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Technical Bulletins: Eeoc Issues Amendments To Its Sex Discrimination Guidelines: Questions And Answers Interpreting Pregnancy Discrimination Act, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Pregnancy Discrimination Act, which added Section 70l(k) to Title VII, prohibits employment discrimination because of "pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions." The law became effective Oct. 31, 1978. This Technical Bulletin provides highlights from EEOC's questions and answers related to the act.

Technical Bulletins: Federal Surplus Property: How To Get It, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides information about obtaining surplus property from the federal government.

Stimulus, Vol. 4, No. 3, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Transient Voltage/Power Surge Suppressors, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

According to professional electrical engineering organizations, tests by engineering schools and actions by some state attorneys general, there is no merit to the claim that transient voltage and power surge suppressors will reduce electricity costs. This report summarizes the data obtained by the Council of Better Business Bureaus on these devices.

(The report was reprinted in its entirety from a Report by the Council of Better Business Bureaus, Inc. , 1150 17th Street, N. W. , Washington, DC 20036, dated May 1977.)

Studies Of The Behavior Of Gamecocks, Harold Albert Herzog

Doctoral Dissertations

Scientific and popular accounts of cockfighting are reviewed, and cultural and psychological aspects of the sport are examined. Information is presented on breeding and husbandry of gamecocks, fight preparation, rules and types of fights, gambling practices, and legal aspects of cockfighting. The scientific literature on the agonistic behavior of gamecocks, descriptive studies of fighting in chickens and the factors which determine fight outcome.

In Chapter III data recorded at actual cockfights are presented. This includes information on fighting behaviors, fight length, number of "pittings" (rounds) per fight, pitting length, the effect of weight on outcome, and survivorship. Of particular interest …

The Alabama River Phase: A Biological Synthesis And Interpretation, Mary Cassandra Hill

Masters Theses

Until recently, very little attention has been paid to the protohistoric time period in the state of Alabama. Perhaps this is because it is not as "artifactually'' interesting as the preceding Woodland and Mississippian periods. The only unusual artifacts found from this time period are mortuary vessels, burial urns, which are not found in preceding occupations.

This protohistoric time period, known as the Alabama River phase, is very important, however, in the reconstruction of the total prehistoric cultural development. It was during this time that one of the most elaborate, affluent social structures, the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex, declined and met …

Racial Group Identification From The Innominate By Discriminant Function Analysis, Katherine E. Douglass

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to develop a statistical method for determining the race of unknown individuals from measurements on the innominate. Samples of 45 individuals of each sex from skeletal collections of American Blacks, American Whites, and American Indians were used to calculate discriminant functions and classification functions which separated those groups.

Data for this research consisted of 23 measurements from the right innominate of individuals of known race, and known or estimated sex and age. These data were analyzed by a discriminant function program which calculated both discriminant and classification functions, and percent correct classification by race …

Technical Bulletins: Fica Tax Savings Available To Cities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses a way for cities to save money by assuming payment of the employees' share of the FICA tax, and to adjust each employee' s pay so that there would be no adverse effect on his/her salary.

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1976-1978 (No. 28-30)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

Copyright has been a much debated issue of the mid-1970s. Julius Marke here addresses the inherent conflict between the rights of the creator and the needs of the users of intellectual property. He identifies the problems of libraries as disseminators of information and the possible impact of new federal copyright legislation.

In lecture twenty-nine, Doralyn Hickey defines a central problem in American librarianship as a struggle "with the dilemma of providing relevant collections and services while at the same time preserving the materials entrusted to its care so they may be available for serious research and investigation by future generations." …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1979-1980, Mtas

Municipal Directories

A directory of Tennessee cities that includes personnel and municipal data, such as number of employees, population, charter form, size in square miles, and election date, for 1979-1980.

Stimulus, Vol. 4, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Dermatoglyphic Variability And Asymmetry Of Patients With Cleft Lip And Cleft Palate, Douglas William Owsley

Doctoral Dissertations

Quantitative dermatoglyphic data for patients with oral-facial clefts and their first degree relatives were compared with controls. The objectives were to define the nature of the differences between those samples and to interpret the differences in terms of developmental processes.

The clinic samples were composed of Caucasian cleft lip and/or cleft palate patients and normal first degree relatives from Knox and surrounding counties in East Tennessee. The control sample consisted of 102 male and 102 female University of Tennessee students and Knoxville children. Specific diagnoses as to cleft type and associated malformations were determined by consulting clinic records. Two diagnostic …

The Ducks Nest Site: A Small Mississippian Site In Warren County, Tennessee, Gerald Wesley Kline

Masters Theses

Archaeological investigations conducted at the Ducks Nest site (40WR4), situated on a ridge in the Barren Fork drainage in the Eastern Highland Rim of Middle Tennessee, resulted in the excavation of a small Mississippian component consisting of two superimposed wall trench structures and six features. These cultural remains and the artifacts and ecofacts recovered in association are described and discussed. It is concluded that the Ducks Nest site was occupied on a year round basis over a limited number of years during the first half of the twelfth century A.D. by a small social group that was trophically self-sufficient.

