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Anatomical Alterations Of The Pelvis: The Significance When Determining Childbirth And Sex, Connie Lynn Hall

Masters Theses

Research concerned with the osteological alterations in the pelvic girdle thought to be associated with pregnancy and parturition is fairly recent. Much of the research in this area has dealt with the osteological alterations seen on the anterior and posterior pubic facies. The research on the sacroiliac joint has leaned toward the preauricular sulcus of the ilium. Consequently, data pertaining to the osteological alterations thought to be associated with pregnancy and parturition seen on the lateral margins of the anterior face of the first through third sacral vertebrae are not complete. It is my intention in this thesis to demonstrate …

An Archaeological Survey Of The Middle Nolichucky River Basin, Calvert W. Mcilhany Iii

Masters Theses

A cultural history of the middle Nolichucky River Basin has been defined based on data obtained during a 1977 survey of 41 prehistoric archaeological sites. The area was sparsely occupied during the Paleo-Indian period, at least 10,000 years ago. More intensive occupations followed during the Early Archaic through Mississippian periods. Representative areas within four generalized biogeographic zones were examined with particular emphasis on locating prehistoric archaeological sites and lithic raw material sources. The small size of the cultural material sample and limited number of sites examined do not provide sufficient data to make specific conclusions about patterns of settlement and …

Technical Bulletins: Tn. Energy Authority Asks Cities' Help With 55 Mph Campaign, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin announces the Tennessee Energy Authority's appeal to cities for help in promoting voluntary compliance with the 55 mph speed limit.

Total Information Centers, Carol Tenopir

School of Information Sciences -- Faculty Publications and Other Works

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Education Professional Negotiations Act: A Summary, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Public Chapter 570 provides a framework for collective bargaining between school boards and professional employee organizations. This chapter should be studied carefully because it sets out specific procedures that must be followed. The following summary attempts to answer some major questions about the act.

Technical Bulletins: Hud Small Communities Program Submission Deadlines, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Deadlines for the submission of applications for the HUD Small Communities Program.

Technical Bulletins: Epa Policy On Land Treatment Of Municipal Wastewater, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin is excerpted from a memorandum of Oct. 3, 1977, on the subject of land treatment of municipal wastewater, from the EPA Administrator to Assistant Administrators and Regional Administrators (Regions I-X).

Technical Bulletins: Property Ownership As Basis For Voter Eligibility In Municipal Elections, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the issue of whether property ownership in a municipality makes a person eligible to vote in municipal elections where he or she owns property but does not reside. The Office of the State Attorney General rendered the opinion that "the mere ownership of property in a municipality does not give the owner(s) of the property a right to vote in the municipal elections. Before a person may vote in the municipal elections, he must reside within the corporate limits of the municipality, and otherwise be a qualified and registered voter in a voting precinct within the …

Technical Bulletins: Selected Short Bibliography On Energy Conservation By Local Governments, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Selected Short Bibliography on Energy Conservation by Local Governments. Includes such titles as Handbook of Energy Policy for Local Governments, Energy Saving Check List for Industrial and Commercial Companies(complied by Knoxville Utilities Board based on survey of practices of board customers), and Energy Conservation in Buildings: New Roles for Cities and Citizen Groups (National League of Cities).

Amendments To The Constitution Proposed By The Limited Constitutional Convention, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

No abstract provided.

Stimulus, Vol. 3, No. 2, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Technical Bulletins: Antirecession Fiscal Assistance: An Explanation, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

MTAS prepared the following edited version of a CTAS bulletin that explains Antirecession Fiscal Assistance (ARFA) in easily understood terms.

Technical Bulletins: Grantsmanship Assistance, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

MTAS received a copy of the following letter mailed by U.S. Representative Albert Gore, Jr. to cities and counties in his district and wanted to provide the information to all Tennessee cities. MTAS requested Gore's permission to distribute the letter in this form, which he readily granted.

Technical Bulletins: Doe To Solicit Proposals For Feasibility Studies Of Small Hydroelectric Sites, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Announcement of the Department of Energy's launch of a $2.5 million program to determine the feasibility of installing or developing hydroelectric generating facilities at a variety of small dam sites throughout the country.

Technical Bulletins: Circuit Court Rules County Federal Revenue Sharing Funds Appropriated For Schools Must Be Divided With City, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Summary of a Circuit Court decision related to federal revenue sharing funds used for operation and maintenance of Madison County schools.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1978-79, 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 1978-79.

Ethological Considerations In The Experimental Study Of Lizard Behavior, Neil Greenberg

Faculty Publications and Other Works -- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

The importance of an ethological approach to the experimental study of an unfamiliar species is described and several of its problems discussed. The selection of units of behavior is a crucial first step in the development of a behavior inventory. The correlation of a behavioral unit with a particular context is necessary to ascribe function to that to that unit and to develop an ethogram. Methods of studying lizards under controlled conditions are described and discussed. Constraints on behavior that must be considered in an experimental study include the microclimate and its thermal qualities, food and water, shelter utilization, and …

Technical Bulletins: Solar Demonstration Grants Available, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Announcement of the Federal Department of Energy's third Program Opportunity Notice (PON) for innovative solar commercial projects.

Stimulus, Vol. 3, No. 1, Ut College Of Social Work

Stimulus Alumni Newsletter

No abstract provided.

