The Koyle Relief Mine, located near Spanish Fork in Central Utah, has had a profound effect upon the life and property of thousands of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Company officials claim that the number of stockholders, past and present, exceeds six thousand persons.Despite the sixty-eight years of its totally unsuccessful operation, the mine continues to maintain a countless number of old believers and to attract a considerable array of new ones. Prompted by a type of religious fervor, these people continue to declare the mine divine and its founder, John H. Koyle, inspired. Basing their faith on the claimed dream, visions, and theophanies of Koyle, they await the coming forth of boundless riches from the mine which will be used to benefit not only themselves, but all of the righteous in the last days.

In Murakami's detective novels, pop culture references, irony, and hard-boiled genre conventions combine with magic realist prose to articulate the search for individual identity in a Japanese milieu structured by traditional communal values. At the same time, Murakami's work remains grounded in Japanese literary tradition, and he sees himself very much as a product of modern Japan. The thesis traces the blending of these diverse tendencies in three of Murakami’s most popular novels: A Wild Sheep Chase, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, and Dance, Dance, Dance. The Introduction provides an overview of the product, critical reception of Murakami's body of work, and my methodological approach. The overview provides the cultural and social background for the individual/corporate tension within his novels. Then, I examine current critical debates surrounding Murakami's works including his position as a postmodern writer and his status as a national author. In my methodology section, I outline my Marxist, new historicist and psychoanalytic critical approaches to Murakami's work followed by an exploration of his use of magic realist prose within the detective genre. Each of the next three chapters provides a close reading of one of the novels in which I examine through Murakami's recurring stylistic method the progression of his exploration of identity. The conclusion argues that the sense of coherence in Murakami's writing project stems from a recurring stylistic method and consistent effort to suggest new forms of living out Japanese cultural identity in postmodern, globalized terms.

The conclusions of this survey should be considered with the fact in mind that it was in the nature of a preliminary or reconnaisance rather than a final survey. While the authors feel that the conclusions drawn are justified by their test results it should be realized that the data is not comprehensive or complete enough to draw any final conclusions regarding the overall sanitary condition of the lake. Considering the test results, the following conclusions and recommendations are presented: 1. There is evidence of pollution throughout the portions of the lake tested, during the extent of the sampling season. 2. The pollution at Sections 1, 2, and 3 showed a tendency of being localized in relatively narrow well defined channels, while that at Section 4 seemed to be dispersed throughout the cross section. 3. The water in the vicinity of the V.P.I. property and the upstream part of the state park property would, in general, meet the various bacteriological requirements of health departments for bathing areas. 4. The water just below the proposed bathing area at the downstream part of the state park showed evidence of pollution in amounts which might make the use of this area questionable unless careful control is maintained by frequent bacteriological tests. 5. There was no evidence of a trend or fluctuation in pollution during the period of study. 6. In general, there was no correlation between the results of the bacteriological tests and the chemical and physical results. / M.S.

At the outset of this investigation its purpose was stated as that of discovering causes contributing to termination of schooling on the part of certain children who had completed the seventh grade at Mount Pleasant School; also, that of observing the results of dropping out of school at that time. In attempting to carry out such purposes, an intensive study was made of 50 former pupils of the school who, for convenience, were called terminators. These persons were members of a total group of 74 who had stopped formal education at the end of the seventh grade during the years from 1938 to 1947. One consequence of the investigation was a composite picture of the group which was presented in the preceding chapter. Another result of this endeavor was the list of causes for termination which appear in Chapter IV. Prominent among these were (1) economic drives, (2) shifting of interest from school to vocational pursuits, (3) incapacity for the kind of work the school was offering, and (4) indifference to school on the part of parents. The relative dominance of each of these causes, as it appeared in the study, is indicated by the order just given. As the work progressed the impression grew that some of the children might have overcome the other negative factors in the situations if they had been able, somehow, to cope with their economic disabilities; this, despite their somewhat low intelligence as indicated by test results. If it be further assumed that the subjects not only could but should have profited by enrolling in high school then it seems inescapable to conclude that their failure to go on was a double misfortune both to the terminators and to society, caused by forces over which they had little or no control. / M.S.

