The Economic Inefficiency of Texas Water Law (open access)

The Economic Inefficiency of Texas Water Law

The State of Texas is endowed with many valuable resources. It has vast oil and gas deposits, huge timber reserves, and land in abundance. Not least among its re sources is water, the key resource. It is water, even before food, which sustains all life on this earth. Without water the human processes of agriculture, industry, and commerce would be impossible. Water serves as a major source of energy, transportation, and recreation. It is not a risky statement to make that water, above everything else on this earth except land, permits man to exist.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Threadgill, James Randall
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Draftsmen in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area (open access)

A Study of the Knowledge and Skills Required of Draftsmen in the Dallas-Fort Worth Area

This study was designed to identify the knowledge and skills that draftsmen employed in the greater Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas metropolitan area should posses. This study was conducted to identify the following as related to draftsmen in the Dallas-Forth Worth, Texas area: What kind of education and experience is required to prospective draftsmen? What are the general duties of draftsmen? How much emphasis is placed upon knowledge of and skill in the use of drafting equipment? How important are the basic concepts and principles of drafting usually taught in drafting courses? What methods are used to reproduce drawings?
Date: June 1968
Creator: Craghead, Jane E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Availability of Industrial Arts Teachers and its Effects Upon the Industrial Arts Programs in the Public Schools of North Texas (open access)

A Study of the Availability of Industrial Arts Teachers and its Effects Upon the Industrial Arts Programs in the Public Schools of North Texas

The purpose of this study was to determine the availability of qualified industrial arts teachers in the twenty-four North Texas area school districts surveyed; and to ascertain the effects of industrial arts teacher availability upon the status of the industrial arts programs in the school districts surveyed.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Rusk, Artre H., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Music and Operant Conditioning on Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates (open access)

The Effects of Music and Operant Conditioning on Gross Motor Activity of Profound Mental Retardates

It has not yet been demonstrated that music can be used therapeutically with profoundly retarded children. One way these children might be helped to respond to music, and therapeutically benefit from it, would be to use operant conditioning in an effort to enhance gross motor activity and then progressively shape responses until more complex behavior patterns are formed. Once these children can respond motorically in the presence of musical stimuli, continuation of responding may be possible by pairing motor activity with musical stimuli. This experiment investigated the effects of operant conditioning and music on the motor activity of profoundly retarded children in an effort to determine the therapeutic usefulness of music with such children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Addison, Max R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Incidence of Speech Defects among Juveniles Exhibiting Antisocial Aggressive Behavior (open access)

The Incidence of Speech Defects among Juveniles Exhibiting Antisocial Aggressive Behavior

The question of maladjustment of individuals with speech defects and its subsequent manifestation is the basic issue of this thesis. The study was conducted to answer the question: "What is the incidence of speech defects among juveniles exhibiting antisocial aggressive behavior?"
Date: January 1968
Creator: Anderson, Samantha G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Textured Collage for Blind Elementary Children (open access)

Textured Collage for Blind Elementary Children

This thesis describes experimental work done in art education with a small group of children that met each Saturday at Dallas Services for the Blind over a two year period. The research used textured collage art projects as the medium of artistic expression for the children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Brewer, Paula T.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children (open access)

Educational Background and Judgment Ability in a Group of 300 Delinquent Boys as Reflected by the Information and Comprehension Subtest of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children

It was the purpose of this study to attempt to discover if the educational background and judgment ability of juvenile delinquents are markedly impaired, as indicated by the Information and Comprehension subtest scores of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Buresh, Martin C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Language and Articulation Ability to Reading Ability (open access)

The Relationship of Language and Articulation Ability to Reading Ability

The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between articulation ability and reading ability, between articulation ability and language development, and between language development and reading ability. This study examined children with minor difficulties and children with a history of more severe articulation problems separately in order to determine whether severity of articulation disability is related to reading ability.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Butt, Francis V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Develop Standards for Use in Planning or Renovating Industrial Arts Laboratories in Public Schools (open access)

A Study to Develop Standards for Use in Planning or Renovating Industrial Arts Laboratories in Public Schools

This is a study to develop standards to be use by industrial arts teachers, school administrators, and architects when planning new industrial arts laboratories or renovating existing industrial arts laboratories for grades seven through twelve in the State of Texas.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Campbell, Bernice S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Differences between High and Low Creative University Students on an Objective Measure of Personality (open access)

Differences between High and Low Creative University Students on an Objective Measure of Personality

This study was conducted to determine if high-creative college students differ from low-creative college students on an objective measure of personality. An additional purpose was to determine if university drama majors are more creative than non-drama majors.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Williams, Jackson D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study to Determine the Adequacy of the Curriculum in the Technical-Industrial Department at Tyler Junior College (open access)

A Study to Determine the Adequacy of the Curriculum in the Technical-Industrial Department at Tyler Junior College

The major purposes of this study were to gather information on the employment status and location of students who completed four or more courses in the technical-industrial program at Tyler Junior College, Tyler, Texas; to identify factors that influenced them in selecting Tyler Junior College and taking courses in the technical-industrial program; to ascertain in some measure the effectiveness of the training these students received in preparing them for the positions they have held and now hold; and to secure data and information which the faculty and administration at Tyler Junior College may use in evaluating the present program with respect to future changes and improvements.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Willis, Robert K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students (open access)

The Relationship between Clothing Interest and Self-Concept in Female Undergraduate College Students

