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Creator:: Huynh, Cuong Van
Abstract:: The purpose of this thesis was to gain insight into why female college students initiate smoking. This study examined the major factors influencing the formation of such habit among this group. The tool used to study these factors was the questionnaire. Questionnaires were administered to randomly selected female students on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: " campaign (Kaufman, 1994). This could not have come at a better time in the U.S. for increasing tobacco

Creator:: Gupta, Anju
Abstract:: This study re-examines how variations in market power across industries affect the relative number of females and males hired in a given occupation. The study builds upon similar work done by Sharon Oster (1975) to examine the female to male wage differences. Both market power and human capital factors such...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: of the supply conditions (Kaufman, 1994). An important implication of Becker's model is that the

Creator:: Reynolds, Julia A.
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between the self-body cathexis of obese women and their attitudes toward physical activity. Fifty inventories were used for the research in this project. The volunteer subjects' ages ranged from 18 to 45 with a mean age of 28.9 years. The...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Gormlet, Melinda (Melinda Brooke)
Abstract:: Linus Pauling incorporated hemoglobin and a disease of the blood, sickle cell anemia, into many of his researches between the mid-1930s and mid-1970s. In the early 1930s Pauling became interested in organic chemistry and named hemoglobin as one of the first biochemical substances that he planned to analyze. In 1935...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Caltech, Diane Paul in a discussion of eugenics, and Keith Wailoo in a history of racial discrimination

Creator:: Kovasi, Adrienne I.
Abstract:: In the mountains of central and southern California, high elevation wilderness areas lack epiphytic lichens that can be used to inform us about atmospheric deposition in multiple ways. Epiphytic lichens are capable of accumulating elements proportionally to the local atmospheric concentration, establishing them as commonly used biomonitor of key elements....
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Crouse, Dale McClish
Abstract:: The 3-cyclohexenyl carbinyl carbene species was formed by the thermal decomposition of the p-toluenesulfonylhydrazone sodium salt and by oxidation of the hydrazone. Several oxidizing agents were studied. The products were investigated under aprotic and protic conditions and at various temperatures. The diazocompound was formed as an intermediate and found to...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Havighorst, Mark B.
Abstract:: Ex-situ bioremediation of saturated soil contaminated with pentachlorophenol and 2,3,5,6-TeCP is commonly accomplished by landfarming or by treatment in a bioreactor. Treating saturated, low-permeability soils in bioreactors, without pre-treatment requires a reactor capable of promoting anaerobic and/or aerobic removal of chlorophenols without transferring these contaminants to the aqueous phase. A...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Elliott, William E.
Abstract:: The resurgence of creationism the past few years has been led by advocates of recent-creationism. These individuals, a minority among creationists in general, argue that the entire universe was created approximately 10,000 years ago in one six-day period of time. Recent-creationists support their position by appealing to the Genesis account...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: wife, Diane, and my sons, David and Michael. My thanks to all of you. TABLE OF CONTENTS

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