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A Study of the Ways in Which the Canadian County Oklahoma Farm Women's Home Demonstration Club Market Members Earned and Used Their Income 1931 - 1938 (open access)

A Study of the Ways in Which the Canadian County Oklahoma Farm Women's Home Demonstration Club Market Members Earned and Used Their Income 1931 - 1938

This study examines the membership of the Canadian County Oklahoma Farm Women's Home Demonstration Club Market and its funding usage between the years 1931 and 1938.
Date: August 1939
Creator: Thompson, Harvey Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors Influencing the Selection of Apparel Worn to Work by Women in the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex (open access)

Factors Influencing the Selection of Apparel Worn to Work by Women in the Dallas-Forth Worth Metroplex

This study investigated factors influencing the selection of apparel worn to work by women who attended fashion and wardrobe seminars in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex. Clothing selection factors were analyzed by computer according to age, marital status, work status and education. The majority most frequently wore suits and separates to work. Single participants preferred separates. Most wore sizes considered average. Respondents most frequently purchased apparel from department stores. Brand name and designer apparel were occasionally purchased. Though interested, few respondents had taken advantage of personal consultant services. It was recommended that retailers make wardrobe services known to the public.
Date: August 1982
Creator: Russell, Jean, 1958-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Knowledge Level of Sales Personnel Employed by a Ladies' Apparel Manufacturer in Dallas, Texas, and the Need for Training (open access)

Knowledge Level of Sales Personnel Employed by a Ladies' Apparel Manufacturer in Dallas, Texas, and the Need for Training

The purposes of this study were to measure and compare the knowledge level of sales personnel employed by a ladies' apparel manufacturer and to examine the need for a training program for sales managers, sales secretaries, and sales representatives. The data were gathered through a four-part questionnaire developed by the researcher. Sales personnel were rated as having low, medium, or high knowledge. The majority rated as having medium knowledge. No significant differences in knowledge level were evident relative to sales position or length of employment. Training needs tended to have little variance among respondents.
Date: August 1981
Creator: Smith, Lucy (Lucy Ann)
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evening Meal Patterns and Meal Management Decisions in Families of Employed and Nonemployed Mothers (open access)

Evening Meal Patterns and Meal Management Decisions in Families of Employed and Nonemployed Mothers

The purpose of this research was to determine if evening meal patterns and meal management decisions are related to the marital and employment status of mothers. Two hundred eighty-two usable questionnaires were completed by mothers who attended elementary school parent-teacher meetings in a suburban city in North Texas. The questionnaire gathered data about family demographics, family evening meal patterns, and factors affecting meal management decisions. Little difference was found between meal patterns of employed and nonemployed mothers in single and two-parent households. Factors found to affect meal pattern decisions were values, traditions, time, energy, nutrition, and family influence. A traditional family evening meal was important to the families studied.
Date: August 1986
Creator: Stubbs, Rochelle L. (Rochelle Lundberg)
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Interest of Junior and Senior High School Girls in the Various Home Activities Performed by Them (open access)

A Study of the Interest of Junior and Senior High School Girls in the Various Home Activities Performed by Them

The study herein described was made of the seventy-nine girls in the junior and senior high school (grades 8, 9, 10, 11, 12) of the Public School of Cranfills Gap, Texas. The study was made with the purpose of finding the interests of this group of girls in the activities required of them in their homes, so that the writer might use the information gained in building a more successfully functioning program of homemaking in the Cranfills Gap Public School.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hoff, Hannah Pauline
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron and Copper Metabolism of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets (open access)

Iron and Copper Metabolism of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets

The object of this study is to determine the copper and iron intake in food and the output in the urine and feces of women students living in the Home Management House eating a self-selected diet.
Date: 1947
Creator: Holt, Nora Flowayne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications for the Homemaking Program Found in the Home Activities of Junior High School Girls (open access)

Implications for the Homemaking Program Found in the Home Activities of Junior High School Girls

The purposes of this study are these: (1) To determine the types of home activities carried on by junior high school girls; (2) To determine the time spent on these activities; (3) To determine the extent to which the activities are self-directed; (4) To point out some implications which these activities have for the school homemaking program.
Date: 1947
Creator: McLean, Estella Price
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ascorbic Acid and Vitamin A Content of Lunches Served Nursery School Children (open access)

Ascorbic Acid and Vitamin A Content of Lunches Served Nursery School Children

The present study was made in an attempt to determine what contributions the mid-morning feeding and the noon meal served children in a nursery school make toward the day's total intake of vitamin C and vitamin A.
Date: 1947
Creator: Tompkins, Virginia Lee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Copper and Iron Intake and Hemoglobin of Student Nurses (open access)

The Copper and Iron Intake and Hemoglobin of Student Nurses

The object of this study is to determine the effect, if any, of the copper and iron intake upon the hemoglobin levels of student nurses on self-chosen diets.
Date: 1948
Creator: Badgett, Lula Mae Starnes
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Plate Waste Study Made in a Small Type "A" Lunchroom (open access)

A Plate Waste Study Made in a Small Type "A" Lunchroom

The purpose of this study is to determine the plate waste from the type "A" lunch served to the children in the Collinsville School Lunchroom during the school year of 1947-1948.
Date: 1948
Creator: Boren, Mabel Adelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Evaluation of Student Growth When the Goal-Seeking Method is Employed in Teaching a Foods Unit (open access)

An Evaluation of Student Growth When the Goal-Seeking Method is Employed in Teaching a Foods Unit

The purpose of this study is to analyze the extent of certain aspects of growth in foods units in homemaking classes through several evaluative methods, such as: pre-tests and tests, anecdotal records, self-evaluations of students, and student and teacher planned devices.
Date: 1948
Creator: Lindley, Edith Ross
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fasting Hour Excretion Test for Riboflavin Using College Women as Subjects (open access)

