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Technical Bulletins: The Energy Situation, Victor C. Hobday

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In this Technical Bulletin, MTAS Executive Director Victor C. Hobday addresses energy policy and conservation within local governments.

Technical Bulletins: Residential And Automobile Security Courtesy Citations, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin includes a reproduction of the "courtesy citation" issued by police in Sterling Heights, MI. Sterling Heights police officers issue residential security courtesy citations to citizens whose homes present a target for the would-be burglar or thief.

Technical Bulletins: Suggested Outline For An Energy Conservation Program, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The following outline, taken from the National Bureau of Standards' Energy Conservation Program Guide for Industry and Commerce (NBS Handbook 115, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1974), was reproduced by MTAS as a means of possibly assisting Tennessee cities in formulating energy conservation programs.

Technical Bulletins: Regulation Of Explosives And Blasting Materials, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin was issued for the purpose of alerting municipalities regarding legislation passed by the 1975 session of the Tennessee General Assembly regulating the use of explosives and blasting materials within the state.

The Role And Work Of The University Of Tennessee In Public Service, System Self-Study Committee On Public Service, The University Of Tennessee

MTAS History

This report is intended to present in brief form an overview of public service at The University of Tennessee and recommendations for change.

A Geographic Analysis Of The Characteristics And Development Trends Of The Non-Metropolitan Tourist-Recreation Industry Of Southern Appalachia, Jeffrey Wayne Neff

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this investigation was to determine the significance of actual place-to-place structural and organizational differences within the non-metropolitan tourist-recreation industry of southern Appalachia and to discover how these differences affected the industry's development and growth in selected locations.

Eight countries with statistically important tourist industries were used as case study areas, so that spatial variation or uniformity in the industry's characteristics could be identified and examined. Those counties were: Rabun, Georgia; Graham, North Carolina; Jackson, North Carolina; Swain, North Carolina; Watauga, North Carolina; Clay, Tennessee; Sevier, Tennessee; and Bath, Virginia. Field investigation and subsequent distribution of questionnaires to …

A Multivariate Study Of Three Prehistoric Tennessee Skeletal Populations: Mouse Creek, Dallas, And Middle Cumberland, Hugh E. Berryman

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to employ the techniques of physical anthropology in the examination of an archaeological hypothesis set forth by Thomas M. N. Lewis and Madeline Kneberg in the 1940's. This hypothesis concerned the possible Middle Tennessee origin of the Mouse Creek people. Mouse Creek cultural remains (e.g. settlement pattern, architecture, burial customs, and pottery) were judged to differ from their nearest contemporary neighbors, the Dallas, while showing certain similarities to the Middle Cumberland culture of Middle Tennessee.

A multivariate statistical analysis using 22 craniofacial measurements was applied to skeletal material representing these three populations: the Mouse …

A Multivariate Study Of Three Prehistoric Tennessee Skeletal Populations: Mouse Creek, Dallas, And Middle Cumberland, Hugh E. Berryman

Masters Theses

The purpose of this study was to employ the techniques of physical anthropology in the examination of an archaeological hypothesis set forth by Thomas M. N. Lewis and Madeline Kneberg in the 1940's. The hypothesis concerned the possible Middle Tennessee origin of the Mouse Creek people. Mouse Creek cultural remains (e.g. settlement pattern, architecture, burial customs, and pottery) were judged to differ from their nearest contemporary neighbors, the Dallas, while showing certain similarities to the Middle Cumberland culture of Middle Tennessee.

A multivariate statistical analysis using 22 cranio-facial measurements was applied to skeletal material representing these three populations: the Mouse …

Technical Bulletins: Estimates Of State-Shared Taxes, 1975-1976 Fiscal Year, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

To aid cities in preparing budget figures, MTAS Finance and Accounting Consultant Ken Joines compiled these estimates of state-shared taxes to be distributed to cities during the 1975-1976 fiscal year.

Technical Bulletins: Davis-Bacon Wage Requirements For Federal Aid Projects, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin contains information updating previous Technical Bulletins on the Davis-Bacon Act and Federal Revenue Sharing. The prevailing wages, which should hold for the balance of 1975 highway construction in Tennessee, are included.

