Every wood anatomist knows that the wood near the center of a tree (juvenile wood) differs from the wood laid down at some distance from the pith (mature wood), and that the wood produced during the spring (earlywood) differs from the wood produced during the summer (latewood). There is a...
Although designer brand denim apparel has been popular since the early 1980’s, the term “premium denim” is a relatively new concept to the apparel industry. This study investigated evaluative criteria used by female consumers when purchasing premium denim jeans. Previous studies have examined evaluative criteria and its importance in purchasing...
During the Cenozoic, tectonics in the Cuyama basin of the southeastern Salinian block changed from extension to strike-slip faulting to compression and rotation. During the Oligocene-early Miocene, the Cuyama basin was adjacent to the southern Mojave region and part of that extensional tectonic regime. Many present-day reverse faults have an...
In the past decade, issues related to cultural diversity and pluralism
have risen to the forefront in education. The increasing cultural diversity in
American classrooms and communities requires preservice teachers to be
ready to promote multiple perspectives within their curricula and among their
students. The purpose of this study was...
The purpose of this study was to test two assumptions. They
are that factors in a child's background correlate with the notion of
conservation and that additional mathematical instruction will result
in a higher level of maturity of the notion of conservation as well as
increased achievement in mathematical skills....
Bruno Latour’s Facing Gaia provokes us to embrace our Earthboundedness to approach the problematic political ecologies of the Anthropocene. Latour’s call for the Earthbound is to re-trace networks of society, institutions, and meaning and to challenge, as enemy, those that would continue to behave as if we lived on more...