Twenty mentally retarded teen-age girls living at Fairview Hospital and Training Center in Salem, Oregon, were selected to be included in this study. The purpose of the study was to attempt to determine if institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls are able to benefit through a class dealing with personal grooming...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship
between specific mother-child interactions and selected aspects of
language development in "disadvantaged" children.
The subjects were 19 preschool children in a summer Head
Start program in Denver, Colorado. Their ages ranged from four
years-nine months to five years-seven months. Eighteen...
The effect of source of dietary carboyhydrate upon the concentration
and distribution of phospholipids in the fractions of human
blood was studied. Three healthy women received diets which contained
16% of the calories as protein, 40% as fat, and 44% as carbohydrate.
During the four dietary periods of six days...
In an attempt to find a laboratory species which develops an
experimental myopathy similar to white muscle disease (WMD) in
lambs, comparative studies of nutritional muscular dystrophy of
chicks were initiated. This condition was grossly visible as white
striations running parallel with the fibers of the pectoral muscles and
was...
The major purpose of this study is to develop guidelines for
making and using transparencies for the improvement of teaching
home economics on the secondary level. Another is to show how to
use transparencies creatively in teaching. This study will try to
help fill a gap in the knowledge of...
The purpose of this study has been to develop
insight into the aims and goals of public library service by
considering one particular type of library activity--work
with adult groups.
To determine the influence of historical events on
such service, consideration has been given to group work of
the past...
During 1961, a program of shore station sampling of ocean temperatures
and salinities was carried out by the. Oceanography Department of Oregon
State University. This is a continuation of the work reported by
Kujala and Wyatt (1961). Sampling was conducted at 11 locations along
the Oregon coast and at one...
This is the third data report of a study designed to determine the
current patterns and water mass characteristics along the Oregon coast.
The first report covered the period July 1958 to July 1959 (Wyatt and
Callaway, 1961). During that year observations were taken to a maximum
depth of 30...