Four different plot types were established in shrub and tree comunitities in Little Elk Valley in southwest Oregon. Ten functional (F) plots were cleared of all vegetation in a radius of three times the height of the surrounding vegetation around a single Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii Pursh.) tree. Ten competition...
In recent years, the role of the City Manager in municipal
policy making has been the focus of considerable attention and debate in
both the academic and local government arenas. The purpose of this
study was to determine the differences in views of elected mayors and
appointed managers with regard...
The major purpose of this study was to test the relationship between
students' cerebral lateralization for the Arabic language and
their achievement in science. A secondary purpose was to investigate
handedness as a factor in that relationship. The experiment was conducted
in the City of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using dichotic...
The objective of this research was to investigate
the physiological effects of body posture on cycling.
The familiar positions of bicycle riding have been the
touring posture (hands stretched on top handlebar) and
the racing posture (hands bent at the elbow, with the
back horizontal). However, a relatively new stance...
The surface-layer zone, occupying the upper 20 cm of the water column, represents a unique oceanic environment. A diverse assemblage of organisms occupies this zone, either in an obligate or facultative manner (Zaitsev 1970, Hempel and Weikert 1972, Cheng 1975, Peres 1982). Certain animals show morphological or biochemical adaptations to...
The purpose of this study was to supply information
that would help improve typing courses by identifying
successful skillbuilding practices and to provide students
with a means of increasing speed and/or accuracy during
timed writings. More specifically, the purpose of this
study was to answer the question:
Does the previewing...
This thesis is an effort to formalize and document some of the changes occuring in the Warwar Valley of Gongola State, Nigeria, West Africa. The documentation will comprise a photographic study over time accompanied by an ethnographic narrative. Information gathered from photographic images, field notes and the anthropological record will...
This thesis discusses a special type of a versatile, distributed control system, the Taskmaster II. It includes a detailed specification of a readily realizable Taskmaster system utilizing a layered communication among units, oriented on the ISO OSI seven layer model. The specification was developed from the analysis of previous research...
The essays in this collection do not cluster about a specific theme, nor do they present a single unified interpretative approach to issues in the history of American foreign policy. Above all, William Appleman Williams is a teacher. And good teachers are disappointed with conformity. No one would ever come...
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...
This study examined the effects of an eight week Rational Emotive Education Program (REE) on the perception of locus of control and the reduction of the number of disciplinary referrals of self-revealing children of alcoholics (COA's) in a school setting. The sample included 74 randomly selected middle school students. The...
Natural thermal springs occur throughout the Pacific Northwest. The use and importance of this natural environmental feature to Native Americans prior to and during the period of initial white contact is examined.
Ethnographic, archaeological, and oral historical information is described in an attempt to reconstruct the role of these naturally-heated...
The central purpose of this study was to examine physicians' knowledge of and attitudes toward hearing aids. This study was conducted with 71 general practitioners affiliated with Scarborough General Hospital in Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
Attitude was measured by a 5-point Likert-type scale developed for the study. Knowledge was measured through...
Archaeological sites located on the western flanks
of the centra1 Oregon Cascades are often characterized
by the lack of temporally diagnostic artifacts and materials
suitable for radiocarbon dating. Consequently, the
temporal context of these sites remains largely unknown.
Various researchers also have suggested that these open-air
lithic sites have been...
Oregon has the most extensive land-use planning program of any state in this country. Every acre of privately owned land in this state is zoned. Every acre is subject to a comprehensive plan. Planning affects the cost of your home, the distance you drive to work or shop, your property...
In February 1905 the Oregon State Academy of Sciences formed in
Portland to promote scientific research and diffusion of scientific
knowledge in Oregon. The founders also planned to assist in the
discovery and development of the state's natural resources. The
Academy was the first scientific society in Oregon with professional...
This exploratory investigation focused on the validity of the concepts of high-context and low-context as a meaningful and powerful construct for examining cultural differences. Specifically, American and
Japanese value differences and communication patterns were examined.
The study tested the hypotheses that Japanese students would rank
high-context group orientation values higher...
Knowledge of the timber production potential of a wildland area plays an important role in its wise management. For the past several years, resource managers of the United States Forest Service (USFS) at the Plumas National Forest have been concerned with the establishment of a procedure to evaluate timber production...
This study was designed to determine whether or not students'
emotions and coping would change during stages of an examination.
If changes in emotions and coping were recorded at different phases of
an examination, then these findings would substantiate the position that
stress and coping are processes. In addition, the...
The purpose of this study was to determine if there was
a significant difference in the amount of technical subject
matter learned during a fixed period of instruction by
students working with a computer expert system and students
working with human experts from a technical field.
All students participating in...
Counselor expectations of supervision and counselor burnout were assessed. The sample consisted of 120 members of the Oregon Personnel and Guidance Association. Subjects were contacted by mail and asked to complete a questionnaire. The questionnaire contained two instruments: the Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) and the Counselor Supervision Inventory (CSI). The...
Confidentiality as a group norm and how it affected self-disclosures
in personal growth groups were compared between control and
treated groups. The sample consisted of 53 students enrolled in a
graduate level group counseling course. The students were randomly
assigned to six groups: three control and three experimental groups.
Each...
Anyone with an interest in plants or insects, anyone who cares for a lawn, grows a crop, or enjoys an outdoor walk sooner or later will notice galls. The purpose of this booklet is to provide brief answers to some of the common questions that people ask about galls and...
Current gross categorical models of classification for human
behavior are unsatisfactory, a science by consensus that is
unreliable, invalid, and gives rise to psychological tests that
use sophisticated statistics to poorly mirror diagnoses that are
already unreliable and without scientific validity. Both for
diagnosis and progress in therapy, current diagnostic...
Seal Rock (35LNC14) is a late prehistoric shell midden site located on the central Oregon coast. Information derived from the faunal remains, radiocarbon dates, and location and size of the midden deposits suggest the site represents a late littoral stage of cultural adaptation. Analyses of lithic artifacts, and bone and...
A decade after the School of Education at Oregon State University adopted a spiral model of curriculum for teacher education,
a study was conducted to determine if Instructional Media, one
thread of that model, was spiralled in the curriculum.
A survey was conducted of graduating seniors, using a questionnaire to...
The efficiency of a marine cargo terminal depends
primarily upon a smooth and orderly flow of material
during the container loading process. It has been
observed that the transtainer operation is the bottleneck
in the loading process due to frequent rehandles of
containers and the speed of the transtainer. Past...
The present study was a modified replication of the two pioneer
works in the field of sport and ethnic groups by Pooley (1968)
and Tindall (1973). This study investigated whether participation in
an ethnic basketball league in Japanese-American communities affected
the rate of assimilation of two groups of Japanese-American, high-school...
Wave dispersion and fracture are phenomena that involve. mechanisms triggered at the scale of a material's internal structure. Experiments were performed with a candidate material to judge the hypothesis that wave dispersion measurements can be used to nondestructively predict fracture strength. Wood-based particleboard was chosen as the candidate material because...