"The purpose of this study is to outline and analyze the efforts of the City of Fort Worth in the area of community improvement through code enforcement in the years 1961-1965. It is hoped that this study will enable those in the field of municipal government or other related fields to gain a better understanding of the need for community improvement through code enforcement and a better knowledge of methods to implement such a program."--leaf 1.

Ce projet de recherche contribue à la caractérisation du mouvement sismique. Le travail s'appuie sur deux réseaux japonais, où les événements retenus ont une profondeur inférieure à 25 km et une magnitude comprise entre 4,0 et 7,3. L'analyse de K-net permet de calculer une relation prédictive d'accélération spectrale afin de tester les formes spectrales forfaitaires de l'Eurocode 8. Nous mettons en évidence le contenu haute fréquence des signaux japonais et le rôle des sols dans l'amplification spectrale à basse fréquence. De plus, nous développons une méthode empirique de génération stochastique d'accélérogrammes synthétiques non-stationnaires qui permet d'obtenir pour une magnitude, une distance et un type de sol, plusieurs enregistrements susceptibles d'être générés au site considéré. Par ailleurs, l'exploitation des enregistrements de profondeur de Kik-net permet d'explorer la question du domaine de validité des modèles prédictifs et de préciser le cas où on extrapole les prédictions. Enfin, nous étudions le comportement non-linéaire des sols.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas Woman's University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references.

Originally published as author's thesis (D. Phil.)--University of Oxford, 2003. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [208]-219) and index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Texas Woman's University, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references.

The problem of this investigation was to clarify the responsibilities of the employer participating in the VOE program. Three major purposes were stated: (1) to determine the role expectations of employers of VOE students as perceived by employers participating in the program; (2) to determine the role expectations of employers as perceived by the VOE teacher-coordinators; and, (3) to determine if any significant differences existed between the employer perceptions and those of the teacher-coordinators. To obtain information, questionnaires were sent to a random sample of fifty employers participating in the VOE program during the 1983-84 school year. An identical survey instrument was administered to thirty VOE teacher-coordinators in Fort Worth. A Chi-square test of independence was applied to the data to test the hypotheses, with the .05 level used as the point of rejection. Of the seventeen surveyed possible role functions addressed, a majority of the employers responded positively to sixteen, were undecided about one, and responded negatively to none. A majority of the teacher-coordinators responded positively to eleven, were undecided about six, and responded negatively to none. One significant difference existed between the employer perceptions and those of the teacher-coordinators concerning one training responsibility which resulted in the rejection of one of the stated null hypotheses. As a result of the study, it was concluded that employers' views are more positive toward their training responsibilities than those of the teacher-coordinators; teachers are more indecisive about the employer responsibilities; employers are more willing to accept responsibility for training—in all areas except basic skills—than teachers are willing to delegate; and, if VOE teacher-coordinators continue to resist allowing employers to take added responsibilities in training students, the VOE program will continue to fail in meeting the demands of the market place.

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The purpose of this study was to compare the achievement and personality development of Latin-American and Anglo-American school children of similar intelligence in the Washington Height School, Fort Worth, Texas. This was done in order to determine if the Latin-American children had as great a chance of success in school as did the Anglo-American children.