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Southwest Retort, Volume 28, Number 9, May 1976 (open access)

Southwest Retort, Volume 28, Number 9, May 1976

This publication of the Dallas-Fort Worth Section of the American Chemical Society includes information about research, prominent scientist, organizational business, and various other stories of interest to the community.
Date: May 1976
Creator: American Chemical Society. Dallas/Fort Worth Section.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
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
The Captain Stormfield character in the published and unpublished works of Mark Twain (open access)

The Captain Stormfield character in the published and unpublished works of Mark Twain

Captain Stormfield, the main character in Mark Twain's last book, Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven (1909), appears numerous times--under either the Stormfield name or some other--in Twain's published and unpublished works. Scholar's since Train's death have given only passing or slight notice to the Stormfield character. His numerous appearances, however his pivotal function among several unfinished works, and his essential optimism must lead to an awareness of his significant role in Twain's fiction.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Hanicak, Helen
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reforming the Church of England, 1895-1919 (open access)

Reforming the Church of England, 1895-1919

This study deals with the events after 1895 which led to a major reshaping of the Church of England's policy and organization in 1919. Those events, which included debates in Parliament, a Royal Commission, Prayer Book revision, special Church committees, and Private negotiations by Church leaders, finally resulted in the British Parliament passing the Enabling act of 1919. Significant persons and powerful influences were at work during these years to prevent, as well as promote change in the Established Church. This study will show what those influences were, and discuss persons significant in their work for or against reform.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Zimmerman, John D.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sex-related roles, attitudes, and orientation of Negro, Anglo, and Mexican-American women over the life cycle (open access)

Sex-related roles, attitudes, and orientation of Negro, Anglo, and Mexican-American women over the life cycle

The focus of this study is the relationship among (1) attitudes toward sex-based differentiation in adult leisure activities and socialization of boys and girls, (2) attitudes toward housekeeping, and (3) combinations of marital, maternal employment, and head of household statuses among Negro, Anglo, and Mexican-American women in three age categories and from two socio-economic levels.
Date: May 1976
Creator: DeRidder, Joyce A.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The acceptance of an inventory of program objectives for a community college mental health technology program within the social and behavioral science structure (open access)

The acceptance of an inventory of program objectives for a community college mental health technology program within the social and behavioral science structure

The study sought acceptance of an inventory of program objectives for a community college mental health technology program within the social and behavioral science structure. It adapted a set of program objectives, using an inventory from the Southern Regional Education Board, and provided composite list stated in competency or performance levels and a list of academic requirements showing what fundamental areas of competency or performance would be most germane for a mental health technology candidate.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Weber, Marvin Glenn
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An investigation of the effects of an inner-city student teaching experience on the attitudes, values, and dogmatisms of student teachers (open access)

An investigation of the effects of an inner-city student teaching experience on the attitudes, values, and dogmatisms of student teachers

The purposes of the investigation were (1) to determine whether differences in attitudes, values, an dogmatisms exist between volunteers for an inner-city student teaching experience and other student teachers prior to a student teaching experience; (2) to determine whether differences in attitudes, values, and dogmatisms exist at the completion of student teaching between the experimental group and a control group composed of student teachers assigned to suburban schools.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Sughrue, Robert L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contingent reinforcement as an intervention to alter depressive thinking (open access)

Contingent reinforcement as an intervention to alter depressive thinking

The problem of this study is to determine the feasibility of using an operant treatment procedure to ameliorate several manifestations of depression. The purpose is to apply contingent positive reinforcement to the detection of nondepressive thoughts and to examine the effects of this procedure upon the frequency of nondepressive thoughts, idiosyncratic depressive manifestations, and scores on the Depression Inventory.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Gairing, Robert L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of the effects of two mathematics programs upon selected fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial mathematics students (open access)

A comparison of the effects of two mathematics programs upon selected fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade remedial mathematics students

The problem with which this investigation was concerned is that of determining whether remedial mathematics students who receive individualized attention in small groups with many special materials would gain more knowledge in the areas of computation, concepts, problem solving, and total composite mathematics than would remedial mathematics students taught as sub-groups of regular mathematics classes.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Blankenship, William Lee
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A descriptive analysis and evaluation of an orientation course designed for junior college students (open access)

