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An analysis of the acceptance and the conceptual clustering of personal finance competencies as identified by the business community and personal finance teachers

Creator:: Stamps, Margaret Frances
Abstract:: This study was designed to determine the common personal finance competencies needed by graduating high school students in Oregon as perceived by personal finance teachers from the subject matter areas of business education, home economics, mathematics, and social studies and the business community. Two other purposes were to (1) determine...
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Full Text:: teachers AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Margaret Frances Stamps for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in

A study of peer collaborative mentoring for the professional development of international graduate teaching assistants

Creator:: Kilburg, Gary M.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate Peer Collaborative Mentoring (PCM) as a professional development model for international graduate teaching assistants at an American university. Data were gathered from interviews and observations of three American peer mentors (Intracultural Peer Mentors/IAPMs), five Chinese Graduate Teaching Assistants (Intercultural Peer Mentors/IEPMs), and...
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Full Text:: , Jan, his wife, Jane, and their family, Joel, Sarah, Becka and Anne. They have been my port in the

Factors which differentiate United States students who wish to study in cross-cultural educational programs

Creator:: Heisler, Mary Kathryn, 1943-
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Full Text:: Anne J. Tr ow The purpose of this study was: 1) to ascertain the effect of a student's demographic

Inclusive Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces

Creator:: Fallatah, Abrar
Abstract:: While digital inclusivity researchers and software practitioners have been trying to address exclusion biases in Windows, Icons, Menus, and Pointers (WIMP) user interfaces (UIs) for a long time, little has been done to investigate if and how inclusive software design and its methods that have been devised for WIMP UIs...
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Full Text:: Software Design and Its Methods for Beyond-WIMP User Interfaces Abstract approved: Margaret Burnett

Examining Evidence-based Intervention Sustainability and De-adoption in the Context of HIV Prevention

Creator:: McKay, Virginia R.
Abstract:: Evidence-based interventions (EBIs), which demonstrate efficacy in research settings, are rarely sustained when implemented in public health organizations. Rather, EBIs are often de-adopted - potentially undermining the positive benefits of the EBIs for the communities that access them. The lack of sustainability is particularly troubling among public health organizations that...
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Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ M. Margaret Dolcini Evidence-based interventions (EBIs), which demonstrate efficacy in

Deep crustal and mantle inputs to North Sister Volcano, Oregon High Cascade Range

Creator:: Schmidt, Mariek E.
Abstract:: The Central Oregon High Cascade Range is an anomalously mafic segment of the Cascade Arc due to ongoing intra-arc extension, which allows most magmas to traverse the crust without stalling and evolving to more evolved compositions. North Sister, a composite volcano in this arc segment, has produced a seemingly monotonous...
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Investigating the Effect of Using Mobile Touchscreen Device on Children's Tactile Skills

Creator:: Almurshed, Rana
Abstract:: To users, mobile touchscreen devices have appealing characteristics; among these characteristics is intuitiveness, which leads to mobile devices being used almost everywhere by almost everyone to accomplish almost anything. This statement, to some degree, holds for children too. Despite touchscreen devices’ intuitiveness and popularity, we don’t know much about how...
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Vitamin B₆ enrichment of wheat flour : stability and bioavailability

Creator:: Perera, Anne Doloras
Abstract:: This investigation consisted of two parts: A. stability, B. bioavailability of vitamin B₆ in wheat. Three variables; whole wheat flour (WHW), white flour (W) and W enriched with vitamin B₆ (WB₆) were tested. Stability of vitamin B₆ during bread making and storage of bread and flour was determined. Bread was...
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Full Text:: AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF ANNE DOLORAS PERERA for the

Financial management planning styles among selected households of retirement age women living alone : is rehearsal an influence?

