A major challenge to the study of the peopling of the Americas is that much of the Bering Land Bridge (Beringia), the geographic area that people migrating from Northeast Asia into North America would presumably have passed through, is now submerged due to sea-level rise since the last glacial maximum....
American women’s quest for equality came into focus in the early 1900s. Amidst the cultural and societal forces pushing for suffrage, some chose the mechanism of theater. This thesis is a work of rhetorical criticism. It applies Lloyd Bitzer’s situational approach to two suffrage theater artifacts: Mary Shaw's The Woman...
In this thesis, I investigate the organization of eelgrass (Zostera marina L.) and mesograzer communities across local and regional scales in three upwelling- influenced estuaries located along the Oregon coast, USA. Eelgrass ecosystems are an important source of primary production in estuarine systems, providing numerous ecosystem services, including nursery habitat...
This study was designed (1) to determine if selected family
oriented factors influence student wives' housing satisfaction, (2) to
determine which housing factors have the greatest influence on the
student wives' satisfaction with their housing, (3) to determine which
housing factors influence most the selection of married student housing,
(4)...
This study compared three approaches to the improvement of
vocabulary in ninth grade language arts classes: the direct-teaching
approach, the interest-in-words approach, and the wide-reading
approach. Answers to the following questions were sought: which of
these approaches to vocabulary improvement is more effective than
each other approach used in this...
Eight male college students served as subjects in an investigation
to establish a procedural model for research of individual motor
units during sustained isometric contractions. Teca TE-4 electromyograph
system with needle electrode provided electrical potential
recordings from active muscle fibers in the right biceps. Various
experimental procedures were tested to...
Delayed neutron counting (DNC) is a variation of neutron activation analysis applicable only to fissionable elements. Briefly, it
involves exposing a sample to the neutron flux in a reactor to induce
fission, then quickly retrieving the sample to count the delayed
fission neutrons emitted. These are proportional to the amount...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the
effects of three levels of contextual interference on the
acquisition and retention of a sequential motor skill, by
moderately mentally retarded and nonretarded subjects. The
subjects were functioning between an eight and twelve year
level. The dependent measures included; Reaction Time...