Problem The problem for this study was to determine the occupations entered by graduates of the agricultural education department at Virginia Polytechnic Institute from 1959-1969, their advancements, and the effectiveness of their training. Purposes The specific purposes of the study were to determine: the employment record of the graduates, their mobility, the effectiveness of their training, their financial advancement, their educational advancement, and certain of their other achievements. Method The study was based on data secured by mailing a questionnaire to the 245 graduates. The questionnaire was completed and returned by 179 (73.l percent) of the graduates. Findings There were 134 (74.9 percent) of the reporting graduates who began employment in the agricultural education field. In 1970 there were 96 (53.6 percent) of the reporting graduates who were still employed in the agricultural education field. The 104 (58.l percent) of the graduates who reported that they had changed occupations listed 39 reasons for changing occupations. The graduates reported a need for more courses in business and management. The graduates also reported a need for more training in the specialized areas of the agricultural education curriculum. The average beginning salary for the reporting graduates was $5,650.00. The average 1970 salary was $9,439.00. There were 41 (22.9 percent) of the graduates who held advanced degrees beyond the Bachelor of Science degree. There were 110 (61.5 percent) of the graduates who reported special achievements. / Master of Science

Host range and symptomatology of peanut stunt virus (PSV), cucumber mosaic virus (CMV), the Blencowe isolate of tomato aspermy virus (TAV-B) and a chrysanthemum virus (CV-L) varies on selected hosts. In sucrose density-gradient centrifugation each virus has a sedimentation rate of approximately 100s. Purified preparations of PSV and CV-L are homogenous and stable while CMV and TAV-B aggregate and lose infectivity. In acrylamide gel electrophoresis, all the viruses move as a single component with CMV migrating faster than the other three. Formaldehyde-stabilization of PSV and CMV did not increase the titer of immune sera. Classical microprecipitin and gel diffusion tests were unsatisfactory because of nonspecific precipitation and antibodies to normal host antigens. Analysis of incubated homologous and heterologous virus-antibody mixtures by density-gradient centrifugation detected specific precipitation with surface antigenic sites on the virions. In reciprocal tests, CMV and CV-L show no serological relationship. CV-L and TAV-B react reciprocally and are strains. CMV antiserum reacts with TAV-B, but not conversely. PSV reacts reciprocally with the other three viruses, and thus is related at the strain level to all three. Of the viruses compared, PSV appears to be most like the hypothetical parent strain of the CMV group, since it possesses antigenic sites in common to at least three members of the group. / Master of Science

Between 1820 and 1840, there arose in England a small school of economic thought, intensely anti-capitalistic, known as the Ricardian socialists. Their basic idea was the laborers' right to their whole product. One somewhat obscure member of this group was Piercy Ravenstone who wrote A Few Doubts on the Subjects of Population and Political Economy in 1821 and Thoughts on the Funding System and Its Effects in 1824. In this thesis, I have put forth Ravenstone's system in detail by thoroughly examining both of his works. His basic approach is to demolish the Malthusian population theory, putting in its place a theory which shows that exploitation through rent, taxes and profit is the cause of worker misery. Before examining Ravenstone's work, I have described the historical events which led to early socialist ideology and have given a general overview of Ricardian socialism and its connection with the more classical economics. Profiles of the 2 more well-known members of the school are given and thoughts of Karl Marx on the work of these men are briefly discussed. The conclusion reached is that Ravenstone was not a true socialist but rather was somewhat right-wing. Although he shared many socialist criticisms of capitalist society, he espoused a society of individual workers in both manufacturing and agriculture rather than Owenist establishments or communism. / Master of Arts

This thesis presents a critical evaluation of the Alliance for Progress. Particular emphasis is placed on the main difficulties and failures that the Alliance has had during its first years of existence. However, certain specific advances occurring during this first period of the Alliance deserve mention. Attention is given to the relationships between economic assistance and economic growth, and to the reasons for the failure of the Alliance. The first part of the thesis gives the adequate background for a better understanding of the second part, which makes a severe examination of the accomplishments of the Alliance. / Master of Arts

