Purpose: The study assessed the perceived need for inservice
training to improve the teaching of mathematics in primary schools
in Bendel State of Nigeria. Specifically, the study sought to
know where and when the primary school mathematics teachers need
inservice training to improve their standards of teaching elementary
mathematics. The...
In 1968, a study conducted by the sanitarians of the State Health Division and Benton County Health Department revealed a high failure rate of on-site sewage disposal systems in Southwest Corvallis. The survey team concluded that sewage disposal in this area was inadequate, and a significant health hazard existed due...
A synthetic pheromone of the western pine shoot borer, Eucosma sonomana Kearfott, has been used
successfully as a 'mating disrupter in northern Idaho and western Montana since 1984. Infestation
levels in treated ponderosa pine plantations declined from an average of 28 percent infested in 1983
to 5.5 percent by 1986....
Douglas-fir tussock moth populations are monitored annually in northern Idaho and western Montana to insure early detection of changes from endemic to outbreak population levels. Adult moth trapping in 1982 was intensified and expanded into additional areas from 1981 because of concern that with each passing year the probability of...
Revised November 1982. Facts and recommendations in this publication may no longer be valid. Please look for up-to-date information in the Sea Grant Catalog: http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/publications
To reduce the loss of feeding calves during the nursing period
and to conserve milk for human consumption research has been conducted
to develop milk replacer formulas which result in calf performance
comparable to that of milk. In the first section of this investigation
different aspects of utilization of fats,...
The Gran Chichimeca is a North American area extending from
the Tropic of Cancer to the south to the thirty-eighth parallel in
the north, thus embracing northern Mexico and the American Southwest.
The rise of the great mesoamerican civilizations to the south
of the Gran Chichimeca and the consequent pressure...
Previous studies have indicated that staphylococci have potential for use as indicators of water quality in swimming pool and other recreational waters. However, these organisms are not yet included in the official guidelines for recreational water quality promulgated by health authorities. The purpose of this study is to determine water...
A herd of California bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis californiana),
re-introduced to the area of Hell Creek on the Sheldon National
Wildlife Refuge in northwestern Nevada, was studied from 15 June 1978
to 20 August 1980.
Major vegetation and physiographic types were delineated and
described. Habitat preferences were determined from field...