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Concertante : For Violoncello and Magnetic Tape (open access)

Concertante : For Violoncello and Magnetic Tape

The composition is in one movement for cello and two-channel tape, requiring approximately twelve minutes for performance. The character of the work is aggressive and decisive in nature, with areas of repose occurring only at the beginning and before the conclusion. The title "concertante" is used to describe a concert-piece in which each of the two instruments.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Headrick, Samuel Philip, 1952-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criteria and procedures used in the selection of high school principals in selected Texas school districts (open access)

Criteria and procedures used in the selection of high school principals in selected Texas school districts

The problem of this study was to determine the criteria and procedures used by superintendents of selected public high schools districts in Texas in the selection of high school principals. This study had two main purposes : (1) to ascertain criteria and procedures that the superintendents of selected public school districts of Texas are using in the selection of high school principals, and (2) to make recommendations to improve the selecting of high school principals.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Williams, Walter Earl
System: The UNT Digital Library
The differential effects of biofeedback/relaxation training on elderly people (open access)

The differential effects of biofeedback/relaxation training on elderly people

The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining the effect of Biofeedback and/or Relaxation training on psycho-physical measures related to older persons' manifestations of stress. This is accomplished by assessing the differential outcomes obtained from using biofeedback plus relaxation with one group of subjects and relaxation training only with another group of subjects.
Date: May 1978
Creator: West, Helen L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edwin M. Stanton's Special Military Units and the Prosecution of the War, 1862-1865 (open access)

Edwin M. Stanton's Special Military Units and the Prosecution of the War, 1862-1865

The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the six special military units which were authorized and created by the War Department under the direction of Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. In relating the military history of such special units the study determines what contributions and significance they made to the Union war effort.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Mangrum, Robert G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Human erythrocyte aldolase: purification, characterization and membrane association (open access)

Human erythrocyte aldolase: purification, characterization and membrane association

A procedure is described for the purification of human erythrocyte aldolase (EC 4.1.2.13). The process involves a specific substrate elution of the enzyme from phosphocellulose followed by a reverse ammonium sulfate fractionation.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Yeltman, Don R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Overtures of Samuel Wesley (open access)

The Overtures of Samuel Wesley

Born into one of the most distinguished families in eighteenth-century England, Samuel Wesley (1766-1837) distinguished himself as a child prodigy, an ardent devotee of the music of J. S. Bach, and as a composer, performer and music lecturer. His four extant overtures, written from the year 1778 to 1824, offer an insight into his development as a composer. This edition, drawn from the Wesley manuscripts housed in the British Library, is preceded by a commentary dealing with Wesley's life, the history of the overture as an independent for, and with Wesley's place in the history of English instrumental music.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Walker, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pigeon Feathers: A Theater Piece In Two Acts (open access)

Pigeon Feathers: A Theater Piece In Two Acts

This theater piece is based on a story by John Updike. It is scored for baritone soloist, chorus, real-time electronic sounds, and a small orchestra (woodwinds 1111, brass 2121, 2 percussionists, organ, handbells, strings 33221). The work also includes actors, dancers, video projections, 35mm slide projections, and special lighting effects. The story opens with the moving of fourteen-year old David and his family is to live on the farm formerly owned by David's maternal grandfather. David becomes disturbed when he reads H.G. Wells account of the life of Jesus Christ, He reacts to this account because it is contradictory in spirit to what he has been taught at church and at home. The story deals primarily with David's attempts to reconcile these conflicts in his mind.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Conley, David
System: The UNT Digital Library
The relation of business education to other subject fields in the public high schools of Oklahoma (open access)

The relation of business education to other subject fields in the public high schools of Oklahoma

This study attempts to ascertain the status of, the enrollments in, and the offerings available in business education as well as the relationship between business education and other subject fields in grades ten, eleven, and twelve of the Oklahoma public high schools for the school year 1976-1977.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Robbins, Patricia K.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Severity of Handicap and Geographic Distance as Factors in Residential Placement of Handicapped Children (open access)

Severity of Handicap and Geographic Distance as Factors in Residential Placement of Handicapped Children

