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Price Elasticity, J-Curve, and the Balance of Trade: An Econometric Study of Bangladesh
The question for this thesis is whether the static and the dynamic theory of international trade stability holds in reality in Bangladesh.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Ahmed, Mehboob U.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Human Resource Policies in Jordan: An Exploratory Study of the Influence of Governmental Expenditures on Development
This study was an assessment of governmental expenditures for human resource programs on economic and social development in Jordan from 1948 to 1988. An assessment was made of the impact of governmental expenditures for education, health, and welfare on the growth of the economy as measured by gross national product (GNP) and the quality of life as measured by the physical quality of life index (PQLI). The major purpose of the investigation was to provide policy makers with an alternative way of assessing the influence of governmental expenditures on development.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Al-Louzi, Musa Salameh
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Subsidy ("Vanity") Publishing Among American College and University Faculty
The problem of this study was subsidy ("vanity") publishing among college and university faculty. The purpose of the study was to estimate the extent to which postsecondary faculty use subsidy presses for the publication of their scholarly writings and the professional reasons for which academicians choose these presses to publish their works, viz., tenure, promotion, or salary increase. An additional purpose was to compare the subsidy publication experiences of faculty according to the types of institutions which employ them. The study involved 11 national subsidy publishers and 1,124 subsidy-published authors throughout the United States. Subsidy-published authors were identified occupationally as faculty by their appearance in the 1990 edition of The National Faculty Directory. The subjects in this study consisted of (a) faculty members listed in The National Faculty Directory. 1990 who are (b) known to have used subsidy presses for publishing their writings. A major finding of the study was that the proportion of vanity-published authors who are college and university faculty was small. Twenty-seven percent of the faculty whose books had been published by subsidy presses indicated that they had written and published in order to earn salary increases. Another 23% indicated that they had their books published to …
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Alahmad, Husam I. (Husam Ibrahim)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
An Investigation on the Use of Verbal Communication and Vocal Performance During University-Level Applied Studio Voice Lessons
The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of verbal communication and vocal performance during university-level applied studio voice lessons. Specific emphasis lay on the relationship between verbal communication, vocal performance, and instructional segments as defined by technical and song literature vocal repertoire.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Albrecht, Karen E. (Karen Elizabeth)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Distant Thoughts: Dreams and Reflections
Distant Thoughts: Dreams and Reflections, A Suite for Symphonic Winds, is a seventeen-minute work composed for the high school level wind ensemble. The instrumentation is based on the typical high school band resources. Instrumentation includes piccolo, two flutes, two oboes, English horn, three clarinets, bass clarinet, two alto saxophones, tenor saxophone, baritone saxophone, two bassoons, four trumpets, four horns, two trombones, bass trombone, two euphoniums, two tubas, timpani, and four percussionists.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Alexander, Joe L.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Concurrent Pattern Recognition and Optical Character Recognition
The problem of interest as indicated is to develop a general purpose technique that is a combination of the structural approach, and an extension of the Finite Inductive Sequence (FI) technique. FI technology is pre-algebra, and deals with patterns for which an alphabet can be formulated.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
An, Kyung Hee
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mechanism of Myeloid Differentiation Induced by a Differentiation Factor Isolated from Rat Lung Conditioned Medium
A leukemia Differentiation Factor (DF), that induced differentiation of rat leukemia MIA C51 cells, was isolated from endotoxin-stimulated rat lung conditioned media.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Ansari, Naser A. (Naser Awni)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Brain-Reactive Antibodies: Molecular Specificity and Relationship to Biological Aging
Brain-reactive antibodies (BRA) increase in frequency with age in several mammalian species and may be involved in the pathogenesis of age-related dementia. In this experiment, the molecular specificity of BRA in mouse sera was determined using an immunoblot assay, and the relationship of BRA to longevity was studied by comparing the rate of formation of specific BRAs in diet restricted C57BL/6NNia, B6D2F1/NNia, and DBA/2NNia, genotypes which differ markedly in life-span.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Apte, Vaijayanti
