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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
Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini, manuscript Basevi 2439: critical edition and commentary (open access)

Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica Luigi Cherubini, manuscript Basevi 2439: critical edition and commentary

The subject of the present study, Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2439, abbreviated Florence 2439,1 contains secular and sacred vocal music of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with texts in French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Newton, Paul George
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives (open access)

Conflict in Children Related to the Number of Choice Alternatives

The purposes of the present study are to attempt to discover if there is a predictable relationship between conflict and an increase in the number of choice alternatives, to specifically determine if this hypothesized relationship exists in a predictable order in children, to endeavor to show that this hypothesized relationship is such that generalization of application to a natural environment is credible, and to attempt to discover if there are sex differences that may influence this relationship.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Burleson, Billy D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representation of Father-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens (open access)

Representation of Father-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens

John Marshall Clemens was a failure, as a man, as a husband, and as a father. It is his lack of emotion, his inability to express or receive love, with which this thesis is mainly concerned, for it is his emotional vacuum that so greatly affected his fourth son, Samuel Clemens.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Coplin, Merritt Keith
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance (open access)

The Effects of Diphenylhydantoin on Maze Performance

Making the assumption that diphenylhydantoin has a lowering or cancelling effect on excess electricity in the brain, it is the purpose of this study to determine the effect of diphenylhydantoin in a stressful learning situation.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Dudley, Harold Kenneth
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
Some Fundamental Properties of Categories (open access)

Some Fundamental Properties of Categories

This paper establishes a basis for abelian categories, then gives the statement and proof of two equivalent definitions of an abelian category, the development of the basic theory of such categories, and the proof of some theorems involving this basic theory.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gardner, Harold L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem (open access)

Fear of Death as Related to a Positive Future Time Perspective and Self-Esteem

The problem with which this investigation was concerned was to determine whether or not fear of death was related to positive future time perspective and self-esteem.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Gerson, Raymond 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
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
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
Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre (open access)

Philosophical Ideas in Five Plays by Jean-Paul Sartre

The drama of Jean-Paul Sartre is primarily an investigation into the meaning of the human condition. The question of primary concern is: What does it mean to be a human being? Through his drama, Sartre reveals the nature of the existential situation. This thesis looks at five plays of Sartre and discusses the philosophical ideas in each.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Portman, Stephen G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens (open access)

Representations of the Mother-Son Relations in the Major Novels of Samuel Clemens

This thesis examines the relationship between Samuel Clemens and his mother, Jane Lampton Clemens. It is apparent that Samuel was strongly influenced by his mother in his personality, appearance, and beliefs; but of greater importance is the influence she exerted on the literary creations of Mark Twain.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Rogers, Janie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates (open access)

Reversal and Nonreversal Shifts in Concept Learning in Three Levels of Retardates

The primary objective of this experiment is to investigate the transition from single unit to mediation control in retardates and to compare their responses with those made by nursery, kindergarten and grammar school children. By utilizing three MA levels of retarded subjects, this transition point may be more specifically demonstrated.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Scurlock, Cheryl Faye
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
Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws (open access)

Professional Baseball and the Antitrust Laws

This study concerns the threatened imposition of the antitrust laws on baseball and the response of the sport, both in court action and in pressures upon Congress.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Strother, Guy Thomas
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of Relationships of Motor Creativity, Tap Dance Skill, and Tap Dance Choreography (open access)

A Study of Relationships of Motor Creativity, Tap Dance Skill, and Tap Dance Choreography

This study sought to determine the relationship of motor creativity, tap dance skill, and experience in tap dance choreography to the ability to choreograph tap dances.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Teer, Norma S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Memory Load on the Accuracy of Recognition of Stimuli (open access)

The Effects of Memory Load on the Accuracy of Recognition of Stimuli

The purpose of this study was to find if memory load significantly affects the performance of the subjects in the before condition of a before versus after technique experiment. In order to accomplish this the alternatives were presented either before or after the stimulus, with the alternatives and stimuli being either of high-complexity or low-complexity.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Harris, Jerry Lon
System: The UNT Digital Library
Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Manuscript Basevi 2439: Critical Edition and Commentary (open access)

Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, Manuscript Basevi 2439: Critical Edition and Commentary

The subject of the present study, Florence, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini, MS Basevi 2439, abbreviated Florence 2439,1 contains secular and sacred vocal music of the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, with texts in French, Dutch, Italian, and Latin.
Date: June 1968
Creator: Newton, Paul George, 1930-
System: The UNT Digital Library