This research was conducted in the Mamora National Forest of
Morocco to: (1) Evaluate the effect of cork oak (Quercus suber L.)
crown cover on seasonal herbage production, nutritive quality, and
foliar cover on two distinctive sites in each of two years (1982,
1983) and to (2) assess the effects...
The ~5 km3, 4.54 to 4.09 Ma Caspana Ignimbrite of the Altiplano-Puna Volcanic Complex (APVC) of the Central Andes records the eruption of an andesite and two distinct rhyolitic magmas. It provides a unique opportunity to investigate the production of silicic magmas in a continental arc flare-up, where small volumes...
Four questions were examined concerning student
perceptions of their launching family environment,
expected family environment, family values, sexual
attitudes and behavior, and attitudes toward divorce.
A total of 383 college students from three family types
participated in this study: intact (298, 77.8%),
divorced (47, 12.3%), and remarried (38, 9.9%). The...
This research was conducted to determine the effects of
temperature and competition on seedling root and shoot growth of
cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum L.) and 5 collections of Idaho fescue
(Festuca idahoensis. Elmer). For the temperature study, seedlings
were grown in environmental chambers with 16 hours day/8 hours night, at
temperatures...
The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between
clothing interest and body awareness, between clothing interest and
selected demographic variables for college men and women, and between
body awareness and selected demographic variables for college men and
women.
To assess these relationships two measures were used. Body
awareness,...
The primary purpose of this study was to identify the
competencies essential for effective performance as a rural
public health sanitarian in developing countries. The need
to identify rural sanitarian competencies in developing
countries is closely related to the World Health Organization's
goal of "Health for all by the year...
The National Park Service initiated a backcountry campsite restoration project
in 1987 to restore native vegetation on severely degraded campsites in three subalpine
lake basins in Yosemite National Park. Restoration treatments included soil
scarification, transplanting, manual seeding and site protection. Eight of the treated
campsites were monitored in 1990 to...
Motor skill deficits are present and persist in school-aged children with autism
spectrum disorder (ASD; Staples & Reid, 2010). Yet the focus of intervention is
on core impairments, which are part of the diagnostic criteria for ASD, deficits in
social communication skills. The purpose of this study is to determine...
In the late 1950s, "two California men" came to Oregon to learn if there were abalone here, and found them in the southern part of the state. The resulting publicity and interest inspired this document, an attempt to develop regulations for a new fishery. It is an internal discussion paper...
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