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Some Spanish folklore for the elementary school
No full textAlong the border of the Rio Grande where people of Spanish Culture live, and where the incidents of their everyday life are connected with the use of both the English and the Spanish languages, a more detailed study of this people is necessary.
Now more than ever, when the Western Hemisphere must be fused into one united front against the selfishness and the belligerent attitude of the dictators, the responsibility falls upon the educators to show their efforts in preparing ways and means by which these two prominent languages close the gap of misunderstanding within our country, and gradually introduce better feelings of good will and solidarity
An administrator's study of school problems arising in a defense area
No full textThe writer was principal of the Aberdeen Common School District No. 5 for two and one half years and has been superintendent of the Sunshine-Aberdeen Consolidated Common School District No. 5 for one and one half years. He has seen the enrollment of the two districts increase from one hundred twenty-four (124) to four hundred thirty-eight (438). The scholastic enumeration has climbed from two hundred (200) to five hundred seventy-one (571).
This rapid increase in enrollment, due to the development of the Naval Air Training Center, has created many new problems in addition to the customary ones facing a school administrator. The writer has endeavored to present the manner in which he attempted to solve each problem as it arouse
The United States exchanges destroyers for defense bases
No full textThere was much talk of war and preparedness throughout the World War during the years preceding the outbreak of World War II in 1939. T the United States had her share of these talk and plans. This was especially true of preparedness for defense. The advocates of additional preparedness cited two reasons for their demand for additional defense bases: (1) The Panama Canal was not efficiently protected from modern warfare. (2) The United States could be easily attacked under the defense system prior to 1939
A circuit design for the study of vacuum tube characteristics by use of the cathode ray oscilloscope
No full textThis circuit was designed as a mechanism to use as a basis for predicting the performance of vacuum tubes. The analysis of the operation of the tube is done by viewing their behavior under certain conditions on the screen of a cathode-ray oscilloscope. It was design in the hope that it might not only save time that it would be used in manually plotting the curves, but would also show the irregularities that might not appear by other methods
Causal linkages between prey behavior and predation risk: controlled experiments reveal behavioral effects of predation risk on white-tailed deer
No full textWhile our understanding of risk effects and their broader consequences is rooted in small-scale, mesocosm experiments, much attention has been given to their prevalence and consequences in carnivore-ungulate systems where logistical constraints largely preclude experimental control. Thus, observational studies dominate the risk effects literature in these systems, and the maturation of the field has led to calls for improved experimental approaches to predation risk research that afford strengthened inference. Therefore, my objective was to examine the effects of predation risk on a wild ungulate population using a series of experiments to test relevant hypotheses. In a playback experiment, I tested the relative effects of vocalizations from extant and locally extinct predators on three foraging metrics of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) by including avian calls for comparison. Interestingly, extirpated wolves induced stronger responses than locally abundant coyotes; however, human vocalizations elicited responses strong enough to suggest the potential for non-consumptive effects. Additionally, I utilized pre-existing long-term predator exclusion plots in experiments testing the effects of predation risk on demographic-specific diel activity of deer and deer spatial behaviors. To test for the effects of predation risk on intraspecific interactions of white-tailed deer and determine if the presence of offspring affected female behavior, I analyzed data from 16 camera traps distributed evenly across predator exclusion and control treatments and monitored during July-September of 2015-2018. I estimated diel activity curves of males, females, and nursery groups and compared their overlap within each group across treatment and across groups within each treatment. Predation risk induced detectable shifts in diel activity patterns of all demographic groups such that risk exposed deer exhibited demographic stratification of diel activity while, in the absence of risk, all groups behaved similarly. Thus, predation risk could play an important role in mitigating agonistic intraspecific interaction in prey species. Finally, I deployed GPS-telemetry collars on 18 adult, female white-tailed deer in immediate proximity to predator exclusion plots to examine the effects of spatially dynamic predation risk on prey movement, space use, and resource selection. Predation risk decreased movement rates, increased the amount of space utilized, and affected selection of resource selection in ways indicative of a moderating effect of risk on habitat quality. By experimentally evaluating the spatiotemporal responses of a model ungulate species to predation risk, my results indicate that predators may play a significant role in shaping fundamental aspects of prey behavior pertaining to intraspecific social dynamics and movement behaviors and suggest that, as a globally dominant predator, have the potential to indirectly affect prey populations via risk-induced trait responses
The economic history of Klerberg County
No full textKleberg County is located on the lower coastal prairies of Texas. It was created and organized in 1913 from Nueces County by an act passed by the thirty-third legislature, and named for Robert Kleberg, a German emigrant who came to Texas in 1834 and fought in the Battle of San Jacinto wit Houston. (45,432)
In area, Kleberg County covers 698 square miles. The total population taken from the 1930 census is 12,451, although estimates of the county’s inhabitants now place this number at approximately 16,000. Of the former number, there were 6,406 native born whites, 161 foreign born whites, 5330 Mexicans, and 554 negroes. There were 2,801 families in 1930, of whom 1,305 were home owners and 1,276 were tenants. (41) (Table 1
Education in Corpus Christi, Texas :1846-1900
No full textVery little has been written about the early schools of Corpus Christi, Texas. It was only through the kindness and generosity of the first settlers that the material for this thesis could have been obtained. No work of this nature could have been accomplished without their help. To each, who gave so generously of his time and knowledge, the author wants to express her sincere thanks.
Every available source material. was used in the writing of this paper. If there are any errors in the dates, or in other detail, it is not intentional on the part of anyone who so kindly contributed to this thesis. Such errors will eventually be corrected by other research, but the correction of them will probably not alter the story, as it is herein recounted, in any serious degree
Trends in schoolhouse planning: a library research
No full textThe effective planning of school housing has become a complicated problem. Because of the complex nature of the curriculum of the modern school, the planning presents a task more involved than it was formerly. The modern school may include auditoriums, study halls, libraries, classrooms, swimming pools, gymnasiums, administrative offices, and special facilities for the industrial and household arts, sciences, physical education, and commercial subjects
Public relations policies of oil companies in Texas
No full textOil was relatively little used before modern times, yet evidence of its existence dates back to antiquity. Myths and legends (as well as the bible) referred to petroleum substances, although they were not called by that name until more recently. Several kinds of petroleum were mentioned: Fich (asphalt), ointment (crude oil), and natural burning fires (probably natural gases)
Arts and crafts in the Corpus Christi junior high schools, 1933-1949
No full textThe purpose of this thesis is threefold. The writers attempt to describe the writer's program as it is practiced in the Corpus Christi public schools. No separate group of schools has been considered program revision within its group as separate from the rest of the schools. The revision has always begun with the elementary schools from there carried through the junior and senior high school programs. This revision, however, has always been sponsored by the junior high school art teachers because here are found more teachers with special training