"This study shows three things: (1) a precedent for the expenditure of public funds to teach electricity in our public high schools has already been established by the school system in the larger school systems of Texas, (2) the rural families living on electrified farms in the North Texas area want instruction of this type given to the boys and girls in their communities, and (3) both the rural people and the professional people of the North Texas area believe that instruction dealing with the use of electricity and electrical equipment had spread until by 1935 more than twenty-one million homes, about eighty percent of the total in America at that time, were electrified, only eleven American farms out of every 100 had central-station electricity. More than five million American farms lacked electric service. "--leaf 50.

The purpose of this thesis is to present a history of the founding, operations, services, and growth of the First State Bank of Gladewater,Texas, with special emphasis placed on the economic relationships between the bank and the community. The general problem in this thesis is to gather all the material and data pertaining to the organization, operation, and functions of the bank, with relation to the growth of the community and to present them in a readable coherent manner.

Sandstone units of the Upper Cretaceous San Miguel Formation in South Texas are wave-dominated deltaic sequences deposited during a major marine transgression. San Miguel sediments were deposited in the Maverick Basin within the Rio Grande Embayment. Cross sections and sandstone maps reveal that during deposition of the San Miguel Formation, the Maverick Basin consisted of two subbasins. A western subbasin received sediments from the northwest; the eastern subbasin received sediments from the north. Net-sandstone patterns show that the thickest parts of the sandstone bodies are generally strike oriented; where not eroded, updip sand-feeder systems are indicated by dip-aligned components. The San Miguel deltas vary considerably in morphology and make up a spectrum of wave-dominated delta types. Modern analogs of these San Miguel deltas include the Rhone, Nile, Sao Francisco, Brazos, Danube, Kelantan, and Grijalva deltas. Final sandstone geometries depended on three primary factors: (1) rate of sediment input, (2) wave energy, and (3) rate of sea-level change. Delta morphology was determined by all three factors, but the degree of reworking of deltaic sediments after delta abandonment was determined by wave energy and rate of transgression. The most common vertical sequences in the San Miguel coarsen upward from silt and clay to fine sand. Burrows are the dominant structures. The few primary structures are of small scale; large-scale cross beds are observed only in outcrop. Strandplain or barrier-island facies sequences, which prevail in most wave-dominated deltaic deposits, are incomplete in the San Miguel. In most places, only the lower shoreface is preserved. The upper parts of the sequences, which normally bear large-scale primary structures, were lost by marine reworking during subsequent transgressions. Intense burrowing destroyed any primary structures at the tops of the truncated sequences. Most of the San Miguel sandstones are arkoses. Cements include sparry and poikilotopic calcite, quartz overgrowths, feldspar overgrowths, illite rims, and kaolinite. The primary destroyers of porosity are the two types of calcite cement, which tend to completely cement the coarsest, best sorted, and originally most porous zones of the San Miguel vertical sequences. Zones of secondary porosity resulted from leaching of shell material, calcite cement, and feldspars. Laterally, the zones of either high secondary porosity or calcite cementation are unpredictable. / text

Fault scarps cutting alluvial deposits define the present-day eastern boundary of Basin and Range faulting in Trans-Pecos Texas. These faults are found in the Salt Basin graben north of Van Horn, Texas, and its southerly extensions along Lobo Valley and Michigan Draw. Discontinuous and en echelon Quaternary fault scarps quickly die out to the south on the eastern side of the graben but become more continuous and develop larger displacements (up to 6 meters) along the west side of Salt Basin at the base of Sierra Diablo. The orientation of the more than one hundred Quaternary down-to-the-basin fault scarps and photolineaments appears to be controlled by pre-existing structural zones of weakness. The preferential alignment of Quaternary (Holocene?) fault scarps along the western side of the graben, the westward shifting of playa lakes and the preferred orientation of giant desiccation polygons show that the graben floor is subsiding more rapidly along the western margin. These faults also separate fresh from saline ground water. Four transverse structural lineaments crossing the northern portion of Salt Basin graben were mapped by P.B. King (1948, 1965) and M. Wiley (1970). A fifth zone, trending east-west between the Babb flexure and Bitterwell Mountain is proposed in this thesis. A tectonic origin is suggested by the orientation of the scarps and the proximity of the Mayfield fault scarps to the estimated epicenters of the 1931 Valentine earthquake. The frequency of small earth tremors felt by the residents of the basin and recorded by temporary seismograph stations indicate tectonic adjustments are presently occurring. / text

Thesis (M.A.)--University of North Texas, August, 2008. / Title from title page display. Includes bibliographical references.

This study examines the impact of the citizens of the La Reunion colony on the development of Dallas and Dallas County. The French, Belgian, and Swiss families that formed the utopian colony broughta blend of European culture and education to the Texas frontier in 1853. The founding of La Reunion and a record of its short existence is covered briefly in the first two chapters. The major part of the research, however, deals with the colonists who remained in Dallas County after the colony failed in 1856. Chapters three and four make use of city, county, and state records along with personal collections from the Dallas Historical Society Archives and the Dallas Public Library to examine the colonists effect on the government and business community. Chapter five explores the cultural development of the area through city and county records and personal collections.

"The purpose of this study is not only to satisfy a personal interest, but also to preserve in an interesting narrative form the facts connected with the history and development of the Alvin, Texas, School. The data concerning this subject have been taken from Brazoria County newspapers, The Alvin Sun newspaper files, Alvin School Board Minutes, Alvin School annuals, city records of Alvin and personal interviews. These data have been carefully selected and taken from reliable sources."

Early general history up to 1900. "I have listened to the stories told about it by the old time cowboys, by the old settlers, and by some of the old Fort Concho soldiers themselves. As a result of this experience, I have wanted to go into its past more carefully and search for more facts regarding the region, its first inhabitants, and its early history in general."-- leaf iii.

