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An Analysis Of Residential Camp Site Structure !Or Two Early Archaic Assemblages From Rose Island (40mr44), Tennessee, Larry R. Kimball

Masters Theses

The site structure of two Early Archaic period assemblages is defined through spatial analysis of artifact and facility distributions at the Rose Island site (40MR44) in the lower Little Tennessee River valley. These assemblages derive from well controlled excavation of deeply buried alluvial deposits attributable to LeCroy (c. 6100-6500 B.C.) and St. Albans (c. 6600-7000 B.C.) temporal units. Spatial patterning is detected using multivariate statistical analysis of formal implement, instant tool, and debitage categories. The observed spatial patterns are interpreted through a comparison with expected spatial patterns generated from an a priori model of hunter-gatherer residential camp activity structure. The …

Technical Bulletins: Are You Prepared For The World's Fair?, C. L. Overman, Jackie Kersh

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin was intended to stimulate additional ideas for promotion of local attractions during the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville.

Technical Bulletins: Federal Revenue Sharing Actual Use Reports, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

During the week of October 12, 1981, the Bureau of the Census mailed each Tennessee municipality the form or forms for reporting that city's actual use of general revenue sharing funds and local tax data for fiscal year 1980-81, which include adjusted taxes and intergovernmental revenues. This Technical Bulletin includes a list of those forms and their functions.

Introducing Online Search Services Using Videotape, Carol Tenopir, Barbara Bird

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

The medium of videotape is well suited for introductory presentations about online searching. Several library schools and vendors have created videotaped instructions for novice searchers, but some libraries have now begun to use the medium to produce introductions aimed at potential patrons of their online search services. Reports of several of these presentations are examined in this paper. The library at the University of Hawaii at Manoa produced several videotapes to introduce online search services to their patrons. The problems encountered, uses and potential of these productions are discussed.

Technical Bulletins: New Developments In Cable Tv, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses some of the trends in cable television systems and their implications for local governments.

Technical Bulletins: Nlc Program To Help Cities With Airport Noise Problems, William Gary Head

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Announcement of the National League of Cities program "Each Community Helps Others" (ECHO), which was designed to provide technical assistance to communities which have problems with airport noise.

Technical Bulletins: Requirements For Certificate Of Conformance In Financial Reporting, Mike Pentecost, Jim Leuty

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about the Certificate of Conformance in Financial Reporting Program. The Certificate of Conformance in Financial Reporting Program was begun by the Municipal Finance Officers Association (MFOA) in 1945 to emphasize its belief that every governmental unit should prepare and publish an easily understandable, comprehensive annual financial report (CAFR) covering all of its funds and financial transactions during the year.

Technical Bulletins: Annual Report Required On Local Government Retirement Plans, Don W. Ownby

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter No. 137, Public Acts of 1981, the "Tennessee Public Pension Review Act," requires that an annual report shall be made on the actuarial and financial status of each retirement plan in effect for employees of local government units in Tennessee.

The Effects Of Study Carrels On The Behavior And Academic Performance Of Distractible Elementary School Children, Robert William Johnson

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of study carrels on distractible students. A secondary objective was to determine whether behavioral contrast effects resulted from working in the study carrels. Four third grade and two fifth grade students served as subjects. An ABAB single subject design was employed with the fifth graders. Observers collected data on the subjects' behaviors. During the intervention condition, the subjects did their independent seatwork while seated in a study carrel. To examine for behavioral contrast, data were collected during the period immediately after the students used the carrels.

The study carrels …

Final Report To The National Science Foundation, Donald F. Norris

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Report summarizes the progress and activities of the Tennessee Innovation Group during the period of May 1980 through July 1981. Together with the Report prepared for NSF in April 1980, it should provide a comprehensive overview of the three-year local government technology innovation effort undertaken by the University· of Tennessee through the Tennessee Innnovation Group.

An Ethnographic Inquiry Into Social Identity, Social Stratification, And Premature School Withdrawal In A Rural Appalachian School, Anthony P. Cavender

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is concerned with the ascription of pariah student identity and how this possibly relates to the low level of education attainment in rural Appalachia. The informal social organization and educational ethos of a rural school in eastern Tennessee, Rock Hill (k-7), is examined with respect to the school's influence on premature student withdrawal.

