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French Mélodie: The Solo Songs of Henri Duparc (open access)

French Mélodie: The Solo Songs of Henri Duparc

This paper explores the French mélodies written by Henri Duparc and includes a historical background of both Duparc and the mélodie as a type of song. Carol Tagg explores the roots of the mélodie and how influences of the Romantic movement are reflected in Duparc's work.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Tagg, Carol
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Clarinet: Its Development and Influence in the Field of Jazz (open access)

The Clarinet: Its Development and Influence in the Field of Jazz

This paper identifies the major clarinetists who contributed to the development of jazz and the history of the jazz movement. Gary F. Hallquist traces the history of the clarinet in jazz from the beginnings in New Orleans to the late twentieth century, touching on the major events in the scene during this era.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Hallquist, Gary F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Schumann’s Solo Settings of Poems by Robert Burns (open access)

Schumann’s Solo Settings of Poems by Robert Burns

This paper explores nine German art songs composed by Robert Alexander Schumann, songs that were solo settings of the poems of Robert Burns. Paula Shaneyfelt Spencer provides historical background to this detailed analysis of the songs.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Spencer, Paula Shaneyfelt
System: The UNT Digital Library
Alexander Glazounov and His Concerto in E-flat Major for Saxophone and String Orchestra (open access)

Alexander Glazounov and His Concerto in E-flat Major for Saxophone and String Orchestra

This paper analyzes Alexander Glazounov's Concerto in E-Flat major for saxophone and string orchestra and explores the music and style of Alexander Glazounov. Robert E. Austin provides a complete listing of the composer's works as well as biographical details about his life.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Austin, Robert E.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Incorporation of Silkscreen Techniques in the Decoration of Raku-Fired Ceramics (open access)

The Incorporation of Silkscreen Techniques in the Decoration of Raku-Fired Ceramics

The questions answered by this investigation are as follows: 1. Which silkscreens and stencils will work in screening flat and three-dimensional objects? 2. Which mediums and coloring agents will survive a glaze firing to produce an acceptable image? 3. How can the image be modified by screening during the different stages of a ceramic piece (wet, green, bisque, glazed)? 4. What glazes and glaze applications will be compatible? 5. Generally, what is the relationship between the image and the object?
Date: May 1978
Creator: Allen, James Franklin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of Zinc, Magnesium, and Aluminum as Etching Surfaces (open access)

Investigation of Zinc, Magnesium, and Aluminum as Etching Surfaces

The introduction to printmaking in most universities and college directs students to learn the basic techniques of intaglio using zinc. This continues throughout one's academic career, with little emphasis placed on experimentation with other metals. During my undergraduate and graduate studies I etched with zinc. I had wanted to use aluminium and magnesium in order to explore the similar and dissimilar qualities of the three.
Date: May 1978
Creator: Stark, John E., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation of the Sculptural Possibilities of Warp Distortion and Manipulation Through Warp Weighting (open access)

An Investigation of the Sculptural Possibilities of Warp Distortion and Manipulation Through Warp Weighting

The purpose of this project is to investigate the sculptural possibilities of warp distortion and manipulation through the utilization of the weighted-warp process. A secondary purpose is to explore the technique of warp weighting beyond a single fabric layer. It is projected that a weighted layer can be combined with one which is tensioned evenly and tied onto the floor loom (loom tensioned). In this manner, the loom-tensioned layer remains stable. The weighted layer is free to move through the heddles while maintaining tension on the warps.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Shields, Janis
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Combination of Sewing Techniques, Manufactured Fabric, Paper, Paint, as a Creative Process (open access)

The Combination of Sewing Techniques, Manufactured Fabric, Paper, Paint, as a Creative Process

My problem was to investigate some of the possibilities which have arisen through my previous work by producing twelve fabric pieces and eight paper pieces. Specifically, the following questions were to be examined: 1. Are there traditional designs or techniques in quilts of the past that can be utilized in my own work? 2. Are the primary colors (red, yellow, blue) in manufactured unaltered fabric more effective than painted or altered fabric? 3. Is there a correlation between the color and imagery in the paper pieces and those of the fabric pieces? 4. Of the project pieces, is there a size that generally appears to be more successful than others?
Date: May 1978
Creator: Outlaw, Marilyn Jeanne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Combination of Objects in Box-Like Containers (open access)

