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Five Women Wearing the Same Dress: Costume Design by Michelle Lynne Webb
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing her costume design for the play "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress." She includes a script analysis, the play's script, and her inspirations in designing the costumes.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Webb, Michelle Lynne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Widening the Lens: A Comprehensive Look at Anorexia Nervosa
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the history, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of anorexia nervosa.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Kjellstrand, Elizabeth K.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Potpourri
Colloquium written by a student in the UNT Honors College that presents a concept for a woman's magazine that touches on politics, health, fashion, and other aspects the independent woman's life.
Date:
Spring 1995
Creator:
Rankin, Jennifer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Strange, Bizarre, Insane, and Inhumane
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the mental health of characters in several stories, such as Heart of Darkness and Lord of the Flies. The author intends to show that the behavior of these characters was caused by influences of their societies.
Date:
Summer 1995
Creator:
Milacek-Dahl, Stacy L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Russian National Security Police and the Enlargement of NATO
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the projected growth of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, its desired expansion into eastern Europe, and Russia's response.
Date:
December 5, 1995
Creator:
Burson, Jefferson C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Lifestyles and Status of Musicians in England and France during the Renaissance and Baroque Periods
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the status and employment practices of musicians in England and France during the Renaissance and Baroque periods of history. The lives of both groups are compared. Pictures of instruments from the time period are included.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Erbes, Sara
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ethics in the Accounting Profession: A Challenge for the Future?
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the evolution of ethics within the accounting profession and the difficulties encountered when personal ethics conflict with the Code of Professional Conduct.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Gryn, Julie E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Kodaly and Music in Elementary Schools
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing the way two Texas schools teach music to students between kindergarten and third grade based on the philosophy of Zoltan Kodaly.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Navarro, Mandy Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Creation
Colloquium written by a student in the UNT Honors College wherein Biblical Creation and the theory of evolution are combined into a story.
Date:
December 1995
Creator:
Ochandio, Mario
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Selected Social Documentaries: Perspectives on Hoop Dreams, Harlan County, USA, American Dream, and 28 Up
Thesis written by a student in the UNT Honors College discussing various documentaries and the race, class, and education issues they present.
Date:
Autumn 1995
Creator:
Oglesby, Sarah
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Testing the Construct Validity of the Sulliman Scale of Social Interest
The purpose of the present study was to further explore evidence for the construct-related validity of the Sulliman Scale of Social Interest (SSSI) through the implementation of both convergent and discriminant procedures. This was done through (a) replicating St. John's 1992 study, (b) extending the findings of that study by incorporating additional psychological measures, and (c) examining SSI itself by means of principal axis factor analytic procedures. First, all nine of the relationships demonstrated between the SSSI and other variables in the St. John (1992) study were replicated in the present study. Second, in extending the findings of that study, 22 of 26 hypothesized relationships between the SSSI and other psychological measures were in the predicted direction. Third, the results of the factor analysis produced three factors labeled "contextual harmony," "positive treatment/response," and "confidence and trust." Taken together, the outcomes of both studies appear to offer some support for the SSI's construct validity and to provide possible directions for future research.
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
St. John, Chris (Christopher Lynn)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Marital and Social Changes in the Lives of Women who Complete the Ph.D. Degree at Midlife
The percentage of women who receive doctorates has increased by over 300 percent during the past three decades. The consequences of pursuing the Ph.D. degree have always been far reaching and profound, serving as an impetus and springboard for the reconfiguration of one's beliefs, values, and professional life. The purposes of this national study were to ascertain and describe marital and social changes that occurred in the lives of women who were awarded the Ph.D. degree at midlife. A questionnaire was distributed to a sample of three-hundred women who hold the Ph.D. degree and were employed in institutions of higher education in the United States. The study sought to identify the effects of the Ph.D. experience upon the marital relationships, friendships, and social activities of women who completed the degree between the ages of thirty-five and forty-five. Demographic data were collected which were related to their marital status before, during, and after the Ph.D. experience. Both closed and open-ended questions were posed which solicited information pertaining to their post Ph.D. experience. This research reports both quantitative and qualitative findings. The majority of women who complete the Ph.D. experience at midlife undergo and initiate changes in their lives which impact their …
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Sikes, Debra
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Small Business Owner-Managers and Corporate Managers: a Comparative Study of Achievement Motivation, Risk Taking Propensity and Preference for Innovation
Despite the economic significance of entrepreneurship, relatively little is known about the entrepreneur, particularly how the entrepreneur differs from the corporate manager. This problem is both cause and symptom of the discord regarding definitions of the entrepreneur, rendering sampling, research replication and generalizations about entrepreneurs problematic. As a result, inquiry has failed to adequately establish how entrepreneurs differ from managers, a problem partially stemming from a dearth of methodologically rigorous comparisons of entrepreneurs with managers. The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the potential of psychological constructs to predict a proclivity for entrepreneurship. Moreover, differences in types of small business owner-managers were also investigated. Included in the research model were three common themes in the entrepreneurship literature: achievement motivation, risk taking propensity and preference for innovation. Also incorporated were the interactions of the psychological constructs, as well as individual and firm demographic variables.