Data were collected over an eight month period during which the author employed participant observation and other ethnographic research techniques. In comparison to previous inquiries on educational problems in rural Appalachia, this investigation represents one of the few which have utilized the research methodology of …

Technical Bulletins: Mtas Technical Reports And Bulletins: Index And Filing Suggestions, E. W. Meisenhelder

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin explains the differences between the two publication series issued by MTAS since 1973 (as of July 1981): the MTAS Technical Bulletin and the MTAS Technical Report. Included is an index, arranged by major and minor subjects, of all MTAS bulletins and reports.

National Banking In Knoxville, Tennessee, 1864-1913, James Townsend Campen

Doctoral Dissertations

This is a study of the nine national banks which operated in Knoxville, Tennessee, from 1864 to 1913. The purpose of this study was to determine the major factors influencing the behavior of those banks as they responded to changes in the national regulatory environment and local business conditions. The local banks were compared with one another and with other groups of national banks to discover patterns of acquisition and use of funds. Information about assets and liabilities was obtained from reports made by national banks which were published in local newspapers or by the Comptroller of the Currency, from …

The Averbuch Skeletal Series: A Study Of Biological And Social Stress At A Late Mississippian Period Site From Middle Tennessee, Hugh Edward Berryman

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to examine the biological and social evidence of stress at the Averbuch site (40DV60), a late Mississippian Period Middle Cumberland Culture village from the Nashville Basin in Middle Tennessee. Recent excavation of this site produced one of the largest systematically excavated skeletal series from Tennessee. The majority of burials were recovered from three cemeteries which could be aligned temporally. It was hoped that analysis of this skeletal series would illuminate conditions which contributed to the late prehistoric decline and ultimate disappearance of the Middle Cumberland people from the Nashville area.

A general investigation of …

Technical Bulletins: Estimates And Explanation Of 1981-82 State Shared Funds For Cities, Ken Joines, C. L. Overman

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

A summary of what cities could expect to receive from the state shared funds for the 1981-82 fiscal year. To provide some background to municipal officials regarding state shared taxes, a brief summary of each shared tax revenue source is provided along with the permitted use of each revenue and schedule of payments to cities.

Psychological Differentiation And Future Time Perspective, John Stewart Durland Iii

Doctoral Dissertations

Witkin's differentiation hypothesis predicts communality in the formal aspects of behavior across diverse psychological areas. The purpose of the present research was to determine to what extent Kastenbaum's dimensions of future time perspective (FTP) are related to Witkin's psychological differentiation (PD) construct.

Experimental data were obtained in two phases. First, 60 undergraduates were administered two tests of PD and four tests of FTP. Based on indexes of PD, the 10 most and 10 least psychologically differentiated subjects were asked to return for further testing. The second phase entailed making unobtrusive observations of temporal behavior during the course of 15-minute structured …

The A-B Dermatoglyphic Ridge Breadth: An Indication Of Developmental Significance, Anne Hawkins Prisock

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was threefold: to present a-b ridge breadth data on various populations; to synthesize factors influencing the a-b ridge breadth; and to suggest areas of developmental significance which are important in the a-b ridge breadth determination. The a-b ridge breadths of ten sample groups representing Whites, Blacks, Amerindians, and Indians were collected and determined.

The mean a-b ridge breadths were determined for each of the ten sample populations. These a-b ridge breadths were compared with previously published a-b ridge breadth data. The primary procedure used in data analysis was analysis of variance (ANOVA). The groups were …

Dermatoglyphic Variability In Armenian Fingertips And Palms: A Directional Asymmetry Approach To Identify Developmental Stress, Cleone Hart Hawkinson

Masters Theses

The dermatoglyphic variability of the fingertips and palms of an Armenian sample was investigated. The sample consisted of 228 stressed and unstressed individuals. Prenatal stress due to severe physical and nutritional deprivation was not recorded in the developing dermal ridge system in the form of increased directional asymmetry or variation in ridge breadth. No intergenerational effect of stress on the dermal ridge system was identified. A new palmar variable, b-c ridge breadth, was developed and incorporated into the analysis.

Technical Bulletins: Final 1980 Population Count -- Tennessee Municipalities, Michael Tallent, Gary Mabrey

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides the final population counts of the 1980 census for Tennessee municipalities, based upon information from the U.S. Bureau of Census.

Technical Bulletins: Suggested Budget Calendar For Small/Medium-Sized Cities, William R. Bailey

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides guidelines for what kind of budgetary schedule a small or medium-sized city might follow.