Creator:: Rodgers, Ruth-Anne
Abstract:: Financial management planning styles were investigated with original data collected from 180 unmarried, elderly women with a home economics college background and living alone. Deacon and Firebaugh's (1975, 1988) household management systems theory, continuity theory from gerontology, and the construct of anticipatory socialization from sociology framed the study. Three planning...
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Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF Ruth-Anne Rodgers for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Family Resource Management

Emergent Properties of Animal Social Networks: Five Stories in Five Systems

Creator:: Devan-Song, E. Anne
Abstract:: Animals aggregate and interact in nonuniform and nonrandom patterns, which lead to group level characteristics that have important evolutionary and ecological consequences. Network analysis provides a useful conceptual framework for linking animal interactions at all scales from dyads to communities, to populations and ecosystems. Despite exciting theoretical and applied advances...
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Full Text:: DISSERTATION OF E. Anne Devan-Song for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Integrative Biology

The identification of rural public health sanitarian competencies for developing countries

Creator:: Okoye, Peter Iloabuchi
Abstract:: The primary purpose of this study was to identify the competencies essential for effective performance as a rural public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's goal of "Health for all by the year...
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Full Text:: . Margaret Lumpkin, for providing helpful ideas and suggestions; Dr. Robert Dale, for letting me realize that

Community conflict : a case study of the implementation of a bilingual education program

Creator:: Guzmán, Juan
Abstract:: This research project is an historical case study of the conflict which evolved from the deliberations and subsequent implementation of bilingual education in Central School District 13J, Independence, Oregon. The time period under consideration spans 35 months, beginning in August 1974, when district officials first proposed bilingual education, and ending...
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Full Text:: --Professors Carvel Wood, Jo Anne Trow, Cliff Trow, and Jack Dymond--for their encouragement, support, and

Comparison of self-perceived leadership styles of women in higher education and non-education management positions

Creator:: Dean, Diana L.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to compare the self-perceived leadership styles, range and adaptability of women managers in higher education and non-education management positions. Specifically, the study sought to investigate the: (1) self-perceived leadership styles and adaptability of women managers in higher education and non-education, (2) self-perceived leadership styles...
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Full Text:: . Jo Anne J. Trow (also a. valued committee mem- ber), Dr. Judith L. Kuipers, Ms. Toni Jones, and Dr

Libraries and the community college baccalaureate : meeting the challenge

Creator:: Coslor, Melinda McCormick
Abstract:: The community college baccalaureate movement has shown strong growth across the country as a strategy to meet workforce shortages. A variety of forces are driving the movement including (a) employer demand for higher credentials; (b) geographical access to education; (c) lower cost education; (d) a trained workforce to compete in...
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Full Text:: thank members of my committee: Dr. Margaret Niess, Dr. Joseph Krause, and Dr. Debra Gilchrist. The

Resilience in Adulthood : How Does the Social Environment Facilitate Adjustment and Growth Following Adversity?

Creator:: Igarashi, Heidi
Abstract:: This study contributes to our understanding of positive adult development by examining resilience processes in adulthood. Resilience is often considered to be an individual-level trait. However, the child development literature has consistently shown that support from parents and caring others is a critical component of resilience. Less is known about...
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Full Text:: ), Jennifer Maguire, Kendra Lewis, Sarah Schmitt, Megan Pratt, Liz Levaro, Anne Hatley, Margaret Manoogian

Interactive visualization of diversity in multivariate data sets unified across fields of study

Creator:: Pham, Tuan N. T.
Abstract:: The study of the diversity of multivariate objects shares common characteristics across disciplines, including ecology and organizational management. Nevertheless, experts in these two disciplines have adopted somewhat separate diversity concepts and analysis techniques, limiting the ability of potentially sharing and cross comparing these concerns. Moreover, while complex diversity data may...
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Full Text:: other OSU professors who have served on my PhD committee: Pro- fessor Margaret Burnett, Professor

Elucidating Computational Narratives to Facilitate Code Comprehension

Creator:: Chattopadhyay, Souti
Abstract:: Programming is integrated across the workflow of multiple domains where end-user programmers, those who need to program as a means to an end, regularly need to code. In the modern setting of collaborative development, end-user programmers have to interpret the intentions behind existing code to contribute and build solutions to...
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Full Text:: am also indebted to my committee members, Dr. Margaret Burnett, Dr. Rakesh Bobba, Dr. Minsuk Kahng

The impact of doctoral education on the marriages of doctoral students

Creator:: Dudzik, Shirley M.
Abstract:: The study was designed to determine the effect of doctoral study upon the marriages of doctoral students. The sample for the research was drawn from the total population of married doctoral students enrolled in Oregon State University/Western Oregon State College's School of Education and Oregon State University's College of Home...
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Full Text:: . Dr. Margaret Stamps and Dr. Pat Wells understood the difficulties faced by women with families who

Survey of collection analysis practices in public and academic libraries in the United States, and the effect of automation thereon

