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The Tarrant County Atlas for Planning: A Geographic Information System for Open Space Design

Description: This project demonstrates the construction of a land planning geographic information system (GIS) for Tarrant County, and explores how the technology could be used to select sites for a county wide open space preservation plan. As Texas' Tarrant County continues to undergo rapid change due to growth and expansion, the need for proactive, resourceful community planning is greater than ever. One crucial issue facing the region is how to preserve open areas that serve the county's citizens' ecolog… more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Stewart, Mark Pierce
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International Joint Venture: An Analysis of the Effect of Joint Venture Formation on Shareholder Wealth

Description: The purpose of the study is to empirically investigate the effect of international joint venture formation on shareholder wealth. The period under investigation was from 1972 to 1987. Based on the theoretical and empirical researches done in this area, several hypotheses were tested. The statistical significance of the capital market reation to the joint venture formations was examined by using the standard event study methodology. The Ordinary Least Squares method was used to estimate the coef… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Sakullelarasm, Phornchai
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Stress in Academic Administrators in Public and Private Universities in Thailand

Description: The purposes of this study were to measure and compare stress levels of academic administrators in public and private universities which are under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of University Affairs in Thailand. The administrators surveyed included vice rectors (vice presidents), deans, department chairpersons, and secretary officers from five public and five private universities. The four administrative stress factors studied included role-based stress, task-based stress, conflict-mediating… more
Date: May 1991
Creator: Kittikorn, Achara
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The Association Between Postmodernistic Trends and Historical Scholarship With Implications for the College-Level Teaching of History

Description: The debates among historians regarding the "crisis in history" have been directed to various problems. The fragmentation of historical scholarship and writing embodied in the "new history," the alleged overspecialization of historical scholarship, and recent challenges to the objectivity of historical fact and interpretation receive attention. Successive chapters attend to a general background study and description of postmodernism, the association between postmodernistic trends and historical … more
Date: December 1990
Creator: Summers, Jerry L. (Jerry Lynn)
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Effectiveness of microcounseling as a supervisory model for teaching interviewing skills

Description: This study dealt with the problem of training selected basic interviewing skills to beginning counselors. The purposes of this investigation were 1) to assess the effectiveness of microcounseling for training the skills of open-ended questioning and verbal minimal encouraging; 2) to assess the influence of microcounseling on counselor verbal participation; 3) to determine whether training in these skills via the microcounseling model will generalize to the actual counseling setting and be maint… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Arnold, Bill R.
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Cue-controlled relaxation using covertly versus overtly produced cues under stress and no-stress conditions

Description: The present study directly contrasted the efficacy of biofeedback-assisted cue-controlled relaxation, biofeedback-assisted metronome -conditioned relaxation, and both procedures combined via one physiological and one subjective measure of relaxation under no-stress and stress conditions.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Dial, Miles H.
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Symbolism and meaning in Vingt regards sur l'Enfant-Jésus by Olivier Messiaen, a lecture recital, together with three recitals of selected works

Description: The lecture recital was given April 10, 1978. The importance of symbolism in and its relation to the music in Messian's Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jésus was discussed. The following pieces from this work were performed: I. Regard du Pére; II. Regard de l'étoile; III. L'échange; VII. Regard de la Croix; VIII. Regard des hauters; XIII. Noël.
Date: August 1978
Creator: Morris, Betty Ann Walker
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The cadenza: performance practice in alto trombone concerti of the eighteenth century

Description: This study examines the history of the cadenza, as well as the fundamental elements of a good cadenza. This paper is intended to help the modern trombonist learn to create appropriate, original cadenzas for classical trombone concerti. Both historical and modern writing,as well as extant classical cadenzas are used as a guide.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Bruenger, David
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Evolution of the leadership behavior of a newly assigned principal and the organizational climate of the school

Description: The purposes of this study were to investigate the evolution of the school climate during the first year of a new principal's assignment to the school as perceived by the principal and the teachers; and to investigate the relationship between the school climate and the leadership behavior of the principal as perceived by the principal and the teachers. In addition, an investigation was made of the relationship between the teachers' perception of the principal's leadership behavior and the self-… more
Date: December 1979
Creator: Echols, Robin W.
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Self-Monitoring of Stressors as an Additive Component to a Stress Management Training Protocol

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine whether or not self-monitoring of stressors and physiological response to stressors enhances the effectiveness of a stress management technique, specifically relaxation training. The primary hypothesis which stated that the RSMS group would experience a greater reduction in depression (on the Beck Depression Inventory), and enhancement in self-efficacy (on the General Self-efficacy Scale) than all other groups, was not supported.
Date: August 1992
Creator: Eads, Julie A. (Julie Anne)
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The Effect of Teacher Training on Internet Usage in the Classroom

Description: The purpose of this study is to determine the impact on student use of electronic information systems when teachers have been given instruction on their use. By providing teachers with a solid introduction to the technology, a handy reference book, and an easy-to-use evaluation tool, it is expected that they will incorporate information found on the internet into their lessons at least twice a month. In addition, teachers will allow students to access information on their own, provided computer… more
Date: August 1996
Creator: Meyer, Gay Lyn
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The association between reading ability and test performance among adults of limited reading ability

Description: This study examined adult students of limited reading ability, determining the extent to which their performance on a standardized examination was a function of their reading ability, rather than function of their knowledge of the material tested by the examination.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Fuller, Frank D. (Frank Davidson)
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An investigation of the attitudes of selected professional classical solo singer-actors toward specific concerns of the music profession

Description: The purpose was to investigate attitudes of successful full-time performing classical singer-actors toward career concerns of the music profession. Five research problems were formulated to: (1) describe attitudes toward control of work conditions; (2) describe attitudes toward entrapment; (3) describe attitudes toward dependency; (4) report attitudes concerning current practices of training the solo singer; and (5) identify commonalities among the subjects regarding demographic, the attitudes… more
Date: December 1990
Creator: VanEaton, Sunny F. C.
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Cognitive control of induced pain: an analog comparison of four strategies

Description: The specific purpose of the study was to determine the differential efficacy of three different multicompetent cognitive strategies in the control of an induced pain. An exploratory investigation was also conducted to determine the relationship of health locus of control, expectancy, compliance, and anxiety ratings with the variables of pain tolerance and subjective pain ratings.
Date: August 1978
Creator: McKinlay, Thomas
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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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An investigation of the effects of presentation format and time pressure on decision makers performing tasks of varying complexitites

Description: The primary objective of this study was to determine which presentation format leads to better decision performance when the decision maker solving a problem of certain complexity is experiencing a certain level of time pressure.
Date: December 1990
Creator: Hwang, Mark I. (Mark Ing-Hwa)
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A New Way of Statecraft: The Career of Elton Mayo and the Development of the Social Sciences in America, 1920-1940

Description: Considered "the father of the science of human relations," Elton Mayo was instrumental in the development of industrial psychology and sociology in America. The career of Elton Mayo and his attraction to influential figures like John D. Rockefeller, Jr., provide a chronological order and interpretive force to understand this development. Mayo's concern about human behavior in the modern industrial world and management's concern over the future of industrial relations, found common ground in th… more
Date: August 1992
Creator: Cullen, David O'Donald, 1951-
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Presenting Lateralized Memory Loads With Visual Hemifield Tasks

Description: 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)
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