Browsing Retrospective Theses and Dissertations (1940-2009) by Title
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A comparative analysis of variables affecting the tax revenue reliance of the 50 United States
(1978)This study describes and contrasts variations in the tax revenue reliance of the 50 states. In addition, the linkages between measures of several demographic, socioeconomic, and governmental characteristics and tax revenue ... -
A preliminary analysis of John Locke's "The Reasonableness of Christianity"
(1978)This essay explores the relationship between John Locke's religious teaching and his conception of the good social and political order as it is presented in his. The Reasonableness of Christianity. The essay's thesis is ... -
A sentence completion technique as a measure of level IV behavior with the interpersonal checklist
(1973)The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of a forced-choice sentence completion form as a measure of avoided behavior, designated as Level IV, in the Leary diagnostic system. Based on the result of a pilot ... -
A study of leisure time and recreational interests of 982 fifteen and sixteen year old Reagan (Houston, Texas) Senior High School students
(1948)There were two main purposes for this study: (1) to discover as accurately as possible how fifteen and sixteen year old boys and girls of the Reagan (Houston, Texas) Senior High School make use of their leisure time; and ... -
A study of the political socialization process among Southern Negro high school students
(1970)This project was a broad investigation into the political socialization process among a selected population of segregated Negro High School students in Houston, Texas, Its purpose was to gather empirical data on this ... -
Accuracy of a two-lever operant discrimination task : Three experiments
(1975)Little research is currently available concerning the most accurate method for assessing discriminative control during a two-lever choice operant task when extinction sessions are utilized. Past and present research has ... -
An analysis of the effect of the Federal Income Tax Law upon the United States balance of payments
(1970)This study summarizes the results of an examination made of the portion of the Internal Revenue Code dealing with income taxes in order to find those provisions which have an effect upon the United States balance of payments. ... -
An analysis of the effects of teacher assignment in the Houston Independent School District on student academic achievement
(1978)The Singleton Ratio is a court ordered plan requiring the racial makeup of certified employees and teacher aides in every school of a district to roughly represent the racial characteristics of those employees district ... -
An analysis of variables affecting acquisition and decay of adaptation to lateral prismatic displacement
(1973)The study was designed to test current theories of prism adaptation to lateral prismatic displacement by investigating importance of sight of the body, active movement, and magnitude of displacement. An attempt was made ... -
An empirical test of some of the hypotheses generated by Wolf's Need Gratification Theory
(1971)This study was an attempt to test some of the hypotheses generated by Wolf's Need Gratification Theory of Job Satisfaction/Dissatisfaction. The four hypotheses tested were: 1. Persons whose lower level needs are as yet ... -
An evaluation of the California Test of Personality
(1950)The need for diagnosis of personality maladjustment appears obvious when i tis realized that personality problems are probably the most common causes of discharge from employment, and are probably the most common causes ... -
Biofeedback training of 40 Hz EEG in humans : Effects on other EEG rhythms automatic activity
(1975)Biofeedback procedures have been employed to establish control over several EEG rhythms in humans and animals. This study demonstrated successful training of human subjects to increase and suppress a high-frequency EEG ... -
Body image boundary and interpersonal distance in two-person encounters
(1972)This study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship between body image definiteness, as indexed by the Barrier score, and interpersonal distance during a brief two-person interaction. In addition, the ... -
Children's norms for the Visual Retention Test : Multiple Choice Form I
(1975)Norms were developed for children on the Visual Retention Test: Multiple Choice Form I (VRT-MC). The VRT-MC is a 16-item multiple-choice test consisting of complex geometric figures. Two administrations were used: memory ... -
Comparisons between an ancient instrument and modern instruments for assessing personality : A pilot study
(1974)Forty-nine college level subjects were selected from a subject pool of over 200 respondents to an advertisement requesting volunteers, age 23 years or older, for an experiment on astrology and personality. The subjects ... -
Comprehension of semantically related sentences
(1975)Recent theories of semantic representation posit that information is represented by a set of propositions similar to those proposed by Fillmore (1968) and that comprehension of sentences involves syntactic and semantic ... -
Contextual synonymy
(1976)This thesis is an attempt to define some key pragmatic concepts and to show how they can be used in the solution of a number of recurrent problems in the philosophy of language. Chapter one examines two traditional approaches ... -
Cross-validation of a heroin addiction scale from the MMPI on an outpatient sample of heroin addicts and vocational rehabilitation clients
(1973)Many studies have attempted to discriminate addicts from non-addicts on the basis of MMPI profiles and/or auxiliary scales designed for that purpose. The present study focused on a heroin addiction (He) scale of the MMPI ... -
Energy use and the environment : The effects of environmental quality standards on the supply, demand, and price of fossil energy
(1975)A normative economic model is developed in this study for analyzing the effects of changes in (1) resource availabilities, (2) resource prices, (3) operating environment (e.g., energy and environmental policy), and (4) ...