Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 9, December 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 9, December 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: December 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Comic: Our Gay History: 10 Years of Gay Pride Celebrations in Dallas!]

A cartoon history of Gay Pride Celebrations in Dallas from 1978-1987, which was published in Dialog, newsletter of the Dallas Gay Alliance.
Date: 1987
Creator: Rayburn, Lance
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Invitation for Mike Richards Aloha Party] (open access)

[Invitation for Mike Richards Aloha Party]

Card for a farewell party honoring Michael Richards (who was moving to Hawaii) at the Cadillac Bar in Dallas on December 6th, 1987.
Date: 1987-11~
Creator: Dallas Gay Alliance
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships Between Teachers' Knowledge of and Attitude Toward Selected Teaching Strategies and Their Implementation in the Elementary Classroom (open access)

A Study of Relationships Between Teachers' Knowledge of and Attitude Toward Selected Teaching Strategies and Their Implementation in the Elementary Classroom

The purpose of this study was to explore the variables of content knowledge, individual attitude, and span of time from initial training with regard to implementation of selected teaching practices in the elementary classroom. The sample consisted of thirty-two elementary classroom teachers who teach reading or mathematics in a large suburban school district in the Dallas Metropolitan Area. After completion of the second day's training in an inservice program on teaching strategies, the teachers were given a test to measure content knowledge of and attitude toward the teaching strategies. The test results were used in determining four groups for follow-up classroom observations four weeks and eight weeks after the in-service sessions. Using three-way analysis of variance, the data were analyzed. Results indicated that teachers with high content knowledge of the teaching strategies implemented these strategies to a greater degree than did teachers with low content knowledge. No significant relationship with regard to implementation was found for the variables of attitude or span of time. It can be concluded that teachers who know the content of inservice training are able to and do implement the training in their classrooms. Of equal significance is the conclusion that teachers who do not know …
Date: August 1987
Creator: Speak, Lynda Overton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors of Depression in the Elderly: Assessment and Implications for Diagnosis (open access)

Factors of Depression in the Elderly: Assessment and Implications for Diagnosis

The problem of assessment and diagnosis of depression in the elderly begins with the definition of depression being indefinite. In this study, the theory of learned helplessness was chosen because of its value in organizing research within a learning theory framework. The Beck Depression Inventory, measures of fluid and crystallized intellectual ability, locus of control, and attribution of success and failure were chosen as variables for an exploratory factor analysis. The purpose of selecting these variables was to assess the cognitive, motivational, and affective components of learned helplessness as they affected the responses of elderly subjects to depression items. Self report measures of income, education, and health, were included to assess the relationship of these variables to depression. A somatic factor was predicted to correlate with an affective factor of depression.
Date: December 1987
Creator: Kunsak, Nancy Elizabeth
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Weak-Form Efficient Markets Test of the Dallas-Fort Worth Office Properties Real Estate Market (open access)

A Weak-Form Efficient Markets Test of the Dallas-Fort Worth Office Properties Real Estate Market

Few areas of research in the finance literature have received greater attention than the efficient market hypothesis. Much of the research has been directed toward the securities market while very little research has been done in the real estate markets. The existing research on real estate market efficiency has been either descriptive or illustrative with very little empirical testing being performed. The major reason for the lack of empirical testing has been the inability to develop an adequate data base. The results of the empirical work that has been done do not support the widely held belief that real estate markets are inefficient. This study, using the autoregressive-integrative-moving average (ARIMA) time series analysis technique, tests the weak-form efficiency of the Dallas-Fort Worth office properties real estate market. According to the weak-form efficient market hypothesis, all price information should be capitalized into current real estate prices and not provide the basis for earning abnormal returns in trading. Price data formed from office building sales dating from January, 1979 to January, 1985 are used to test the market. The data was gathered from the files of several professional appraisal firms located in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The transaction information includes (1) transaction …
Date: May 1987
Creator: McIntosh, Willard
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact on Charitable Classes in Dallas County, Texas, Resulting from Changes in the Tax Economics of Private Philanthropy (open access)

The Impact on Charitable Classes in Dallas County, Texas, Resulting from Changes in the Tax Economics of Private Philanthropy