The Mississippian Component At The Eoff I Site, Normandy Reservoir, Coffee County, Tennessee, Lloyd Norris Chapman

Masters Theses

Analysis of the Mississippian component features from the Eoff I site in the Normandy Reservoir, upper Duck River, Coffee County, Tennessee, has indicated that the component represents an Early ,Mississippian Banks phase occupation dating from between A.D. 1068 and A.D. 1170. The spatial distribution of features at the site along with the artifactual content of these features suggests that a major cluster of features was placed in consistent arrangement with each of two semisubterranean structures. A storage zone is possibly indicated by a cluster of features with morphological characteristics usually associated with storage facilities and also by the significantly larger …

A Multivariate Analysis Of Palatal Measurements In Four Populations, David M. Glassman

Masters Theses

This study presents a multivariate analysis based on sets of twenty-six palatal measurements from males and females of three racial groups. The analysis examines the occurrence and degree of inter- and intrapopulational relationships. Morphological interpretations are provided whenever possible for the multivariate functions and factors identified. Additionally, discriminant functions from which individuals may be classified into their proper racial and sexual group are calculated and their degree of accuracy discussed.

The data for this investigation were obtained from two skeletal collections. Representatives of Negro and White populations were provided from the Terry Collection housed at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural …

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing "Rule" On Bank Employment Policies Held Voluntary, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In challenging a regulation created by the federal Office of Revenue Sharing, the North Carolina League of Municipalities discovered how federal agencies, in their attempts to promote broad policies, overstep their legal authority.

Technical Bulletins: Energy Conservation Code, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter 888 of the 1978 Public Acts adopted by reference the Code for Energy Conservation in New Building Construction, and required all cities and towns to enforce this code effective Jan. 1, 1979. For the information of municipal officials this law was reproduced by MTAS as it had been codified in the Tennessee Code Annotated.

Technical Bulletins: Refunds To Municipalities Paying State Gasoline Taxes, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin emphasizes highlights of the Petroleum Products Law (Chapter 761 of the Public Acts of 1978).

Stimulus, Vol. 4, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Electric Vehicle Demonstration Project To Involve Local Governments, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Announcement of a DOE project involving 165 electric and hybrid autos, vans, and light trucks, designed to demonstrate the operational characteristics, costs, acceptability and potential market segments for these vehicles.

Dermatoglyphics Of University Of Tennessee Students: Effects Of Parental Age And Birth Order, Letitia Lowe Oliveira

Doctoral Dissertations

The effect of parental age and birth order on dermatoglyphic variation was investigated in a sample of 460 phenotypically normal, Caucasian Americans. The sample consisted of students enrolled in introductory physical anthropology classes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, during 1976-77. Twenty finger ridge counts, interdigital ridge counts, interdigital pattern ridge counts, and ridge width in the a-b area were utilized in this study.

In order to remove intercorrelations among dermatoglyphic variables, the dermatoglyphic data were factor analyzed, fingers and palms separately, for each sex. Twelve factors for fingers and 11 for palms were subjected to varimax rotation, and the …

The Effect Of Counseling On The Leisure Behavior Of Patients Discharged From Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, Patsy Mitchiner Harris

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was threefold: 1) it implement a three-month pilot study to determine the feasibility of setting up a leisure counseling program at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, 2) to discover if leisure counseling influenced the utilization of the community resources following discharge of patients from Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, and 3) to begin an investigation into the influence of recreation and leisure counseling on the recidivism rate of patients at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute.

By random selection, the populations, consisting of sixty-two Knox County patients housed in the Admission Unit at Lakeshore Mental Health Institute, was divided …

The Local Sales Tax Handbook For Local Officials, The University Of Tennessee's County Technical Assistance Service, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: New Act Permits Non-Resident Owner Voting Rights, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

An MTAS Technical Bulletin dated April 5, 1978, reported an opinion from the Office of the State Attorney General relative to voting in municipal elections by nonresident property owners. This opinion was negated by Chapter 944, Public Acts of 1978, which provided that nonresidents could vote in municipalities where they owned property.

Technical Bulletins: Hew Personnel Available For Human Resource Planning, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provided cities with guidelines for submitting proposals to participate in an Intergovernmental Personnel Act (IPA) Demonstration Program that provided senior HEW personnel to work with selected cities in the areas of human services planning, management, delivery systems, and budgeting.

Technical Bulletins: Underground Utility Damage Prevention Act, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Chapter 692 of the Public Acts of 1978, an act relating to the prevention of negligent or .unsafe excavation or demolition operations resulting in damage to underground utilities, is reprinted in its entirety in this Technical Bulletin.

Stimulus, Vol. 3, No. 3, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

A Retrieval System For Engineering Drawings, Carol Tenopir, Pamela Cibbarelli

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

An Environmental Library System, Carol Tenopir, Pamela Cibbarelli

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

An environmental library system (ELS) for the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development has been developed and installed in six HUD offices to bring together all nationwide and local environmental source materials in an information system with accompanying manuals indicating how to use the various sources needed to answer environmental questions comprise one of the basic elements of the system, which also includes question guides, the collection itself, and a card catalog.

A Functional Analysis Of The Temporomandibular Joint In Homosapiens Sapiens And Homo Sapiens Neanderthalensis, Janice Lynn Foxworthy

Masters Theses

Analysis of the temporomandibular region in Homo sapiens neanderthalensis reveals diagnostic morphological differences in comparison to the morphological pattern typically expressed in the temporomandibular joint region of Homo sapiens sapiens. The temporomandibular joint region in Neandertals is characterized by a (1) thickened tympanic ring, petrosal area, mandibular fossa roof, and temporal squama; (2) pronounced postglenoid process; (3) more oval external auditory meatus, directed anteriorly and superiorly, positioned relatively higher on the temporal bone; (4) wide shallow glenoid fossa; (5) formation of the glenoid fossa wall; and (6) prominently developed articular eminence. This thesis concentrates on the morphological variations expressed …