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Vestibular and Electromagnetic Stimulation: Their Effects on Intellectual Performance and Mood State
In the present study, the Electromechanical Therapeutic Apparatus was examined to determine the extent to which its repeated use can influence intellectual performance and mood state. The Electromechanical Therapeutic Apparatus is a device designed to mildly stimulate the body and brain, while facilitating relaxation. Its three components include a rotating platform-bed; a weak, extremely-low-frequency, external-electric field; and music. In the present study, three groups were contrasted, a music-only group which served as a placebo; a group which combined motion-vestibular stimulation and music; and a group which combined motion-vestibular stimulation and music with an externalelectric field. The sample included 33 randomly selected men and women whose average age was 34.6 years.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Schwartz, Robert Lee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Adlerian Life-Style, Social Interest, and Job Satisfaction Among Catholic Priests
The purpose of this study was to seek an understanding of the problem of low morale among Catholic priests based on the principles of Individual Psychology. The relationship of Adlerian life-style and social interest to job satisfaction among 210 pastors randomly selected from 13 of the 14 Catholic dioceses in Texas was investigated. The Life-style Personality Inventory (LSPI) was used to measure the Adlerian life-style. The Social Interest Scale (SIS) was used to measure the Adlerian concept of social interest. The Job Descriptive Index (JDI) was used to measure job satisfaction.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Ugwokaegbe, Paul U. (Paul Ugochukwu)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Decision Making and Teacher Morale in Selected Elementary Schools in North Texas: An Exploratory Study
The purpose of this study was to determine whether elementary teacher morale is related to teacher freedom to make decisions and give input into their work and work environment. Additionally, the study attempted to determine whether teacher decision making freedom varies with age, gender, number of degrees, years of experience, or special teaching assignment.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Turnage, Peggy J. (Peggy Jo)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Imperialist Discourse: Critical Limits of Liberalism in Selected Texts of Leonard Woolf and E.M. Forster
This dissertation traces imperialist ideology as it functions in the texts of two radical Liberal critics of imperialism, Leonard Woolf and E. M. Forster. In chapters two and three respectively, I read Woolf's autobiographical account Growing and his novel The Village in the Jungle to examine connections between "nonfictional" and "fictional" writing on colonialism. The autobiography's fictive texture compromises its claims to facticity and throws into relief the problematic nature of notions of truth and fact in colonialist epistemology and discursive systems.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
De Silva, Lilamani
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The History of the R. Jan Lecroy Center for Educational Telecommunications of the Dallas County Community College District
The R. Jan LeCroy Center for Educational Telecommunications of the Dallas County Community College District is a leading producer of telecourses for credit at the college level. In addition, the center is becoming involved with other kinds of electronic communication for educational purposes, including the Community College Satellite Network (CCSN), the State of Texas Academic Resources Link (STARLINK), and Instructional Television Fixed Service (ITFS). This study chronicles the DCCCD's progress in electronic distance learning from the time of its first telecourse in 1972 to the present time. This study also describes the center's purposes, the reasons for its growth, the problems that have been encountered, the people who provided its leadership, and the telecourses that have been offered and produced by the DCCCD.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Neal, John F. (John Frank)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An examination of performance aspects of two major works for percussion ensemble: Toccata by Carlos Chávez and Cantata para América mágica by Alberto Ginastera, a lecture recital, together with four recitals of selected works of I. Stravinsky, R. Vaughan Williams, W.A. Mozart, V. Persichetti, and P. Hindemith
This study addresses the ways and means a conductor may approach two major twentieth century works written specifically for percussion ensemble. Performance techniques and decisions on aesthetics made by the conductor in dealing with such items as timbre, balance, pitch levels, and pitch relationships are also considered.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
George, Matthew
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Musician and teacher: the relationship between role identification and intrinsic career satisfaction of the music faculty at doctoral degree granting institutions
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between identification with the teacher or musician role and intrinsic career satisfaction by college music teachers in doctoral degree granting institutions.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Harris, Rod (Rod D.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Attitudes of Nursing Faculty Toward Patients With AIDS and Patients With a Homosexual Lifestyle
