Electronic Thesis or Dissertation

This thesis demonstrates the dichotomy of opposing political and theological beliefs in two novels of Graham Greene. The journey motif in both the whiskey priest of The Power and the Glory and the Monsignor in Monsignor Quixote parallel the author's development from the youthful political zealot determined to right universal wrongs to the mature acquiescent accepting a unified world as an impossibility. In Monsignor Quixote, Greene depicts a spirit of compassion enlarged by exposure and acceptance of diametrically opposite beliefs. The friendship of the Catholic and Communist enable each to acknowledge the validity of the other's ideas. Their dreams function as concrete and abstract elements in plot development and characterization. This study extrapolates the paradoxical fact of this author's personality as it reveals the serious nature of the young and old Greene, then delights us with the lighter side, thus sensitizing us to elements both tragic and comic.

Through a small contained environment, this study evaluates an information-based complexity metric theory and its relationship to the effort expended in constructing a program. The metric, which calculates the amount of information present in a program specification, determines the specification's complexity measure. The observed measures of programmer effort were the numbers of keystrokes, insertions, deletions, and runs needed to complete the program specification. It was theorized that a program with a higher complexity value than that of another program will require more programmer resources to complete. A significant relationship between the metric and the number of keystrokes was found.

This thesis gives an evaluation of DOS 3.2 file system performance in the current IBM PC AT environment, and it presents a survey of alternative file system and high density storage integration strategies. The current file system is evaluated to determine the nature of its algorithms and structures. In particular, the file system is examined from a disk access perspective and from the perspective of alternative disk and file management strategies used in UNIX*2 file systems.

This thesis describes the use and implementation of the
PEIRCE DBMS.
PEIRCE is an easy-to-use, efficient, portable and relationally
complete database management system.
The design philosophy behind PEIRCE is to provide a
powerful and efficient data manipulation language that
can be easily implemented on a variety of computers,
including microcomputers.
PEIRCE requires the user to learn only a small number of
simple, yet powerful commands. It is PEIRCE not the user
that bears the burden of efficiently implementing these
commands.
PEIRCE has been entirely written in C to enhance portability
to many computers.

The relationship between object-person permanence and
quality of attachment was assessed in 13 month old infants
under equivalent task conditions. Both familiar/salient
and unfamiliar/neutral objects and persons were hidden behind
large curtains. Contrary to previous findings securely
attached infants did not perform differently than insecurely
attached babies on the object and person permanence
scales. Regardless of security of attachment, babies
searched at a higher level for both the familiar/salient
person and object than for the unfamiliar/neutral person
and object. Infants were most likely to search for the
mother and least likely to search for the experimenter.
Results suggest that the motivational salience of target
persons and objects plays an important role in performance
on object and person permanence tests and thus indicate a
need for more precision in measurement in order to
delineate any existing relationship between the cognitive
and affective domains in infancy.

This investigation consisted of analyzing the source code of
one of the IBM Series/1's operating systems, the Event
Driven Executive, and one of its Application Program
Products, the Multiple Terminal Monitor, for combinations of
existing hardware mnemonic instructions. Such instructions
could possibly be vertically migrated into new single
mnemonic hardware instructions, thus improving system
performance. Two pairs of instructions were found which
seem to be strong candidates for such vertical
migration. Many instructions available on the Series/1 were
not used in any of the modules examined. This suggests that
some hardware instructions could be eliminated.

This thesis involves the results of a questionnaire distributed
to a random sample of chief staff executives who are
members of the American Society of Association Executives.
It pertains to the perceived degree of influence exhibited
by past chief elected officials on association policy-making
decisions, as well as their place in the association organizational
structure. It was concluded that certain organizational structures and titles do predominate when dealing with
past chief elected officials; that conflict appears to exist
between the chief staff executive's visions; the past chief
elected officials appear in substantial numbers on policymaking
bodies, whether they be perceived or actual, and
staff satisfaction with the past chief elected official appears
to be high.

Nigeria is a country in a hurry for development, but the lack
of executive and technological capacity is a common phenomenon.
Efforts to provide the right climate for the development
and encouragement of indigenous expertise will go a long
way to enhance the job satisfaction of employees, particularly
petroleum engineers in the petroleum industry, an industry
requiring a high level technology and the largest national
revenue earner. Concepts of motivation were used as a starting
point to provide a broad integrative perspective to the
study of job satisfaction of Nigerian Petroleum Engineers.
Empirical results of comparison of job satisfaction of Petroleum
Engineers in the private and public petroleum companies
in Nigeria highlight the areas needing attention to improve
the job satisfaction of these engineers. The results also
show the general characteristics of the private petroleum
companies vis-a-vis the public petroleum companies as at the
time the study was made.

"The strength of the metal building industry lies in a
loyal long term dealer-manufacturer relationship." This
quote was the beginning statement made during an interview
by Mr. Jerry Bell, Director of the Metal Building
Dealer's Association. Mr. Bell has isolated, as most
important, a relationship which is responsible for over
800 million dollars of annual sales and the employment
of over 14,000 people at the manufacturer's level. Countless
others are employed by dealerships in the sales and
construction of this relatively new system of construction
which has made significant market penetration in
the non-residential low rise construction market.
The relative well being of this important dealer-manufacturer
relationship is the subject of this study.

Tests were conducted using 10 cm. (3.93 in.) lengths of both
epoxy coated and bare steel reinforcing rods in simulated concrete
environments of varying pH and chloride ion levels. Polarization
studies using cathodic scan techniques were used to characterize the
quality of the epoxy coating. In all the environments tested, bars
with more defects required larger currents at a given potential than
did the bars with few defects. Corrosion potential measurements in
passive environments showed significant fluctuations from day to day,
making it difficult to use potential measurement for corrosion characterization.
Galvanic couples between epoxy coated and uncoated bars
indicated that galvanic currents increased as the differences in the
corrosion potentials increased and also as the chloride ion content
of the environment increased from 0 to 0.05 M.