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Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 10, September 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 10, September 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 13, December 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 13, December 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 12, November 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 12, November 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds": The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley (open access)

"Surrounded by Dangers of All Kinds": The Mexican War Letters of Lieutenant Theodore Laidley

This book contains a collection of letters written by Lieutenant Theodore Thadeus Sobieski (T. T. S.) Laidley between 1845 and 1848. The letters discuss life as a soldier during the Mexican War; most of the letters were written from various stations in Mexico. Each letter is bracketed by editorial commentary on the historical context and the collection is prefaced by a brief biography of Laidley's life prior to the first letter. Index starts on page 179.
Date: 1997
Creator: McCaffrey, James M., 1946- & Laidley, Theodore, 1822-1886.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultural Diversity and Team Performance: Testing for Social Loafing Effects (open access)

Cultural Diversity and Team Performance: Testing for Social Loafing Effects

The concept of social loafing is important with regard to organizational effectiveness particularly as organizations are relying on teams as a means to drive productivity. The composition of those teams is likely to reflect the current movement of racial and ethnic minorities in the work place. The primary purpose of this research was to determine the role cultural diversity plays in enhancing performance and thereby eliminating social loafing. The research study is significant because 1) it is among the first to use culturally diverse work groups while examining the social loafing phenomenon, and 2) the groups were intact project teams, rather than ad-hoc groups commonly found in social loafing experiments. It was anticipated that the members of culturally homogeneous groups would engage in social loafing when their individual efforts were "buried." However, subjects in both culturally diverse and culturally homogeneous groups resisted social loafing behaviors. Additional statistical analysis revealed that as group orientation increased, performance levels increased as well. Group orientation, then, appears to be a more powerful determinant of performance than group composition. It is expected that the time these groups had together and the performance feedback opportunities provided them, prior to the experiment, contributed significantly to these results. …
Date: May 1997
Creator: Heller, Deanna M. (Deanna Marcell)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reading Informational Tradebooks Aloud to Inner City Intermediate Fourth and Sixth Grade Students : A Comparison of Two Styles (open access)

Reading Informational Tradebooks Aloud to Inner City Intermediate Fourth and Sixth Grade Students : A Comparison of Two Styles

This study measured the effects of reading aloud informational books to fourth and sixth grade students in the inner city.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Dougherty, Pamela S.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Environmental Accounting: The Relationship Between Pollution Performance and Economic Performance in Oil and Gas Refineries (open access)

Environmental Accounting: The Relationship Between Pollution Performance and Economic Performance in Oil and Gas Refineries

A research study is undertaken to determine if economic incentives exist for noncompliance with regulatory standards, and if accounting related disclosure of regulatory enforcement actions is a determinant of environmental performance.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Mobus, Janet Luft
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Perceptions of Site-based Management by the Principal (open access)

The Perceptions of Site-based Management by the Principal

The purpose of this study was to investigate the perceptions of principals who had served in their positions prior to and since the state-mandated implementation of site-based management. The study sought to determine if the state mandates impacted the principals' perceptions regarding the pre-existing site-based management in their district. The study also sought to determine relationships between support or lack of support and the principals' gender, age, ethnicity, years as principal, and educational level.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Wheat, Cynthia A. (Cynthia Ann)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of a Point Loss Contingency on the Emergence of Derived Relations in the Absence of Original Relations (open access)

The Role of a Point Loss Contingency on the Emergence of Derived Relations in the Absence of Original Relations

The role of point loss for symmetrical relations introduced simultaneously with probe trials in the absence of original relations on all probe trial performances was evaluated. Training was completed after six conditional discriminations were established in two contexts. Point loss was introduced simultaneously with probe trials in the absence of original relations in the first context. Probe trials with no point loss in the absence of original relations were introduced in the second context. The simultaneous introduction of probe trials and the point loss contingency may in some cases prevent the emergence of an equivalence class in the context that contained the point loss as well as in the context where no point loss occurred.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Michniewicz, Leslie (Leslie A.)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Experimental Investigation of Information Systems Project Escalation: An Examination of Contributory Factors in a Business Environment (open access)

An Experimental Investigation of Information Systems Project Escalation: An Examination of Contributory Factors in a Business Environment

The purpose of this research is to continue examining the project management process. The management of projects is complicated. It is the complexity of the process that makes a project so difficult to control. This research examines the effect of particular facets of the project manager's skill set and operating environment on management decisions.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Huff, Richard A. (Richard Allen)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Korean Students' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of their Internship Experiences in the Hospitality Industry in Korea (open access)

Korean Students' Perceptions of the Effectiveness of their Internship Experiences in the Hospitality Industry in Korea