The purposes of this study were (1) to determine whether patients with AIDS are stigmatized by nursing faculty, (2) to determine whether practicing homosexuals are stigmatized by nursing faculty, (3) to determine whether faculty attitudes toward AIDS patients are influenced by the patients' sexual preference, and (4) to determine whether faculty attitudes toward practicing homosexual patients are influenced by the patients' disease. This study is a modified replication of studies by Kelly et al.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Reynolds, Carol A. (Carol Ann)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Elements of Jazz Style in Contemporary French Trumpet Literature
French trumpet works comprise a large portion of the contemporary standard repertoire for the instrument, and they frequently present unique stylistic and interpretive challenges to performers. The study establishes the influence of jazz upon Henri Tomasi, André Jolivet, Eugène Bozza and Jacques Ibert in their works for solo trumpet. Idiomatic elements of jazz style are identified and discussed in terms of performance practice considerations for modern-day trumpeters.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Schmid, William A. (William Albert)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fluorine K-Shell X-Ray Cross Section Measurements for ⁷Li, ¹⁰B, ¹²C, ¹⁴N, and ¹⁶O Ions on Ultra-Clean, Ultra-Thin Yf₃ Solid Target Foils
In this study, procedures were developed to produce ultra-clean, ultra-thin target foils and to remove x-ray interference from electron bremsstrahlung and low energy K-shell x-rays from contaminant elements.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Marble, Daniel Keith
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Verbal Description of Trombone Tone Quality With Respect to Selected Attributes of Sound
The purpose of this study was to determine the physical elements which experienced trombonists associate with selected descriptors in characterizing the tone quality of that instrument. Stimuli sampled from live trombone tones and synthesized into musical phrases represented 17 variations in (1) presence/absence of attack transient, (2) rise time, (3) duration, (4) number of harmonics, (5) upper limit of harmonicity (6) spectral envelope shape, and (7) frequency.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Stroeher, Michael
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of counselors: the effect of counselor gender, age, and rape versus interpersonal problems on client expectations and preferences
The purpose of this study was to explore the effect of counselor gender, counselor age, and type of problem on client expectations and preferences for counselors.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Francis, Jacqueline R. (Jacqueline Ruth)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A survey of secondary school compliance with the gifted and talented mandate of House Bill 72 for grades 9-12
The purpose of the study is to determine what selected school districts throughout the state of Texas are doing to meet the Texas Gifted and Talented mandate at the high school level, grades 9-12. The study is also to help determine if more guidelines from the state are needed, or if schools are able to meet student needs and mandate requirements as they currently exist.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Cooke, Barbara L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Multiple solutions for semilinear elliptic boundary value problems
In this paper results concerning a semilinear elliptic boundary value problem are proven. This problem has five solutions when the range of the derivative of the nonlinearity ƒ includes the first two eigenvalues. The existence and multiplicity or radially symmetric solutions under suitable conditions on the nonlinearity when Ω is a ball in R^N.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Cossio, Jorge Ivan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Computer literacy among faculty in higher education
This study was an exploration of the levels of computer literacy among two and four year college faculty. The purposes of this study were to (a) develop a valid and reliable instrument for assessing the levels of computer literacy among two and four year college faculty (b) determine whether or not levels of computer literacy exist among these faculty, and (c) investigate differences between demographic variables and the levels of computer literacy among these faculty.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Fu, Yu-Fang Salony
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Practice of Occupational Therapy as a Related Service for Students With Behavioral Disorder: An Exploratory Study
Although the profession of occupational therapy had its origins in the treatment of the mentally ill, and was among the pioneers in developing community-based programs to meet the social and emotional needs of children, a study of 28 therapists practicing in the public schools revealed that these occupational therapists did not serve students with behavioral disorders unless they also exhibited a neurological disorder. The results of this study revealed that occupational therapy is not recognized by the educational sector as an essential related service for students with behavioral disorders. Occupational therapy is viewed as a modality much akin to physical therapy in which the focus is on motor skill development.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Schultz, Sally Wise
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation on the Use of Verbal Communication and Vocal Performance During University-Level Applied Studio Voice Lessons
