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[Letter from Julie Abel to Jack Davis, March 27, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Julie Abel to Jack Davis, March 27, 1997]

Photocopy of a letter from Julie Abel, Program Associate, Getty Center for Education in the Arts, to Jack Davis, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts. In discussion about the remaining funds from the Getty Center Education Institute grant to the RIG consortium be awarded to the North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts program. Abel makes a list of issues that need to be discussed and would like to meet up with Davis to discuss them.
Date: March 27, 1997
Creator: Abel, Julie
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter to Julie Abel, May 5, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter to Julie Abel, May 5, 1997]

Photocopy of a letter from Jack Davis and Bill McCarter, co-directors of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Julie Abel, the Getty Center for Education in the Arts. Discussing the current and future budgeting of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts with the Getty Center and the use of the left over funding from the FY96 year to be used in the FY97 year. Attached to the letter is a revised budget including the request to carryover the remaining funding.
Date: May 5, 1997
Creator: Davis, Donald Jack
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Bill McCarter to Deborah Howes, January 16, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Bill McCarter to Deborah Howes, January 16, 1997]

Photocopy of a letter from Bill McCarter, co-director of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Deborah Howes, Associate Museum Educator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The recommendation letter is in regards to the news of the Met's consideration of having one of UNT's graduate students, Rebecca Arkenberg, hold an internship in Howes's department. McCarter goes on to write about how wonderful of a student Arkenberg is and that he'll be sad to see her go but her skills are superb beyond others and her work with North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts is exemplary.
Date: January 16, 1997
Creator: McCarter, William
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[DBAE Leadership Forum Summary from Vicki Rosenberg to Forum Participants, September 17, 1997] (open access)

[DBAE Leadership Forum Summary from Vicki Rosenberg to Forum Participants, September 17, 1997]

Photocopy of the DBAE Leadership Forum text summary from Vicki Rosenberg, Senior Program Officer of the Getty Center, to the center's forum participants. The Getty Education Institute has provided the participants with a summary of the DBAE Leadership forum that was held January 11, 1997. The summary describes all that had transpired at the DBAE Leadership conference, beginning with a speech from the Director of Getty Education Institute for the Arts, Leilani Lattin Duke. The context of the summary is positive, the recommendations from the conferences' discussion are being used by the Education Institute to inform long-range plans for educational reform, taking arts education into the next century.
Date: September 17, 1997
Creator: Rosenberg, Vicki
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Pam Stephens to Cyndi Riddle, February 21, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Pam Stephens to Cyndi Riddle, February 21, 1997]

Photocopy of a letter from Pam Stephens, graduate research assistant, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Cyndi Riddle, Art Specialist at North Hi Mount Elementary. The letter is in regards to the idea of teacher-presenters at Texas Art Education Association meetings, believing it is an excellent suggestion. Stephens has already contacted Linda Alford from Plano and Jan Schronk from Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD, about commitments to their teachers and helping to host. Included in the letter are suggestions about helping cater to presenter needs.
Date: February 21, 1997
Creator: Geiger-Stephens, Pamela K.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Memo from Lori Weisgerber to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, August 15, 1997] (open access)

[Memo from Lori Weisgerber to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, August 15, 1997]

Photocopy of a memo from Lori Weisgerber, Getty Center, to Jack Davis, Harriet Laney and Bill McCarter, North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, with information regarding the Advisory Committee and outlines of information needed to updated in the committee notebook.
Date: August 15, 1997
Creator: Weisgerber, Lori
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from Pam Stephens to Jan Schronk, February 21, 1997] (open access)

[Letter from Pam Stephens to Jan Schronk, February 21, 1997]

Photocopy of a letter from Pam Stephens, Project Coordinator of North Texas Institute for Educators on the Visual Arts, to Jan Schronk, Coordinator of Fine Arts for Hurst-Euless-Bedford ISD. Reminding Schronk that the Teaching Art Education Association conference will be held in Fort Worth in November. Nancy Walkup Reynolds, Beverly Fletcher and Stephens are putting the conference together and contacting NTIEVA consortium districts to ask that art specialists attend and consider making presentations and serving as hosts at the event. To attend the conference as a participant, the teacher must be a member of TAEA, enclosed in the letter are membership forms. Stephens would like this event to be hospitable to visiting educators and would like to visit Schronk's next art meeting to beg her case before the teachers.
Date: February 21, 1997
Creator: Gieger-Stephens, Pamela K.
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Tobacco suit] captions transcript