Fasting Hour Excretion Test for Riboflavin Using College Women as Subjects

The purpose of this study was to determine reserves of riboflavin in urine of college women.
Date: 1945
Creator: Beard, Gertrude Ophelia
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Anthropometrical Study in the Nutrition of Children, Using the Wetzel Grid (open access)

An Anthropometrical Study in the Nutrition of Children, Using the Wetzel Grid

In this study, an appraisal of the nutritional status of eighty-eight school children has been made, using the Wetzel Index with the Baldwin-Wood Index and the Pryor Index for the determinations.
Date: 1945
Creator: Drew, Bennie P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Storage on the Ascorbic Acid Content of Four Varieties of Canned Fruit Juice (open access)

The Effect of Storage on the Ascorbic Acid Content of Four Varieties of Canned Fruit Juice

The purposes of this study are (1) to determine the ascorbic acid content of a variety of fruit juices available in Denton, Texas, during March to July, 1943; (2) to ascertain the loss of ascorbic acid when canned grapefruit, orange, pineapple, and apple juices are opened and stored in the home refrigerator for several days' use; and (3) by means of data obtained, to make recommendations as to the most advantageous ways of using one's "points" in purchasing canned fruit juices for their ascorbic acid value.
Date: 1943
Creator: Willard, Helen
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Foods Served and Purchased in a Fort Worth School Cafeteria Duing the Year 1943-1944 (open access)

A Study of the Foods Served and Purchased in a Fort Worth School Cafeteria Duing the Year 1943-1944

The purpose of this study is to show what foods were made available to the children in the year 1943-1944; what foods the children chose from the available foods; what nutritive value the chosen foods possessed; and what the chosen lunches cost the children.
Date: 1944
Creator: Bailey, Katherine W.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Ascorbic Acid Content of School Lunches Served at the North Texas State Teachers College Demonstration School During March and April, 1944 (open access)

The Ascorbic Acid Content of School Lunches Served at the North Texas State Teachers College Demonstration School During March and April, 1944

The purposes of the present study are to determine the ascorbic acid values of foods served in the lunch room of North Texas State Teachers College Demonstration School at the time food preparation is completed, at the beginning of the serving period, and at the end of the serving period; to ascertain the loss of ascorbic acid during these intervals; and to determine the quantity of ascorbic acid present in the size portions served primary, elementary, and high school students.
Date: 1944
Creator: Bryan, Ada Ruth
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biological Assay of Vitamin A of Certain Texas Foods (open access)

Biological Assay of Vitamin A of Certain Texas Foods

The purpose of the present study was to compare the amounts of vitamin A in sweet potato flour with that of carrot flour and dehydrated carrots by using the biological assay method.
Date: 1942
Creator: Ballew, Jewell Elizabeth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Rat-Growth Study of Typical Low-Cost Texas Diets (open access)

A Rat-Growth Study of Typical Low-Cost Texas Diets

The purpose of this study is to determine the individual and accumulative effect of yellow and white corn meal, cowpeas (black-eyes), fortified oleomargarine, salt pork, molasses, peanuts, cabbage, irradiated evaporated milk, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes upon the nutritional value of the resulting diets.
Date: 1942
Creator: Hunter, Margaret
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Three Months' Study of the Dark Adaptation of a Texas Family During Activity (open access)

A Three Months' Study of the Dark Adaptation of a Texas Family During Activity

Recent studies have offered an abundance of evidence which indicates that night blindness is caused by vitamin A deficiency. Both adults and children have been used to investigate the relationship between vitamin A deficiency and night blindness.
Date: 1941
Creator: Wade, Alice Mays
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Dark Adaption of Freshman High School Girls and Boys (open access)

A Study of Dark Adaption of Freshman High School Girls and Boys

The children in this study were tested in their normal environment and without any effort to change this environment. It was felt that only through such an experiment could any evidence be gained regarding the influence of climatic conditions on the dark adaption of adolescents.
Date: 1941
Creator: Williams, Ollie Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
Losses of Vitamin C Content During the Cooking of Summer Squash (open access)

Losses of Vitamin C Content During the Cooking of Summer Squash

The general food supply is usually the source of vitamin C for many people, and since squash is a common food in the popular diets of Texans and is so generally grown over the state, this study has a two-fold purpose: (1) to ascertain the amount of vitamin C in the two varieties of squash most commonly used as food in Texas, and (2) to determine the effect of various methods of cooking upon the vitamin C content of these two varieties of squash.
Date: 1941
Creator: Woodruff, Reba N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are the Dress Manufacturers of Dallas, Texas, Meeting the Needs of the Tall Women? (open access)

Are the Dress Manufacturers of Dallas, Texas, Meeting the Needs of the Tall Women?

The purpose of the present study is to determine what per cent of dresses manufactured by Dallas dress manufacturers is produced to meet the needs of tall women.
Date: 1947
Creator: Hannah, Clementena Parker
System: The UNT Digital Library
Carotene and Vitamin A Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets (open access)

Carotene and Vitamin A Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets

The object of this study is to determine the intake (in food) and output (in feces) of vitamin A and carotene of several groups of college women living in the Home Management House.
Date: 1947
Creator: Kelsay, June
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Requirements for Household Employment in Waelder, Texas (open access)

A Study of the Requirements for Household Employment in Waelder, Texas

The study herein described was made in twenty-four white homes in Waelder, Texas, in which there were household employees. The study was made for the purpose of finding the requirements for household employment in Waelder, Texas.
Date: 1943
Creator: Bradfield, Arldia Westbrook
System: The UNT Digital Library