The Changing Control Of Economic Activity In The Gatlinburg, Tennessee Area, 1930-1973, Jerome Eric Dobson

Doctoral Dissertations

Among Government officials, planners, and citizens there is an almost universal belief that any economic growth will benefit the people of the area in which it occurs. This research tests that assumption through an analysis of resort development in the Gatlinburg, Tennessee area from 1930 to 1973. Its purpose is to investigate the processes of change accompanying rapid economic growth with a particular emphasis on how indigenous land owners and entrepreneurs have fared as participants in the economic system.

A geographic approach is employed to examine the processes which shape the economic character of the area and affect indigenous participation. …

A Therapeutic Approach To Education: An Ethnographic Analysis Of Friendsville Academy, A Quaker Middle And Secondary School, L. Janice Campbell

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis is to examine the therapeutic approach to education which was instituted at Friendsville Academy in Friendsville, Tennessee, between the years 1970 and 1973. This particular approach was oriented toward helping children of middle and secondary school age to resolve their emotional conflicts which often put them at odds with their families, their communities, their teachers, and, in some cases, the law. Their problems ranged from drug addiction and sexual promiscuity to disruptive behavior.

Friendsville Academy is a Quaker school, historically supported and directed by the local Quaker Church. During the administration between 1970 and 1973, …

Technical Bulletins: Special Unemployment For City Employees, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Tennessee Department of Employment Security entered into an agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Labor making city employees who are laid off eligible for Special Unemployment Insurance. The following general information was extracted from an Employment Security pamphlet to assist in understanding this benefit.

Technical Bulletins: Declaration Of Overtime Exemption For Fire And Police Personnel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin addresses the exemption of fire and police personnel from the standard requirement of a 40-hour work week. Included is a sample resolution declaring the intention of a town/city to claim exemption of Section 7 of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) relative to overtime wages for public safety personnel.

Technical Bulletins: F.L.S.A.: Minimizing The Effect Of Compulsory Overtime Pay, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin looks at the federal minimum wage law and overtime pay.

Technical Bulletins: Dol Final Regulations On Police And Fire Personnel, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Friday, December 20, 1974, the Department of Labor issued final regulations governing the minimum wages and maximum hours for police and fire personnel.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1975-76, 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 1975-76.

Technical Bulletins: Dol Preliminary Flsa Regulations On Police And Firefighters, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Friday, November 1, 1974, the Department of Labor issued preliminary regulations governing the minimum wages and maximum hours for police and fire personnel. This Technical Bulletin summarizes the preliminary regulations.

The Relationship Between Expectation, Belief, And Anxiety In A Speaking Situation, George (Tod) William Bossert

Doctoral Dissertations

Subjects were given bogus test results that indicated they would be either "relatively calm" or "highly anxious" in a speaking situation. They were also given either an anxiety-okay belief or an anxiety-not-okay belief. The expectations and beliefs given subjects by the experimenter were called manipualted expectations and beliefs. Subjects also filled out forms indicating whether they expected to be calm or anxious and whether they believed anxiety was or was not okay. The expectations and beliefs of the subject were called prior expectation and beliefs.

Each subject was given an expectation and a belief and then requested to make a …

Obscenity Standards In Canada And The United States: A Comparative Study In Constitutional Law, Ronald Edward Dean

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this dissertation is to study the comparative constitutional development of obscenity law in Canada and the United States. The research focuses on analysis of case law with particular emphasis of Supreme Court decisions in the two countries. Obscenity law is not static, but is, rather, an active and on-going area of constitutional law.

The central problem in the legal approach to obscenity has been the development of a definition. The original conceptualization of obscenity for both Canada and the United States came from an English decision in 1868, which dominated the field until the late 1950's. The …

Human Genetic Isolation And Population Structure Of Hancock County, Tennessee, James R. Kirkland

Masters Theses

A study of the population structure of Hancock County, Tennessee, was conducted in order to determine the degree of genetic isolation, and the likelihood of random genetic drift, experienced by the county population. Genealogical information for the study was obtained from a random sample of the population utilizing two series of questionnaires. In all, data were obtained for 275 couples from all areas of Hancock County.

Four main analytical steps were taken with these data to determine: (1) the amount of inbreeding, through a surname isonymy study, (2) the effective population size, (3) the patterns of human movement, primarily marital …

A Metrical Analysis Of The Morphological Relationship Between Prehistoric Dallas And Historic Cherokee Skeletal Populations In East Tennessee, Moira H. M. Wright

Masters Theses

The purpose of this investigation was to define and quantify the morphological relationship between prehistoric Dallas and historic Overhill Cherokee skeletal populations in east Tennessee in order to test two theories concerning Cherokee prehistory in the eastern Tennessee Valley. One theory states that the Cherokee did not arrive in the Valley until long after European contact; the other theory suggest that the Cherokee have possibly been occupying this area since as early as the Archaic period.

