The purpose of this study of the life and career of Dr. Carl
Leonard Anderson was to recount his professional contributions to
the field of health and relate these to public health and health education. The major emphasis of this study concerned Dr. Anderson's
professional life.
The accomplishment of the...
The purpose of this study was to test two assumptions. They
are that factors in a child's background correlate with the notion of
conservation and that additional mathematical instruction will result
in a higher level of maturity of the notion of conservation as well as
increased achievement in mathematical skills....
Environmental factors such as chemical contamination can have immunomodulatory effects on the immune response of fish and may be contributing to the decline in salmonid populations by augmenting disease susceptibility. Xenobiotics can interfere with the immune system at several levels of complexity, and different immune cells and processes have variable...
Sex differentiation in fish is a labile process that allows sex inversion in several species. The inherent capacity of fish germ cells to differentiate into oocytes or spermatocytes constitutes a key factor allowing for functional sex inversion. This thesis set out to determine the mechanism involved in steroid-induced sex differentiation...
The purpose of this study was to determine the possible problem areas in families with a diet-treated phenylketonuric child. Phenylketonuria is an inborn error of metabolism, which in the past caused mental retardation as well as behavioral disturbances. Initially the discovery of diet therapy eliminated the behavioral disturbances, but not...
The data gathered for the study of the health status of freshmen
at Oregon State University were derived by an analysis of health history
records. These were obtained from the Oregon State University
Health Service. The years sampled were 1930, 1940, 1950 and 1960;
300 freshman male and 300 freshman...