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A Comparative Study Of The Experiential Characteristics Of A Group Of Alcoholic And Non-Alcoholic Subjects, Hugh C. Davis Jr.

Masters Theses

The problem in this investigation is a behavioral comparison of a group of alcoholics and non-alcoholics. The primary purpose of these comparisons is to generate hypotheses about covariate factors related to alcoholism and secondly to gain understanding about the etiology of the alcoholic process. Three steps were involved in carrying out these purposes: (1) defining alcoholism behaviorally, (2) ascertaining current functioning of the subjects, (3) ascertaining early learning experiences. Alcoholism is the dependent variable--criterion--of this investigation. A quantifiable behavioral drinking scale developed by Jenkins and Davis (15) yielded scores which defined the criterion. The U-T Deprivation Scale was used to …

Geology Of English Mountain And Vicinity, Cock, Jefferson And Sevier Counties, Tennessee, Robert Carl Greene

Masters Theses

Statement of the Problem: English Mountain is interpreted by Rodgers (1953, Geologic Map of East Tennessee) as a remnant of rocks of the Chilhowee group, resting on a prong in the overthrust sheet of the Great Smoky fault. He showed the structure of the Chilhowee rocks to be synclinal in the central portion, monoclinal on the northern end, and monoclinal in the westward extension.

Objective of the present writer were: 1) to check the major structure and detail the contacts, 2) to accurately locate the position of the Great Smoky fault, 3) to map the minor structures, 4) to study …

The Relationship Between Experiential Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop

Doctoral Dissertations

INTRODUCTION The research about to be reported is part of a larger research program with duodenal ulcer patients carried out at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of Drs. Gerald R. Pascal. and William O. Jenkins of the University of Tennessee Psychology Department. This research program has attempted to bring a systematic, behaviorally-oriented approach to the problem ot duodenal ulcer. The early work of Bergmann (3) has been followed by sufficient expermental research, notably that of Wolf and Wolff (28), Mittelmann and Wolff (16), Gantt (8) and Sawrey (24, 25), to make tentative the hypothesis that …

The Relationship Between Experimental Variables And The Occurence Of Duodenal Ulcer, William W. Lothrop

Doctoral Dissertations

The research about to be reported is part of a larger research program with duodenal ulcer patients carried out at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia, under the direction of Drs. Gerald R. Pascal and William O. Jenkins of the University of Tennessee Psychology Department. This research program has attempted to bring a systematic, behaviorally-oriented approach to the problem of duodenal ulcer. The early work of Bergmann (3) has been followed by sufficient experimental research, notably that of Wolf and Wolff (28), Mittelmann and Wolff (16), Gantt (8) and Sawrey (24, 25), to make tentative the hypothesis that there …

The Effect Of Cue Change And Drive On A Running Response, Warren A. Young

Doctoral Dissertations

In studying the learned behavior of organisms, experimenters usually focus on some particular response and its relationship to systematically varied external stimuli and/or deprivations operations. Any given response can be considered to vary in three ways: It can be strengthened, it can be weakened, or it can be maintained at a more or less constant level. The strength (or weakness) of a response can be indexed in several ways. One can, for instance, measure the latency of the response, the amplitude of the response, the number of response elicitations to produce experimental extinction, the probability of response occurrence, the frequency …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1959-60, 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 1959-60.

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

MTAS History

This publication, edited by Mary Bush, secretary, MTAS, is a roundup of items which have appeared in the Technical Section of Tennessee Town & City. These items have been extracted from periodicals and other publications in the field of municipal government.

It is our hope that this "catalog of municipal ideas" will be useful to Tennessee municipal officials and to other interested persons.

The Development Of The Iron Industry In East Tennessee, Alan Hersh

Masters Theses

Introduction: Production of iron in East Tennessee began almost with the advent of the first settlers. From its early, almost primitive, beginnings, iron production developed into a large-scale, modern industry and then declined to the point of being almost non-existent.

