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The emergence and development of Browning's auditor

Description: By presenting the auditor as a unifying principle that links Browning's earliest works to his dramatic monologues, this dissertation enhances the importance of the ever-ignored experimental works in developing the dramatic monologue technique. An exploration of the emergence and development of the auditor has an additional, but never ancillary, effect of proclaiming the originality and inventiveness of Browning's dramatic technique.
Date: December 1991
Creator: Cho-Tak, Byong Eun
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Prisoner classification by behavioral, biographical, and psychometric analysis in cross-validation of the Mini-mult prisoner questionnaire

Description: The classification of adult criminal populations for training, treatment, and security purposes has been time-consuming and expensive. The main purpose of this study was to develop a classification system which considered a wide variety of behavioral, biographical, and psychometric variables and yet was efficient in terms of time and money.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Holmes, Robert Eugene
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The scope and nature of music programs in rural public community colleges

Description: The purposes of this study are to determine the scope and nature of music programs in rural public community colleges in the United States; to determine the unique characteristics of the rural public community college music program when compared to music programs of the total population of two-year colleges; to propose criteria to serve as a basis for a music program at rural public community colleges and to recommend a music program for rural public community colleges based upon the proposed … more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Pollard, J. Marvin
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Studies of the status of antioxidant enzymes and metabolites following burn injury, and the presence of antioxidant enzymes in the Aloe vera plant

Description: The effects of skin burn injury on the levels of oxidized and reduced glutthione, malondialdehyde, and on the activities of glutathione peroxidase, glutathione S-transferase, and glutathione reductase were determined in liver and lung of rabbit models, 24-h post-burn.
Date: December 1995
Creator: Sabeh, Farideh
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Life satisfaction among American women

Description: A national probability sample of over 4,000 American women was surveyed to determine the variables associated with magnitude of satisfaction with life. A life satisfaction index was constructed from the women's responses to satisfaction with five domains of life. Satisfaction with community, leisure, friends, and family were measured on a seven-point scale. Work satisfaction, which was measured on a four-point scale, was weighted to give it comparable status with other components of the index.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Freudiger, Patricia T.
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A study of the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of children attending half-day and full-day state-supported kindergartens

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not a significant difference existed in the cognitive, affective, and psychomotor development of kindergarten children as a function of half-day or full-day kindergarten programs. Four public school district in Education Service Center Region XIII in Texas participated in the study.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Hatcher, Barbara Ann
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A study of the perceptions of presidents and academic deans regarding role expectations and decision-making styles of academic deans in Texas community colleges

Description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether similarities exist in the perceptions of the roles of academic deans in community colleges. This study attempted to determine whether role expectations and perceptions reflected separate and distinct relationships, or if administrative patterns reflected an overlapping of responsibilities.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Hunt, Larry W.
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A partial needs assessment of the fashion design program of the Department of Art at North Texas State University with implications for curriculum revision

Description: The problem of this study concerned the relationships that exist between the actual practices of designers in the apparel industry and the present academic training of future designers. Purposes of this inquiry were to determine the expectations of designers by questioning commercial apparel manufacturers to ascertain the types of functions the fashion designer is expected to perform, to determine the importance the manufacturer places on that activity, and to make an appraisal of the industry'… more
Date: August 1976
Creator: Andrews, Jean
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Additional evidence on informational asymmetry at acquisition announcement

Description: This dissertation examines the partial anticipation hypothesis by employing the bid-ask spread approach in market microstructure theory. Selecting the OTC bidding firms with a careful research design, this dissertation divides sample firms into firms with acquisition programs and firms without acquisition programs.
Date: August 1991
Creator: Kim, Young Kook
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The attitude of the sixty-fourth Texas legislators towards serving the severely and profoundly handicapped and handicapped infants below the age of three

Description: The problem of this study was to determine the degree of Texas Legislative support for public school services to handicapped children not presently being served (birth through two and zero reject). This study has four purposes: To identify trends in respect to educating the handicapped birth through two and zero-reject; To determine State Legislative's attitude with respect to serving; To inform the legislature and educational leaders and familiarize them with the data collected; and to present… more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Phillips, Arthur A.
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Symbolism in the Davidsbündler dances of Robert Schumann (lecture-recital), together with three recitals of selected works by Mozart, Chopin, Schubert, J.S. Bach, Rachmaninoff, Bloch, Scarlatti, Ben Weber, Beethoven, Prokofieff and Liszt

