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A comparison between science education in the secondary schools of the United States and the Republic of China

Creator:: Lu, Tai-fu Perkin
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

Creator:: Fuhr-Dunn, Susan D.
Abstract:: Increasing demand for home birth has created an upheaval in the American medical profession and, is a controversial political and legal issue as well. This research, utilizing ethnographic, historical, and survey data analyzes contemporary home birth. A review of the so called "medicalization" of childbirth is presented noting that the...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Conflict between Western and traditional Iranian educational values

Creator:: Dodge, Khadijeh Khatami
Abstract:: The purpose of this research was to examine the Iranian culture and society, and its relationship to some Western countries in order to understand the basis for the conflict between Western and Iranian educational values. Specifically, the objectives of this study were to describe: (1) the historical development of Iranian...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: Wahrman, R. An Introduction to Sociology. Macmillan Publishing Co., Inc. 1979. 9. Frye, Richard N. Iran

Applied and basic aspects of prerigor pressurization of bovine skeletal muscle

Creator:: Koohmaraie, Mohammad
Abstract:: Investigations were conducted to determine the effect of prerigor pressurization (15,000 psi, 37°C, 2 min.) of beef muscle on the subsequent retail/case-life characteristics of the treated meat. In addition, the activity of the calcium activated factor (CAF) of prerigor pressurized (PRP) muscle was also investigated. For fresh beef samples, PRP...
Resource Type:: Dissertation

Uptake and retention of technetuim [i.e. technetium] by two freshwater species, the crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and the snail Juga silicula

Creator:: McKenzie-Carter, Michael A.
Abstract:: The patterns of uptake, retention, and tissue distribution of ⁹⁵mTc in two freshwater species, the crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and the snail Juga silicula have been investigated. The animals were chronically exposed in water to which sodium pertechnetate had been added. Final whole-body concentration ratios (CR) obtained were 1.6 and 41...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: . leniusculus Long-lived Component: Yl = (82.5)e-(M493)t R 2 = .942 Tbi= 141 days Short-lived Component Y2

Monitoring pesticide resistance in Psylla pyricola Foerster from western Oregon pear orchards

Creator:: Follett, Peter A.
Abstract:: A modified slide-dip bioassay was used to survey and establish baseline resistance levels in Psylla pyricola Foerster from western Oregon orchards to four pesticides. Orchards selected in the Hood River, Rogue River and Willamette Valleys spanned a wide range of environmental and management conditions. During the study period of 1982-1983,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
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Monte Carlo simulation of oxygen mobility in cubic zirconia

Creator:: Gutekunst, Bernd
Abstract:: The focus of this thesis is a study of the thermodynamics and the transport of oxygen in yttrium-doped cubic zirconia (Zr0₂). This material is representative of other ceramics with the same crystal structure (Y-Ce0₂ etc.). The Monte Carlo technique as developed by Metropolis et al. is used to calculate thermodynamical...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Nitrogen fertilizer rate and application timing effects on growth and seed-oil yield of meadowfoam

Creator:: McGahuey, Michael L.
Abstract:: Meadowfoam has been identified as a potential oilseed crop for production on poorly drained soils in areas with cool, moist winters. The effects of N fertilizer on meadowfoam (Limnanthes alba Benth.) have been studied in Oregon and Maryland, but the results have not been consistent with respect to the effects...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

The life history of Nectobrachia indivisa Fraser, 1920 (Copepoda : Lernaeopodoida) a parasite of the starry flounder

Creator:: Wilkes, Stanley Northrup
Abstract:: The stages in the life history of the parasitic copepod Nectobrachia indivisa Fraser, 1920, have been described. The adult female lives permanently attached to the gills of the starry flounder, Platichthys stellatus (Pallas, 1811) Girard, 1854. The adult male is a dwarf, which usually lives attached to the genital process...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
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Mothers and Caretakers’ Perception of Childhood Eye Care In the Ashanti Region of Ghana

Creator:: Lowe, Lianna M.
Abstract:: According to the World Health Organization, there are an estimated 1.4 million blind children in the world, of whom approximately 300,000 live in Africa. About one-half of these cases of childhood blindness could have been prevented. Each year, an estimated half a million children become blind (nearly one per minute),...
Resource Type:: Honors College Thesis

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A comparison between science education in the secondary schools of the United States and the Republic of China

Factors in the Selection of Home Birth : A Comparative Study of Birthing Alternatives in Western Oregon

Conflict between Western and traditional Iranian educational values

Applied and basic aspects of prerigor pressurization of bovine skeletal muscle

Uptake and retention of technetuim [i.e. technetium] by two freshwater species, the crayfish Pacifastacus leniusculus and the snail Juga silicula

Monitoring pesticide resistance in Psylla pyricola Foerster from western Oregon pear orchards

Monte Carlo simulation of oxygen mobility in cubic zirconia

Nitrogen fertilizer rate and application timing effects on growth and seed-oil yield of meadowfoam

The life history of Nectobrachia indivisa Fraser, 1920 (Copepoda : Lernaeopodoida) a parasite of the starry flounder

Mothers and Caretakers’ Perception of Childhood Eye Care In the Ashanti Region of Ghana

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