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Characteristics Of Graduate Student Instructors As Related To Students' Judgments Of Their Competence, Edwin Rice Barnett

Masters Theses

The present study seeks primarily to determine if there is a congruence between the perceived similarity of a student to his instructor and the student's judgment of the instructor's competence. To test this hypothesis, an Interpersonal Checklist, consisting of 160 adjectives, was devised and administered to two sets of 50 students during a period of six months. Three instructional sets were utilized with a five-point Likert response system in conjunction with the checklist. One instructional set asked the student to describe his instructor, another asked for a judgment of the extent to which the student thought himself similar to his …

Bilateral Variation In Man: Handedness, Handclasping, Armfolding And Mid-Phalangeal Hair, Carol J. Loveland

Masters Theses

A study of bilateral variation among individuals from three populations was conducted. One sample consisted of 174 Cashinahua Indians who reside along the Curanja River in the Peruvian rain forest. A second group was composed of 286 students from anthropology classes at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Eighty-six families, including 372 individuals, constituted the third sample.

Four laterality traits - handedness, armfolding, handclasping, and mid-phalangeal hair - were analyzed by population and by individual family.

The most interesting variation occurred in the frequency of right and left handclasping and in the presence or absence of mid-phalangeal hair. The percentage of …

Technical Bulletins: Municipal Gas Systems' Payments And Free Services To Municipalities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin addresses the numerous inquiries that MTAS had received as to whether municipally-owned gas systems pay tax equivalents or make other payments to their respective municipal governments.

Technical Bulletins: $120 Million In Rural Water And Waste Disposal Grant Funds Released, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The information in this report was taken from City Perspectives, Vol. 6, No. 10, May 24, 1974, a biweekly federal administrative report of the National League of Cities and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. The report describes a program, administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, that released $120 million in rural water and waste disposal grant funds.

A Preliminary Analysis Of The Activities Of Captive Black Bear (Ursus Americanus)--Locomotion And Breeding, Jeanne Crozer Ludlow

Masters Theses

The behavior of the American black bear, Ursus americanus, has been poorly documented in the past. This investigation is a preliminary analysis of the diurnal activities of a hand-reared female and a captive wild male black bear, and the successful breeding of another pair of captive black bears.

Two black bears were kept in a semi-naturalistic enclosure at Tremont within the Great Smoky Mountain National Park (GSMNP). Their daily activities were recorded by a scan sampling technique, supplemented by photographic accounts. Detailed systemic records were kept of behaviors classified into categories (locomotor, non-locomotor). The bears' activities were analyzed in …

A Phonemic And Phonetic Analysis Of The Folk Speech Of Bedford County, Tennessee, Anthony Patterson Cavender

Masters Theses

Until recently, no systematic study of Tennessee folk speech had been performed. This study, descriptive in scope, will help fill a void and provide valuable data for determining Tennessee's relationship to other American dialects.

Five informants, each one fitting Hans Kurath's Type I, Group A classification, were interviewed using The Questionnaire for the Investigation of American Regional English: Based on the Work Sheets of the Linguistic Atlas of the United States and Canada (Orton and Wright, 1972). The phonological material obtained from the five tape recorded interviews is presented in a unitary phonemic system along with characteristic allophonic and free …

Technical Bulletins: Potential Firefighter Schedules Beginning Jan. 1, 1975, William Danielson

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The following analysis was prepared by William Danielson for the National League of Cities to show possible firefighter schedules permissible (without necessitating overtime payment) under the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendments for the next four years.

Technical Bulletins: How Fair Labor Standards Amendments Of 1974 Affect Municipalities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Fair Labor Standards Amendments of 1974 extended minimum wage and overtime coverage to include most local government employees, effective May 1, 1974.

Technical Bulletins: Davis-Bacon Requirements For Revenue Sharing Projects, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin is an update of the July 3, 1973, "Revenue Sharing: Wage Requirements" by MTAS, providing cities with the current wage determinations for street construction work statewide as published in the Federal Register.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1974-75, 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 1974-75.