En el Perú la Sociología se inicia académicamente con una cátedra creada en la Universidad de San Marcos en 1896, una fecha sumamente temprana bajo cualquier punto de vista. Sin embargo deberán transcurrir más de sesenta años antes de que ella pueda constituirse no solamente como especialidad universitaria, sino también para que aparezca un pensamiento propiamente sociológico sobre el país?. ¿Por qué una espera tan larga?. / Tesis

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Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012

Maurice Barrés referred to the French Canadian survival in North America as "le miracle canadien ". In his novels and his parliamentary speeches, Barrés divulged his romantic attachment to the maintenance of French traditions. Recognition from a prestigious Frenchman was heart-warming to French Canadians. They acknowledged the attention by granting Barrés priority in the literary pages of Quebec1 s newspapers. The survival of French Canada however, was neither miraculous nor romantic. It was a perpetual struggle. That there was glory in the struggle, abbé Groulx was most anxious to portray. But the struggle itself stemmed from the determination, the will, the very character of the French Canadians. Institutions, traditions, social, religious and political patterns might help to form that character, to maintain its strength and cohesion; ultimately though, they were secondary, accessory to the fundamental belief in and desire for survival. It was the moral resolution of the French Canadian people that maintained their existence in North America. As long as time, place and language kept most French Canadians far from the madding crowd, the volition could remain in the realm of the sub-conscience. When the twentieth century brought its international communications in the form of war, its industrial development and techniques in the form of foreign capital and English tongue, its population growth in the form of sprawling and seductive cities, its political changes in the form of crumbling empires and nascent states, sub-conscious resistance or ignorant apathy would no longer suffice. French Canadians had to confront the novelties of the twentieth century actively. The domestic repercussions of the First World War shook the passivity of many French Canadians. The war1s summons for duty, patriotism and heroism contrasted sharply with Ontario’s educational persecution of the French speaking minority. The war's appeal to aid the two mother countries could not sweeten the bitter pill of conscription. The war's emotions of distrust and hatred coloured the furor of the federal elections of 1917. Each incident emphasized the feeble and unwelcome position of French Canada in Confederation. In a post-war world context of political and social effervescence, Confederation itself appeared feeble. Disunity, division, disequilibrium and disintegration characterized the economic, social and political scene. Where would French Canada stand in a disrupted Canada? Posing the question, piquing the apathy and prodding the will was the Action Française. Commencing as the Ligue des Droits du français in 1913, the Action Française was a small group of middle-aged men in the liberal professions, using intellectual means to present a moral message. Until 1928, the Action Française, heavily spicing its doctrine with the imagery of battle, urged an energetic reaction to the contemporary novelties that threatened French Canada (2). The tale of the Action Française as doctors and teachers of the French Canadian national conscience involves the selection of sustenance from Canadian predecessors and from a French homonym, the internal history and the external activities of the movement and the confrontation with the linguistic, economic, social and political challenges to the French Canadian will to survive. / Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012

Québec Université Laval, Bibliothèque 2012

Un dispositif expérimental, composé principalement de deux chambres en acier inoxydable ayant chacune leur propre système de pompage indépendant, a été construit pour étudier la cinétique homogène d'espèces qui sont susceptibles de se décomposer facilement sur des parois. Le gaz à analyser est introduit dans un réacteur cylindrique en Pyrex à l'extrémité inférieure duquel on a percé un orifice circulaire. Une partie du gaz qui effuse par l'orifice du réacteur en régime d'écoulement hydrodynamique est collimaté en un faisceau moléculaire par un émondeur qui sépare les deux chambres et plus loin par un orifice circulaire placé à l'entrée de la chambre d'ionisation d'un spectromètre de masse quadrupolaire. Après son passage dans la chambre d'ionisation, le faisceau moléculaire se détruit sur un piège froid qui piège certains gaz facilement condensables. Le faisceau moléculaire permet le transfert sans collision d'un échantillon du mélange réactionnel jusqu'à la chambre d'ionisation. Pour analyser quantitativement des espèces qui sont susceptibles de se décomposer facilement sur des parois, il est nécessaire de distinguer entre le signal provenant du faisceau moléculaire et celui provenant du fond réactionnel. En employant un interrupteur situé entre l'orifice du réacteur et l'orifice de l'émondeur, nous avons mis au point deux techniques pour déterminer les différentes contributions ioniques au spectre de masse… / Montréal Trigonix inc. 2018