Two digestibility trials using sheep were conducted to determine
the digestibility coefficients of a commercially processed NaOH treated
annual ryegrass straw cube. Comparisons were made with loose, chopped
ryegrass straw and a ryegrass straw cube processed with molasses as a
binder.
The NaOH cubed straw was produced by spraying a...
From May 1999 through April 2000, I interned with the Alaska Wilderness Recreation and Tourism Association (AWRTA), a non-profit organization that balances responsible tourism development with resource protection and community enhancement. I was assigned to a seven-member task force charged with evaluating the success of AWRTA's "Ecotourism Guidelines2" and was...
With the increased production and use of double knit fabrics
made from textured filament polyester, homemakers have become
concerned over procedures for care that can be successfully carried
out in the home. The purpose of this study was to determine what
effects wash water temperatures and drying methods have on...
Brenda Ueland is a writer whose most noted work is a book which
explains her theory about how to write. She also published an
autobiography and a co11ection of essays as well as achieving some
notoriety as a magazine writer to the twenties and thirties. Ueland's
writing theory is based...
Curricular models and teaching techniques that support college students as the primary authors of their writing-across-the-curriculum experiences remain largely unexplored. This thesis addresses that research gap by investigating the use of a start-of-term writing self-assessment and goal-setting questionnaire (STQ) for upper-division undergraduates taking writing-intensive (WI) college courses in their majors....
Twenty mentally retarded teen-age girls living at Fairview Hospital and Training Center in Salem, Oregon, were selected to be included in this study. The purpose of the study was to attempt to determine if institutionalized mentally retarded teen-age girls are able to benefit through a class dealing with personal grooming...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship
between specific mother-child interactions and selected aspects of
language development in "disadvantaged" children.
The subjects were 19 preschool children in a summer Head
Start program in Denver, Colorado. Their ages ranged from four
years-nine months to five years-seven months. Eighteen...
Boron deficiency or toxicity can reduce yield and
quality of vegetables. Seven vegetable crops, varying from
low to high boron requirements were grown in field plots at
Corvallis in 1987. Leaf-B and yield components of green
bean, cucumber, potato, carrot, tomato, broccoli and table
beet were examined under conditions of...
Phytoplankton and microzooplankton comprise the base and the first link of the marine food web, respectively. These microbes are key drivers of marine carbon and nutrient cycles. Phytoplankton convert atmospheric CO₂ into organic carbon, and microzooplankton consume phytoplankton, packaging phytoplankton carbon into particulate forms that have a variety of fates:...