[News Clip: Tobacco suit]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 8, 1997, 5:00 p.m.
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Increasing Differentiation on Vocational Assessments among Gifted High School Students (open access)

Increasing Differentiation on Vocational Assessments among Gifted High School Students

Multipotentiality makes career counseling with gifted students difficult. High-flat vocational profiles give the impression that gifted students can develop a wide range of abilities to an equally high level. High-flat vocational profiles may be due to assessments that consider abilities and disregard interests and values, and ceiling effects from the use of age-appropriate, rather than cognitively-appropriate measures. Subjects included 170 gifted students from a residential, early college entrance program (M=15.9 yrs., SD=.361). Subjects completed the Scholastic Aptitude Test, Self-Directed Search, and Study of Values. McNemar's Test of Correlated Proportions shows the proportion of multipotential profiles decreases significantly when cognitively-appropriate measures of interests and values are considered, in addition to abilities. Pearson Chi-square shows no ethnic differences.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Kidner, Cindy L. (Cindy Lee)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knowing is Seaing: Conceptual Metaphor in the Fiction of Kate Chopin (open access)

Knowing is Seaing: Conceptual Metaphor in the Fiction of Kate Chopin

This paper examines the metaphoric structures that underlie Chopin's major novel, The Awakening, as well as those underlying selected short stories. Drawing on the modern theory of metaphor described by Mark Turner, George Lakoff, and Mark Johnson, the author argues that conceptual metaphors are the structural elements that underlie our experiences, thoughts, and words, and that their presence is revealed through our everyday language. Since these conceptual structures are representative of human thought and language, they are also present in literary texts, and specifically in Chopin's texts. Conceptual metaphors and the linguistic forms that result from them are so basic a part of our thinking that we automatically construct our utterances by means of them. Accordingly, conceptual metaphor mirrors human thought processes, as demonstrated by the way we describe our experiences.
Date: May 1997
Creator: Green, Suzanne Disheroon, 1963-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Differences Perceived by Information Systems Professionals in the Systems Development Job Environment Due to the Use of ICASE Technology (open access)

A Study of Differences Perceived by Information Systems Professionals in the Systems Development Job Environment Due to the Use of ICASE Technology

Information systems professionals now face the automation of their own work in integrated computer aided software engineering. Organizations need to achieve all the leverage possible from costly IT implementations to enhance competitiveness, profitability, and survival in a rapidly changing environment. ICASE technology is a part of the infrastructure necessary to meet this challenge but appears to present significant difficulties in implementation.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Troboy, Lori Kim
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Unifying Version Model for Objects and Schema in Object-Oriented Database System (open access)

A Unifying Version Model for Objects and Schema in Object-Oriented Database System

There have been a number of different versioning models proposed. The research in this area can be divided into two categories: object versioning and schema versioning. In this dissertation, both problem domains are considered as a single unit. This dissertation describes a unifying version model (UVM) for maintaining changes to both objects and schema. UVM handles schema versioning operations by using object versioning techniques. The result is that the UVM allows the OODBMS to be much smaller than previous systems. Also, programmers need know only one set of versioning operations; thus, reducing the learning time by half. This dissertation shows that UVM is a simple but semantically sound and powerful version model for both objects and schema.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Shin, Dongil
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Disturbing the Peace (open access)

Disturbing the Peace

Disturbing the Peace is a short, 16mm sync-sound fiction film. Alone one stormy night, a woman must contend with an intruder breaking into her home. The intruder turns out to be a teenage boy. He claims to have broken in only to retrieve a family heirloom he hid there when he and his parents lived in the same house years ago. When the boy finds the heirloom, the woman begins to believe his story, and soon realizes he doesn't have a good home life. The boy asks permission to stay until the storm breaks. She agrees. Should the boy be trusted, or is he telling one lie after another? The police arrive to witness the outcome of the story.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hatton, William, 1972-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Structural Approach to Four Theories of Group Development (open access)

