OBJECTIVE EVALUATION FOR AGRICULTURAL LENDING

Agricultural Finance,

THE PROFITABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL CUSTOMERS FOR COMMERCIAL BANKS IN THE SOUTHEAST

Agricultural Finance,

Geostrophic deviations in relation to the strength of the circumpolar vortex

Thesis (M.S.) Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology, 1949.Bibliography: leave [30].by William Eric Hardy.M.S

Fare well to all Radicals : Redeeming Tennessee, 1869-1870

On February 10, 1869, Tennessee Governor William G. “Parson” Brownlow tendered his resignation as he prepared to take his seat in the United States Senate, to which his Radical allies in the General Assembly had elected him in the aftermath of the 1867 state election. On resigning, Brownlow expressed full confidence in DeWitt C. Senter, the man who would succeed him. Stunningly, six months later Brownlow’s Radical party verged on collapse after its Conservative rivals captured control of the General Assembly in the August 1869 state election. The new legislature speedily repealed many of the enactments of the five years of “Brownlowism” and called for a constitutional convention. That convention met in January 1870 and produced a new state constitution in less than six weeks. The Radicals’ pleas to Congress and President Ulysses S. Grant for federal intervention fell on deaf ears. Conservatives and ex- Confederates crushed the Radicals in the August 1870 judicial and November 1870 gubernatorial and legislative elections. With the election of Governor John Calvin Brown, a former Confederate general and Ku Klux Klan member, Tennessee’s Reconstruction era ended. This study explores the last chapter in Tennessee’s Reconstruction, which took place between February 1869 (Brownlow’s resignation) and November 1870 (Brown’s election). During that pivotal period, Tennessee’s political parties converged and then dissolved into intraparty factionalism, which had profound consequences for white Radicals and the state’s freed people. How these political developments came about is the central historical question addressed in this dissertation, which fills a glaring gap in the understanding of Tennessee’s Reconstruction

An Analysis of Aircraft Maintenance Leading Indicator Metrics to Unit-level Aircraft Availability Rates

The purpose of this research is to improve the usefulness of data that is already collected within aircraft maintenance organizations to better identify trends, and outliers, and possibly better explain relationships between leading and lagging indicator metrics. Specifically, this graduate research paper sought to answer two research questions addressing what aircraft maintenance metrics significantly impact aircraft availability, and how to measure those to understand which metrics impact aircraft availability most. The research questions were answered through a comprehensive literature review, and the use of multiple linear regression analysis on data from two specific aircraft maintenance organizations from the same location. The results of the analysis provided insight into what was more applicable to each specific unit. Recommendations and cautions on the usefulness of the study are provided as well as future research opportunities

Reliability and Validity of the Transactional Analysis Freehand Script Maze

In 1976, Buryska constructed an instrument called the Transactional Analysis Freehand Script Maze to explore the possible injunctions a client may have in certain areas. These areas are body, senses, feelings, head, needing, sex, family and culture, others, doing, and being. The purpose of this study was to find the reliability and validity of the freehand script maze. Before the maze could be discussed, introduction was given about the history and components of Transactional Analysis. The subjects used for the reliability test of the study were 134 Eastern Illinois University students chosen from classes that were willing to participate. The subjects for the validity test were 16 trained T. A. clinicians or therapists, all of which were chosen at random from the T. A. member directory for the United States, and 12 of their clients. The apparatus used was the freehand script maze which contains 60 boxes, all of which contain a statement of Permission to Do or to Be. The maze is formed by the subject when he closes off part of or all of a box. This closing indicates a possible injunction on the part of the subject. Standardized instructions were used for the administration of the maze. For the reliability, the maze was administered to a group of students in different college classes. The validity part of the maze was given by the clinician or therapist to his clients individually. While the client filled out his maze, the therapist or clinician was suppose to fill out a maze of how he thought his client\u27s maze would look when finished. Each maze, after completion, was then scored with each box receiving a score of 0 to 2. A score of 2 indicates an emphatic injunction, a score of 1 indicates a partial injunction, a score of 0 indicates no injunction. Analysis was run on Bio-Med 08 factorial program with subjects and items as random factors; test-retest and areas as fixed. Because of a lack of participation by clinicians and therapists, only one participated, no validity results could be computed. The reliability findings of this study found a Pearson Product Moment coefficient of .67 for the test-retest reliability. This indicates that it has low reliability as a consistent test. The ADV table showed the C/A effect as being significant at the p\u3c.01 level, indicating that some rows of the maze showed more problems than others. One could possibly use the maze then, as an index of adjustment. Subject by item interaction account for 72% of variance in scores. It would then be wrong to assume that a subject would enter the boxes randomly or that one injunction would evoke a response because of another injunction. It was concluded, however, that the maze is probably best used, at present, as a tool for discovering where the client has his greatest problems or injunctions and as an enjoyable rapport builder for both the therapist and the client

PLANNING SOLAR HEATING FOR POULTRY - A LINEAR PROGRAMMING APPROACH

Livestock Production/Industries,