Creator:: Cochrane, Linda Louise Loomis
Abstract:: This study investigated the practices public and academic library administrators find useful and utilize in analyzing use of collections. The study also investigated administrators' satisfaction with their collection use analysis practices, and the impact they perceived automation to have upon collection use analysis practices. A survey developed for this study...
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Full Text:: graduate study. To my committee members, Dr. Wayne Haverson, Dr. Margaret Niess, Dr. David Phelps and Mr

A study to determine the effects of a college human sexuality course upon student sex knowledge and attitudes toward selected sexual topics

Creator:: Vennewitz, Peter Jan
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of a college human sexuality course upon sex knowledge, attitudes toward sexual behaviors of non-significant others, and attitudes toward the sexual behaviors of self and spouse. In addition, the study sought to investigate the relationship between knowledge gain and attitude...
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Full Text:: , and constructive criticism: Dr. Jo Anne J. Trow, Dr. Raymond S. Sanders, Dr. James Firth, Dr. G

A case study of inclusion : its time to get mad

Creator:: O'Dell, Marti
Abstract:: Since the passage of the Education for All Handicapped Children Act in 1975, a number of common problems have emerged. Primarily they involve the difficulties both experienced and created by public schools attempting to fulfill the federal mandate to provide students with disabilities an appropriate public education. The purpose of...
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A comparison of two self-instructional methods for improving spelling in high school and college : a twenty-six classroom experiment

Creator:: Wallace, Eunice Ewer
Abstract:: This study compared two self-instructional methods for improving spelling in high school and college: a traditional-deductive presentation of spelling rules and lists of words to exemplify each rule versus a programed-inductive presentation leading the learner to observe the spelling behavior of words and to make generalizations. Both the traditional-deductive and...
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An Assessment of the “Sweating Sickness” Affecting England During the Tudor Dynasty

Creator:: Wollert, Edwin Del
Abstract:: While historiography and interest in Tudor England at both the popular and specialist levels presents few signs of diminishing, there may nonetheless exist a sense that we have little left to learn about this period and its culture. A notable gap in our knowledge, however, remains regarding the mysterious disease...
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Full Text:: acting as my Graduate Council Representative. Ms. Anne Bahde, with the Oregon State University

Women in Forest Sector Leadership: A Qualitative, Multi-country Study

Creator:: Larasatie, Pipiet
Abstract:: Generally presented as a preferred social norm based on both ethical considerations and legislative demands, gender equality has been highly encouraged in recent years. For instance, The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 call out achieving gender equality and empowerment of women. However, although there are multiple efforts to...
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Full Text:: ): 959. Hansen, Eric, Kendall Conroy, Anne Toppinen, Lyndall Bull, Andreja Kutnar, and Rajat Panwar

The synthesis and testing of some analogues of pantoic acid and pantothenic acid

Creator:: Schink, Chester Albert
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Full Text:: Mrs. Margaret B. Smith and Mrs. Ruth 5. Langdon for their assistance with the assays

Dixy Lee Ray, marine biology, and the public understanding of science in the United States (1930-1970)

Creator:: Ellis, Erik
Abstract:: 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...
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Full Text:: scientific attack on her late-life viewpoints can be found in Paul R. Ehrlich and Anne H. Ehrlich, Betrayal

Designing Diversity and Inclusion Processes and Tools for Sustainable Open Source

Creator:: Guizani, Mariam
Abstract:: Over time, Open Source Software (OSS) has become indispensable in the creation and upkeep of software products, serving as the fundamental building block for widely used solutions in our daily lives, including applications that enable communication, entertainment, and productivity. A sustainable OSS ecosystem is one that attracts and retains a...
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Full Text:: significantly to my academic journey Dr. Margaret Burnett, Dr. Igor Steinmacher, and Dr. Marco A. Gerosa from

Examining the Spatial Distribution of Park Access and Trajectories of Gentrification in Seattle, Washington 1990 - 2010

Creator:: Weems, Candice Michelle
Abstract:: This dissertation examines the spatial distribution of park access by type in relation to trajectories of gentrification in Seattle from 1990 to 2010. The dissertation includes 5 Chapters. The first chapter provides an overview of the literature that motivated this research. The second, third and fourth chapters are research papers...
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Intergenerational responses to the death of a child