The history of the iron industry can be divided into three phases; the early period of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries; the period of large-scale development of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century; and the period of decline of the twentieth century. Each period was distinctly different from the others. This study is concerned with the …

A Developmental Study Of Concept Formation Behavior In Pre-School Children As Measured By The Hunter-Pascal Concept Formation Test, Bernard D. Kaiman

Doctoral Dissertations

Introduction: In psychology the investigation of the formation of concepts has long been a part of the study of what has been called the thought processes. There are, however, very few studies of early concepts formation in humans, especially in children before and during the development of speech patterns. Most of the studies which have dealt with the investigation of concept formation have depended largely for their data on speech processes. It can, however, be shown that concept formation exists before speech behavior, and that its development seems to be somewhat parallel to the development of speech in the child. …

The Effect Of Varying Degrees Of Anxiety Upon Classroom Learning Performance, Martha J. Thorne

Masters Theses

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of varying degrees of anxiety, as measured by the fifty-item forced-choice Taylor Scale of Manifest Anxiety (TMAS) (24), upon the classroom learning performance of a group of thirty-one student nurses, as measured by the increase in scores on an objective-type final examination administered at the beginning and end of a course in psychiatric nursing. The thirty-one subjects were divided into three groups on the basis of low, medium, and high anxiety scores on the TMAS. The per cent gain scores from the pre- and post-final exam were then compared …

Development Of An Inventory Of Noncognitive Predictors Of Academic Success, Annie W. Ward

Doctoral Dissertations

The journals of education and psychology abound in studies of "prediction of academic success" in various courses, curricula and training programs. Since grades are readily available as a criterion and since previous grades and the scores on varied standardized tests are available as predictors, such studies are simple. The results of these studies are useful in selecting the best of available tests or the best combinations for predictive purposes, thus increasing the usefulness of the tests for group prediction. However, in spite of a number of these studies, and the refinement of statistical procedures used in conducting them, no such …

A Study Of The Recognition Of Non-Financial Problems And Needs In Interviews With Applicants For Adc, Elizabeth Powers

Masters Theses

In no other way does a democracy more clearly demonstrate its conviction regarding its responsibility for the total welfare of its people than in its social legislation. And our present public assistance laws may be viewed as the highest expression of that conviction. The enactment of their most recent revisions, the 1956 Public Assistance Amendments to the Social Security Act, afford a very broad legal base on which the public assistance agency can act to convert the ideals of service to needy individuals and families into reality.

Government For Metropolis: A Nashville-Davidson County Proposal, Daniel R. Grant

MTAS History

With the filing on March 28 of a proposed metropolitan government charter, Nashville and Davidson County have moved one step closer toward creating a new species of local government, one that is distinctly metropolitan in its design. The metropolitan charter, to be voted on June 17, would abolish the City of Nashville and Davidson County and consolidate their functions in a single "Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County."

University of Tennessee Newsletter, Vol. 37, No. 2

A Municipal Public Relations Program That Works For Small & Medium-Sized Cities, Pan Dodd Wheeler

MTAS History

The basic aims of municipal public relations are fundamental to democratic municipal government. These involve letting more people know what the city is doing, what problems it is facing, and how it is planning.

Mtas Assistance In Organization Of A New Municipal Government, Mtas

MTAS History

Includes lists of materials to give to City officials and various matters to discuss with them about the organization of a new municipal government.

The Tennessee Utility District: A Problem Of Urbanization, Arthur B. Winter

MTAS History

One of the most characteristic features of life in the United States at present is the incomplete and unsatisfactory condition of urban-type services in the fringe areas of cities. Attempts to remedy this condition have often been made in the form of special districts with limited functions. T ennessee has not escaped this type of activity. Dr. Winter's study describes the Tennessee development.

Published for THE BUREAU OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and MUNICIPAL TECHNICAL ADVISORY SERVICE THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1958-59, 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 1958-59.

University Of Tennessee Library Lectures, 1955-1957 (No. 7-9)

University of Tennessee Library Lecture Series

Lecture No.7 was presented on May 13, 1955, by Mr. Jack Dalton, at that time Librarian of The Alderman Library, University of Virginia, and now Director of ALA's International Relations Office. An outstanding exponent of the value of a liberal education and one of the foremost philosophers in the field of librarianship, Mr. Dalton was the logical choice to speak on "Liberal Education, Specialization, and Librarianship."

"The Research Library in Transition," Lecture No.8, was a particularly apt title, descriptive as it was of The University of Tennessee Library at the time. Dr. Herman H. FussIer, Director of Libraries and Professor …

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

MTAS History

This publication, edited by Mary Bush, secretary, MTAS, is a roundup of items which have appeared in the Technical Section of Tennessee Town & City. These items have been extracted from periodicals and other publications in the field of municipal government.

It is our hope that this "catalog of municipal ideas" will be useful to Tennessee municipal officials and to other interested persons.

