The purpose of this study was to examine the meal management
practices used in the homes of selected home economics graduates.
A total of 296 questionnaires were mailed to Oregon State University
home economics graduates for the years 1945, 1950, 1955, and 1960.
Forty-nine percent (146) of the questionnaires were...
The purpose of the study was to find out how a group of
faculty wives with children used their time and to investigate some
factors in housing and equipment which might influence how they
used their time. A comparison was made between homemakers
with two pre-school age children and homemakers...
Characterization of the enzymatic activity of the ionocyte
(mitochondria-rich cell) in the gill epithelium of Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha was explored.
1. A method for estimating the enzymatic activity per cell for
tissues is described.
2. The DNA content per cell for nucleated erythrocytes (O. tshawytscha) was determined to be 9.47 x...
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...
This study was designed (1) to identify and describe young
homemakers' problems through expressed difficulties in homemaking
activities, (2) to investigate the relationship between the expressed
problem areas and the homemakers' length of marriage,
family composition, employment status and family income, and
(3) to determine additional homemaking information young homemakers...
This study was designed to identify and describe home management
tasks, perceived managerial competency, and related social,
psychological, and economic consequences for a sample of retired
couples.
Managerial tasks were defined as essential, periodic activities
which (1) sustain the living patterns of a person or family in a common
household,...
Partial reactions of photosynthesis were examined in the wild
type strain and six photosynthetic mutants (8, 11, 26, 40, 50, a') of
Scenedesmus obliquus, strain D₃. A reproducible procedure for the
isolation of active chloroplast fragments from Scenedesmus was
developed. Several chloroplast reactions were examined, as well
as two in...
Beginning with the discovery of x-rays by Wilhelm
Konrad Roentgen in 1895, man has had the capacity to
greatly increase radiation levels of his environment,
especially with the advent of nuclear weapons in recent
years. Radioisotopes are finding progressively wider
use in medicine, research, power production, etc., with
increased hazards...