For this investigation two types of observations used: Texas's private and public institutions that provide residential treatment to children severely handicapped and children served by those facilities. The overall result showed that the distance between the child's home and the treatment facility is great for public institutions than for private.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Ferrell, Dennis P.
System: The UNT Digital Library
String Music (open access)

String Music

String Music is a composition for string orchestra, percussion, and tape in three movements. The work exploits both traditional and contemporary polyphonic techniques (e.g. imitation, inversion, canon, stretto, fugue, collage). In addition, each movement employs a different musical elementas the focus of organization (timbre, pitch, rhythm/meter). The duration of the entire work is approximately eighteen and a half minutes.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Simonsen, Paul H.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studies of methylglyoxal synthase: the distribution of enzyme and chemical mechanism of catalysis (open access)

Studies of methylglyoxal synthase: the distribution of enzyme and chemical mechanism of catalysis

Methylgloxal synthase, which catalyzes the conversion of dihydroxyacetone phosphate to methylglyoxal and inorganic phosphate, has been found in several Enterobacteriaceae. The enzyme along with glyoxalase I and II and D-lactate oxidase, therefore, constitute a nonphosphorylated shunt of the normal glycolytic pathway
Date: May 1978
Creator: Yuan, Pau-Miau
System: The UNT Digital Library
Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich (open access)

Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich

The Variations on a Theme by Shostakovich is scored for an orchestra of 3 flutes, 3 oboes, 2 bassoons, contra-bassoon, 4 horns, 3 C trumpets, 3 trombones, harp, harpischord, piano, percussion and strings. The entire work is approximately 17 minutes in duration. The subject for the Variations comes from the Fifteenth Symphony of Shostakovich, last movement. There are many allusions to the writing of Shostakovich in terms of gesture, orchestration, and harmonic structure.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Miller, Karl Frederick
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of the effects of electromyographic biofeedback on muscular tension in selected personality states from the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory (open access)

A comparison of the effects of electromyographic biofeedback on muscular tension in selected personality states from the Minnesota multiphasic personality inventory

This investigation was concerned with the effects of electromyographic biofeedback on the muscular tension of patients diagnosed in a particular personality state. These personality traits were manic, agitated, depressed, and a comparison group.
Date: June 1978
Creator: Blue, Lisa
System: The UNT Digital Library
An analysis and overview of the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community (open access)

An analysis and overview of the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community

This study analyzes the economic relations between Turkey and the European Economic Community (EEC) in the transition period of Turkey's membership in the Common Market. Turkey applied for membership in the EEC in 1959, and the association agreement was signed in 1963. Under the terms of the agreement Turkey's membership includes three stages; preparatory, transition, and full membership.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Ateṣ, Hüseyin
System: The UNT Digital Library
The application of selected marketing concepts in the hospital planning process (open access)

The application of selected marketing concepts in the hospital planning process

This study was designed to evaluate the planning process in hospitals. The specific problem of concern in this investigation was the pressing need for planning by hospitals that focuses upon the constraints imposed by governmental regulation and by resource limitations. The purpose of this study was to identify marketing concepts that have application to the hospital planning process and to make a general evaluation of their current utilization in North Central Texas area.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Arnold, Verna Aline
System: The UNT Digital Library
The assessment of a health concepts approach to physical education in a community junior college (open access)

The assessment of a health concepts approach to physical education in a community junior college

The problem under consideration was an assessment of the effect of teaching physical education, through a health concepts approach, to first-semester male and female college freshmen in a metropolitan junior college. In order to further clarify the problem, the primary purposes were to determine the change in health knowledges, health habits, physical fitness, and attitude toward physical education. from the beginning to the ending of the course. A further purpose was to determine the relationships between the scores on the four instruments used in this study.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Battles, Fred R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The attitudes of presidents and chief academic officers toward faculty collective bargaining in Texas' community and junior colleges (open access)

The attitudes of presidents and chief academic officers toward faculty collective bargaining in Texas' community and junior colleges

