This study investigated the practices public and academic
library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing
use of collections. The study also investigated
administrators' satisfaction with their collection use
analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation
to have upon collection use analysis practices.
A survey developed for this study...
The individual through earliest recorded history reveals contradictory views of the
human life-span. "Am I a free and unique individual, able to make choices and decide my
own destiny?, or, "Am I only a victim of circumstance, a speck of dust in the universe's
whirlwind of fate?"
Each view is...
The frame of reference for understanding the
rhetorical significance of cultural acts lies in the
identification and explication of the diversity of theories
which encompass sociological and anthropological
definitions of culture. The paradigms presented in this
thesis range from unilinear evolution, biological and
environmental determinism, materialism, historical
ethnology and reductionism...
The literature asserts that both the medical and educational
communities have forecast a potential for an AIDS
epidemic on college and university campuses. The experts
warn that without either a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, it
is only through education of "risk behaviors" that
devastation can be avoided.
A...
This research evaluated the statistically-related
computer application tasks which were deemed to be important
to the graduate curriculum of doctoral students who
major in Education. Data were gathered from samples of
foreign (N=22) and American (N=117) students who held
degrees in Education from Oregon State University.
The sixteen (16) item...
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Low back pain (LBP) is a major-health and economic
problem with uncertain etiology, and no known effective
means of prevention and control. Data for this
investigation were obtained from the second National
Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES II)
conducted by the National Center for Health Statistics.
The NHANES II...