La presente Tesis de Grado “Modelo Para el Reconocimiento de Patrones en Formularios” surge debido a problemas académicos, principalmente durante la corrección de lo que son exámenes de opción múltiple y mas allá para la valoración de datos que se encuentran en test psicológicos y encuestas. La presente Tesis plantea resolver dichos problemas con la construcción de una herramienta que permita reconocer aquellas características que se presentan en un formulario de tipo test (exámenes, tests psicológicos, encuestas etc.), de tal forma de proporcionar a los desarrolladores de software esta herramienta para la construcción de sistemas acordes a las necesidades del usuario. Para el reconocimiento de los patrones en los diferentes tipos de formularios se estudio lo que es el procesamiento de imágenes ya que estas se obtendrán a partir de imágenes digitalizadas por un escáner, y formulas matemática para la ubicación de los patrones que se procesaran con dicha técnica. Para el desarrollo de la herramienta se utiliza la metodología de desarrollo Programación Extrema, la cual tiene un desarrollo incremental y evolutivo, permitiendo al usuario proponer cambios al software a bajo costo, a lo largo del desarrollo del proyecto, esta metodología permite el desarrollo de un software de calidad, de manera eficiente y ágil.

Esta tesis estudia la relación entre los cuerpos humanos y el evento teatral a través de tres producciones Europeas―Pura Coincidencia de Roger Bernat, Tunning Out with Radio Z de Stan’s Café y Outdoors de Rimini Protokoll― que exponen la emergencia de lo trans-formador. Lo trans-formador opera entre y a través de lo teatral en propuestas experimentales que enfatizan su naturaleza estructural, relacional y sistémica mediante distintas formas de participación. En este sentido, esta investigación explora la naturaleza participativa de estas propuestas artísticas y sus atributos, respondiendo a las siguientes cuestiones: ¿cómo el evento teatral interactúa con lo cotidiano y su teatralidad generando experiencias que se ubican principalmente en el cuerpo? ¿Cuáles son los atributos e implicaciones de las interacciones que emergen en el presentarse, en el estar presente, en el presenciar?¿Cuáles son los compromisos que nacen y se establecen entre los cuerpos al compartir la experiencia teatral? La investigación cuestiona los parámetros relacionales del evento teatral a fin de exponer los afectos y efectos en los cuerpos de los participantes, sean estos artistas profesionales, hábiles amateurs, investigadores en artes escénicas, o bien accidentales o intencionales espectadores. Esta tesis desafía las (im)posibilidades del conocimiento a través de un método basado en la práctica como investigación, lo que en el ámbito anglófono se conoce como practice-as-research. La tesis se compone de dos partes diferenciadas. La primera parte consiste en un capítulo introductorio titulado Arquitecturas Invisibles que pretende facilitar la comprensión de las condiciones operativas que desembocan en la construcción de reflexiones a partir de la experiencia práctica de la propia investigadora. Las condiciones denominadas nomadismo, net-gaming y transducción, derivan respectivamente de las teorías y métodos de Gilles Deleuze y Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour y John McKenzie. Al desplegar estas tres condiciones operativas aparecen ciertas cuestiones relevantes relativas a lo ecológico, lo social, lo político, lo geográfico, que son identificadas simultáneamente como aspectos clave para vislumbrar en qué modo la tesis narra ciertos aspectos de las prácticas teatrales analizadas. La segunda parte titulada Esferas de Inmersión examina las prácticas artísticas. Cada capítulo explora diferentes aspectos teatrales― expectativas, tiempo, atmosfera, trabajo y transformación― a través de una escritura que resulta metafórica, analítica y performativa. Las metáforas evocan lo común, dando lugar a una esfera compartida entre los distintos espectáculos y la investigadora, sumergiendo al lector en los distintos eventos teatrales. / This thesis studies the relationship between human bodies and theatrical events through selected European examples of the emergence of transformative ‘in-between’ experimental performance in the early 20th century. It aims to explore the nature of participatory practices and their attributes. How the theatrical event does interact with the everyday and its theatricality creating ‘embodied’ experiences? What are the attributes and the implications of the relationships that emerge through this bodily engagement? The study questions emergent relational parameters of the theatrical experience in order to explicate its affects and effects in the bodies of participants, whether professional artists, skilled amateur practitioners, theatre/performance researchers, and accidental or intentional audiences and spectators. Its investigation challenges the (im)possibilities of performance knowledge through an experimental method based in a practice-as-research approach. The introductory chapter aims to facilitate understandings of the operational conditions through which the ‘embodied’ is materialized in theatrical performance. The conditions, are named as ‘nomadism’, ‘net-gaming’ and ‘transductions’, and respectively are drawn from the theories and method of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, Bruno Latour and John McKenzie. In unfolding these operational conditions significant ‘ecological’, social, political, geographical concerns are identified as critical to how the thesis accounts for key elements of current experimental theatrical performance. The rest of its chapters examine three productions of the international touring companies Roger Bernat (Barcelona), Stan’s Cafe (Birmingham) and Rimini Protokoll (Berlin). Each chapter examines different specific yet comparable aspects of their participatory theatre/performance methods – namely: expectations, time, atmosphere, labour, and transformation – a through writing that is metaphorical, analytical and performative. Metaphors evoke the ‘common’, they interlace bodily expectations and they trigger the sense of the fleeting experience establishing a shared sphere between the shows, the audiences and the researcher, immersing the reader in the theatrical events. Thus the thesis aims to present the significance of the ungraspable in participatory experimental performance, paradoxically because only in its evanescent in-betweeness might the ‘embodied’ be envisioned.