Creator:: White, Diana L.
Abstract:: The death of a child is a traumatic family event. This qualitative study examined the experiences of parents and grandparents in 10 families who had lost a baby to SIDS, stillbirth, or birth defects. Key questions focused on support given and received, meanings attributed to the loss, continuing bonds, and...
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Full Text:: . Margaret Neal, Barbara Stewart, and Leonard Cain wrote letters of support for my application; they were

Physiological alterations following severe hypoxic stress in two species of fresh-water fish

Creator:: Heath, Alan G.
Abstract:: Bluegill sunfish, Lepomia macrochirus, and cutthroat trout, Salmo clarki, were exposed to a rapidly declining oxygen tension for a period of time sufficient to just cause loss of equilibrium in the fish. During recovery from the stress, measurements of oxygen uptake, blood lactic acid, blood glucose, liver glycogen, muscle glycogen,...
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The influence of age stratification on motives for and outcomes of caregiving in mothers and daughters

Creator:: Shin, Hwa-Yong
Abstract:: The importance of developmental stages as well as cohort experiences has not been considered in family caregiving literature although both caregiving daughters and care-receiving mothers represent different age groups. The conceptual bases of the age stratification model and the life course perspective suggest that mothers in different age groups, as...
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Full Text:: , divorced mother, Anne. Although Anne worked for pay most of her adult life prior to her retirement, her

Supporting merge comprehension when resolving merge conflicts

Creator:: Nelson, Nicholas
Abstract:: Distributed version control allows developers to manage software evolution among distributed development teams. But it does not eliminate all consistency and concurrency issues, and instead introduces additional complexity when merging code. And resolving merge conflicts is nontrivial when automated merging fails. In such cases, developers are forced to inspect the...
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Full Text:: leadership. I would also like to thank the faculty at Oregon State University, in particular Dr. Margaret

Conceiving A Colony: A Multi-Level Biocultural Analysis of the Maternal Stress-Preterm Birth Nexus in Puerto Rico

Creator:: Horan, Holly L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to elicit how a neo-colonial context shapes maternal and infant heath (MIH) outcomes by describing how they are socially, politically, historically, and culturally produced. Using a multi-level critical biocultural, medical anthropological research approach, the purpose of this research was to investigate maternal stress in the United States...
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Full Text:: , Karen Granados and Anne Barrientos – you all have done some of the hardest work and you should all

Soil Moisture Encodes Plant Water Use Strategies

Creator:: Bassiouni, Maoya
Abstract:: Resilient water, food, and energy management strategies for an ever-growing population and changing environment depends on our understanding of water and carbon cycles from local to global scales. Fluxes of water and carbon are coupled by photosynthesis and plant transpiration cycles the largest fraction of terrestrial water from the land...
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Replica-plating and computer analysis for rapid identification of microorganisms in seafoods

Creator:: Corlett, Donald A.
Abstract:: A method was devised and tested for rapid and quantitative identification of microbial flora in fresh seafoods. The rapid identification of large numbers of isolates was made possible by (1) a simplified identification scheme established by reference culture studies and from the known reactions of microorganisms reported in the literature,...
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Full Text:: guidance. I am very grateful to my wife, Carol Anne, for her under- standing, patience and help

Distribution of diphosphopyridine nucleotide in various fractions of blood of human subjects

Creator:: Morley, Nina Hope
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The ascorbic acid requirements of older adolescents

Creator:: Davey, Bessie Louise
Abstract:: The concentration of ascorbic acid in the plasma was determined on four levels of ascorbic acid intake for seven day periods in 1946-47 and on three levels of ascorbic acid intake for ten day periods in 1947-48. The subjects, eight girls and eight boys, were 16 to 19 year old...
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Full Text:: . Margaret L. Fineke, Professor and Head of the Depart- ment of Foods and Nutrition and Miss Betty E

Understanding historical events through dress and costume displays in Titanic museum attractions

Creator:: Reeves-DeArmond, Genna F.
Abstract:: The sinking of the RMS Titanic has achieved a difficult feat – it has remained culturally relevant. The dedication of the general public to understanding Titanic is evident in many avenues of popular and consumer culture. For those individuals who did not get enough of the 1997 Titanic movie, there...
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Full Text:: this research, my labor of love, to four amazing women in my life that I love: my mom, Margaret

Advocacy Coalitions, Shifting Priorities and Disability Services: An Integrative and Iterative Approach to Explaining Policy Change