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of verbal communication and vocal performance during university-level applied studio voice lessons. Specific emphasis lay on the relationship between verbal communication, vocal performance, and instructional segments as defined by technical and song literature vocal repertoire.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Albrecht, Karen E. (Karen Elizabeth)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Survey of Libraries Supporting Baccalaureate and Higher Degree Programs Accredited by the National League for Nursing and Nursing Doctoral Programs
The purpose of this study is to provide base line data which does not currently exist for libraries supporting nursing education in baccalaureate, masters and doctoral nursing programs. The survey covers physical environment, clientele, resources, budget, and personnel in these libraries. A survey instrument was developed by the researcher and sent to 537 nursing programs in senior colleges and universities listed in Baccalaureate Education in Nursing 1989-90, and Graduate Education in Nursing 1989-90. Two hundred and fifty two or 47 percent of the institutions responded.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Guenther, Johanna T. (Johanna Trammell)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Teacher Training in the Use of Computer Graphing Software on the Achievement of Algebra II Students
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of carefully designed teacher training in the use of the computer to teach graphing skills associated with Algebra II conic sections. Three areas were studied: the teachers' attitude toward mathematics, and the effect on students' achievement in the area of graphing skills.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Loop, Sallie Bell Jackson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Songs of the wind
Songs of the Wind is a five-movement composition for reader, chamber choir, and chamber orchestra. The work is approximately twenty-five minutes in duration. The title describes the programmatic nature of the piece, which depicts an animistic ritual invoking the wind as a deity. The texts are drawn from translations of American Indian poetry as well as original poems by the American Indian scholar Hartley Alexander.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Chang, Debra Wei Kwen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An algebraic characterization of stability groups
The goal of this paper is to establish necessary and sufficient conditions for a subgroup of the full homeomorphism group of a manifold to be the stability group of a point in the underlying space. Such subgroups are useful in identifying the underlying space in terms of its homeomorphism group even in cases in which this space is not necessarily a manifold. Thus, stability groups are useful in classifying various spaces.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Wright, William G. (William Glenn)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A New Method for Measuring the Nuclear Hexadecapole Interaction in Some Solids
A new method for measuring the nuclear hexadecapole interaction (HDI) in solids based on NMR quadrupole echoes is described. Theoretical values of the shifts of the quadrupole echo times caused by the HDI are given for two pulse and three pulse echoes in a nuclear spin 5/2 system. The method is applied to 1271 in an almost strain free crystal of KI and a hexadecapole coupling frequency (e2M16m16/h) of 630 Hz was found. Here e is the electronic charge, em16 is the fourth gradient of the external electric potential at the nuclear site, eM16 is the hexadecapole moment and h is the Planck constant. This HDI is smaller than previously measured values in solids (42.6 MHz for 1 81 Ta in TaF 5, 66.6 MHz for 175Lu in Lu(NO3 )3*4H 20), but not as small as an atomic beam result of 151 Hz for 165Ho in atomic Ho. The method described here may be used to search for the HDI in other cubic crystals. A double resonance (1151n, 31P) multiple pulse method was unsuccessfully used to search for the 1151n HDI in a single crystal of InP.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Ni, QingWen
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Factors Related to the Perceived Effectiveness of the Adult Probation DWI Program From the Probationers' Perspective
Using questionnaire survey generated data from the DWI Probation Program in Dallas County. This study investigated the factors related to the perceived effectiveness of that program from the probationers perspectives. The findings in this study indicate that the perceived effectiveness of the DWI program by the probationers is an area that calls for more research and investigations. The findings have shown that factors related to the perceived effectiveness of the program by the probationers have a profound effect on the efficiency of the program as a whole in order to achieve its stated objectives.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Fatayer, Jawad A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Craft of the Old English Glossator: Latin Hymns in the Anglo-Saxon Hymnarium
The ten hymns of this study cover such overlapping categories as doctrine, solemn occasions in the rites of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and hymns prescribed in the Regularis concordia for the "little hours" of the daily office, as well as a historical overview from the fourth to the early tenth centuries.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
McKenzie, Hope Bussey
System:
The UNT Digital Library