How To Make Reports, Pan Dodd Wheeler

MTAS History

This publication explains what municipal reports are, why municipal officials should make them, and what to include in them.

Municipal Water Works Operating Data For Tennessee, W. T. Chaffin, M. U. Snoderly

MTAS History

In August 1957 Mr. W. G. Thomas, General Manager, Athens Utility Board, requested MTAS to obtain certain statistical information on the operation of municipally-owned water utilities in the State. In replying to our survey questionnaire, so many officials requested a copy of the results that it was decided to print them in this form and to give the report a wide distribution.

Traffic Safety Kit, Municipal Technical Advisory Service

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

MTAS, in cooperation with the Tennessee Municipal League is pleased to provide this "Traffic Safety Kit. It was developed because we have had many requests for such materials. It contains workable, usable laws, plans, and procedures for improving traffic safety in your town or city. In it MTAS has brought together the best information in the field of traffic safety, from authoritative groups over the nation, and the Tennessee law governing operation of motor vehicles.

Survey Of Student Opinion Toward Desegregation At The University Of Tennessee, Barbara Stone

Masters Theses

The South is currently undergoing a period of transition for the traditional values, basic to a southern way of life, were upset by the 1954 Supreme Court decision concerning the desegregation of public schools. This ruling intensified the conflict between these traditional beliefs and attitudes of white supremacy and the fundamental principles of Christianity and democracy. Such conflict will not easily be resolved because it inevitably involves emotional behaviors which are not subject to logic or reason. The decision of the Supreme Court permitted the process of desegregation to be worked out by the local educational boards with all possible …

Changing Problems And Lines Of Attack, Luther Gulick

MTAS History

This paper was written by public administration expert Luther Gulick, whose keynote address at the Tennessee Municipal League's 9th annual convention included a proposal to establish "a local government technical advisory service." Gulick's proposal resonated with TML Herb Bingham, who carried it to the state legislature leading to the creation of MTAS.

The full text of the document is housed in the MTAS library's archives section. For more information, visit the MTAS library's webpage.

Preface: "This is a strictly preliminary document. It is published for the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association in New York City, …

Directory Of Tennessee Municipal Officials 1957-58, 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 1957-58.

Delinquent Taxes, Cliff Greenwood

MTAS History

This article is concerned with the collection of delinquent real property taxes. Included is a time table for the collection of taxes.

An Analysis Of The 1953 Tennessee Home Rule Amendments: Number 6 And Number 7, Victor C. Hobday

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This revision of "An Analysis of Amendments Number 6 and Number 7 to the Tennessee Constitution" is being published and distributed as a service to the Tennessee Municipal League and the municipal officials of Tennessee, as well as others who may be interested in the subject matter. Most of the revised parts are based on the Journal and Debates of the 1953 Constitutional Convention.

Construction Of A Forced-Choice University Instructor Rating Scale, Emmoran Benjamin Cobb

Doctoral Dissertations

Statement of the Problem: The problem, the construction of a rating scale for student evaluation of college teachers, had both "pure" and "applied" psychological research aspects. The "pure" facet of the problem was to develop, apply, and test the effectiveness of certain "forced-choice" principles of rating scale construction. The "applied" aspect was to construct in instrument useful to college teachers in the practice of their profession. Quotation marks are used for these terms to indicated the artificial nature of the dualism applied.

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

MTAS History

This publication, like its 1954 and 1955 predecessors, is a roundup of items which have appeared in the Technical Section of Tennessee Town & City, edited by Cecil Morgan, Consultant on Property Tax Assessment.

These items have been extracted from various sources -- we receive nearly all periodicals and a very large number of other publications in the field of municipal government. If more complete information is desired on any item, we will be glad to supply it from the original source. It is our hope that this "catalog of municipal ideas" will be useful to Tennessee municipal officials …

The Resources Of The Cumberland Plateau As Exemplified By Cumberland County, Tennessee: A Geographic Analysis, George Willis Webb

Doctoral Dissertations

The Problem and Purpose of the Study: Possibly no other area in Anglo-America shows better the relation between man and a restrictive environment than the Cumberland Plateau. Certainly no other presents a more interesting social and geographic picture: here dwells [sic] some of the best racial stock in the United States (much of it pre-Revolutionary) and at the same time the largest number of illiterate and poverty-stricken people in the nation. What they are, no doubt, is more a matter of natural environment than of anything else. . . .

The above statement is the introduction by White and Foscue …