Description: The first three recitals contained solely performances of piano music. The first of these consisted of a Fantasy and a set of variations by Mozart, the Fantaisie in F minor by Chopin, and the Sonata in C minor by Schubert. The second recital contained an English Suite by J. S. Bach, two Etudes-Tableaux and two Preludes by Rachmaninoff, and the Piano Sonata of Ernest Bloch. The third recital consisted of four Sonatas by Scarlatti, a Fantasia (Variations) by the American composer, Ben Weber, a So… more
Date: December 1979
Creator: Padgett, Olive D.
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An experiment with computer practice testing

Description: The problem of this investigation was concerned with the relationship between computer-assisted practice testing and the achievement of freshmen students in introductory sociology in a community college. The purpose of the study was to examine the potential effect of an interactive computer-practice testing program upon the achievement of introductory sociology students in a community college.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Preston, David Edward
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Characterizations of properties of spaces of finitely additive set functions in terms of mappings and integrals

Description: Settings and notions are as in previous abstracts of W. D. L. Appling. This paper contains an investigation of the relationship between a class of non-linear functions defined on PAB and certain subspaces of PAB in particular Appling's linear C-sets, Solomon leader's finitely additive Lp spaces, and one of the projective limit spaces studied by Davis, Murray, and Weber.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Bell, Wayne C.
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Perceptions of the coordination process of cooperative vocational education programs as viewed by instructor-coordinators and administrators in Texas community colleges and sponsoring employers in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex

Description: The primary motivation for conducting this study was the apparent conflict between Texas Education Agency guidelines for a vocational cooperative education program and the realities of actual program operation. In the program the mid-management student receives instruction, through a cooperative arrangement between the college and employers, in both academic courses and related vocational instruction.
Date: December 1979
Creator: Cox, J. O.
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The utility of an ethnic Spanish translation of the Iowa test of basic skills with second grade Mexican-American children

Description: The purpose of this study was to examine the utility of an ethnic Spanish translation of portions of the Iowa Test of Basic Skills, Level 7, Form 5, with second-grade Mexican-American children to measure growth in the fundamental skills of listening, vocabulary, word analysis, reading, and mathematics.
Date: August 1976
Creator: Granado, Joe F.
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Eckart frame motions and molecular vibrations

Description: This dissertation deals with motions of the Eckart frame in relation to molecular vibrations. The angular motion and the angular acceleration of the Eckart frame are treated. A technique for taking the first and second differentials of real symmetric eigenvalue problems is developed. This technique is applied to the first differential of the Eckart frame matrix.
Date: December 1978
Creator: Meyer, Frederick O.
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A dynamic computer model of the growth process in university nursing programs

Description: The aim of this research is to identify the critical variables influencing the growth process in baccalaureate nursing programs, to establish the system structure of relationships between those variables, to incorporate the variables and their relationships into a dynamic decision-oriented simulation model of the growth process, and to investigate the validity and usefulness of the simulation model.
Date: August 1977
Creator: Jones, Jack William
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The effects of coronary α₁-adrenergic stimulation on coronary blood flow and left ventricular function

Description: This study examines the α-adrenergic constrictor tone varies with intensity of exercise, the effects of coronary α1-adrenergic blockade on left ventricular contractile function and regional myocardial perfusion, and compares the effects of increasing coronary blood flow by removing α1-constrictor tone.
Date: May 1991
Creator: Dodd-o, Jeffrey M. (Jeffrey Michael)
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Water imagery and the baptism motif in Beowulf

Description: Functioning on three distinct but coexistent levels, water imagery unifies Beowulf. On the first level, that of conscious symbolism, Beowulf's three water adventures develop the triple immersion motif present in Anglo-Saxon baptism ritual. On the second level, that of the poet's personal unconscious, the water monsters against whom Beowulf struggles symbolize the hero's Shadow, his fallen nature in which lurk inadmissable and anarchic desires. On the deepest level, that of the port's collective… more
Date: August 1977
Creator: Mann, Betty Tucker
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A study in self-scheduling of high school students as opposed to computer scheduling

Description: The problem with which this investigation is concerned is that of determining success of selection of classes and satisfaction or dissatisfaction with self-scheduling as opposed to computer scheduling. A survey is made of 468 randomly selected high school students from four high schools in a large metropolitan school district.
Date: December 1975
Creator: Bingham, Walter W.
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