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Some Fundamental Properties of Categories (open access)

Some Fundamental Properties of Categories

This paper establishes a basis for abelian categories, then gives the statement and proof of two equivalent definitions of an abelian category, the development of the basic theory of such categories, and the proof of some theorems involving this basic theory.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gardner, Harold L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Juvenalian Influence on Byron's Don Juan (open access)

The Juvenalian Influence on Byron's Don Juan

This thesis is a comparative study of Juvenal and Lord Byron, with emphasis on the particularly kindred aspects of the poets' works.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Dunson, Diane Gardner
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development of the Religious Thought of T. S. Eliot (open access)

The Development of the Religious Thought of T. S. Eliot

This thesis will concern itself with the development of the religious thought of Eliot as it is expressed in his poetry and plays.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Laing, Howard W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task (open access)

The Effect of an Expressed Level of Aspiration in Determining Performance on a Subsequent Task

There have been few investigations employing the level of aspiration as a motivational independent variable. The problem of the present study was to investigate the effect of an expressed level of aspiration on a subsequent level of performance on a cancellation task and to relate this effect to socio-economic classifications.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Hafner, Bruce W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
George Perkins and the Progressive Party : a Study of Divergent Goals (open access)

George Perkins and the Progressive Party : a Study of Divergent Goals

This study will focus on the role of George Perkins in the development and decline of the Progressive Party. Theodore Roosevelt is often at the center of this story for the Bull Moose and the Progressives were closely intertwined. Ultimately, the inconsistencies of the master-politician Roosevelt and the detrimental influence of Perkins contributed to the downfall of the Progressive Party of 1912.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Cobelle, Pete W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960 (open access)

A Description and Analysis of Selected Demographic and Socio-economic Characteristics of United States Manufacturing and Retail Trade Cities : 1950 and 1960

This is a descriptive study of functional specialization in cities and its relation to certain social, economic and demographic variables.
Date: May 1969
Creator: Heathington, Ronald W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Denton State School's Developmental Evaluation Form in Evaluating an Operant Training Program for Severely Retarded Boys (open access)

The Effectiveness of Denton State School's Developmental Evaluation Form in Evaluating an Operant Training Program for Severely Retarded Boys

The problem of this study was to evaluate Denton State School's Developmental Evaluation Form as it is now being used in their operant conditioning techniques in certain basic self-help areas, and to suggest a more effective and informative method of scoring the Evaluation Form. The present method of scoring this evaluation form requires that -all items at each developmental level be passed in order to receive credit for that level. No partial credit is given at any level. This method of scoring yields a developmental level at which. the individual is functioning. It does not, however, point out the total overall development of the individual. The present type of basal developmental scoring is not as discriminating as far as picturing an individual's total development as the one which will be suggested.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Graham, Malcolm J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Acceptance by Peers and Acceptance of Self (open access)

The Relationship between Acceptance by Peers and Acceptance of Self

This study investigated the adolescent self-concept. The concern was with the relationship between peer status as measured by a reputation scale and self-concept as measured by how an individual feels he is perceived by others.
Date: August 1964
Creator: Jost, Nancy J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Architectural Trends in Fort Worth, Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the trends that are developing in the architecture of the civic, commercial, and religious buildings in Fort Worth, Texas. This will be shown by an analysis of what the author considers to be the best examples of buildings constructed in Fort Worth during the past ten years.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Curtsinger, J. Dallas.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of the Firo-B Scale with Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients (open access)

An Evaluation of the Firo-B Scale with Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients

Concerning the present study, if in the test result of psychotic patients there is some distortion of reality concepts, as is generally expected, then their scores on any personality scale should vary considerably from norms established on the same test by "normal" subjects.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Ladd, Lawrence J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Employment Test Validation Based Upon Limited Criteria (open access)

Employment Test Validation Based Upon Limited Criteria

This study is concerned with the experience of a particular company which undertook to improve its selection program through the installation of a test battery. This involved special adaptations of techniques commonly employed in industrial situations.
Date: May 1960
Creator: Stuckey, Billy J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Technical and Historical Analysis of Alban Berg's Sonata for Piano, op. 1 (open access)

A Technical and Historical Analysis of Alban Berg's Sonata for Piano, op. 1

This sonata by Alban Berg is a product of Arnold Schoenberg's teachings and is, indeed, a musical reflection of the Schoenberg of 1907-1908. At this time the musical thought of Schoenberg himself was in a state of metamorphosis, developing from the chromaticism of the late Romantic composers toward the twelve-tone technique which he was to formulate a few years later. The sonata, as a whole and above all, reflects the growth of an important composer, one who is perhaps the most important link between the traditional Classical and Romantic schools and the modern schools. His growth was based on a thorough knowledge of traditional styles and techniques, vestiges of which are seen in the formal design, chromaticism, and evasive harmony of the work. His advance is seen in his peculiar use of polyphony and motivic variation. Compared with many other works for piano, Berg's sonata is perhaps not among the most celebrated. But as indication of the attitude of a great composer who wished to build upon rather than break with his heritage, it is a most significant work.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Evans, Billy G., 1938-
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Memory Load on the Accuracy of Recognition of Stimuli (open access)

