This study examined the existence and effectiveness of current
pesticide management programs in the Caribbean region. A questionnaire
was developed to assess the current pesticide managment programs in
the Caribbean region and to determine the strengths and weaknesses of
the existing education and training programs, governmental policies,
and other resources....
Cigarette smoking continues to be one of the country's major health
concerns. It has been defined as the single largest preventable cause of
disease and death in the United States. Although research has indicated that
overall cigarette consumption has decreased in the nation over the past
decades, cigarette smoking remains...
The ability to accurately locate people and objects indoors will enable opportunities for control and automation of indoor environments. Current indoor localization solutions require dedicated hardware which must be custom tailored to each application. There are large technological, societal, and economic benefits in developing a more general purpose system that...
The Southern Ocean plays an important role in the ocean’s uptake of heat and carbon yet the processes controlling this uptake are not well understood. To date, more than 100 biogeochemical profiling floats that measure water column pH, oxygen, nitrate, fluorescence, and backscattering at 10-day intervals have been deployed throughout...
The purposes of this study were to construct a Likert scale to
measure the attitudes of husbands' and wives' toward the therapeutic
role, and to identify the basic components underlying this role.
A 32 item scale was developed from questionnaire data obtained
through a systematic random sample of households in...
The purpose of this study was to determine the level of awareness and use of
selected universal design features and products in single-family housing by Oregon
housing contractors. Also researched were barriers and incentives to use as well as
the position and opinions of these housing contractors on the viability...
This research sought to identify the reasons physicians attributed for practicing in Oregon, the reasons for relocating out of Oregon, and the reasons for failures in recruiting physicians to Oregon. A random sample survey of 494 Oregon physicians identified the presence of economic and non-economic factors related to the recruitment...
Although many science educators and researchers believe that emotion is an important part of the learning process, few researchers have dealt with the topic in a systematic fashion. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of emotion in the learning process, particularly in the learning of science...
Site selection decisions are major components of a
company's overall corporate strategy, usually involving
incommensurate and possibly conflicting goals, and having
long term effects on the productivity and profitability of
the firm. The nature of the process requires the application
of multi-criteria decision analysis techniques.
Multi-criteria site selection involves identification...