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The principle of "sankofa" in elementary music instruction in southern Ghana: selected school personnel's views of and their role in its implementation
The study ascertained elementary school teachers' and supervisors' views about their role in the implementation of Sankofa (Go back and retrieve) in school music. Sankofa mandates the integration of distinctive Ghanian traditional values and practices with Western educational concepts in the school curriculum. In music, it calls for the fusion of multi-ethnic musics of Ghana with Western musical concepts in public school music instruction. Some concerns expressed by Ghanian music educators regarding teachers' negative attitudes toward Sankofa in public school music had prompted the study.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Attah, Joe K. (Joe Kofi)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Particle size distribution and qualitative/quantitative analysis of trace metals in the combustion gas and fly ash of coal/refuse derived fuel
This work includes two different areas of research. Both areas are related to the combustion of the binder-enhanced densified refuse derived fuel (bdRDF) with high sulfur coal and examining trace elements. The first area of this work involved studying the trace metals in the combustion gas of bdRDF/coal blend and the effect of the binder, CA(OH)2, on reducing the trace elements emissions. The second area of work involved studying the trace elements in the fly ash and the effect of the dRDF and the binder of trace metals.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Attili, Bassam Saleem
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Prevention of Endotoxic Shock in Mice Using Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha Monoclonal Antibody
In this study the mouse tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α) was prepared by stimulating macrophage cell line RAW 264.7 with lipopoly-saccharide (LPS) obtained from Escheria coli strain 055:B5.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Ayub, Qasim
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Cloning, characterization and expression of the xylXYZ region of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid pDK1
In this study a library of EcoRI fragments encompassing the entire TOL region of the Pseudomonas putida TOL plasmid pDK1 was constructed in the Escheria coli cloning vector pBR325.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Azadpour, Elahe E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Practices of English Diction for Singers 1900-1971
Specialized training in English diction for singers became increasingly prevalent in the twentieth century. Along with this growth, a small but significant literature on the subject developed. There are divergent practices recommended for American singers, displayed by nine authors in ten books published between 1900 and 1971. A comparative study yields pedagogies of vowel and consonant production. Issues of sounds in context, including proper linkage and stress, adjustments from speech to song, and practices dictated by musical style, are paramount. The literature demonstrates an increased use of International Phonetic Alphabet symbols as a pedagogical tool. The areas of kinesiology and acoustical research are suggested for further study.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Barber, Carol H. (Carol Hansell)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Heresy vs. Orthodoxy: The Preus/Tietjen Controversy
Using the framework set up by rhetorical critic Thomas M. Lessl in his article "Heresy, Orthodoxy, And The Politics Of Science", this study examines the ways in which heretical discourse defines community boundaries and shapes perceptions of right belief. Specifically, this study analyzes the historic conflict in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod which produced the doctrinal statement "A Statement of Scriptural and Confessional Principles". Comparison is made between this event and other "heretical" conflicts in other discourse communities. This study concludes that community boundaries must be drawn, and that a doctrinal or policy statement is a useful rhetorical tool to accomplish such a task. Rhetorical critics may assist in this by examining heretical conflicts as historical trends, rather than emotional dissonance.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Barnhart, Melody R. (Melody Ruth)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Owen Glendower and the Welsh Fight for Independence
Owen Glendower led the last military struggle of the Welsh against the English crown for Welsh independence and nationalism. The failure of the Glendower rebellion established the supremacy of English rule over Wales. For six hundred years the status of Wales as a principality of the crown has not been seriously challenged. This paper will show how widespread the idea of "Welshness" was in 1400 and how much support existed for Wales as an independent nation. Welshmen sought to move from the status of a medieval, tribal principality to a position of an independent nation capable and ready to stand with other national in the world. The role of leadership that Owen Glendower assumed in the final rebellion against the English king, Henry IV, lifted him from a popular Welsh prince to an historical legend.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Beims, Phillip Eric