Methods of metrical analysis currently in use in physical anthropological research were used to test these two theories. The morphological distance between Dallas and …

A Case Study Of The Consequences Of Displacement Caused By Urban Renewal And Highway Construction On Minority Businesses In The City Of Knoxville, Tennessee, Comer L. Taylor

Masters Theses

The purpose of this thesis was to study the consequences of displacement caused by urban renewal and highway construction on minority businesses in the city of Knoxville, Tennessee. Efforts were made to find out: (1) What happens to business establishments when they have been forced to move to another location; (2) To what extent does dis­ location lead to business failures; (3) What minority businessmen perceive to be-their problems and needs; (4) What are the characteristics of owners of those businesses that did not survive the move as compared to those that successfully relocated; (5) What are the major problems …

The Value System As A Source Of Political Attitudes, William S. Maddox

Masters Theses

The field of political psychology focuses on specific political behavior as it relates to a total measure of the individual. This research effort chose as a possible summation of that totality the value system, defined as any individual's description of his total image of the world and the behavior which he prefers in dealing with that world. Within this perspective, political attitudes are the result of the expression of a broad and abstract value system with reference to a specific attitude object.

The research design utilized Q methodology to gather empirical descriptions of values systems toward a political issue, i.e., …

Technical Bulletins: Street Lighting, Energy Conservation, And Crime, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin looks at the debate over the merits of saving energy by turning off street lights.

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Exemption From Federal And State Gasoline Taxes, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin explained how, and under what conditions, Tennessee cities might obtain gasoline tax exemptions.

Analysis Of The Proctor And Self-Paced Components Of The Personalized System Of Instruction, Janice Joyner Maclin

Doctoral Dissertations

The primary purposes of this study were to determine the effect of modifying the proctor and self-paced components of the Personalized System of Instruction (PSI). Research has shown that students in Personalized courses score higher on final exams and rate the course higher than those enrolled in lecture courses. The components of the system have not been manipulated to determine the effect on student performance, progress or attitudes. The first purpose of this investigation was to examine the effects of the independent variable of proctors' grades being contingent upon the final examination performance of students assigned to them upon the …

Mtas Annual Report 1974-1975, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

In the year ending June 30, 1975, the staff of the Municipal Techincal Advisory Service completed work on 622 projects, made 2,107 field visits to cities, responded to 711 reference questions, provided 239 ordinances and 1,548 other materials, and answered an uncounted number of inquiries and questions from municipal officials. Total expenditures for regular programs (excluding the HUD-TML-MTAS community development program) approximated $765,000. The sources of funds were: cities' share of state sales tax distribution $339,000; State General Fund appropriation $288,000; federal grants $84,000; and reserve $54,000. In this report on MTAS' 26th year of operations we have included descriptions …

An Interpersonal Investigation Of 'Swinging'- An Alternative Style Of Marriage, John Milton Mccauley

Doctoral Dissertations

As demonstrated by statistics and described by experts, traditional marriage is not proving to be a satisfactory relationship for many. The proportion of divorces is annually rising and the institution of marriage has been described aptly as a calamity. This author conducted an interpersonal study of couples involved in one alternative to traditional marriage--"Swinging."

Subjects were obtained via written letter to those swingers who advertised in a swinging magazine. Eight couples participated in the study. The procedure took place in their homes and averaged about six hours. The procedure consisted of the administration of the complete Leary Interpersonal Analysis, the …

Social Psychological And Hormonal Correlates Of Alcohol Consumption: A Psychobiological Study Of Social Behavior, Barry S. Tuchfeld

Doctoral Dissertations

Social psychological and the sparse hormonal literature are reviewed for possible commonalities with respect to alcohol consumption and alcohol-related problems. Self-concept, social anxiety, cortisol, and testosterone are proposed as interrelated but additive predictors of alcohol consumption among males in a party-type social setting. The relationships were thought to be amplified for those persons with a self-reported history of excessive drinking.

Sixty-five male collegians from four organizations were invited to attend parties sponsored by the research co-directors. Pre- and post-drinking venipunctures were taken but the subjects were not told of the specific interest in the steroid hormones. Further, the subjects were …