Sexual Differences, Fluctuating Asymmetry And Their Implications In The Growth Rate And Developmental Stability Of The Permanent Dentition And The Primary Dermal Ridge Of The Fingers And Palms, Robert S. Webb

Masters Theses

This study presents evidence that specific genetic material influences the growth rate and developmental stability of two genetic systems, dermal ridges and permanent dentition, having mutually exclusive developmental periods. Dermal ridges develop rapidly early in fetal life, while the permanent dentition develops slowly in a postnatal environment. Theories centering on the nature and effects of the specific genetic material (heterochromatin) are discussed and applied whenever possible.

The data for this investigation were collected from students in introductory anthropology classes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. The sample consists of fifty males and fifty females. Finger prints, palm prints and casts …

An Analysis Of The European Artifacts From Chota-Tanasee, An Eighteenth Century Overhill Cherokee Town, Robert Dolan Newman

Masters Theses

Description and analysis of over 67,000 European artifacts and aboriginally modified European artifacts from Chota-Tanasee (40MR2-40MR62) provides a basis for future studies of similar European artifacts from Overhill Cherokee sites in the Little Tennessee Valley.

Dated European artifacts provided a means to construct a chronology of features and burials. Only 40 of 1086 features and two of 114 burials were dated to one of four periods of European economic and political influence. Thirty features and one burial date to the Colonial period corroborating accounts of Chota-Tanasee's size and importance during the mid-18th century. Too few features and burials date to …

An Analysis Of East Tennessee Dalton Projectile Points, Wayne D. Roberts

Masters Theses

East Tennessee projectile points, previously described as the Early Woodland period Candy Creek type, are analyzed. Through the intensive examination of 17 continuous attributes and three discrete attributes reflecting morphology, function and manufacturing techniques, 112 of these East Tennessee projectile points are compared with 46 Dalton and Quad projectile points from northern Alabama and 37 Hardaway-Dalton projectile points from the Piedmont of North Carolina. As a result of the observations and a linear discriminant function program, it is determined that the Candy Creek projectile point is a regional variant of the Dalton projectile point type. Dalton manifestations described in the …

A Study Of The Effects Of Syllable Releasing And Arresting Function On The Correct Articulation Of /S/ By Normal And Articulatory Defective Children, John Carlton Pennington

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was two-fold: (1) to investigate the effects of syllable releasing and arresting function on correct /s/ productions by normal and articulatory defective children; and (2) to investigate the effects of different phonetic environments on correct /s/ productions in syllable releasing and arresting positions by normal and articulatory defective children.

Two groups of five-year-old children, 15 with normal articulation and 15 with defective articulation, were selected as subjects in this study and met the following criteria: normal hearing, normal intelligence, no significant deviation in the structure and/or function of the oral mechanism, and no more than …

Technical Bulletins: Disaster Control For Local Government Correctional Facilities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The very nature of a correctional facility makes it particularly vulnerable to disaster because of restrictions places on prisoners for their own safety. So that their welfare and that of any visitors is better protected, a written disaster plan should be formulated. Following is a list of specific elements of such a plan and a discussion of its implementation.

Problem Solving For Tennessee Municipal Officials: An Expert Team Approach, Mtas

MTAS History

This pamphlet describes the structure of and services provided by the University of Tennessee Municipal Technical Advisory Service.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Compensation Insurance: Update Number Two, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In September 1977, the State Department of Employment Security mailed out forms to every municipality on which to designate whether a particular municipality was to be treated as a "taxpaying" employer or a "reimbursement" employer. To assist cities in making this judgment decision, MTAS provided the following analysis prepared by Dr. Ed Young, Director of Policy Development of the Tennessee Municipal League.

Technical Bulletins: Fdic Insurance Of Municipal Deposits, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The information in this Technical Bulletin is from a letter dated July 29, 1977, from Miles A. Cobb, General Counsel of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, to U.S. Representative Albert Gore, Jr, and it discusses the extent of FDIC insurance on public fund deposits.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Compensation Insurance: Update No. 2, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Around September 1, 1977 the Tennessee Department of Employment Security mailed to each city in Tennessee a packet of informational material and forms related to municipal administration of the unemployment compensation insurance program for public employers which becomes effective January 1, 1978. The primary purpose of this Technical Bulletin was to alert city officials to the immediate necessity of determining whether the city would be a "taxpaying" or "reimbursing" employer.

Technical Bulletins: Minority Enterprises In Tennessee, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Economic Development Administration regulations for use of 1977 Public Works Employment Act funds require that 10 per cent of each grant must be spent with minority enterprises. MTAS reprinted this list of Tennessee minority businesses, by types, supplied by Mitchell Parks, EDA representative.

Middle And Late Archaic Mortuary Patterning: An Example From The Western Tennessee Valley, Ann L. Magennis

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study is to describe and analyze the social organization and structure of Middle and Late Archaic populations in the western Tennessee Valley. The stratified Middle and Late Archaic Eva site yielded a temporally sequential skeletal series that allowed for the examination of changes in social and demographic structure through time at a single site. Comparison of the Late Archaic Eva series with the Late Archaic Cherry sample facilitated the examination of spatial differences in these two parameters.

Results of the analysis of mortuary activity indicate that there was little elaboration in the mortuary ritual and that …