Degree Department

The Relationships of Author Productivity and Article Readability to Journal Productivity in the Field of Library and Information Science (open access)

The Relationships of Author Productivity and Article Readability to Journal Productivity in the Field of Library and Information Science

None
Date: December 1977
Creator: Galloway, James W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive Analysis of Computer Education in Texas Secondary Schools and a Proposed Computer Science Program (open access)

A Descriptive Analysis of Computer Education in Texas Secondary Schools and a Proposed Computer Science Program

None
Date: August 1979
Creator: Mayer, Patricia
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Characterizations of optical nonlinearities in carbon black suspension in liquids (open access)

Characterizations of optical nonlinearities in carbon black suspension in liquids

A complete study was conducted on optical limiting characterization in samples of carbon black microparticles in a mixture of deionized water and ethylene glyccol using nanosecodn and picosecond later pulses at 532 nm and 1064 nm.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Mansour, Kamjou
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Job satisfaction among academic administrators at selected American colleges and universities (open access)

Job satisfaction among academic administrators at selected American colleges and universities

The problem of this study was job satisfaction among academic administrators in selected American institutions of higher education. Its main purpose was to document the level of job satisfaction among selected U.S. college and university academic administrators.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Glick, Nancy Parsons
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The use of the semantic differential in a study of the effects of aspirational and dissociative reference group influence on consumer behavior (open access)

The use of the semantic differential in a study of the effects of aspirational and dissociative reference group influence on consumer behavior

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of aspirational and dissociative reference group influence on consumer behavior. There are two ways in which behavior is influenced by reference groups. First, reference groups influence aspiration levels and therefore play a major role in producing satisfaction or frustration. Second, reference groups influence kinds of behavior, i.e., they establish approved patterns of behavior.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Evans, Alton W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spanish surname recent migrant families: the relationships of life cycle, family status, socioeconomic status, and housing (open access)

Spanish surname recent migrant families: the relationships of life cycle, family status, socioeconomic status, and housing

the problem with which this investigation deals is that of internal migration among Mexican-Americans living in the Southwest. Four factors, life cycle, family status, socioeconomic status, and housing and their effects on migration are considered.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Alexander, Tristan John
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Neurotransmitter receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: circadian and developmental studies (open access)

Neurotransmitter receptors in the suprachiasmatic nucleus: circadian and developmental studies

The present audiographic study examined ligands for three receptors, chosen on the basis of high abundance of these receptors in the SCN relative to other brain regions([125I)VIP and [125I) angiotensin II) or the ability of pharmacological manipulations to affect the phase and period of circadian rhythms.
Date: December 1993
Creator: Robinson, Miqun L. (Miqun Li)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The serpent: its characteristics, performance problems, and literature : a lecture recital, together with three recitals of selected works of Stevens, Frescobaldi, Spillman, Wilder, Ritter-George, Russell, and others (open access)

The serpent: its characteristics, performance problems, and literature : a lecture recital, together with three recitals of selected works of Stevens, Frescobaldi, Spillman, Wilder, Ritter-George, Russell, and others

The serpent, an extinct musical instrument, was important to the development of contemporary low brass. Its characteristics, performance problems, and literature give insight into its development as well as reasons for its ultimate demise and replacement with technically more advanced instruments.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Schultz, Russ A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cultural mistrust, occupational aspirations and achievement motivation of black students (open access)

Cultural mistrust, occupational aspirations and achievement motivation of black students

The purpose of this study were three-fold: First, this study examined occupation prestige ratings of African American adolescents using a modified version of the Hatt-North (1947) Occupation Prestige Scale. A second purpose investigated the effects of cultural mistrust on occupation prestige preferences, as well as aspirations and expectations. Finally, this study examined the effects of cultural mistrust and achievement motivation on the occupational aspirations of Black youth.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Cuffee, Deborah Robinson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Current admissions and transition practices among Christian college coalition members (open access)

Current admissions and transition practices among Christian college coalition members

The problem of this study concerns the admissions and transition programs of undergraduate institutions which are members of the Christian College Coalition. The purposes of this study are to determine whether Christian College Coalition member institutions have encountered the same national concerns in the area of the transition from high school to college as identified by Ernest Boyer in College: The Undergraduate Experience in America, and to determine whether admissions programs in the member institutions are adhering to the principles of good practice of the National Association of College Admission Counselors (NACAC).
Date: August 1991
Creator: Jeffrey, Tony G. (Tony George)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Predictors of success in a community college basic skills program (open access)

Predictors of success in a community college basic skills program

The purpose of this study was to determine if certain student demographics and measures of previous high school academic achievement could differentiate between students who are successful in remedial and college level English and algebra courses and students who are unsuccessful in those courses.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Burke, Sherry Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Herr und Heer: the German Social Democrats and officer corps, a reappraisal (open access)

Herr und Heer: the German Social Democrats and officer corps, a reappraisal

Utilizing the debates of the German Reichstag, the proceedings of the SPD, the memoirs of the leading military and Marxist figures and the principal newspapers of the Second Reich and Weimar Republic, this dissertation attempts to show how the army chiefs and the socialist leaders of Germany altered their policies not only to promote their interests but also to protect the state.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Pierce, Walter Rankin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Child rearing attitudes and perceived behavior patterns of natural parents and stepparents (open access)