The Combination of Objects in Box-Like Containers

For my project, I chose to construct ten containers in which clay and non-traditional drawings were combined. The various materials used were ceramics, drawings on Plexiglas, wood, and other found materials. The questions to be answered by the completion of the ten pieces were the following: 1. What types of containers are most complimentary in combining ceramics and drawings? 2. What types of drawing media are most successful for combining drawings with ceramics? 3. What types of presentation are most successful? 4. What three-dimensional materials other than ceramics are visually important in the combined pieces?
Date: August 1978
Creator: Ellis, Lou
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of the Metaphor as Visual Poetry (open access)

The Use of the Metaphor as Visual Poetry

Up until this time I have made little effort to investigate the mental processes that I use in the development of these metaphors. I believe these processes are on the unconscious or semiconscious level, and I am interested in finding out how these processes work in the development of the metaphors. I believe these processes are on the unconscious or semiconscious level, and I am interested in finding out how these processes work in the development of the metaphors. I therefore decided on a creative project that would investigate the use of the metaphor in my art work. In order to discover something about the development of my metaphors, I asked myself questions during a period of artistic work.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Miller, Steven James
System: The UNT Digital Library
Combining Clay and Light Into Sculptural Forms (open access)

Combining Clay and Light Into Sculptural Forms

This problem concerns the feasibility of combining the elements of light and clay in a sculptural concept of design. The study has determined various procedures of combining the sculptural ceramic forms for the internal inplant of light sources. Specific questions posed were 1. Can the surface decoration be enhanced by external and internal lighting? 2. How does each surface quality, raku, and low-fire salt glaze differ with the interplay of light? 3. In what way may two surface qualities be applied to the same sculptural ceramic forms? 4. How does scale effect each of the pieces?
Date: August 1978
Creator: Munoz, Gilberto, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Series of Self-Portraits Made In Jewelry Form (open access)

A Series of Self-Portraits Made In Jewelry Form

The problem consisted of creating a series of jewelry pieces in metal which embody the concept of a self-portrait. Each piece in the series has a physical outside and an inside area in its structure which together form a conceptual self-portrait. Each piece was partly preplanned in detail and partly spontaneously executed. The spontaneously executed parts of the individual pieces serve to include the presence of the subconscious self-image. The series when viewed as a whole or as individual parts will give an insight to my self-image.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Jones, Deborah Jan
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Use of Horizontal, Vertical, and Contour Lamination to the Sculptural Form (open access)

The Use of Horizontal, Vertical, and Contour Lamination to the Sculptural Form

The purpose of this problem was to investigate the advantages and possible limitations of horizontal, vertical, and contour laminating to the sculptural form. Specific questions were set forth to help determine the different aspects of these types of lamination. The specific questions for which answers were sought are as follow. 1. How complex a design can be executed by the laminating process? 2. How close to the design will the initial lamination be? 3. What are the best methods of lamination for each process: types of clamps, types of wood, types of glue, dowels and weights? 4. How successful may these lamination techniques be combined? 5. As the work was in progress, which became more important-- the surface quality or the form? 6. Will laminated forms remain stable?
Date: August 1978
Creator: Holsch, Robert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Effect of Different Paper Surfaces on the Development of Finished Collages (open access)

The Effect of Different Paper Surfaces on the Development of Finished Collages

The problem of this study will be to provide information on the degree of influence exerted by the choice of ground in the selection of collage elements and the final development of each collage.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Best, Rebecca Anne
System: The UNT Digital Library
An Analysis of Space and an Investigation Into the Nature of the Block-Out Process in My Current Work (open access)

An Analysis of Space and an Investigation Into the Nature of the Block-Out Process in My Current Work

The purpose of the creative project was to investigate the relationship of figure to ground in a series of paintings in order to better understand how I perceive the space in my work and to analyze the block-out process. Questions regarding the figure/ground relationship are as follow: 1. What is figure, what is ground and what is ambiguous as I see it? 2. What effects do overlapping, shape size, color and value have upon the figure/ground relationship? The portion of the investigation concerning the block-out process has two questions. They are as follow: 1. How do I begin the block-out process? 2. How do I decide what to block out?
Date: May 1978
Creator: Werner, Lois Wetzel
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Report on Control of Access to Stored Information in a Computer Utility (open access)

