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Sexuality education in Montana public high schools with a focus on implementation

Creator:: Wagner, Bonnie S.
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to determine whether the 1981 recommendation by the Montana State Board of Public Education had in fluenced actual implementation of sexuality education in that state. The study also sought to describe sexuality education in Montana and to assess perceptions of Montana public high...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: focus on implementation AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Bonnie S. Wagner for the degree of Master of

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

Creator:: Simmons-Rogers, Alexandra L.
Abstract:: Red Light Ladies presents a perspective on prostitution in North America, within the context of the western mining frontier. A biographical profile of the frontier prostitutor is presented, along with an archaeological model of settlement patterns and material culture. Settlement patterns and demographic changes in the prostitutor population are hypothetically...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

Creator:: Biddle, Jeanette M.
Abstract:: This study examines participants' perceptions of the significant messages and meanings communicated to them through the ceremony of the Blessingway (a ritual titled after the Navajo Blessingway), a contemporary women's birth ritual performed by midwives. A narrative approach was used for data gathering based on Fisher's rationale that meaning emerges...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: have not been seriously heeded (McKinlay, 1981; Mitford, 1992; Oakley, 1986; Ruzek, 1993; Wagner, 1994

Dietary behavior and body composition parameters among self-reported exercising and non-exercising elderly women

Creator:: Bell, Kathleen A.
Abstract:: The percentage of the American population who are 65 years old or older is rapidly increasing, especially the proportion of women. It is becoming crucial to encourage lifestyle behaviors that will enable senior women to remain in optimal health. Following the 1990 Dietary Guidelines' recommendations to limit fat intake and...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: 147 F: Food Model Kits .155 G: 1989 Recommended Dietary Allowances 157 H: Percent

An environmental history of Euphoria Ridge, Oregon : a case study for ethnobotany in traditional resource management

Creator:: Fluharty, Suzanne M.
Abstract:: This dissertation looks at one landscape component of the Coquille Indian Tribe's ancestral lands in order to understand the place meaning created and assigned to Euphoria Ridge, Oregon. I focus on three cultural overlays across time that together with the unique biophysical components, generate an importance for the locale to...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Contextual systems description of an Oregon coastal watershed

Creator:: Goetze, Brigitte
Abstract:: Many resource management controversies indicate disagreement about the possible intended and unintended effects of management actions on ecosystems. Researchers have documented a variety of negative effects on specific ecosystems, e. g. the degradation of salmonid habitat due to mass wasting (Hagans et al. 1986). While the effects of some management...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

New insights into the biology of theropod dinosaurs

Creator:: Quick, Devon E.
Abstract:: There is little, if any, direct fossil evidence of the cardiovascular, respiratory, reproductive or digestive biology of dinosaurs. However, a variety of data can be used to draw reasonable inferences about the physiology of the carnivorous theropod dinosaurs (Archosauria: Theropoda). Extant archosaurs, birds and crocodilians, possess regionally differentiated, vascularized and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

The effect of selected materials on the achievement of students in the intermediate grades in Native American cultural instruction

Creator:: Paul, Mary Elaine Bowen
Abstract:: Materials concerning ethnic and minority groups are a concern for many curriculum leaders. Inappropriate materials perpetuate stereotypes, in many cases due to a lack of study concerning the information within the materials. The materials concerning Native Americans typically presented in public school classrooms tend to overgeneralize information about the cultural...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: . Original Test 93 H. Item Analysis of Initial Test For 104 I. Related Objectives and Questions Table 107 J

The Umpqua Eden site : the people, their smoking pipes and tobacco cultivation

Creator:: Nelson, Nancy J.
Abstract:: Located on the central Oregon coast, the Umpqua Eden site (35D083) yielded an artifact assemblage which is one of the five largest assemblages from the Oregon coast. The first aspect of the site that I looked at is the people who lived at the site, the ancestors of the Confederated...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Eden profile. 20 5 a-d)Bone fishhooks; e-g)unilaterally barbed harpoons; h) part of a composite

A comparative analysis of factors influencing smoking behaviors of college students, 1963-1987

Creator:: Gray, Nancy L.
Abstract:: Cigarette smoking continues to be one of the country's major health concerns. It has been defined as the single largest preventable cause of disease and death in the United States. Although research has indicated that overall cigarette consumption has decreased in the nation over the past decades, cigarette smoking remains...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: to the workplace. G. H. Miller (1984) found support for the hypothesis that long-term passive

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Sexuality education in Montana public high schools with a focus on implementation

Red light ladies : settlement patterns and material culture on the frontier

The Blessingway : A Woman's Birth Ritual

Dietary behavior and body composition parameters among self-reported exercising and non-exercising elderly women

An environmental history of Euphoria Ridge, Oregon : a case study for ethnobotany in traditional resource management

Contextual systems description of an Oregon coastal watershed

New insights into the biology of theropod dinosaurs

The effect of selected materials on the achievement of students in the intermediate grades in Native American cultural instruction

The Umpqua Eden site : the people, their smoking pipes and tobacco cultivation

A comparative analysis of factors influencing smoking behaviors of college students, 1963-1987

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