As a result of the calls for reform in mathematics education and the ever-changing nature of mathematics, today's teachers face the challenge of teaching unfamiliar content in ways that are equally unfamiliar. In view of this challenge, the purpose of this study was to investigate middle school teachers' subject matter...
Quantitative measurement of the urban-rural continuum for examination of U.S. rural health disparities is a relatively new research area, where only a handful of studies have investigated health disparities using quantitative rural measures and even fewer have attempted to integrate health variables within said measures. Most U.S. rural health disparity...
Endemic populations of pandora moths (Co/oradia pandora Blake), a defoliator of western pine forests, proliferated to epidemic levels in central Oregon in 1986 and increased dramatically through 1 994. Golden-mantled ground squirrels (Spermophilus lateralis Say) consume adult pandora moths, but reject nutritionally valuable eggs from gravid females. Feeding trials with...
The central purpose of this study was to examine
physicians' attitudes and communication methods which
they used with deaf patients. This study was conducted
with 100 physicians practicing medicine in Linn and
Marion counties in Oregon.
Attitude was measured by the Attitude Toward Deaf
Persons Scale and was compared to...
The major purpose of this study was to examine relationships
among biographical characteristics, psychological characteristics,
motives for returning to school, and the need for student support
services among Reentry Women.
Primary objectives were to:
(1) examine biographical and psychological characteristics of
Reentry Women to determine if significant relationships
existed among...
An analytic model for implementation of participatory process control was
designed from a literature review of management theory, organizational development,
statistical process control and base study methodology. A fieldwork research
plan was developed using case study methods to explain the functional flow of the
model. The research data on a...
Background. As community colleges are increasingly composed of Millennial-aged professionals, workforce retention of those professionals is now a major priority. The Millennial generation is more diverse and more likely to be impacted by technology than any generation before them and is a generation characterized by dual-income partnerships. These and other...
The Genome-Wide Association Studies approach was used to detect Quantitative Trait Loci associated with tocochromanol concentrations using a panel of 1,466 barley accessions. All major tocochromanol types- α-, β-, δ-, γ-tocopherol and tocotrienol- were assayed. We found 13 single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with the concentration of one or more of...
This work examines the varied populations which have inhabited the South Fork region from prehistoric times to the present.
It disclosed that even though almost no archaeology has been done
in the area, data from contiguous regions suggest that persistent
and careful archaeological investigation should reveal valuable
and informative sites...