This research study assessed Korean students' perceptions and overall satisfaction levels regarding the effectiveness of their hospitality internship experiences. Relationships with demographic characteristics were identified. The sample was comprised of 74 senior-level university students enrolled in hospitality and/or tourism management programs who were completing an internship in Korea. Generally, students exhibited low agreement levels on the internship program aspects being investigated. Previous work experience was the most common factor influencing students' perceptions of their internship experiences. Agreement levels increased with length of prior work experience. Type of internship workplace, expectation of an employment offer, age and gender were found to influence students' perceptions of the internship experiences.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Ju, Jeongeun
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iranian Access Television of Dallas: Cultural Issues, Preservation, and Community Formation (open access)

Iranian Access Television of Dallas: Cultural Issues, Preservation, and Community Formation

This study focused on the televisual and cultural practices of Iranians via public access television in Dallas, Texas. It includes analysis of format and content. It combines demographic, structural, and statistical information with a culturalist and interpretive viewpoint in examining the efforts of Iranians, via access television programs, in preserving their culture and the formation of a coherent and active community in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Karimi, Mohammad, 1959-
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Role of Gabergic Inhibition in Modulating Receptive Field Size of Cuneate Neurons (open access)

The Role of Gabergic Inhibition in Modulating Receptive Field Size of Cuneate Neurons

A blockade of GABAergic inhibition increases the receptive field(RF) size of most somatosensory cortex (SI) and some ventrobasal thalamus (VB) neurons. The results suggest RF size of cuneate neurons may be modulated through GABAa and GABAb receptors, independent of firing frequency.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Tennison, Cullen F.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Measurement Disturbance Effects on Rasch Fit Statistics and the Logit Residual Index (open access)

Measurement Disturbance Effects on Rasch Fit Statistics and the Logit Residual Index

The effects of random guessing as a measurement disturbance on Rasch fit statistics (unweighted total, weighted total, and unweighted ability between) and the Logit Residual Index (LRI) were examined through simulated data sets of varying sample sizes, test lengths, and distribution types. Three test lengths (25, 50, and 100), three sample sizes (25, 50, and 100), two item difficulty distributions (normal and uniform), and three levels of guessing (no guessing (0%), 25%, and 50%) were used in the simulations, resulting in 54 experimental conditions. The mean logit person ability for each experiment was +1. Each experimental condition was simulated once in an effort to approximate what could happen on the single administration of a four option per item multiple choice test to a group of relatively high ability persons. Previous research has shown that varying item and person parameters have no effect on Rasch fit statistics. Consequently, these parameters were used in the present study to establish realistic test conditions, but were not interpreted as effect factors in determining the results of this study.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Mount, Robert E. (Robert Earl)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors that Influence Men to Coach Women's NCAA Division II Basketball (open access)

Factors that Influence Men to Coach Women's NCAA Division II Basketball

This study identified factors that influenced men to coach women's basketball. The CCFQ, designed to determine relative importance of each of nine factors in career selection, was completed by 78 male head coaches of women's NCAA II basketball. Data was analyzed using univariate analysis with repeated measures, t-tests, and ANOVA. These coaches indicated fulfill need for competition, help female athletes reach full potential, and serve as role model as significant influences. Moderate influences included personal attributes of athletes, job attributes, and career advancement. Job availability, belief in own success, and income were not considered influential in career selection. Few differences were indicated between demographic sub-groups on any factor. Factors associated with well being of athletes had the greatest influence.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Jackson, James Calvin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 7, March 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 7, March 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 6, February 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 6, February 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 9, May 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 9, May 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 11, October 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 11, October 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 5, January 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 5, January 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 8, April 1997 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 50, Number 8, April 1997

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 1997
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Joses Dually of J 5 Ranch, Weatherford, Texas]

Photograph of Joses Dually, ridden by Bobby Pidgeon, competing in the 1997 National Cutting Horse Association Summer Cutting Spectacular held at Will Rogers Coliseum in Fort Worth, Texas. Joses Dually and Pidgeon in compete in the Derby event.
Date: July 20, 1997
Creator: Shugart, Don
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library
Andrejs Jurjāns as Symbol of Latvian Identity: Native Folk Songs in his Large-Scale Symphonic Works (open access)

Andrejs Jurjāns as Symbol of Latvian Identity: Native Folk Songs in his Large-Scale Symphonic Works

This thesis presents a study of Andrejs Jurjāns' significant symphonic works as informed by a native musicologist, Professor Jānis Torgāns, and illuminates Jurjāns' role within the cosmopolitan framework of nationalism in music.
Date: December 1997
Creator: Švalbe, Erika Lynn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Its Application to Software Engineering in a Case Environment (open access)

Computer-Supported Collaborative Work and Its Application to Software Engineering in a Case Environment

This study investigated, in the context of a field-based case study, possibilities for formation of a synergistic union between CSCW and CASE tools. A major dimension of today's software challenge is in gearing up for large-scale system development necessitating large teams of systems engineers. The principal goal of this research was to advance the body of knowledge regarding the nature of collaborative technological support in the software development process. Specifically, the study was designed to evaluate the potential for using a CSCW tool as an effective front-end to a CASE tool in the furtherance of SDLC goals.
Date: May 1997
Creator: Bailey, Janet L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library