A Structural Approach to Four Theories of Group Development

The goal of this study was to attempt to develop a classification scheme that systematically related individual behavior, interpersonal behavior, and group interactions for the purpose of using the resulting classification scheme to evaluate theories of group development proposed by Bion, Bennis and Shepard, Bales, and Tuckman and Jensen. It was assumed that theorists' presuppositions about the structure of groups might influence their theories. Using a qualitative process of analysis, a structural classification scheme (SCS) was developed based upon transformative and generative rules, utilizing the General System Theory subsystem process of self-regulated boundary operations. The SCS protocol was employed to categorize and compare the theories of group development proposed by Bion, Bennis and Shepard, Bales, and Tuckman and Jensen. The resulting categorization of theories indicated that relationships existed among and between a group's structural properties, the complexity and type of communication connections among and between group members, and the size of the group. In addition, a common structural relationship was demonstrated to exist among and between individual, dyadic, and triadic group forms. A similar structural relationship was also speculated to exist between groups of any size. It was concluded that a structural approach to groups may offer insight to group …
Date: May 1997
Creator: King, Dennis J., 1945-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simulating Thermal and Chemical Spills in Coupled Cooling Reservoirs (open access)

Simulating Thermal and Chemical Spills in Coupled Cooling Reservoirs

Hot water discharges and potential chemical spills are factors that threaten water quality in cooling reservoirs of chemical and power plants. In this thesis, three models are used to analyze the impact of these factors in a particular case study.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Qiu, Bin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aluminum and Copper Chemical Vapor Deposition on Fluoropolymer Dielectrics and Subsequent Interfacial Interactions (open access)

Aluminum and Copper Chemical Vapor Deposition on Fluoropolymer Dielectrics and Subsequent Interfacial Interactions

This study is an investigation of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of aluminum and copper on fluoropolymer surfaces and the subsequent interfacial interactions.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Sutcliffe, Ronald David
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Detection of Malingering on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and the Booklet Category Test (open access)

Detection of Malingering on Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices and the Booklet Category Test

The capacity of Raven's Standard Progressive Matrices (SPM) and the Booklet Category Test (BCT) to discriminate between groups of brain-injured, simulated malingering, and normal participants was investigated in this study. Exploratory analyses were also conducted to examine the differences between groups categorized as sophisticated and naive fakers. Clinical decision rules and discriminant function analyses were utilized to identify malingerers. Clinical decision rules ranged in hit rates from 41% to 78%, in sensitivity from 2% to 100%, and in specificity from 86% to 100%. Discriminant functions ranged in hit rates from 81% to 86%, in sensitivity from 68% to 73% and in specificity from 82% to 87%. Overall, the least helpful detection method examined was below chance responding on either measure, while the most efficient was gross errors for SPM.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Isler, William C. (William Charles)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subcloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the xylO/PUWCMA Region from the Pseudomonas putida TOL Plasmid pDK1 (open access)

Subcloning and Nucleotide Sequence of the xylO/PUWCMA Region from the Pseudomonas putida TOL Plasmid pDK1

The TOL plasmids of Pseudomonas putida encode enzymes required for the oxidation of toluene and other related aromatic compounds. These genes are organized into two operons, the xylUWCMABN operon (upper), and the xylXYZLTEGFJQKIH operon (lower). Here we report the nucleotide sequence of a 7107 bp segment of the TOL pDK1 plasmid encoding the region just upstream of the "upper" operon through the genes encoding xylUWCMA. Sequence analysis, comparison of base-usage patterns, codon-usage patterns, and intergenic distances between genes help support the idea that the "upper" and "lower" operons have evolved independently in different genetic backgrounds and have only more recently been brought together in TOL and related catabolic plasmids.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Guigneaux, Michelle M. (Michelle Marie)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Job Congruency and Discrepancy with the National Athletic Trainers Association Athletic Trainer Role Delineation on the Job Characteristics Model of Work Redesign in Secondary School Athletic Trainers in Texas (open access)

The Effect of Job Congruency and Discrepancy with the National Athletic Trainers Association Athletic Trainer Role Delineation on the Job Characteristics Model of Work Redesign in Secondary School Athletic Trainers in Texas

This study investigated person-situation relations of professional preparation and job classification of secondary school athletic training positions with core job dimensions and affective outcomes within Hackman and Oldham's 1980 Job Characteristics Model. Research focused on which relations show increased affective outcomes; relationships between core job dimensions and affective outcomes; and characteristics of the core job dimensions of task identification, task significance, and skill variety of athletic trainer tasks as defined by the National Athletic Trainers Association Board of Certification, Inc. 1995 Role Delineation Study.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Bunt, Stephen Churchill
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Influence of Kenneth Cooper's Work on the Teaching of Wellness and Fitness in Physical Education Programs in 2-Year Community Colleges in the United States (open access)