A descriptive analysis and evaluation of an orientation course designed for junior college students

This study was a descriptive analysis of the orientation program for a large junior college in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. Its purposes were (1) to describe the freshman orientation course, (2) to analyze data compiled from rating forms which recorded student perceptions of each aspect of the course, and (3) to discuss the implications of the data for junior college student service personnel as they attempt to establish programs that will effectively aid students in making a successful adjustment to college.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Dickson, Mary Jane Ramsey
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Music as idea and image in English Romantic poetry (open access)

Music as idea and image in English Romantic poetry

This study is an investigation of the relationships between music and the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Particularly it focuses on the nature of their musical subject matter and musical imagery in order to determine the extent to which they were influenced by aesthetic and philosophical musical theory, generally termed speculative music.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Coffman, Sue E.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quantum size oscillations and size effects (open access)

Quantum size oscillations and size effects

The direct current size effect and the radio frequency size effect oscillation in the magnetoconductivity have been explained by a semiclassical theory which is based on the matching of the sample thickness and the classical spiral orbit of the electron about a magnetic field.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Garlow, John R.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Depreciation shortfall and real financial performance in the steel industry, 1965-1974 (open access)

Depreciation shortfall and real financial performance in the steel industry, 1965-1974

The purpose of this study was to revise the industry's reported depreciation allowances to a current replacement cost basis; to measure the industry's real profits and profitability; to assess the relationships between depreciation shortfall and real financial performance; and to evaluate the implications of depreciation shortfall for the steel industry.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Harlow, Forrest W.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A comparison of academic success between four-year senior college students and selected two-year transfer students at North Texas State University (open access)

A comparison of academic success between four-year senior college students and selected two-year transfer students at North Texas State University

The problem of this study was to compare native North Texas State University students with selected two-year college transfers to determine which group was more successful at the university.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Brown, John Hartley
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The growth by interpretation of Section 4 of the Clayton act by the Federal courts and its implication for marketing management (open access)

The growth by interpretation of Section 4 of the Clayton act by the Federal courts and its implication for marketing management

The problem considered in this study is the rapid growth in the number of the treble-damage suits brought under provisions of Section 4 of the Clayton Act and their impact on marketing management in formulating marketing strategies and policies.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Frederick, Billy B.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Homeosteric analogues of folic acid, 8-oxadihydropteridines (open access)

Homeosteric analogues of folic acid, 8-oxadihydropteridines

The introduction of heteroartoms in the pyrazine portion of the pteridine ring has produced compounds which display antifolate activity. The initial objective of this research program was to develop a convenient synthesis of the 8-oxadihydropteridine ring system and to test the resulting compounds for antifolate activity in suitable biological systems.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Dunn, Danny LeRoy
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
A study of USOE, with special emphasis on the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency (open access)

A study of USOE, with special emphasis on the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency

The first purpose of this study was to provide an overview of the educational policy-making role of the United States Office of Education, 1963-1969. A historical overview of significant events before 1960 was provided to aid in understanding that federal concern for and financial aid to education is not a recent concept. The second purpose of this study was to examine the policy-making roles of the Commissioner of Education during the Lyndon B. Johnson presidency.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Stanley, James David
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Freud and Clio: a historiographical inquiry into psychohistory (open access)

Freud and Clio: a historiographical inquiry into psychohistory

This work is an attempt to examine the nature of psychohistorical writing after 1958 and to assess the impact of this new discipline in historiography. The year 1958 was chosen as the date of beginning of scholarly psychohistory for two reasons: in that year the highly respected historian, William Langer, in a presidential address to the American Historical Association, called upon his colleagues to use psychoanalysis in their research; and Erik Erikcon published Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History, which has been accepted ever since as the finest example of psychohistorical writing.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Sanders, Gary Burton
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Orders of Presentation and Anchors on the Ratings of Perceived Exertion (open access)

The Effects of Orders of Presentation and Anchors on the Ratings of Perceived Exertion

