An investigation was conducted on parental influence
on adolescent's consumer activities in Malaysia. A total
of 4287 Form Four students from 32 randomly selected
schools, with 80 percent of their parents, participated in
this study. A majority of the adolescents were staying
with parents in rural areas. The adolescents received...
The researcher 1) explored Thai employed wives' perceived fairness in the
division of household labor and child care, 2) investigated factors determining Thai's
working wives' perception of fairness in the division of household labor and child care,
and 3) developed a model of the determinants of wives' perceived fairness in...
After three-quarters of a century of introduction of 152 conifer and broadleaf species,
no promising candidate exotic was found for the Douglas-fir region. Growth curves
spanning 50 years or longer are figured for many species. Firs, pines, larches, spruces,
hemlocks, and cedars originating in northwestern North America had superior growth...
This thesis is concerned with the design of a speech recognition
system to recognize digits 1, 2, 3 and 4. The system was designed
by using the characteristics of the spectral patterns of amplitude vs.
time at discrete frequencies. Data obtained for digits 0 to 9 are presented.
The outputs...
A short history is given of cathode-ray tubes, from the
earliest laboratory tubes available during the early 1900's through
present day high performance tubes. Special attention is paid to
the development of post-deflection acceleration types especially
band-type PDA tubes and an improvement on that type known as the
helix-type PDA...
The purpose of this study was to determine if occupants' satisfaction and problems with their houses differed by four categories of passive solar systems. The four categories were: 1) south facing window, 2) sunspace, 3) south facing window + sunspace, and 4) south facing window + sunspace + Trombe wall....