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

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This Sample Code has been drafted for use by small cities and towns in Tennessee that desire to have an organized body of municipal law. It is primarily the work of Don Ownby, but it has been critically reviewed by all other members of the MTAS staff and may be said to reflect our combined judgment and experience. This Sample Code may be used as a working basis for drafting a complete code to meet the conditions and requirements of a particular city. Particular attention should be given to provisions that must conform to charter requirements; for example, the ordaining …

Technical Bulletins: Local Government Energy Conservation Measures, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In this bulletin, MTAS listed various practices, beyond the temperature-speed reduction requests of the President, that some Tennessee municipalities were adopting to reduce energy usage.

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing Data Corrections, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This bulletin was intended to offer practical advice to supplement the more general instructions that had been sent to each Tennessee municipality along with a revenue sharing data computation form (ORS Form 3233) in October 1973.

Technical Bulletins: Surplus Personal Property Of State Agencies Now Available For Purchase By Tennessee Cities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

By action of the 1973 Tennessee General Assembly, surplus personal property of state agencies was made available for purchase by Tennessee cities, counties and other agencies of the state.

Technical Bulletins: General Outline Of Requirements For Public Fire Protection (For Incorporated Municipalities Or Utility Districts Of Less Than 2500 Population To Obtain Eighth Class Grading), Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

MTAS reproduced these guidelines, prepared by the Insurance Services Office of Tennessee, which describe the requirements for small incorporated municipalities or utility districts contemplating the installation of water works systems and other public fire protection facilities, with a view to obtaining credit in fire insurance rates.

Technical Bulletins: Must Your City File New Eeoc Employee Report?, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses regulations related to employment reports. As required by Title 29, Chapter XIV, Part 1602, Code of Federal Regulations, all local and state governments with 100 or more employees must file employment reports with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by Oct. 31, 1973. The report form--EE0-4--requires reporting the race, sex, salary range and job classification of all employees. (See copy on reverse side.) The reporting regulations were mandated by the 1972 amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which brought local and state government under the anti-discrimination clauses of the Act.

The Referential Communication Of Facial Characteristics By Deaf And Normal-Hearing Adolescents, Irving King Jordan Jr.

Doctoral Dissertations

In order to assess the characteristics of the manual communications of linguistically adult deaf individuals, six pairs of deaf adolescents and 24 pairs of normal hearing adolescents described photographic referents in a referential communication setting. The referents were photographs of people's faces, selected in a preliminary recognizability study to insure a range of difficulty from easily recognizable to almost chance recognition.

Although the design was essentially exploratory and descriptive, there are several noteworthy results: (1) There was no difference between the two subject groups in the accuracy with which they communicated. Both groups scored extremely high. (2) The deaf group …

Technical Bulletins: Effects Of State Tax Refund Program On Municipalities, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses Article 2, Section 28 of the Tennessee state Constitution, which addresses tax relief for elderly low-income taxpayers. According to this bulletin, MTAS research indicates there will be no loss in municipal tax revenues as a result of the new constitutional provision.

Statistical Analysis Of A Health Attitude Survey In Three East Tennessee Counties, Georgianne Dunavant Ratliff

Masters Theses

The general objective of this research was divided into three specific phases: (1) to ascertain health attitudes of a sample population; (2) to determine the relationship between biographic and attitude factors within the sample population; and (3) to evaluate the above in terms of its significance to health care planning.

The writer surveyed the literature, defined hypotheses and developed a questionnaire. A community in each of the three East Tennessee counties was selected for surveying. A total of 164 interviews was conducted, 44 in Knox County, 53 in Blount County and 67 in Sevier County. An interview team of 18 …

Technical Bulletins: Revenue Sharing: Wage Requirements, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the responsibility of city officials to make sure that Federal Revenue Sharing Funds in excess of 25% of total project cost spent for contractual work meet the requirements of the Davis-Bacon Act on prevailing wages. Included is a table of the prevailing wages which should hold for the balance of 1973 for highway construction in Tennessee.

