The lipid composition of plasma membranes of corpora
lutea was examined to determine whether changes in this
organelle occur during regression and early pregnancy in
the ewe. Forty ewes were assigned to be necropsied on
days 13 or 15 of the estrous cycle (D13-NP and D15-NP) or
pregnancy (D13-P and...
The present study compared the sex role learning of preschool
girls from families with "traditional" and "nontraditional" (egalitarian)
attitudes toward women's roles on measures of sex role knowledge and
preference. Forty-eight four and five year old girls from intact,
middle class families served as subjects. Their parents' attitudes
toward women's...
The purposes of this study were to investigate patterns and causes of weight loss among
elderly long-term care residents and to examine the relationship between weight changes
and the nursing home survival. The study was designed to accomplish five objectives: 1)
to examine the rate and degree of the first...
The primary foci of the study were to determine the relationships
among perceptual modality, temporality, and academic achievement,
and to develop implications for the academic counseling of
middle school students based on the findings.
The sample was composed of 613 students enrolled in Prineville
Junior High School. The Edmonds Learning...
The purpose of this study was to test the effectiveness
of two religious education curricula in facilitating measure-able
concrete-to-abstract movement in children's religious
thinking. Subjects for the study were 47 fifth and sixth
grade children enrolled in the Sunday School classes of four
Oregon United Methodist Churches. Twenty-four children who...
This dissertation focuses on the life of Dixy Lee Ray as it examines important developments in marine biology and biological oceanography during the mid twentieth century. In addition, Ray's key involvement in the public understanding of science movement of the 1950s and 1960s provides a larger social and cultural context...
The public controversy over possible health hazards from radioactive fallout from atomic bomb testing began in 1954, shortly after a thermonuclear test by the United States spread fallout world wide. In the dissertation, I address two of the fundamental questions of the fallout controversy: Was there a threshold of radiation...