Four experiments were carried out with broiler chicks from day-old to three or four weeks of age to assess the effects of nitrates and nitrites from calcium, potassium, and sodium salts in the drinking water of broilers on growth, body weights, feed utilization, blood chemistries, liver tissues, and lipid oxidation...
This thesis, although dealing specifically with Oregon Agricultural
cooperatives, has significance for agricultural cooperatives on
a national basis when discussing equity financing.
The central issue is whether a patron may in effect transfer
his cooperative equity holding to another person without impairing
the total function of the cooperative? To answer...
Forest management is an important mechanism that provides social, ecological, and economic benefits to the community. On public lands, management is often initiated for multi-use objectives. However, both history and research have proven that the level of acceptance for harvesting on public lands varies both temporally and spatially. Public perceptions...
The major purpose of this study was to develop a resource unit
in consumer education. In order to plan this unit, the writer:
1. Reviewed findings in the literature.
2. Discovered, through use of student questionnaires, which
concepts were most relevant to senior students at Grants Pass
High School, and...
Negative attitudes towards people with disabilities persist in our society, limiting the inclusion of people with disabilities in a multitude of social roles. Despite existing research on the nature of these attitudes and interventions to improve them, people with disabilities continue to cite social barriers as some of their greatest...
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), the most common childhood neurological disorder in the United States, also affects grown women. But girls with ADHD, who tend towards symptoms of inattentiveness, often go undiagnosed until young adulthood. This is because (a) their symptoms are less obvious than the hyperactivity common in ADHD boys, and...