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of the Tongue on Vocal Production (open access)

The Influence of the Tongue on Vocal Production

The purpose of this study is to assemble information needed to assess, understand and hopefully correct muscular hyperfunction that is related to tongue tension in singing and speech which inhibit freely, efficiently, and comfortably produced beautiful singing. This text will include a definition of freely produced, fully resonating tone for beautiful singing, major components of vocal technique, physiology related to singing and speech production, hyperfunctions associated with tongue tension, tongue involvement in the articulation of the four major singing languages, and will present exercises for training the muscles of coordination in a manner conducive to singing and speech.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Lindberg-Kransmo, Maria
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 159, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 2002 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 159, Ed. 1 Saturday, May 4, 2002

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 4, 2002
Creator: Cash, Wanda Garner
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 2002 (open access)

Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 2002

Weekly newspaper from Bogata, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 30, 2002
Creator: Nichols, Nanalee & Nichols, Thomas
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hellcat News, (Sheridan, Wyo.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1, May 2002 (open access)

Hellcat News, (Sheridan, Wyo.), Vol. 55, No. 9, Ed. 1, May 2002

Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 30, May 2002 (open access)

Elm Fork Echoes, Volume 30, May 2002

The newsletter of the Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas contains information related to the activities of the society and its members as well as genealogical notes and history for the Dallas County, Texas and surrounding areas. Index starts on page 57.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Peters Colony Historical Society of Dallas County, Texas
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

An examination of computer anxiety related to achievement on paper-and-pencil and computer-based aircraft maintenance knowledge testing of United States Air Force technical training students.

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The purpose of this study was to determine whether varying levels of computer anxiety have an effect on computer-based testing of United States Air Force technical training students. The first chapter presents an overview of computer-based testing, defines key terms, and identifies questions addressed in the research. The rationale for conducting this study was that little research had been done in this area. The second chapter contains a review of the pertinent literature related to computer-based testing, computer anxiety, test reliability, validity, and gender differences in computer use. Due to the lack understanding concerning any effects of computer anxiety on computer-based testing, this has been a worthwhile topic to explore, and it makes a significant contribution to the training field. The third chapter describes the qualitative research methodology used to conduct the study. The primary methodology was an analysis of variance comparison for groups of individuals who displayed high or low computer anxiety to their respective mean computer-based or paper-based aircraft maintenance knowledge testing scores. The research population consisted of United States Air Force aircraft maintenance craftsmen students attending training at Sheppard Air Force Base, Texas. The fourth chapter details the findings of the study. The findings indicate that there …
Date: May 2002
Creator: McVay, Richard B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Quarterly Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending February 28, 2002 (open access)

A Quarterly Report on Full-Time Equivalent State Employees for the Quarter Ending February 28, 2002

Report of the Texas State Auditor's Office related to information on the number of state employees and the number of consultants and contract individuals who perform services for state government.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Auditor.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History