This study sought to examine the relationship between the variable of clothing interest and the five self-concept variables or scales. These are defensive positiveness, general maladjustment, psychosis, personality disorder, and neurosis similarity in scale score to a neurotic population.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dulin, Anthony P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates (open access)

A Study of Motor Activity Level in Response to Musical Stimuli as Found in Mental Retardates

The purpose of this study is to investigate, empirically, the response of the severely mentally retarded to different types of music, tonic and sedative, as well as responses during "quiet" periods.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Holloway, JoAnn
System: The UNT Digital Library
Principles and Application of Numerically Controlled Machines (open access)

Principles and Application of Numerically Controlled Machines

The purpose of this study is threefold. First, numerical control will be analyzed objectively to ascertain its justification in terms of meeting the requirements of the basic manufacturing process phases. Secondly, the study will consist of an evaluation of the field of industrial arts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area to determine how numerical control has been accepted in the educational field and what preparation, if any, is being made to include the teaching of this new industrial concept. Thirdly, the study will investigate the feasibility and cost of installing numerically controlled equipment in the industrial arts laboratories of North Texas State University.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Koehler, Richard A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction (open access)

The Relationship between Ego Strength, Social Participation and Weight Reduction

The problem of this research may be stated as a study of the relationship between successful weight reduction on the part of people involved in a group program, and the two variables of ego strength and social participation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Madison, Carol Rindler
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Qualitative Survey of the Airborne Algae, Protozoa, and Bacteria at the Denton Sewage Treatment Plant (open access)

A Qualitative Survey of the Airborne Algae, Protozoa, and Bacteria at the Denton Sewage Treatment Plant

This study had a three-fold purpose. First, it was decided to determine if algae and protozoa were emitted to the air at the Denton sewage treatment plant. The information obtained could be of future importance in the fields of algal and protozoan ecology and public health. Second, it was decided to make a survey of the airborne bacteria at this plant. Some researchers have described bacterial air contamination at similar sewage treatment plants, but the one in Denton has not been studied. Third, it was hoped that in this research some relationships could be found between the bacteria and the algae and protozoa in the air in the vicinity of the sewage aeration basin. It was hypothesized that pathogenic bacteria were carried in the air with these other organisms.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Mahoney, Joseph L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Success-Striving and Failure-Avoidant Aspiration Patterns of Institutionalized Mental Retardates (open access)

Success-Striving and Failure-Avoidant Aspiration Patterns of Institutionalized Mental Retardates

The design of this experiment was developed to investigate the presence of success-striving and failure-avoidant motivational patterns in the level of aspiration behavior of retarded subjects. The primary objective of this study is to show that success-strivers are present in mentally retarded groups, even if in the minority.
Date: January 1968
Creator: Middleton, Charles B.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group (open access)

The Relationship between Performance on the Bender Visual Motor Gestalt Test and Perceptual Ability and Motor Skill in a Non-Clinical Group

The purposes of the present study are to try to establish whether perception and motor skill are determinant factors of performance on the Bender-Gestalt Test and to investigate the degree of relationship and importance of each factor on the B-G-T.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Moazami, Manoutchehr
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of the Texas University Interscholastic League One-Act Play Directors as Drama Teachers (open access)

An Analysis of the Texas University Interscholastic League One-Act Play Directors as Drama Teachers

The purpose of this study is to determine (1) what training is recommended for high school teachers of drama, (2) what training the high school teachers of drama actually have, (3) what job situation is recommended for the high school teacher of drama, and (4) what job situation the high school teachers of drama in the State of Texas actually have. This study should determine if there is a significant relationship between what a high school drama teacher should be and what the high school drama teachers of Texas actually are.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Pettigrew, Eva Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill (open access)

The Relationship of Anxiety, Reported Ability to Swim, and a Perceptual-Motor Skill

The problems relevant to this study are concerned with the effect of specific performance criteria on the MAS. The purpose of this study is to determine if MAS scores are related to the following: (1) a subject's inability to swim, (2) a subject's performance on a pursuit rotor task, (3) the effects of an interaction of these criteria.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Sick, Robert H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation (open access)

A Study of Incidental Learning in a Classroom Type Situation

This paper contends that, like children of average intelligence, there is a degree of material that will be learned by the retardate, even if his attention is not directly brought to bear upon that material.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Siegel, Edward M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems (open access)

A Study of Practices Used in the Classroom for the Prevention or Correction of Discipline Problems

The purpose of the study was to establish relationships pertaining to the use of practices involving the prevention or correction of discipline problems between academic and industrial arts teachers.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Smith, James R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Job Prerequisites for Certain Female Employees in the Electronics Industry in the Dallas Metropolitan Area (open access)

A Study of Job Prerequisites for Certain Female Employees in the Electronics Industry in the Dallas Metropolitan Area

This study attempted to find out what the employment opportunities and requirements were for women in certain areas of electronic manufacturing.
Date: May 1968
Creator: Wied, Alexander F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Parasites of the Cricket Frog, Acris Crepitans, of Denton County, Texas (open access)

Parasites of the Cricket Frog, Acris Crepitans, of Denton County, Texas

The purpose of this study was threefold. The literature concerning parasites of A. crepitans was to be brought up to date. Contributions to the general body of knowledge pertaining to the parasitic fauna of host specimens of A. crepitans and specifically those found in Denton County, Texas, were to be made. Finally, specimens found parasitizing host specimens of A. crepitans were to be preserved and classified.
Date: August 1968
Creator: Block, Edward F.
System: The UNT Digital Library