Investigation On Perception And Behavior Of The American Black Bear (Ursus Americanus), Ellis Sutton Bacon

Doctoral Dissertations

Behavioral information concerning the American black bear Ursus americanus is limited. The present study was conducted to assess various aspects of ingestive behavior and visual discrimination of the black bear using two captive females. Information available pertaining to the management of black bears in captivity is also limited. Therefore a large portion of the study revolved around the care and maintenance of the bears in a semi-natural enclosure.

The ingestive behaviors were studied using ethological observations and a longitudinal food preference test. Observations were obtained as the subjects procured and consumed food items both naturally occurring and introduced into the …

Technical Bulletins: Do You Really Know How Much Your Landfill Costs?, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the cost of operating a sanitary landfill. This cost is more than just the amount of one man's salary and one machine to move dirt and compact the solid waste. There are many expenses that often are overlooked in estimating the potential cost of a landfill or budgeting for an existing one.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1973-74, 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 1973-74.

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1973, 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 1973.

The Effects Of Frontal And Septal Ablation On Response Regulation In The Cat, Robert Numan

Doctoral Dissertations

The literature dealing with the behavioral effects produced by ablation of the septum, frontal cortical areas and the hippocampus is reviewed. It is concluded that the medial septum, the dorsolateral frontal cortex (and its analogue in lower forms e.g., gyrus proreus in the cat and precollosal midline cortex in the rat) and the dorsal hippocampus form a nodal point within a larger neuronal system that is involved in response regulation.

A model, describing the response regulatory processes mediated by this fronto-cortical-limbic system is proposed, Motor programs are written in the frontal cortex and temoorarily stored in hippocampal area CA_{3 …}

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1972-73, 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 1971-72.

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1970-1972 (No. 22-24)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

In basing his consideration of the age-old problems of book selection and collection development on "the first work to deal with the whole aspect of setting up a library," Dr. Harrer gives a pleasing scholarly tone to his up-to-the-minute treatment of today's university concerns.

Dr. McAnally's interest in the problems of effective interlibrary loan service has been evidenced in his publications and in his work as chairman of the Association of Research Libraries' Interlibrary Loan Study Committee. He presents an expert's report of what has been done in this aspect of interlibrary cooperation, the inherent problems, and the need for …

Ideas For A Better City, University Of Tennessee. Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS History

MTAS receives virtually all periodicals in the field of municipal government and also obtains many other publications in this field. In the aggregate these contain a "mass of information" (when trying to sift, classify and assimilate, we sometimes wish it were much less in quantity!). These materials are routed to staff members for their examination; in this process they mark any items that appear to be noteworthy, and the editor writes the summaries for this publication.

These items are not necessarily "new" ideas, for the term "new" assumes a relative meaning. There is little, if anything, in the field that …

The Application Of Porter And Lawler's Attitude-Performance Model To A Population Of Disadvantaged Trainees, Richard Dorr Scott

Doctoral Dissertations

The purpose of this study was to test a modified version of Porter and Lawler's attitude-performance model with a population of disadvantaged trainees. Seven hypotheses were derived from the following formulation: If a trainee sees high performance as leading to the attainment of one or more personal rewards in the training situation, he will tend to exert high effort in the program. The trainee will have correspondingly high performance in this situation providing he has the relevant ability and appropriate role perceptions.

To test these hypotheses data were obtained from 97 disadvantaged trainees and their eight supervisors at a manpower …

The British "Voluntary" Incomes Experiment, 1964-1969, Ellen S. Bank

Masters Theses

There is a general consensus that the most recent attempt at incomes policy in Great Britain was unsuccessful. In this thesis I shall attempt to analyze and evaluate the policy with an emphasis on the particular features of the policy to which its lack of success may be attributed.

Chapter I examines the factors which first made such a policy seem to be an appealing panacea for all of Great Britain’s economic problems; specifically the economic conditions prior to the Labor Government’s ascension to power in 1964 are analyzed.

Chapter II examines some early attempts at incomes policy with an …