Many youth are able to be successful in the traditional school setting. Large numbers are not successful. Dropout rates are alarming. There is little research that examines the drop out problem from the perspective of the youth. Traditionally programs that are designed to help have been designed by adults. This...
The effects of pre-rigor high-pressure treatment of beef semitendinosus
muscle on tenderness, juiciness, and flavor were studied
using both objective and subjective tests. Objective tests included
Warner-Bratzler shear, myofibril protein solubility, total moisture,
water-holding capacity, pH, total nitrogen, and fat content for raw
and cooked samples. Total, evaporation, and drip...
The purpose of this study was to answer the following question: What was the
perceived value to planners of incorporating information from ecotourists about their
perceived needs in the standard system presently being used to plan interpretation?
The Ecotourist Needs Assessment (ETNA) process was proposed as an external needs
assessment....
This thesis undertakes an examination of Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel, The Handmaid’s Tale, as a layering of genres. A futuristic dystopia that imagines late twentieth-century America as having fallen into neo-Puritanism and totalitarianism following widespread infertility and violence, The Handmaid’s Tale invites contemplation of various forms of fundamentalism, radicalism, and...
Today's office worker is being expected to operate computers in order to
increase office productivity. While learning the new technology is a positive
challenge for most people, some students experience a negative computer
attitude when faced with computer training. This study sought to determine if
there were significant differences about...
The purpose of this research was to determine potential job
functions in the food systems industry for implementation with
robots. The research objectives included (1) to isolate job functions
in food systems that should be implemented with robots,
(2) to identify job functions that robot manufacturers believe
robots are technologically...
The results of research designed to develop a synthesized diet
as a substitute or supplement to algae for culturing the Miyagi strain
of juvenile Pacific oysters, Crassostrea gigas (Thunberg) are
reported. The growth of juvenile Pacific oysters fed equal amounts
(based on ash free dry weights [AFDW]) of algae (Pseudoisochrysis...
The relationship between plasminogen activator (PA) production and cell stage, cell number and changes in overall diameter and zona pellucida thickness for bovine embryos developing in vitro was determined. Late morulae to blastocysts (n=80) were collected nonsurgically from naturally mated, estrous-synchronized and superovulated crossbred beef cows. Embryos were cultured, one...
In an attempt to study the times in the lifecycle of
Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus at which various genes are
transcribed, the patterns of messenger ribonucleic acid
(mRNA) and ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) syntheses
were examined using two different types of hybridization
systems. The hybridization system using membrane bound
deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)...