The Effects of Memory Load on the Accuracy of Recognition of Stimuli

The purpose of this study was to find if memory load significantly affects the performance of the subjects in the before condition of a before versus after technique experiment. In order to accomplish this the alternatives were presented either before or after the stimulus, with the alternatives and stimuli being either of high-complexity or low-complexity.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Harris, Jerry Lon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Victorian Ideology and British Children's Literature, 1870-1914 (open access)

Victorian Ideology and British Children's Literature, 1870-1914

In many nations, children's literature is a propaganda element for society. The structure of society, both real and imagined, and the composition of the immature mind make children's literature, both good and bad, a method by which to shape future citizens. Through studying the literature of a particular period and in one country, the relationship between children's literature and the history of the times and the ideals of the adults of that age is made clearer. Literature for the young is a record of the spirit of the times.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Trugman, Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Church and the Segregation Crisis in the South (open access)

The Church and the Segregation Crisis in the South

Segregation, as in other realms of American life, is a great problem of the churches. Although the Supreme Court decision and call for action by the President have produced few revolutionary changes, the churches of the South have taken steps to cope with this problem. Slow and faltering though these moves may be, they represent a new awakening on the part of individual churches to a pressing social responsibility.
Date: August 1960
Creator: Swim, Sammie E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Level of Academic Achievement and Teachers' Ratings of Adverse Classroom Behavior Among Institutionalized Mental Retardates (open access)

The Relationship between Level of Academic Achievement and Teachers' Ratings of Adverse Classroom Behavior Among Institutionalized Mental Retardates

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the behavioral differences between over- and underachieving mental retardates and to provide an effective way of identifying over- and underachieving mental retardates.
Date: August 1967
Creator: Flournoy, Richard Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study (open access)

The Direction of Aggression and Group Conformity of Policemen, Narcotic-Addicts, and Seventh Day Adventists as Measured by the Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study

The present study was an attempt to measure the direction of aggression among three diverse groups, namely, policemen, narcotic-addicts and Seventh Day Adventists. The second aspect of this investigation was to determine the group conformity tendencies of the three basic groups. The Rosenzweig Picture-Frustration Study was used as the measuring instrument.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Gerlach, Herman
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Avidin Injected Intraperitoneally on the Course of Leukemia in the Mouse (open access)

The Effect of Avidin Injected Intraperitoneally on the Course of Leukemia in the Mouse

The current work was undertaken to test the ability of avidin to affect the course of leukemia when administered intraperitoneally.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Jones, George Adams, III
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Chaconne and Passacaglia in Twentieth Century Organ Music (open access)

The Chaconne and Passacaglia in Twentieth Century Organ Music

In order to trace the origin of the chaconne and passacaglia, the much larger classification of basso ostinato, of which the chaconne and passacaglia are two later examples, must be considered. According to one authority, Lili Propper, the earliest beginnings of the basso ostinato can be traced back to the Middle Ages through the use of organ points exemplified in organum purum. A later and more developed use of the basso ostinato can be discovered in the recurring basses of the Montpellier Codex and the masses of the fifteenth century. A freer manifestation of the idea can be found in the reiterated bass motive of the familiar canon, Sumer is icumen in.
Date: January 1966
Creator: Tiller, Barney
System: The UNT Digital Library
Christian Doctrine in the Plays of T. S. Eliot (open access)

Christian Doctrine in the Plays of T. S. Eliot

The purpose of this thesis is to explore the available evidence concerning Eliot's theological beliefs--particularly as that evidence is found in his plays--in an attempt to define with as much accuracy as possible the understanding of Eliot's theology which provides the most adequate understanding of and enjoyment of Eliot's writings.
Date: August 1962
Creator: Short, Robert Lester
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of a Masking Noise Upon the Performance of a Simple Motor Task Comparing Brain-Injured and Non-Brain-Injured Children (open access)

The Effects of a Masking Noise Upon the Performance of a Simple Motor Task Comparing Brain-Injured and Non-Brain-Injured Children

Two questions can be posed for study: 1) Will the effect of auditory masking provided by a clinical noise significantly affect the performance of hearing children on the Knox Cube Test? 2) Are there significant differences among brain-injured, mentally, retarded, and "normal" children in ability to adjust to auditory masking in the performance of the Knox Cube Test?
Date: August 1967
Creator: Moss, Barbara A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Self-Concept and Dogmatism as Variables in the Prediction of Internal-External Reward Expectancies (open access)

Self-Concept and Dogmatism as Variables in the Prediction of Internal-External Reward Expectancies

The problem of this study was to determine the relationship between the nature of an individual's self-concept and belief system to his orientation toward internal versus external control of reinforcement. This study was designed to investigate the relationship of two variables, self-concept and open versus closed belief system, to a third variable, locus of control.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Lamb, Kathy Whitaker
System: The UNT Digital Library
Success-Striving and Failure-Avoidant Aspiration Patterns of Institutionalized Mental Retardates (open access)

Success-Striving and Failure-Avoidant Aspiration Patterns of Institutionalized Mental Retardates

The design of this experiment was developed to investigate the presence of success-striving and failure-avoidant motivational patterns in the level of aspiration behavior of retarded subjects. The primary objective of this study is to show that success-strivers are present in mentally retarded groups, even if in the minority.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Middleton, Charles B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (open access)

Elements of Old English Prosody in the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

This thesis attempts to explain the Anglo-Saxon influence on Hopkins's poetry by providing a biographical study of his life to determine when he acquired knowledge of the Anglo-Saxon.
Date: August 1969
Creator: Youngblood, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library