Wildfire impacts have intensified in many ecosystems across the western United States due to the combined impact of fire exclusion, climate change, and land management practices. However, on many of these landscapes, fire is a fundamental ecological process that has shaped vegetation structural and compositional diversity, ecosystem function, landscape pattern,...
My mother named me after Hollywood icon Katharine Hepburn, but what made a working-class girl grow to love this posh celebrity so much? The obvious answer is that my mother aspired to be posh herself; but lack of money or sophistication were not the only things impacting her potential— there...
The Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management propose to adopt coordinated ecosystem management direction for the lands they administer within the range of the northern spotted owl. This Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SETS) presents as alternatives the options, with slight modifications, developed by the Forest Ecosystem Management Assessment...
The purpose of this study was to assess change in self concept,
marital role expectation, and behavioral understanding in high
school students enrolled in a family life course.
The subjects were two groups of high school students from an
only senior high school in a school district. The experimental group...
The purpose of this study was to assess changes in attitudes
toward behavioral understanding, marital role expectations, and self
concept in a selected group of high school girls. These subjects
were enrolled in a one semester child development course which
included observation and participation experiences with young children.
The subjects...
This study compared two groups of home sewers in relation to
their sewing practices, perceived sewing competence, sex-role
concept, and selected demographic factors. A review of literature
indicated an increase in home sewing that began in the 1960's with
the greater availability of fabrics in a wider range of fibers,...
As a nation salad is a dish we do not sufficiently
appreciate; while the French perhaps surpass all other countries
in the number and variety of their salads. Their quick ingenuity
seems to enable them to turn almost everything in nature
that is edible into a tempting salad.
Am expert...
This study was designed for the purpose of expanding knowledge
of the correlates of role-taking as measured by Feffer's Role-Taking
Task. The variables of perception, sex, age, reading achievement,
and ordinal position were investigated. The perceptual variables
measured were visual memory, field dependence/independence,
auditory memory, and organizing and synthesizing ability....
The main objectives of this study were to determine if the
manufacturer's claims for a soil-release-finished fabric were true
and to determine if the finished fabrics were satisfactory from the
consumers' point of view.
Differently colored (white, blue and yellow) blouses constructed
from soil-release-finished polyester knit fabrics and comparable
unfinished...
The major purpose of this study was to assess changes
in behavioral understanding and attitudes students may have
experienced in association with their participation in a
high school child development course. In addition, assessments
were made of changes in subject's perceptions cf:
1) marriage role expectation, 2) self-concept, and 3)...
The individual through earliest recorded history reveals contradictory views of the
human life-span. "Am I a free and unique individual, able to make choices and decide my
own destiny?, or, "Am I only a victim of circumstance, a speck of dust in the universe's
whirlwind of fate?"
Each view is...