Today's office worker is being expected to operate computers in order to
increase office productivity. While learning the new technology is a positive
challenge for most people, some students experience a negative computer
attitude when faced with computer training. This study sought to determine if
there were significant differences about...
Callipyge (CLPG, n=16) and normal (N, n=11) lambs were
produced from Polypay dams and Dorset sires heterozygous for
the CLPG gene to study the effects of the gene on growth and
carcass and meat quality parameters. CLPG lambs had higher
average daily gain than N lambs (0.26 vs 0.23 kg/day,...
Many ecological populations can be interpreted as response surfaces; the spatial
patterns of the population vary in response to changes in the spatial patterns of
environmental explanatory variables. Collection of a probability sample from the
population provides unbiased estimates of the population parameters using design
based estimation. When information is...
Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
Tuna fishery is an important activity worldwide. In the
eastern Pacific Ocean the effort applied by the Pacific Ocean
fleet to catch tuna fish is considerable. The eastern Pacific
tuna fleet harvests throughout the oceans and captures an
important fraction of this resource. For instance, in 1980 the
total catch...