The purpose of this study was to compare the number and
type of physical disorders of two hundred educable mentally retarded students and two hundred normal intelligence students. The relationship of physical disorders to sex and age was also investigated.
The descriptive survey method was chosen for the study.
Data...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between poverty and mental retardation and to place mental retardation in its true perspective as a social condition which thrives especially in poverty areas. More specifically, this study attempted to determine if there was any significant relationship between selected social...
Forced vital capacity lung expiration examinations of nonsmoking
and cigarette-smoking male sample populations were compared to
determine if the 75 to 85 percent segment was a more sensitive test
of early lung dysfunction. The nonsmoking population was composed
of 240 men who were tested for values of forced vital capacity...
This study was a comparison of the prevalence of infectious
gastrointestinal disease and the quality of construction of individual,
surface source water systems in Lincoln County, Oregon.
Two measurement instruments were developed for this study. An
objective instrument was developed to determine if the water systems
observed in the study...
The purpose of the study was to compare the visual-motor performance
of college students who reported ingestion of certain drugs with
those college students who reported no drug ingestion. The study
drugs included the following drugs or groups of drugs: tobacco,
alcohol, marijuana, LSD, mescaline, barbiturates, and amphetamines.
A total...
The literature asserts that both the medical and educational
communities have forecast a potential for an AIDS
epidemic on college and university campuses. The experts
warn that without either a cure or a vaccine for AIDS, it
is only through education of "risk behaviors" that
devastation can be avoided.
A...
Part of the responsibility of maintaining the sanitary quality
of individual water supply systems has been placed on the local sanitarian
of Oregon. Because of this, he must be knowledgeable about
individual water supply systems. One such source of knowledge has
been the supply of written reference materials available in...