Creator:: Giordono, Leanne S.
Abstract:: Under the label “Supported Employment,” services that promote competitive, integrated employment (CIE) for working-age adult with intellectual and developmental disabilities have been federally funded since the 1980s, alongside other more traditional day habilitation and segregated or sub-minimum wage employment services. However, since the early 2000s, over 30 states have adopted...
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Education of American research astronomers, 1876-1941

Creator:: Hall, Robert Dale, 1947-
Abstract:: The education (particularly graduate education) of Americans who were active in astronomical research between 1876 and 1941 is assessed for its effectiveness in preparing the astronomers for careers in research. This period contains three dynamic changes: the growth of American astronomy in becoming the world's leading community of astronomers, the...
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Women's studies : a new program for the community college

Creator:: Goltra, Raylene Denise
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to present the new women's studies program for the community college. The study advocated consciousness raising for females at all levels of public instruction, but this paper was limited to the community college. The program outlined would seek to help women to assume a...
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Full Text:: within Congress. Edith Green from Oregon, and the recently defeated Margaret Chase Smith of Maine

A Group Informal Reading Inventory : an instrument for the assess-ment of ESL students' reading performance

Creator:: Stark, Merritt William
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Fashion media's role in the debate on millinery and bird protection in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

Creator:: Scarborough, Amy D.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to explore the possible relationship among fashion media, the social responsibility agenda of the Audubon Society, and the use of birds in millinery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Both the content analysis method and the historic method were used to gain...
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Towards Resolving Functional and Evolutionary Mysteries of the Large and Heterozygous Genome of Hop (Humulus lupulus) and the Cannabaceae Family Using Genomic Data Science

Creator:: Padgitt-Cobb, Lillian K.
Abstract:: Hop (Humulus lupulus L. var. lupulus) is a diploid, dioecious plant with an extensive history of cultivation and use in brewing, as a textile, and for its therapeutic properties. Hop is prized for its ability to produce a variety of aromatic and flavor compounds, as well as compounds with anti-microbial...
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"I'm a Mom too!" - Stigma, Support & Contested Identities among Adolescent Mothers in the United States

Creator:: Everson, Courtney L.
Abstract:: This dissertation aims to provide a comprehensive portrayal of doula care in the lives of pregnant and parenting adolescent mothers. The purpose of this research was to examine the relationships between psychosocial stress, social support, institutionalized constraints, and their impacts on health and well-being among adolescent mothers in the Northwestern...
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Reproductive Effects of PG-600 Administration in Ewes

Creator:: Habeeb, Hayder
Abstract:: Sheep are seasonally polyestrus, which means they do exhibit estrus and ovulation during the short daylight (breeding season) and do not during the long daylight (nonbreeding season). To stimulate the ewes to ovulate during the nonbreeding season, various hormonal treatments have been used. PG-600 contains both equine chorionic gonadotropin and...
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Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Michelle Anne Kutzler Sheep are seasonally polyestrus, which means they do exhibit

The effects of increased body burdens of lead on lindane and dieldrin toxicity

Creator:: Cress, Charles Raymond, 1942-
Abstract:: The entire human population is chronically exposed to various contaminants, including lead and chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticides. Studies were undertaken to assess the effects of chronic exposure to lead on the toxicities of two such pesticides, lindane and dieldrin. Mice were given lead as the acetate in drinking water, at levels...
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Nucleic acids associated with MC29 tumor virus

Creator:: Weber, George Harding
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Full Text:: research were always constant sources of enthusiasm. Special thanks go to Dr. Anne O'C. Deeney, Dr. Anne A

Phonological contrasts and word-decoding skills of the reader of English as a second language

Creator:: Morray, Marjorie Kuh
Abstract:: Purpose of the Study The purpose of the present study was to investigate the extent to which phoneme and grapheme-phoneme contrasts between English and Spanish influence the word-decoding skills of Spanish-speaking adults who are early readers of English. The major objectives of the research were to investigate: 1. The differences...
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Full Text:: Margaret Hubbard Jones' studies (44:117-30) into the inconsistencies in letter-sound relationships in

Nucleoside diphosphokinase of Escherichia coli and its interactions with bacteriophage T4 proteins of DNA synthesis

Creator:: Ray, Nancy Bisset
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Full Text:: like to extend special thanks to Anne Carr and Tanya McCoy for their technical assistance. I would

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