Private philanthropy is important in America. In 1985, philanthropy totaled almost 80 billion dollars. Philanthropy is partially a function of price. Absent a tax benefit, the price of charitable giving is unity. When tax benefits are available, the price of cash giving is one minus the marginal tax rate of the donor. Philanthropy is not evenly distributed among all classes of organizations. Changes in tax cost bring about changes in the distribution of gifts among organizations. Predictions have been made of a six to twelve billion dollar decline in individual giving as a result of the Tax Reform Act of 1986. The question is, "Whose ox gets gored?" In 1962, the Internal Revenue Service collected data directly linking itemized charitable contributions to class of donee organization. Prior works by Taussig, Schwartz, Feldstein, and Clotfelter have been principally based on this data. Their works document differing elasticities of price on charitable giving. The current research gathered 1985 data on the relationships between income, price, and charitable donee for 298 Dallas County, Texas, taxpayers. Data was obtained from selected certified public accountants in Dallas County who prepared income tax returns for individuals as part of their practice. Two hundred fifty usable responses …
Date: August 1987
Creator: McClure, Ronnie C. (Ronnie Clyde)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Prediction of Bankruptcy Using Financial Ratios, Information Measures, National Economic Data and Texas Economic Data (open access)

Prediction of Bankruptcy Using Financial Ratios, Information Measures, National Economic Data and Texas Economic Data

The main purpose of this study is to develop a bankruptcy prediction model for the small business firm. Data was collected from the Dallas Small Business Administration (SBA), making this study specific to its decision makers. Existing research has produced models which predominately use financial ratios and information measures either independently or combined, and a few research models have used economic trends. This study varies from past studies in that it includes regional economic variables from the states of Texas. A sample of three-year data for 138 firms included fifteen bankrupt firms. This proportion of bankrupt/nonbankrupt firms approximates the proportion of repayed/defaulted loans in the SBA. Stepwise regression, set at the .15 level of significance, reduced a total of fifty-three variables to nine. These nine variables were then used to test twelve predictive models. All twelve models tested improved the SBA repayment rate and only two of the twelve would have caused the SBA to deny loans to applicants who eventually repaid. The study determined the model that included financial ratios, information measures, and Texas economic variables as best. It was also demonstrated that some of the variables used in this model could be eliminated without decreasing the predictive power …
Date: December 1987
Creator: Moore, Ronald K. (Ronald Kenneth)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
John F. Walvoord at Dallas Theological Seminary (open access)

John F. Walvoord at Dallas Theological Seminary

This study gives a historical analysis of the life and career of John F. Walvoord. He has served Dallas Theological Seminary for over fifty years in various capacities. The process of gathering information included a review of literature, a review of the institutional records of the Seminary, and a systematic search of the Archives, providing a chronological history of personal correspondence from the Office of the President from 1924 through 1954. An interviewing process concluded the study and served as the means of evaluation and review.
Date: May 1987
Creator: Mink, Timothy G. (Timothy Gale)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 2, February 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 2, February 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: February 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 8, November 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 8, November 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: November 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume [40], Number 6, September 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume [40], Number 6, September 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: September 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 1, January 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 1, January 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: January 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 3, March 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 3, March 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: March 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 4, April 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 4, April 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: April 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 5, May 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 5, May 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: May 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 7, October 1987 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 40, Number 7, October 1987

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: October 1987
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Nursing Shortage PKG] captions transcript

[News Clip: Nursing Shortage PKG]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 5pm.
Date: February 21, 1987, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Knight Pay Raise] captions transcript

[News Clip: Knight Pay Raise]

B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10pm.
Date: February 22, 1987, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Copy: Petition for revocation of probated sentence] (open access)

[Copy: Petition for revocation of probated sentence]

Xerographic of the petition for revocation of probated sentence.
Date: October 13, 1987
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Dialog, September 1987: President's Message] (open access)

[Dialog, September 1987: President's Message]

President's message from the September 1987 edition of Diaog. Some sentences are highlighted.
Date: September 1987
Creator: Dallas Gay Alliance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Petition for revocation of probated sentence] (open access)

[Petition for revocation of probated sentence]

Petition for the revocation of probated sentence of Bill Seals.
Date: October 13, 1987
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Newspaper article: AIDS, The State of the Science] (open access)

[Newspaper article: AIDS, The State of the Science]

A special report from the Dallas Morning News defining, describing, and providing the history of AIDS.
Date: June 29, 1987
Creator: The Dallas Morning News
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Article: The Foundation for Human Understanding] (open access)

[Article: The Foundation for Human Understanding]

Article from the October 1987 edition of Dialog about the new organization the Foundation for Human Understanding. Some sentences are highlighted.
Date: November 1987
Creator: Dallas Gay Alliance
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library