Date:
May 1995
Creator:
Stewart, Wayne H. (Wayne Howard)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Convexity-Preserving Scattered Data Interpolation
Surface fitting methods play an important role in many scientific fields as well as in computer aided geometric design. The problem treated here is that of constructing a smooth surface that interpolates data values associated with scattered nodes in the plane. The data is said to be convex if there exists a convex interpolant. The problem of convexity-preserving interpolation is to determine if the data is convex, and construct a convex interpolant if it exists.
Date:
December 1995
Creator:
Leung, Nim Keung
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Career Group Counseling on the Self-Concept of At-Risk High School Students as Measured by the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale
The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of career group counseling in raising the self-concept of at-risk high school students. The following subgroups were represented in the sample: male and female students, white and non-white ethnic groups, and students from sophomore, junior, and senior classifications. Two groups of students in the Lewisville Independent School District meeting the criteria for at-risk as defined by House Bill 1010 were administered a pretest and posttest using the Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale. The experimental group was from the Lewisville Learning Center. The control group was students enrolled in the Coordinated Vocational Academic Education (CVAE) classes at Lewisville High School. A treatment sample of 25 students received career group counseling. A nontreatment sample of 25 students did not receive any group counseling. The t-test for independent samples was used to analyze the data. The pretests for the experimental and control groups showed no significant difference at the .05 level. The treatment sample received 30 hours of group counseling in the Fall semester of 1994. At the end of 30 hours of counseling a posttest was administered to the treatment sample and to the control sample. The t-test for independent samples was used …
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Szydlik, Linda (Linda L.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Correlational Study Using the Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale & the Behavior Assessment System for Children with Two Groups of Elementary School-Aged Students in Special Programs
This study examined the correlation between two commercially available behavior rating scales. The two scales used were the Behavior Dimensions Rating Scale (BDRS) and the Behavior Assessment System for Children (BASC). Students from a special education behavior management class (primarily students with emotional disabilities) were rated on the two scales and students from a general education behavior management class (primarily students with conduct problems without disabilities) were rated on the two scales.
Date:
December 1995
Creator:
Livaudais, Noel Dwyer
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Women's and Men's Perceptions Regarding Perceived Speaker Sex and Politeness of Given Utterances
Women's and men's responses regarding perceived speaker sex and the politeness of given utterances were examined through the use of a questionnaire administered to 90 people, 45 men and 45 women. The questionnaire required respondents to rate the politeness of each utterance and label each as being more likely spoken by a man or by a woman. Factors possibly affecting perceptions--such as power, prestige, and the stereotypical conversational structures of both men and women--were addressed through others' research in this area. Additionally, all tested sentences were analyzed in light of linguistic politeness theory regarding on-record and off-record speech. This analysis details each utterance through examining the type of politeness strategy each utterance typifies.
Date:
May 1995
Creator:
Johnson, Deanna Michelle
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Historical Reconstruction and Self-Search: A Study of Thomas Pynchon's V.. John Barth's The Sot-Weed Factor. Norman Mailer's The Armies of the Nicrht. Robert Coover's The Public Burning, and E.L. Doctorow's The Book of Daniel
A search for self through historical reconstruction constitutes a crucial concern of the American postmodern historical novels of Pynchon, Barth, Mailer, Coover, and Doctorow. This concern consists of a self-conscious dramatization, paralleled by contemporary theorists' arguments, of the constructedness of history and individual subject. A historian-character's process of historical inquiry and narrative-making foregrounded in these novels represents the efforts by the postmodern self to (re)construct identity (or identities) in a constructing context of discourse and ideology.
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Pak, Inchan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The West African Trickster Tradition and the Fiction of Charles W. Chesnutt
Analyzing Chesnutt's fiction from the angle of the West African trickster tradition explains the varying interpretations of his texts and his authorial intentions. The discussion also illustrates the influence that audience and editorial concerns may have had on African-American authors at the turn of the century.
