Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine
the effectiveness, if any, of the P0₂ Aerobic Exerciser in
simulating high altitude training in cross country runners
living at sea level.
Procedures: This study was conducted during the 1982
winter term at Oregon State University. Four cross country
runners of...
The purpose of this study was to compare military
dependent and civilian students with respect to academic
aptitude and the number of problems they perceive in several
areas of their personal lives. It also included a
survey of participation in extracurricular activities in
school and in activity participation in their...
Satellite Based evapotranspiration (ET) models have become a dominant means to estimate large-scale surface fluxes of water. Global and regional ET estimates are important parameters in many climate forecasts and hydrologic models. However, large scale partitioning of ET into soil evaporation, transpiration, and canopy interceptions remains largely unknown and modeled...
Aquatic insects that emerge out of streams to mate represent a potential energy
flux to terrestrial food webs. The relative success of an individual aquatic adult insect
is whether it survives long enough to produce offspring, i.e. mate and return to the
stream to oviposit eggs. Some characteristics of the...
Apologia is a rhetorical genre of self-defense. As such, apologetic discourse
involves a response to an attack upon an individual's character or worth as a human being.
Los Angeles Police Detective Mark Fuhrman encountered such a attack during the 0.J.
Simpson murder trial. The purpose of this analysis is to...