The problem of this study was to collect, analyze, and interpret the attitudes of administrators in Texas' community and junior colleges with respect to faculty collective bargaining. The purpose of the study were (1) to assess the attitudes of administrators in higher education institutions in Texas toward faculty collective bargaining, and (2) to determine if a relationship exists between attitudes of administrators toward faculty collective bargaining and seventeen independent variables.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Birmingham, Joseph C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Charles Ives, the Violin Sonatas: a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of L. v. Beethoven, J. Brahms, E. Chausson, C. Debussy, W. Latham, G. Tartini, and A. Vivaldi (open access)

Charles Ives, the Violin Sonatas: a Lecture Recital, Together with Three Recitals of Selected Works of L. v. Beethoven, J. Brahms, E. Chausson, C. Debussy, W. Latham, G. Tartini, and A. Vivaldi

A lecture recital was given on July 14, 1975. The violin sonatas of Charles Ives are a unique and innovative addition to the violin repertoire and capture the New England Transcendental movement of the early twentieth century. In addition to the lecture recital, three other public recitals were performed, including solo compositions for violin and chamber works including violin.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Gabbi, Marianna Paone
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cognitive control of induced pain: an analog comparison of four strategies (open access)

Cognitive control of induced pain: an analog comparison of four strategies

The specific purpose of the study was to determine the differential efficacy of three different multicompetent cognitive strategies in the control of an induced pain. An exploratory investigation was also conducted to determine the relationship of health locus of control, expectancy, compliance, and anxiety ratings with the variables of pain tolerance and subjective pain ratings.
Date: August 1978
Creator: McKinlay, Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Comparison of Attitudes of Secondary School Teachers and Supervisors in Region X, Texas, and Karachi, Pakistan, Toward Selected Supervisory Practices (open access)

A Comparison of Attitudes of Secondary School Teachers and Supervisors in Region X, Texas, and Karachi, Pakistan, Toward Selected Supervisory Practices

The problem of this study was to determine whether the attitudes toward selected supervisory practices among the teachers and supervisors of Region X, Texas and Karachi, Pakistan, are similar or different according to their sex, age, marital status, educational attainment, and years of experience.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Siddiqi, Hasan A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968 (open access)

Crossing the colorline: three decades of the United Packinghouse Workers of America's crusade against racism in the Trans-Mississippi West, 1936-1968

This study examines the role of southern black union workers in the struggle against racism in the United Packinghouse Workers America's activities in the Trans Mississippi region of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, New Mexico and south Kansas.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Adedeji, Moses
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultural perspectives of the adult reading problem in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (open access)

Cultural perspectives of the adult reading problem in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

This philosophical-descriptive dissertation makes a detailed analysis of the background and problems of the adult literacy program in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and proposes recommendations for improvement of this program. The purpose of the study is to describe and critically analyze the Islamic religious tradition, Saudi Arabian social structure, the roles of Saudi Arabian men and women, the role of nomads in Saudi society, usage of Classical and modern Arabian dialects, current instructional materials and media used in adult literacy education and current educational resources, finance and personnel.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Al Wohaibi, Mohammad Al Nassir
System: The UNT Digital Library
An evaluation of the effectiveness on pre-retirees of an andragogical model of pre-retirement education (open access)

An evaluation of the effectiveness on pre-retirees of an andragogical model of pre-retirement education

This study was designed to test the effectiveness of an andragogical model of pre-retirement education on a group of pre-retirees at North Texas State University. Specifically, the study measured the degree to which participants in a pre-retirement education workshop experienced changes in their attitudes toward, knowledge about, and preparation behavior for retirement as a result of the treatment provided.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Black, Evelyn Jordan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Iconographical Significance in Selected Western Subjects Painted by Thomas Moran (open access)

The Iconographical Significance in Selected Western Subjects Painted by Thomas Moran

The popular image of the West in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries incorporates radically opposing images: the West is viewed as a Garden of Eden at times, but it is also frequently seen as violent, a land inimical to man. The region both attracted and repelled. Among those attracted were artists who carried back some of the first images of the land. Thomas Moran (1837-1926) became associated quite early with the West because a pair of his paintings of western canyons was purchased by the United States Government.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Patrick, Darryl
System: The UNT Digital Library