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Coleman, Arvis R. (Arvis Renette), 1961-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Effects of Experimental Psychological Stress on Human Physiological Functioning: Mediation by Affiliation
This investigation sought to identify differences in the human psychophysiological stress response when mediated by affiliation, by assessing heart rate (HR), systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DBP), electrodermal activity (EDA), serum Cortisol (SC) concentration, interleukin-2 (IL-2) concentration, and state anxiety among subjects who underwent an anagram solution task. Thirty male subjects from the University of North Texas were randomly assigned to one of two experimental conditions and asked to solve a series of difficult anagrams either alone or with a companion. Subjects assigned to the control condition were asked to copy permutations of the anagrams. Before, and immediately after the anagram/copying tasks HR, SBP, DBP were measured, blood samples drawn, and The State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) administered to all subjects. EDA was measured throughout all trials. Changes from baseline through the experimental period for all dependent variables were analyzed by employing difference scores derived from contrasting baseline and experimental measures. These scores were subjected to an analysis of variance (ANOVA) resulting in one significant between group effect among all dependent variables examined. Contrary to stated hypotheses, the alone condition significantly differed from the companion and control conditions by demonstrating a significant decrease in systolic blood pressure from baseline …
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Walker, Douglas W. (Douglas Wallace)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Practical Cursive Script Recognition
This research focused on the off-line cursive script recognition application. The problem is very large and difficult and there is much room for improvement in every aspect of the problem. Many different aspects of this problem were explored in pursuit of solutions to create a more practical and usable off-line cursive script recognizer than is currently available.
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Carroll, Johnny Glen, 1953-
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Intensive Play Therapy with Child Witnesses of Domestic Violence
This study was designed to determine the effectiveness of intensive play therapy as a method of intervention for child witnesses of domestic violence. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of intensive play therapy in: (a) improving the self-concept of child witnesses of domestic violence; (b) reducing internalizing behavior problems, such as withdrawal, somatic complaints, anxiety, and depression, of child witnesses of domestic violence; (c) reducing externalizing behavior problems, such as aggression and delinquency, of child witnesses of domestic violence; (d) reducing overall behavior problems, including internalizing and externalizing behavior problems, and social problems, thought problems, and attention problems, of child witnesses of domestic violence; and (e) improving play behaviors in the areas of affection, contact, physical proximity, self-direction, aggression, mood, play themes, and food nurturing themes.
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Kot, Sarina (Sarina Ying-Lai)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of Selected Factors Affecting Automotive Service Excellence Test Outcome and Job Placement Rate
Under investigation in this study was the effect of ASE certification of automotive technician training programs and other selected factors on ASE test outcome and job placement rate. This research ponders whether the time and money invested in certifying technician training programs is returning desired improvements in this automobile manufacturer's dealer service staff. The study focussed on technicians employed at Chrysler dealerships around the United States. The 2 samples totalling 387 males between the ages of 22 and 30 were drawn from 1,007 graduates of automotive technician training programs. Technicians that completed a formal training program beyond the high school level certified by the National Institute for Automotive Service Excellence (ASE) were compared to others whose training was not certified by ASE. Comparisons were made on the basis of ASE Automobile Technician Test scores and on the length of time from training program completion to employment. This research sought to identify the significance of association between three main predictors - the status of training program ASE certification, work experience and year of training program completion - and the most desirable levels of ASE test outcome (at or above 90% on the ASE test) and job placement rate (immediately following completion …
Date:
August 1995
Creator:
Karbon, Patrick J. (Patrick Joseph)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation into the Stability of Students' Timbre Preferences from the Sixth through the Tenth Grade
The purpose of the study was to determine whether students' timbre preferences in the sixth grade remain stable through the tenth grade. The investigation also examined whether gender, band instruction, or musical home environment makes any difference in influencing the stability of students' timbre preferences from grade six through ten. Students' timbre preferences at the beginning of the study were compared to their preferences four years later. The students' timbre preferences were obtained by employing Gordon's Instrument Timbre Preference Test (ITPT). A questionnaire was also utilized at the conclusion of the study to determine which students had musical home environments and which did not. All sixth grade students enrolled in a single school district took the ITPT. Each student's scores were tallied and ranked in order to determine their timbre preferences; four years later they were retested and their scores were ranked again.
Date:
May 1995
Creator:
May, Brack M. (Brack Miles)
System:
The UNT Digital Library