The problem investigated was to compare the effects of orders of presentation and anchors on the ratings of perceived exertion obtained during bicycle ergometry. Based on the statistical analysis of the data, the following findings were apparent: 1. It was found that there were no significant differences in mean scores of perceived exertion obtained among the orders of presentation, ascending, descending, and random. 2. It was found that the light anchor mean score was significantly greater than those of the heavy or identical anchor. 3. It was found that there were significant differences among the ratings of perceived exertion that may be attributed to changes in work loads. 4. It was found that there were significant differences among the mean scores of ratings of perceived exertion that may be attributed to the interaction of the main effects. As a result of the findings, the following conclusions were deemed appropriate within the limitations of the study: 1. Ratings of perceived exertion in ascending and random order increased proportionately in value as the work load increases. 2. Contrast effects are present in ratings of perceived exertion obtained during bicycle ergometry. 3. The majority of previous findings agree with the present research with …
Date: May 1976
Creator: Peters, Albert L.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Water Pollution Abatement Costs on Financing of Municipal Services in North Central Texas (open access)

The Impact of Water Pollution Abatement Costs on Financing of Municipal Services in North Central Texas

The purpose of this study is to determine the effects of water pollution control on financing municipal water pollution control facilities in selected cities in North Central Texas. This objective is accomplished by addressing the following topics: (1) the cost to municipalities of meeting federally mandated water pollution control, (2) the sources of funds for financing sewage treatment, and (3) the financial implications of employing these financing tools to satisfy water quality regulations. The study makes the following conclusions regarding the impact of water pollution control costs on municipalities in the North Central Texas Region: 1) The financing of the wastewater treatment requirements of the Water Pollution Control Act Amendments of 1972 will cause many municipalities to report operating deficits for their Water and Sewer Fund. 2) A federal grant program funded at the rate of 75 per cent of waste treatment needs will prevent operating deficits in the majority of cities in which 1990 waste treatment needs constitute 20 per cent or more of the expected Water and Sewer Fund capital structure. 3) A federal grant program funded at the average rate of 35 per cent of needs will benefit only a small number of cities. 4) The federal …
Date: May 1976
Creator: Rucks, Andrew C.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Church and State in Mexico from Calles to Cárdenas, 1924-1938 (open access)

Church and State in Mexico from Calles to Cárdenas, 1924-1938

This dissertation presents an overview of Church- State relations in Mexico from 1924 to 1938. It examines the actions and motives of prominent national leaders, the papacy, the episcopate, and the Mexican citizenry to determine justification and culpability. This dissertation presents several conclusions. When Calles enforced the anticlerical provisions of the Constitution of 1917, the clergy withdrew from the churches in protest. The episcopate as a body bore a moral responsibility for the Cristero rebellion that resulted, but avoided implication in the movement. Because the Church's supporters were in the minority, that institution in 1929 accepted a settlement requiring clerical obedience to the constitution. Churchmen consoled their parishioners with the thought that the Church would rise again.
Date: May 1976
Creator: Joseph, Harriett Denise
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Empirical Investigation of Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference Test with Variance Heterogeneity and Unequal Sample Sizes, Utilizing Kramer's Procedure and the Harmonic Mean (open access)

An Empirical Investigation of Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference Test with Variance Heterogeneity and Unequal Sample Sizes, Utilizing Kramer's Procedure and the Harmonic Mean

This study sought to determine the effect upon Tukey's Honestly Significant Difference (HSD) statistic of concurrently violating the assumptions of homogeneity of variance and equal sample sizes. Two forms for the unequal sample size problem were investigated. Kramer's form and the harmonic mean approach were the two unequal sample size procedures studied. The study employed a Monte Carlo simulation procedure which varied sample sizes with a heterogeneity of variance condition. Four thousand experiments were generated. Findings of this study were based upon the empirically obtained significance levels. Five conclusions were reached in this study. The first conclusion was that for the conditions of this study the Kramer form of the HSD statistic is not robust at the .05 or .01 nominal level of significance. A second conclusion was that the harmonic mean form of the HSD statistic is not robust at the .05 and .01 nominal level of significance. A general conclusion reached from all the findings formed the third conclusion. It was that the Kramer form of the HSD test is the preferred procedure under combined assumption violations of variance heterogeneity and unequal sample sizes. Two additional conclusions are based on related findings. The fourth conclusion was that for …
Date: May 1976
Creator: McKinney, William Lane
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library