A Report on Control of Access to Stored Information in a Computer Utility

Time-sharing computer systems permit large numbers of users to operate on common sets of data and programs. Since certain parts of these computer resources may be sensitive or proprietary, there exists the risks that information belonging to one user, may, contrary to his intent, become available to other users, and there is the additional risk that outside agencies may infiltrate the system and obtain information. The question naturally arises of protecting one user's stored program and data against unauthorized access by others.
Date: 1978
Creator: Shakiba-Jahromi, Mostafa
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Computer Solved Scheduling Problem (open access)

A Computer Solved Scheduling Problem

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the use of the computer in solving complex real time scheduling problems. This problem involves the airline industry and is concerned with the local scheduling of security personnel to the gate areas for outgoing flights from one terminal at Dallas-Fort Worth airport. The purpose of this type of program is to enhance personnel efficiency and management control over a large group of people while cutting the cost of lower management.
Date: April 1978
Creator: Messinger, Stanley Eugene
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Method for Applying Scientific Subroutine Package in Microprocessor (open access)

A Method for Applying Scientific Subroutine Package in Microprocessor

The scientific subroutine package is one of the most important parts of the software for the scientific industry. By now, most big computers have scientific packages, but applying such a software package in microprocessors requires consideration of the microprocessor's facilities, such as limited main memory, slow execution time, and only a few small registers. In any scientific package, the trigonometric functions are the ones more widely used. This paper discusses a method for implementing several trigonometric function programs in a scientific package in microprocessors. These programs will contain routines for computing sin, cos, tan, and cot of any angle within the range of (-360°,+360°).
Date: April 1978
Creator: Latifi, Akbar
System: The UNT Digital Library
Initial Research for the Development or Purchase of a Computerized Synthesizer For Use as a Composer's Aid (open access)

Initial Research for the Development or Purchase of a Computerized Synthesizer For Use as a Composer's Aid

The author's primary goal is to begin research leading ot the attainment of a low cost computer/music system which will allow the composer to write polyphonic music of up to eight voices into a computer through a terminal, and have the music played back by means of computer synthesized sound or by means of a conventional synthesizer controlled by a computer via digital-to-analog converters. The goal system will allow the composer to retreat and hear his product objectively as the painter steps back to review his canvas.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Vaughan, Scott
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chemistry of coal model compounds: cleavage of aliphatic bridges between aromatic nuclei catalyzed by Lewis acids. (open access)

Chemistry of coal model compounds: cleavage of aliphatic bridges between aromatic nuclei catalyzed by Lewis acids.

The condensed polynuclear aromatic clusters of coal are believed to be linked principally by straight-chain aliphatic bridges varying from 0 to 4 carbon atoms in length and the cleavage of these linkages is expected to be an important step in the coal liquefaction process. This study focuses on the means by which Lewis acid catalysts, specifically AlCl/sub 3/ and ZnCl/sub 2/, promote the cleavage of these linkages. To facilitate product identification and interpretation of reaction mechanisms, organic compounds which model the aliphatic bridges were used on substrates. All experiments were performed in a magnetically stirred autoclave under either an H/sub 2/ or N/sub 2/ atmosphere at elevated pressure to determine the role of H/sub 2/. Reaction temperatures ranging from 200 to 350/sup 0/C were used to avoid the complication of pyrolysis reactions. Reaction products were identified with the aid of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry, and quantitative product yields were determined by gas chromatography. Experiments with AlCl/sub 3/ and the substrates containing two phenyl rings linked by 0 to 4 carbon atoms showed that AlCl/sub 3/ catalyzed cleavage of all the aliphatic bridges. ZnCl/sub 2/ was totally inactive in cleaving the alkyl bridges in these compounds. Substitution of a phenyl group by …
Date: April 1, 1978
Creator: Taylor, N. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Flow cytometric analysis of mitotic cycle perturbation by chemical carcinogens in cultured epithelial cells. [Effects of benzo(a)pyrene-diol-epoxide on mitotic cycle of cultural mouse liver epithelial cells] (open access)

Flow cytometric analysis of mitotic cycle perturbation by chemical carcinogens in cultured epithelial cells. [Effects of benzo(a)pyrene-diol-epoxide on mitotic cycle of cultural mouse liver epithelial cells]

