The purpose of this study was to analyze the quality
of information fabric salespersons gave in three types of
stores to answer five specific consumer questions on
aesthetics, fiber content, sewing techniques, amount of
fabric needed, and notions and relate these answers to four
items of background information: general education,...
The major purpose of this study is to develop guidelines for
making and using transparencies for the improvement of teaching
home economics on the secondary level. Another is to show how to
use transparencies creatively in teaching. This study will try to
help fill a gap in the knowledge of...
BACKGROUND: Interventions to promote physical activity (PA) in children attending family child care homes (FCCHs) require valid, yet practical, measurement tools. The aim of this study was to assess the validity of two proxy report instruments designed to measure PA in children attending FCCHs. METHODS: A sample of 37 FCCH...
One expectation of community-based participatory research (CBPR) is participant access to study results. However, reporting experimental data produced by studies involving biological measurements in the absence of clinical relevance can be challenging to scientists and participants. We applied best practices in data sharing to report the results of a study...
Indigenous cultures perceive the natural environment as an essential link between traditional cultural
practices, social connectedness, identity, and health. Many tribal communities face substantial health
disparities related to exposure to environmental hazards. Our study used qualitative methods to better
understand the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) members’...
The purpose of the research project was to teach the management
of perpetual and periodic inventory systems to university students in
the field of food systems management through the use of a microcomputer
software program developed for this purpose. The objective
of the study was to determine the classroom simulation's...
This paper continues exploration in the area of
programming for parallel computers. The appendix to the
paper contains an extensive survey of the literature related
to parallel computers and parallel programming techniques.
The paper itself presents a new approach to solving
the Laplace equation on a. parallel computer. A new...