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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