Technical Report: Street & Road Maintenance, Donald F. Norris, Vanessa F. Hester

MTAS History

This Report addresses an increasingly complex and costly problem facing local governments: namely, street and road maintenance. It was written to provide information and guidance to local public officials and professionals in the field on new and perhaps better materials, methods and equipment for street and road maintenance. Provided here is an overview of several alternative and innovative methods of street and road maintenance in three areas: pothole repair; pavement cracking and repair; and asphalt recycling. In addition, an annotated bibliography covering general aspects of street and road maintenance, pothole repair, pavement cracking and repair, and asphalt recycling is included.

Stimulus, Spring 1981, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Public Hearing And Reporting Regulations For Revenue Sharing, Gary Mabrey

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides a list of the public participation notices and hearings which were required to be held for the 1981-82 budget process, as well as a list of key dates indicating time of submission of entitlement check and time of submission of the Statement of Assurances and Data Improvement (per capita income, population, adjusted taxes) for Entitlement Period 13.

Technical Bulletins: Fire Insurance Ratings Outside Cities -- Potential Misinterpretation Of Fire Classification Guidelines By Local Insurance Agents, C. L. Overman

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about amendments to fire insurance rating criteria used by some insurance companies in determining the fire protection classification of residential structures outside city limits.

Morphological Changes On The Axillary Border Of The Scapula With Special Reference To The Neandertal Problem, Carol Baratz Dittner-Plasil

Doctoral Dissertations

This study is an effort to determine the causes of the various morphologies of the axillary border of the modern human scapula and to relate the results to the unusual morphology of Neandertal scapulae.

Two-thirds of known Neandertal scapulae exhibit a dorsal sulcus on the axillary border: the remainder have a double sulcus (Chancelade pattern) and only one exhibits a ventral sulcus. The ventral sulcus is predominant on the scapulae of anatomically modern hominids where the Chancelade pattern is also present in varying frequencies.

Quantitative and qualitative analyses were performed on data derived from skeletal material of five modern human …

The Temascal And Humoral Medicine In Santa Cruz Mixtepec, Juxtlahuaca, Oaxaca, Mexico, Thomas J. Ibach

Masters Theses

This investigation reports on the present day use of the sweatbath among an indigenous people in Mexico. The purpose of this thesis was to provide evidence that aboriginal medicine in Mexico contained elements which were based on sets of opposing forces, and that these elements are present in the curing rites of the people of Santa Cruz Mixtepec.

Traditional views of the disease causation and curing are described with particular attention given to the postpartum sweatbath ritual or temascal. A comparison of this ritual in Santa Cruz Mixtepec to that seen in neighboring communities suggests that humoral medicine is …

Terrain Cover And Shadow Discrimination From Landsat Data Of The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Vincent Gerard Ambrosia

Masters Theses

Landsat satellite imagery of the Great Smoky Mountains in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina exhibits dark tonal reflectances within the Blue Ridge physiographic province unlike any other reflectance patterns found on the remainder of the imagery. Repetitive, seasonal imagery indicate that these unique patterns are dynamic. There also appear to be definable, minute reflectance variations within the patterns themselves, indicating that there are numerous factors accounting for the anomaly. Among the factors discussed are the cover characteristics of the red spruce (picea rubens) and Fraser fir or southern balsam fir (abies fraseri), effects of topography, …

Age Determination At Death From Osteon Counting By Means Of Interactive Computer Graphics, Gale D. Slutzky

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to show the feasibility of doing osteon counting on the computer. A sample of 11 specimens were prepared by thin section techniques in order to be photographed through a Reichert transmitted-light interface contrast Zetopan research microscope. After the photographs were mosaiced into a single representative picture of the field of vision, the picture was digitized and processed for age by the computer.

Digitizing the specimens is accomplished by the use of interactive computer graphics. Using a tablet with a cursor or pen, the picture is digitized and stored in a file of x and …

Technical Bulletins: Automated And Semi-Automated Refuse Collection Technologies, Donald F. Norris, Frank E. Kirk

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides cost and productivity estimates for five different refuse collection technologies (including manual, semi-automated, and automated). The data shows that automated and semi-automated technologies represent reliable, cost-effective methods of refuse collection which should be given serious consideration by almost every city which provides refuse collection service.

Sample Code Of Ordinances For Small Cities And Towns In Tennessee, Don W. Ownby

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Sample Code has been drafted as a working document for the cities and towns of Tennessee. It is prepared in a format which is readily and adaptable to the conditions and requirements of any particular community. However, attention should be given to the provisions that must conform to individual municipal charter requirements such as prescribed language for ordaining clauses, number of readings for ordinances, etc. The Sample Code may be used as a basis for drafting a complete code of ordinances or a single ordinance addressing a particular need.