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This thesis gives (1) a review of literature on pastures and hogging off crops, (2) a description of the farming system of the Peanut Section of Southeastern Virginia as it relates to swine production, and (3) an outline of procedure for two experiments dealing with swine production problems in the Peanut Section. / M.S.

Previous investigators have studied the hydrogenolysis of sugars under high pressures and temperatures. The purpose of this investigation was to study the possibilities of producing low molecular weight polyhydric alcohols from glucose by electrochemical methods. A procedure was devised for the separation of low molecular weight polyhydric alcohols from a mixture of polyhydric alcohols which constituted extracting the mixture with acetone at a temperature of 130 ℉. The acetone proved to be a solvent for the low molecular weight polyhydric alcohols. Acetone-soluble material was produced by the electrolysis of glucose at lead or zinc cathodes in the presence of 10 per cent sodium hydroxide at a temperature of 100-110 ℉, and a current density of 7.0 amperes per square decimeter. The range of current density investigated was from 4.0 to 7.0 amperes per square decimeter. The temperature was 100-110 ℉; the cathode material was lead sheet which was given a Tafel activation; the electrolyte contained 10 per cent sodium hydroxide and 7.5 per cent sodium sulfate; and the catholyte was agitated. The effect of the current density on the reduction of glucose and the production of acetone-soluble material was negligible over this range and condition of electrolysis. The amount of acetone-soluble material produced at a current density of 7.0 amperes per square decimeter in the presence of ten per cent sodium hydroxide at a temperature of 100-110 ℉ was 80.8 per cent by weight of the glucose reduced. The amount of current passed was 14 ampere-hours. The acetone-soluble material produced in the presence of five per cent sodium hydroxide was 70.8 per cent for the same conditions and time of electrolysis. With variation of the amount of current passed to 28 and 42 ampere-hours, the acetone-soluble material produced in ten per cent sodium hydroxide was reduced to 56.9 and 15.1 per cent. The acetone-soluble material produced in the presence of five per cent sodium hydroxide was 26.4 and 11.3 per cent. The electrolysis of sorbitol in the presence of ten per cent sodium hydroxide at a lead cathode at 100-110 ℉ with the passage of 14 ampere hours of current produced no acetone-soluble material. The fractionation of the acetone-soluble material resulted in a fraction which distilled at 109-110 ℃ at 8 mm of pressure. The residue polymerized which set up to a hard water soluble, acetone-insoluble mass upon cooling. A summary of the known properties of the distillable compound, as indicated by tests performed in this investigation, is as follows: A polyhydric, methyl ketone, or aldehyde. Soluble in water, acetone, and ethanol. Insoluble in ether. Boils at 109-110 ℃ at 8 mm pressure. Forms a 2-4 dinitrophenylhydrazone derivative with an uncorrected melting point of 225-227 ℃. The compound could not be identified from the literature. / M.S.

The three basic requirements for unobstructed, short path distillation are: a surface over which a think layer of distilland is distributed, a cooler condensing surface in close proximity to the evaporating surface, and a suitable system for evacuating the space between the two surfaces. When the distance of transfer between the evaporating and condensing surfaces is comparable to the mean free path of the vapor molecules in the residual gas, the process is known as molecular distillation. [Continued in document] / Ph. D.

In this investigation the stress concentration factor was evaluated for a hollow stepped shaft with variable wall thickness and two fillet sizes. Electric strain gages of the SR-4 type were employed to measure strains in the fillet section. Values of the stress concentration factor were determined with the ratio of inside to outside diameter ranging from 0.25 to 0.625. A decreasing relation was established between stress concentration and the internal diameter. A satisfactory method of positioning gages accurately on the complex fillet surface was developed. This method featured an intermediate steel template with positive referencing. / M.S.

The purpose of the study was conceived as a search for possible ways of helping some young people who appeared to be greatly in need of help. That purpose implied the problem of the study: to set up a procedure for studying the cases of social and personal conflict, as observed in an American secondary school, one promising of solutions for the difficulties involved. / M. S.