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Effects of Sustained Gepirone Administration on Rodent Brain 5-HT Receptors and Behavioral Analogues of Anxiety
Clinical evidence has demonstrated that the anxiolytic effects produced by the selective 5-hydroxytryptamine1A (5-HT1A) receptor agonist, gepirone, increase progressively over one to three weeks of treatment.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Benjamin, Daniel E. (Daniel Ernest)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Personal Reading Interests of Third, Fourth, and Fifth Grade Children in Selected Arkansas Public Schools
The purpose of this study was to determine the personal reading interests of students in the third, fourth and fifth grades and to determine if advances in technology in the past twenty years have changed their reading interests.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Berry, Mary Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The personal reading interests of third, fourth, and fifth grade children in selected Arkansas public schools
The purpose of this study was to determine the personal reading interests of students in the third, fourth, and fifth grades and to determine if advances in technology in the past twenty years have changed their reading interests.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Berry, Mary Ann
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Presenting Lateralized Memory Loads With Visual Hemifield Tasks
After an intelligence test battery, the sixty right-handed subjects (30 males, 30 females) performed two visual field (VF) reaction time (RT) tasks requiring odd-even judgments concerning the whole numbers 1 through 8. Numbers were presented as words, a right VF left-hemisphere (LH) advantage task, or as bargraphs, a left, VF right-hemisphere (RH) advantage task, the height of the bargraphs indicating the number.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Berryman, Maurice L. (Maurice Lynn)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Art Process in Therapy: A Phenomenological Study
This study utilized a phenomenological research methodology based on Husserl's work to explore the content of subjective internal experiencing during the art process. The study was designed to examine what transpired during the art experience in therapy to provide a better understanding of the therapeutic dimensions of the subject's interaction with the art medium, in this case drawing with pastels. This phenomenological study involved four subjects who participated in eight therapy sessions each, in which art was the principal medium, for a total of 40 hours of therapy over a period of 10 weeks. On the basis of the findings and conclusions of this study, recommendations were made for a series of studies to be conducted to gain broader insight into the therapeutic modalities of the art process. Some considerations for training programs of therapists in the use of art in therapy and recommendations for therapists trained in the use of art in therapy were also included.
Date:
August 1991
Creator:
Bliss, Shirley E.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Computer Simulations of Mechanical Behavior of Polymer Liquid Crystals
In this dissertation molecular dynamics simulations of behavior of polymer liquid crystals (PLC's) under tensile deformation have been performed. PLC's composed of random or block copolymers of rigid and flexible segments have been studies. Systems of fully flexible chains have been simulated for comparison. Stress-strain relations and fracture mechanics have been investigated.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Blonski, Slawomir
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and the Priesthood: An Analysis of Official Church Statements Concerning Black Priesthood Denial
This study sought to determine whether the change in the LDS Church practice of black Priesthood denial on June 8, 1978, was voluntary or was a result of external and internal pressures against the Church. Four official statements given by the First Presidency of the Church were examined using Karlyn Kohrs Campbell's seven elements of rhetorical action. It was determined that external and internal pressures from the NAACP, civil rights activists, and dissonant LDS believers, against the Church's practice of black Priesthood denial, were the motivations behind the change in Church practice.
Date:
December 1991
Creator:
Bolen, Ingrid B. (Ingrid Britt)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Descriptions of Self-Esteem Among Women in a General Educational Development (GED) Program
This research investigated changes in self-esteem and whether the origin and development of that self-esteem could be described in adult females participating in a GED program located at an Army Community Outreach Center. The Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory was used to measure the self-esteem of 22 female family members of military personnel who did not adequately complete a high school program in the United States. Data were collected through interviews, daily journal writings, questionnaires, instructor's written observations, and the Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory.
Date:
May 1991
Creator:
Bonnett, Mary A.
System:
The UNT Digital Library