A Study of the Influence of Kenneth Cooper's Work on the Teaching of Wellness and Fitness in Physical Education Programs in 2-Year Community Colleges in the United States

Kenneth H. Cooper is considered to be a noted scholar in the field of wellness and fitness. This study explored his contributions to the preventive medicine and wellness movement in community college physical education programs in the United States. It examined Cooper's influence on the development of preventive medicine and wellness from its inception and growth to its impact on changes and factors affecting curriculum in community college programs. A random sample of436 physical education division directors from the nation's 1,400 community colleges yielded a 62% survey response. For purposes of comparison, the sample was stratified into two regions taken fromeast and west of the Mississippi River. Chi-square analysis at the .01 level of significance found no difference between variables due to geographic region. The findings of this study indicate that Kenneth Cooper's contributions to preventive medicine and wellness in community college physical education curriculum are overshadowed by state and local governing bodies that are the force behind curricular development in the nation's 2-year community colleges. However, as an individual contributor, Cooper ranks highly in influencing the wellness and physical education curriculum primarily in the areas of aerobic exercise, physical fitness, and cardiovascular disease. The extent of Cooper's impact on …
Date: May 1997
Creator: Coan, Barbara A. (Barbara Ann)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of College Student Leadership Programs from the 1970s to the 1990s (open access)

Comparison of College Student Leadership Programs from the 1970s to the 1990s

The primary concerns of this study were to describe the most common practices of current college student leadership training programs in the United States and to compare the 1979 and 1997 findings by replicating the 1979 Simonds study. This study provides an overview of related literature on the history of leadership theory and the research on leadership training in higher education, a detailed description of the methodology, results of the survey, a comparative analysis of the 1979 and 1997 findings, and discussion of the current status of leadership training at institutions of higher education. Conclusions are drawn, and implications and recommendations for student affairs professionals are made that may improve the quality of student leadership in higher education.
Date: August 1997
Creator: McMillon, Keri Leigh Rogers
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Examining the Relationship between Variability in Acquisition and Variability in Extinction (open access)

Examining the Relationship between Variability in Acquisition and Variability in Extinction

Using the "revealed operant" technique, variability during acquisition and extinction was examined with measures of response rate and a detailed analysis of response topography. During acquisition, subjects learned to emit four response patterns. A continuous schedule of reinforcement (CRF) for 100 repetitions was used for each pattern and a 30 min extinction phase immediately followed. One group of subjects learned the response patterns via a "trial-and-error" method. This resulted in a wide range of variability during acquisition and extinction. Only one subject emitted a substantial amount of resurgent behavior. A second group of subjects was given instructions on what keys to press to earn reinforcers. This group had less variability in acquisition and extinction and resurgent responding was prevalent.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Neff, Bryon (Bryon R.)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Minimality of the Special Linear Groups (open access)

Minimality of the Special Linear Groups

Let F denote the field of real numbers, complex numbers, or a finite algebraic extension of the p-adic field. We prove that the special linear group SLn(F) with the usual topology induced by F is a minimal topological group. This is accomplished by first proving the minimality of the upper triangular group in SLn(F). The proof for the upper triangular group uses an induction argument on a chain of upper triangular subgroups and relies on general results for locally compact topological groups, quotient groups, and subgroups. Minimality of SLn(F) is concluded by appealing to the associated Lie group decomposition as the product of a compact group and an upper triangular group. We also prove the universal minimality of homeomorphism groups of one dimensional manifolds, and we give a new simple proof of the universal minimality of S∞.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Hayes, Diana Margaret
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
AIDS Preventative Behavior Among Taiwanese University Students (open access)

AIDS Preventative Behavior Among Taiwanese University Students

This study used the Health Belief Model to examine the predictors of AIDS preventive behavior. The independent variables were the variables of individual perception, modifying factors (psychological variables), and likelihood variables. The respondents, the Taiwanese students of the University of North Texas, were influenced both by Chinese sexuality and Western values in their AIDS-risk behavior. The results revealed that 90% of the respondents were misinformed on the availability of AIDS vaccine. In addition, a majority of the students were either abstaining from sex or practicing monogamy. Using Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis, this study found that the psychological variables rather than cognitive variables significantly influenced the respondents' AIDS preventive behavior. Finally, suggestions were made for future research on AIDS, and for AIDS preventive behavior campaigns.
Date: May 1997
Creator: Wang, Ya-Chien
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library