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The Impact of Education on Ticuna Indian Culture: an Historical and Ethnographic Field Study

Description: The purpose of this study were to provide fundamental ethnographic information about the Ticuna Indians and to determine to what extent the programs of bilingual education, administered among them by the Ministerio de Educación Pública del Perú and the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL), had accelerated their integration into mainstream Peruvian Life.
Date: December 1970
Creator: Sullivan, James Lamkin
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The Eumenides

Description: The Eumenides is a single-movement composition for orchestra, chorus, and prepared electronic tape. It is based on the Orestoian trilogy, The Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, by the classical Greek dramatist, Aeschylus. The text of the composition was formed by the extraction and amalgamation of certain ideas, key-words, and phrases from English translations of the plays made by Buckley, Hadas, Vellacott, and Lattimore, and also from the modern drama, Les Mouches, by the Fren… more
Date: December 1971
Creator: Wheat, Margaret Anne, 1922-
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Johnny, I Hardly Knew Ye : For Chorus and Orchestra

Description: This composition is based off the poem of the same name by Richard Sale. No particular harmonic plan was envisioned for Parts I, II and IV, because it was necessary for the harmonic scheme to be as fluid as the poetry. If the ideas of the text were similar some attempt was made to use a similar or modified melodic line or harmonic scheme. The structure of the text became the structure of the work. The motivating factor is the text, hence the many meter changes in order to keep pace with the poe… more
Date: December 1971
Creator: Salicco, Betty Lou Everett, 1925-
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The Sacrilege of Alan Kent : A Monodrama in Nine Scenes for Baritone Soloist, Orchestra and Tape

Description: The Sacrilege of Alan Kent is a monodrama in nine scenes for baritone soloist, orchestra, and tape. This composition may be presented as a dramatic or concert work. From the standpoint of a dramatic form, it may be considered an opera for one performer in nine brief scenes or vignettes. As a concert work, it resembles a song cycle.
Date: December 1971
Creator: Hutchison, Warner, 1930-
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Effect of DCPA on Growth, Morphology and Physiology of Foxtail-Millet Seedlings

Description: This investigation is concerned is concerned with how a commercial herbicide, dimethyl 2, 3, 5, 6-tetrachloroterephthalate (DCPA) affects the growth, morphology, and physiology of foxtail millet (Setaria italica (L.) Beav.). The objectives were to examine the nature of morphological changes, to determine what physiological and chemical changes accompanied the morphological alterations and to obtain information about the mechanism by which DCPA is herbicidal.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Chang, Chen-hong Ting
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Impressionism: Trends and Parallels in Music and Painting as Related to the M̲i̲ṟo̲i̲ṟs̲ of Maurice Ravel, a Lecture Recital; Together with four Recitals of Selected Works of J. S. Bach, W. A. Mozart, L. Van Beethoven, J. Brahms, F. Chopin, F. Liszt, S. Prokofieff, and D. Mathew

Description: The lecture recital was given April 23, 1973. A discussion of trends and parallels in Impressionist music and painting included information about specific technical devices and innovations related to and common to the arts of music and painting, as seen in the Miroirs of Ravel. Slides of Impressionist paintings were used as illustrations. The five pieces of the Miroirs were then performed by memory.
Date: December 1972
Creator: Muñoz, Phyllis Ray
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Some Population Parameters of Quercus Stellata in the Texas Cross Timbers

Description: This population study of Quercus stellata in the Texas Cross Timbers evaluates that population by observation and sampling of 220 upland forest stands. The Texas Cross Timbers is divided into the East Cross Timbers (ECT) and the West Cross Timbers (WCT) by the Fort Worth Prairie.
Date: December 1972
Creator: McCluskey, Richard L.
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Interaction of Various Components of Staphylococcus Aureus

Description: Previous reports have shown that killed cells of S. aureus potentiate the lethal effect of crude staphylococcal alpha toxin for mice. In the present study this synergistic effect has been demonstrated with highly purified preparations of alpha toxin. Time studies indicate that the active principle does not appear to be released until approximately two hours following administration of the whole cells.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Pearce, Paul Jones
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Life Cycle and Ecology of the Hydropsychidae (Trichoptera) of the Brazos River, Texas

Description: Populations of all stages of three species of Hydropsychidae, Hydropsyche simulans, Cheumatopsyche campyla, and Cheumatopsyche lasia were sampled fro September, 1971, to August, 1972, on the Brazos River in Palo Pinto County, Texas. Supplemental observations relating to emergence, mating and oviposition, and larvae food habits were continued to July, 1973. The purpose of this study was to elucidate the life cycles and ecology of this Hydropsychidae complex.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Rhame, Roy Eddie
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Psalm

