Nitrogen Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets (open access)

Nitrogen Metabolism of College Women on Self-Selected Diets

The purpose of the present study is to determine the nitrogen intake and output (in both urine and feces) of two groups of Texas college women living in the Home Management House at North Texas State College.
Date: 1947
Creator: Boshart, Gayle Jewel
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
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
Crude Fiber and Laxation of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets (open access)

Crude Fiber and Laxation of Young College Women on Self-Selected Diets

The purpose of this study is to determine the amount of crude fiber in the diet and the laxation rate of college women consuming self-selected diets.
Date: 1949
Creator: Collier, Charlotte Collins
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Relationship Films in Changing Attitudes of Adult Homemakers (open access)

The Effectiveness of Relationship Films in Changing Attitudes of Adult Homemakers

It is the purpose of this study to determine whether the use of sound films alone, shown to homemakers in adult homemaking classes, is effective in improving attitudes relative to family and social relationships, civic responsibility, and the use of leisure time.
Date: 1950
Creator: Hall, Avis Moran
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Contribution of Meats and of Breakfasts to the Thiamin Content of Cafeteria Selected Diets (open access)

The Contribution of Meats and of Breakfasts to the Thiamin Content of Cafeteria Selected Diets

The purpose of this study is to show how much of the thiamin content of the noon and evening meals is contributed by meats and meat dishes which appear on the cafeteria menu, as well as the thiamin contribution of the breakfast meal to the total daily intake.
Date: 1951
Creator: Holley, Bennie Caraway
System: The UNT Digital Library
Socio-Economic Status and Problems of Anglo-American and Latin-American High School Girls (open access)

Socio-Economic Status and Problems of Anglo-American and Latin-American High School Girls

The purpose of the present study is to study the problems of Anglo-American and Latin-American girls in relation to their socio-economic status.
Date: 1955
Creator: Davis, Eddith Mantooth
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School (open access)

A Study of the Home Experience Phase of the Vocational Homemaking Program in Saint Jo High School

There seemed to be an urgent need for the improvement of attitudes toward home experiences from the viewpoints of both homemaking teachers and homemaking pupils. Also, there appeared to be a need for the improvement of procedures used in planning, reporting, and evaluating home experiences. Because of these needs this study was made during the 1961-1962 school year in the Saint Jo High School, Saint Jo, Texas.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Phillips, Gloria Jones
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women (open access)

A Comparison of the Calculated Creatinine Coefficients of Young College Women

The purpose of the present study is to compare the calculated creatinine coefficients of young college women based on lean body mass weight with those based on actual body weight.
Date: August 1963
Creator: Straughn, Dorothy M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Background Variables as Possible Factors in the Clothing Interests of Negro Girls in Metropolitan High Schools (open access)

A Study of Background Variables as Possible Factors in the Clothing Interests of Negro Girls in Metropolitan High Schools

The purpose of this study was to discover the statistically significant relationships between selected background variables and the clothing interest scores of Negro girls and to indicate their nature. The variables selected for study were residence, age, number of siblings, father's occupation, marital status of parents, and family structure.
Date: January 1961
Creator: Thomas, Mildred Winston
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Lunchroom Study of Specific Elementary, Junior, and Senior High Schools in the City of Dallas (open access)

A Lunchroom Study of Specific Elementary, Junior, and Senior High Schools in the City of Dallas

The present study was made without benefit of poster, films, bulletin board, or other teaching aids. It was undertaken to determine the nutritive values of the menus served, the foods selected by the plate lunches, and the amount of food wasted in two elementary, two junior high, and two senior high school lunch cafeterias in the City of Dallas during a six month period of time.
Date: 1952
Creator: Rodgers, Mary Virginia
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Influence of Certain Factors on the Adjustment of College Students of Social Fundamentals (open access)

The Influence of Certain Factors on the Adjustment of College Students of Social Fundamentals

The purpose of this study is two-fold: (1) to determine whether students of either sex, or of any particular college class or subject matter major, make greater adjustment progress than students of the opposite sex, or of another college class or major field; and (2) to study the influence of these factors on the adjustment of college students of social fundamentals.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Phelps, Isabel Stuart
System: The UNT Digital Library
Toy Preference of Pre-School Children (open access)

Toy Preference of Pre-School Children

The purpose of this study is to determine toy preference of pre-school-age children as a guide for parents and for homemaking students in the selection of toys.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Wattner, Pauline Miller
System: The UNT Digital Library
Subject Matter and Class Section as Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students of Social Fundamentals (open access)

Subject Matter and Class Section as Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students of Social Fundamentals

The purpose of the present study is to determine whether subject matter and the class section are factors in the development of certain personality traits in college students of social fundamentals. Specifically, the purposes are: (1) to determine whether subject matter field and class section are factors in the development of personality traits referred to as objectivity, agreeableness, and co-operativeness; and (2) to determine which subject matter fields and class sections are responsible for group differences.
Date: August 1954
Creator: Wood, Joyce McKeever
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Background Variables of Negro High School Youth in the Texas Cooperative Youth Study (open access)

An Analysis of the Background Variables of Negro High School Youth in the Texas Cooperative Youth Study

The purpose of the Texas Cooperative Youth Study was to gather basic data on the problems and interests of youth from youth themselves, their teachers, and their parents in the stages of early, middle, and late adolescence. The study was made to determine interests, attitudes, and concerns of youth in relation to home and family life; to determine whether homemaking education in the school takes into account these concerns and attitudes; and to find out whether interest in homemaking education is related to selected background and sociological variables.
Date: August 1958
Creator: Scott, Lottie Ed
System: The UNT Digital Library
Implications of Leadership Roles for Learning (open access)

Implications of Leadership Roles for Learning

This study was conducted in an effort to determine whether or not the degree of growth in practical skills, personal and social development, and knowledge of subject matter content which an adolescent demonstrates is significantly related to the assumption of leadership roles in the classroom.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Priddy, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relation of Selected Background Variables of Negro Girls of Metropolitan High Schools to their Curriculum Interests in Foods (open access)

The Relation of Selected Background Variables of Negro Girls of Metropolitan High Schools to their Curriculum Interests in Foods

It is the purpose of the present study to add to the growing source of information, so valuable to curriculum makers, by studying the relationship of certain background variables to the Negro girl's curriculum in foods. The background variables included in this study are age, siblings, residence, father's occupation, and mother's education.
Date: January 1962
Creator: Chatmon, Bettie C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effectiveness of Films in Summarizing Food Units for Homemaking Classes (open access)

The Effectiveness of Films in Summarizing Food Units for Homemaking Classes

It is the purpose of this study to compare the effectiveness of the film method with the pupil-teacher discussion method for summarizing certain food units.
Date: August 1952
Creator: Maughan, Marie A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Some Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students Enrolled in Social Fundamentals Classes (open access)

Some Factors in the Development of Personality Traits in College Students Enrolled in Social Fundamentals Classes

Working with students in social fundamentals classes in which social comprehension has been found to influence the development of these traits, this study attempts to determine whether sex, college classification and subject-matter are factors in the development of objectivity, agreeableness, and cooperativeness.
Date: August 1954
Creator: James, Emily Watson
System: The UNT Digital Library
A One-Year Study of Job Stability in the Lunchrooms of the Dallas Independent School District (open access)

A One-Year Study of Job Stability in the Lunchrooms of the Dallas Independent School District

The present study was undertaken to investigate some of the factors influencing job stability among the women employees of the Dallas Independent School District's lunchrooms.
Date: August 1961
Creator: Gibson, Joan Nowlin
System: The UNT Digital Library