The concept of Arts in the Parks is not new in the United States. The provision of natural and manmade theatres and amphitheatres in major American cities has been actively in process from the late Nineteenth Century. ...

Conflict among care participants in the nursing home setting concerning the expectations for care-giving and care-seeking behavior has been well-documented. The question explored in this study is whether substantial ...

A systematic study of the GaAs/A1[subscript]xGa₁-[subscript]xAs Multiple-Quantum-Well (MQW) normal-incident modulators, including the theoretical calculations of the absorption coefficient and refractive index of ...

A spectrum of the imaginary part of the complex index of refraction for water as a function of wave number was compiled from the literature and theoretical considerations. The spectrum ranged from 10⁻⁶ through 10⁸ cm⁻¹. ...

Very few colleges have a career-intensive program of orchestral audition preparation in their applied violin curriculum. This dissertation attempts to satisfy the need for a curriculum of audition repertoire study in the ...

James Pendergast came to Kansas City in 1876 from St. Joseph, Missouri. After working for several years as a laborer, Pendergast entered the saloonkeeping business in the West Bottoms, the heart of Kansas City's ...

This study examines and evaluates the use of regular army forces in quelling civil disturbances within the United States. The term civil disturbance is defined as excluding Indian wars, western frontier violence and all ...

This study was designed to determine characteristics of taxpayers taking the political contribution tax credit from 1979 to 1982. This work is similar to studies on the effectiveness of tax incentives in promoting positive ...

Missouri Vanguard Theatre is a small professional touring company with its base at the University of Missouri—Kansas City. This touring company performs primarily in the rural areas of the State of Missouri before audiences ...

Research on nonmetro poverty indicates that it tends to be both geographically discrete and persistent over time. Low income counties have been shown to have a negative effect on the income of bordering counties, increasing ...

The last few decades have witnessed the introduction of electricity as a factor of everyday life in its use as a source of light, power and heat. The dangers of fire breaking out, or the damaging of machines or other ...

The need of an efficient and artistic lighting system for the University Campus has been in evidence for several years.The object of this thesis is to discuss comparatively the different lamps and lighting systems, finally ...

Hydro-Electric Power Development is fast becoming one of the largest branches of engineering. Much attention is being paid to it in all good engineering schools. But it is impossible to get much out of the study unless ...

The problem of automatically indicating, at a distance, the height of water in a storage basin or open water way is one which chiefly concerns water power plants although it may come up, of course, in many different cases. ...

Owing to the location of the main sewer system of Columbia, Missouri, and the topography of the immediate and surrounding country on which the city is located, it is difficult to dispose of the sewage of the east part of ...

Nearly every possible loss of power about a dynamo has been investigated more or less thoroughly and efforts made to eliminate such loss by careful design of the part in which the loss occurs. The losses at the brushes ...

The north fork of Salt River drains a Iong irregular basin in the north eastern part of the state of Missouri. It rises in Adair County and flows down thru the southwest corner of Know County, diagonally thru Shelby County ...

In the use of reinforced concrete for the construction of buildings, it is of importance that the structure be made as light as is consistent with strength. Especially is this true of concrete floors in concrete or steel ...

The basin is designed for the City of St. Joseph, Missouri, to partly relieve the present basin, which has become inadequate for the present needs of the city. The capacity of the basin is 5,000,000 gallons, which is one ...