National statistics indicate that as many as 23
million adults in the United States are illiterate and
another 40 million lack literacy skills necessary to
function effectively or on more than a narrow basis in this
society. People without literacy skills or who have only
marginal reading ability find themselves...
Studies to evaluate resistance in snap beans, Phaseolus vulgaris L. to adult western spotted cucumber beetles, Diabrotica u. undecimpunctata Mann. were conducted in greenhouse cages, field cages, field plots, and in temperature controlled cabinet in the laboratory. Results showed that there were differences in susceptibility to adult feeding injury between...
Grapes (e.g. Vitis vinifera L.) are one of the more important fruit crops from an economic standpoint with world market values over 550 million US dollars in 2007 and 2008, second to apples (United States Department of Agriculture). While a satisfactory level of ripeness is of primary concern, the quality...
Management of national forests evokes controversy about the
allocation of limited resources among competing uses. A Land and Resource
Management Plan (Forest Plan) has been prepared for the Payette National
Forest. The Forest Plan describes resource management practices and the levels
of resource production at which the Forest would be...
Using qualitative research methods we examined how group ranch privatization and settlement of individual Maasai households across the landscape have affected traditional livestock herding and social capital mechanisms of Maasai livestock herders. This process has altered decision-making processes, social networks, and cooperation of Maasai herders and limited access to water...
In this qualitative, phenomenological study I employed
oral history methodology, grounded in a life-span
developmental and feminist approach, to explore the
developmental importance of menarche in twenty older women's
"bodily histories." Menarche is an important developmental
event in the female life course because it represents a major
point of confluence...
Disease, overharvesting, and pollution have impaired the role of bivalves on coastal ecosystems, some to the point of functional extinction. An underappreciated function of many bivalves in these systems is shell formation. The ecological significance of bivalve shell has been recognized; geochemical effects are now more clearly being understood. A...
Excess fatty acids and sterols are stored as triacylglycerols and sterol esters in
specialized cellular organelles, called lipid droplets. Understanding what determines the cellular
amount of neutral lipids and their packaging into lipid droplets is of fundamental and
applied interest. Using two species of fission yeast, we show that cycling...
Washington State fisheries and Washington State Treaty Tribes are becoming increasingly restricted in harvest of wild salmon due to US Endangered Species Act listings of salmon species, marine mammal predation by both ESA listed Southern Resident Killer Whale (SRKW) and US Marine Mammal Protection Act protected pinnipeds, salmon habitat destruction,...
The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship
of internality and structural variables such as sex, socio-economic
status, and academic achievement to the extensiveness and effectiveness
of vocational exploratory behavior during college.
The sample utilized in this study consisted of 108 male and
female seniors who were in...
School districts and educational policymakers need current information on Black parental and primary guardian responses toward the
issue of desegregation. This research focused primarily on the attitudes of Black parents and primary guardians toward their involvement
in elementary desegregated schools. The study attempted to determine
if:
(1) Educational background has...
The primary objective of this investigation was to offer a marriage
enrichment workshop enabling the participants to increase their
communication and problem solving skills, and the prevention of future
marital distress through an educational experience.
Marital communication and marital adjustment scores were
obtained from an experimental group consisting of 16...
America is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. With the unfair treatment of people of color in this country, however, one would believe that somewhere in the fine print, they were excluded from that phrase. The very foundation of this country was...
This study examined the utilization of selected student services by domestic and
foreign students in their sophomore, junior, or senior year at Oregon State University during
Winter 1994 to find out if differences in awareness, usage, and satisfaction existed between
them. It also examined if differences in awareness, usage, and...
The Purpose of the Study
The central purpose of this study was to determine if certain
personality characteristics differ between community college persisters
and those who drop out of school. The following 12 a priori
hypotheses involving six Adjective Check List personality scales were
tested:
1. Male persisters would have...
Two studies were conducted to evaluate the influence of supplement composition on intake and digestibility of a low-quality (< 6% CP), cool-season forage, as well as cow performance. Treatments included a non-supplemented control (CON), corn (approximately 8% CP), corn and urea (LU = corn + 0.09 mg/kg BW urea, approximately...
The purpose of this study was to analyze the individual reasoning of
24 adults as they made decisions for two communities regarding municipal
wastewater treatment. The two western Oregon communities were both
responding to notices from governmental agencies of higher environmental
standards for the purification of wastewater before it could...
The twospotted spider mite, Tetranychus urticae Koch (Acari: Tetranychidae), is a
worldwide pest of numerous agronomic and horticultural plants. Conservation
biological control of this pest can be unreliable due to asynchrony of natural enemies
and certain horticultural practices that have a direct or indirect affect on natural
enemies and the...