Child rearing attitudes and perceived behavior patterns of natural parents and stepparents

The problem of this study is to investigate child rearing attitudes of stepparents and natural parents and differences in perceived parental behavior patterns within reconstituted and intact families.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Keith, Judith Ann
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of the effectiveness of microtraining, positive verbal reinforcement via immediate feedback, and traditional parent skill groups in teaching specific parent skills and improving parent attitudes (open access)

A comparison of the effectiveness of microtraining, positive verbal reinforcement via immediate feedback, and traditional parent skill groups in teaching specific parent skills and improving parent attitudes

This investigation concerned teaching specific parent skills and improving parent attitudes. The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of three techniques and combinations of techniques in teaching specific parent skills and improving parent attitudes. The techniques considered were microtraining, verbal reinforcement via immediate feedback, and traditional parent training.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Fain, Charlotte N.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension of teachers-college students in Thailand (open access)

Relationship between background knowledge and reading comprehension of teachers-college students in Thailand

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of background knowledge on Thai teachers-college students' reading comprehension in relation to topic familiarity, reading ability in English as a Foreign Language, and the amount of time required for reading familiar and unfamiliar passages.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Angthong, Nattakarn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the acceptance of the community education philosophy by selected school board presidents in the State of Texas (open access)

A study of the acceptance of the community education philosophy by selected school board presidents in the State of Texas

The problem of the study was to determine if differences exist, and if so to what extent, in the perceptions of school board presidents in selected Texas school districts with and without community education programs with respect to six basic components of community education programs commonly identified by experts in the field.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Avard, Bonnie J.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Six sonates pour une flute et basse ou hautbois et basse by Ernst Eichner: a performing edition with critical commentary, a lecture recital, together with three other recitals (open access)

Six sonates pour une flute et basse ou hautbois et basse by Ernst Eichner: a performing edition with critical commentary, a lecture recital, together with three other recitals

From the sources published by R. Wornum and Mme. Bérault a performing edition of the Six Sonates pour une Flute et Basse où hautbois et Basse was produced. The music was adopted to twentieth-century notation and supplied with suggestions for articulations and the performance of ornamental figures.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Hobbs, James A. (James Alton)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trimethylsilylbromoketene and reactions of α-haloacid halides with diisopropylcarbodiimide (open access)

Trimethylsilylbromoketene and reactions of α-haloacid halides with diisopropylcarbodiimide

Trimethylsilylbromoketene was synthesized by the tri-ethylamine dehydrohalogenation of trimthylsilylbromacetyl bromide or chloride. This ketene was found not to undergo cycloaddition reactions with activated olefins, such as cyclopentadiene, ethyl vinyl ether and dihydropyan.
Date: May 1977
Creator: Owens, Robert Austin
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Planning strategies as predictors of DWI recidivism for problem and non-problem drinkers (open access)

Planning strategies as predictors of DWI recidivism for problem and non-problem drinkers

This study investigates the relationships between planning strategies on how to avoid future DWI arrest and actual DWI recidivism for a group of problem and non-problem drinkers. A sample of 75 individuals who were arrested for DWI and completed a DWI training program in 1987 was gathered.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Christiansen, Thomas J. (Thomas James)
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of the effects of personality, subculture and place of residence on college student recreation participation (open access)

A study of the effects of personality, subculture and place of residence on college student recreation participation

The problem of this investigation was to determine whether knowledge of student personality, subculture, or place of residence could predict university student recreation participation for men and women. Factors of age, marital status, class in college, and Greek affiliation were also examined for any relationship to recreation participation of university men and women.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Winfrey, William E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis (open access)

The state of the art in environmental pollution control and impact analysis

This study analyzes federal and state pollution control and abatement legislation and provides a one-volume working explanation of those laws applicable to business operations. This analysis is limited to legislation aimed at controlling air and water pollution, and solid waste management.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Thibodeaux, Mary Shepherd
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Factors affecting the activity of cyclopropane synthetase in Lactobacillus plantarum (open access)

Factors affecting the activity of cyclopropane synthetase in Lactobacillus plantarum

This investigation concerned determining certain factors which affect the activity of cyclopropane synthetase in L. plantarum. In vitro experiments showed the enzme to be sensitive to ionic strength and subject to product inhibition by S-adenosylhomocysteine nucleusidase, which relieves this inhibition by degrading SAH to adenine and ribosylhomocysteine.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Halper, Laura A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Behavioral outcomes of short-term nondirective play therapy with preschool deaf children (open access)

Behavioral outcomes of short-term nondirective play therapy with preschool deaf children

This study was conducted to investigate change (as measured by positive growth changes in total personality adjustment, social maturity, and behavior patterns) in pre-school deaf children with behavioral problems who experienced short-term, nondirective play therapy. Change in behavior of these children was also investigated ten weeks after therapy.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Oualline, Viola Jackson
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library