A system for kinetic analysis of mitotic cycle perturbation by various agents was developed and applied to the study of the mitotic cycle effects and dependency of the chemical carcinogen benzo(a)pyrene-diolepoxide, DE, upon a mouse lever epithelial cell line, NMuLi. The study suggests that the targets of DE action are not confined to DNA alone but may include cytoplasmic structures as well. DE was found to affect cells located in virtually every phase of the mitotic cycle, with cells that were actively synthesizing DNA showing the strongest response. However, the resulting perturbations were not confined to S-phase alone. DE slowed traversal through S-phase by about 40% regardless of the cycle phase of the cells exposed to it, and slowed traversal through G/sub 2/M by about 50%. When added to G/sub 1/ cells, DE delayed recruitment of apparently quiescent (G/sub 0/) cells by 2 hours, and reduced the synchrony of the cohort of cells recruited into active proliferation. The kinetic analysis system consists of four elements: tissue culture methods for propagating and harvesting cell populations; an elutriation centrifugation system for bulk synchronization of cells in various phases of the mitotic cycle; a flow cytometer (FCM), coupled with appropriate staining protocols, to …
Date: August 1, 1978
Creator: Pearlman, A.L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Equation of state and transport measurements on expanded liquid metals up to 8000/sup 0/K and 0. 4 GPa (open access)

Equation of state and transport measurements on expanded liquid metals up to 8000/sup 0/K and 0. 4 GPa

Equilibrium measurements of pressure, enthalpy, density, temperature and resistivity have been made on liquid lead, platinum, gold-copper, uranium, niobium, and niobium-hafnium at high temperatures and pressures. A unique method of determining sample temperatures from multi-channel fast radiation pyrometry has been developed and used to calculate temperatures between 1600 and 8000 K without definitive emissivity information. Pseudo-potential theory has been used to model the lead resistivity and equation of state measurements and t-matrix theory has been applied to the uranium resistivity data.
Date: May 1, 1978
Creator: Hodgson, William Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Process development studies for the production of. beta. -glucosidase from Aspergillus phoenicis (open access)

Process development studies for the production of. beta. -glucosidase from Aspergillus phoenicis

This work is concerned with the production of ..beta..-glucosidase from Aspergillus phoenicis for use in the enzymatic hydrolysis of cellulose. Kinetic growth data indicate that two distinct periods of growth exist. The observed growth kinetics result from a biochemical differentiation of the filament which is independent of the substrate concentration. The optimum temperature for cell mass and ..beta..-glucosidase production was found to be 30/sup 0/C. The optimum pH for ..beta..-glucosidase production is 5 and the highest specific cell growth rate was observed when the growth medium was controlled at pH 4.5. The most economical substrate was 0.75 g/l of Solka Floc, a spruce wood pulp, plus 0.25 g/l of Trichoderma viride cellulase, required because A. phoenicis does not produce all the enzymes required to solubilize cellulose. When freeze-dried A. phoenicis enzyme was added to the hydrolysis of acid treated corn stover by Tricoderma viride cellulase, the total sugar yield was increased by 4 g/l of hydrolysate over the yield of 20 g/l obtained without ..beta..-glucosidase addition. In addition, the cellobiose, which accounted for about 10% of the sugar concentration, was converted to glucose, a more widely useable product. Preliminary designs of several processes for the production of ..beta..-glucosidase were made. …
Date: September 1, 1978
Creator: Howell, M. J. & Wilke, C. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Turbulent heat transport in two- and three-dimensional temperature fields (open access)

Turbulent heat transport in two- and three-dimensional temperature fields

A fundamental numerical study of turbulent heat and mass transport processes in two- and three-dimensional convective flows is presented. The model of turbulence employed is the type referred to as a second-order closure. In this scheme transport equations for all nonzero components of the Reynolds stress tensor, for the isotropic dissipation rate of turbulent kinetic energy, for all nonzero scalar flux tensor components and for the mean square scalar fluctuations are solved by a finite difference method along with the mean momentum and mean enthalpy (or concentration) equations. The model used for the stresses was developed earlier. Parallel ideas were utilised in obtaining a model for turbulent heat and mass transfer processes. The study has focused especially on the problem of nonaxisymmetric convective heat and mass transport in pipes, which arises when the boundary conditions are not axisymmetric. The few available experimental data on such situations have indicated anisotropy in effective diffusivities. To expand the available data base an experiment was conducted to obtain heat transfer measurements in strong three-dimensional heating conditions. Numerical procedures especially suitable for incorporation of second-order turbulent closure models have been developed. The effect of circumferential conduction in the tube material, which is influential in the …
Date: March 1, 1978
Creator: Samaraweera, D. S. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library