Description: Psalm is a composition for symphony orchestra. The duration is from twelve to fifteen minutes. The form is sonata-allegro. Tonal organization is twelve-tone, although melodic development is by traditional methods rather than by row technique. Tempo modulation has replaced the traditional tonal modulation of sonata form. The first theme provides the harmonic basis for the entire work after the introduction. The second theme is used extensively in the development. The development is a fugue in wh… more
Date: December 1973
Creator: Zorko, George Mathew
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A Study of Transient Molecular Ions Using a Resonant Microwave Cavity as a Probe

Description: The microwave-resonant-cavity technique was employes as a probe to determine the presence of molecular ions of helium in a d.c.-discharge, helium-plasma filament placed coaxially in a TM010 mode cavity. The cavity-resonance profile was displayed on an oscilloscope, and the nature of the perturbation of this resonance was used to determine the nature of the ions present in the plasma stream.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Congleton, Michael William
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Stylistic, Technical, and Compositional Trends in Early Twentieth-Century Music for Unaccompanied Clarinet; Together with Three Recitals of Music by Bartok, Bozza, Brahms, Debussy, Martinu, Mozart, Raphael, Schumann, and Wanhal

Description: The dissertation consists of four recitals: one chamber music recital, two solo recitals, and one lecture recital. The repertoire of these programs was chosen with the intention of demonstrating the capability of the performer to deal with problems arising in works of varying types and of different historical periods.
Date: December 1973
Creator: Schoepflin, Howard James
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The Crystalline Sense

Description: "The Crystalline Sense" is a composition in one movement for chamber orchestra with the following instrumentation: flute, oboe, clarinet in Bb (doubling bass clarinet in Bb), bassoon, horn in F, trumpet in Bb, trombone, percussion and strings. The composition is approximately nine minutes in length. The goals of the work are (1) to employ intra-sectional practices, (2) to derive all rhythmic ideas from the main themes, (3) to combine certain elements of chromatic, whole tone, and certain triadi… more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Brooks, Robert John
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Studies on the Evolutionary Relationships of Aldolase, Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase, and Actin from the Muscle of A̲s̲c̲a̲ṟi̲s̲ Su̲u̲m̲ and Actin-Aldolase Interactions in Rabbit Muscle

Description: Procedures for the isolation and characterization of Ascaris glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and actin are described. The properties of these proteins, including molecular weights, isoelectric points, kinetics, peptide maps, and amino acid compositions, are strikingly similar to the respective proteins from rabbit muscle.
Date: December 1974
Creator: Dedman, John R.
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The Trumpet in Baroque Opera: its Use as a Solo, Obbligato, and Ensemble Instrument

Description: The process of the organization of the orchestra began with the rise of opera; considered on a broad scale this process divides itself into two periods, the first terminated by the deaths of Bach and Handel (1600-1759) and the second beginning with the complete change of orchestral sound evident in the symphonies of Haydn and Mozart during the second half of the eighteenth century. It is the first of these two periods that witnessed the composers of art music exploiting the natural trumpet, an … more
Date: December 1974
Creator: Ciurczak, Peter L. (Peter Louis)
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An analysis of a university organizational climate as perceived by undergraduate- and graduate-level students in terms of an environmental management appraisal

Description: The purpose of the present study is (1) to describe the North Texas State University organizational climate as perceived by undergraduate-and graduate-level students, (2) to compare their perceptions of institutional characteristics with students in other (norm group) universities throughout the nation, (3) to compare selected nominal subgroup data of the undergraduate-graduate student population in regard to their perception of the organizational climate, and (4) to provide sound information t… more
Date: December 1975
Creator: Munchus, George M.
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Analysis of activities in production typewriting and development of a teaching model and standards

Description: The problem of this study is an analysis of activities in production typewriting, development of a teaching model, and establishment of production standards. The study has four main purposes which are: (1) to identify the time spent in keystroking, decision making, typing from longhand copy, erasing an original, typing and correcting one carbon copy, and proofreading; (2) to test the correlation between anxiety level and decision-making time, and IQ and decision-making time; (3) to analyze the … more
Date: December 1975
Creator: Foust, Patsy
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An analysis of faculty attitudes toward administrators in an urban junior college district

Description: The problem of this study is to describe and analyze faculty attitudes toward administrators in an urban junior college district. The purposes of this study are to ascertain the attitudes of junior college faculty toward campus-level administrative positions and to determine what relationship existed between general and specific measures of faculty attitude.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Birkner, Samuel Davis
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