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Ability to recognize suicidal tendencies in adolescents by high school counselors
(1987)
The rise in adolescent suicide in the last 20 years has been alarming and of major concern to all working with this population. The recognition of suicidal signs in adolescents by high school counselors could provide a ...
Techniques for modeling phenological development of weed populations
(1987)
Research was conducted to formulate techniques for modeling phenological development of weed populations. Techniques which are currently used for modeling development rate of insect populations were reviewed and tested for ...
The impact of the teacher's theoretical orientation toward reading and writing on the orientation and performance of students with differing abilities
(1987)
This naturalistic study investigated teachers' theories about reading and writing in an attempt to describe the influence of these theories on students who have been classified and grouped into classes of good, average, ...
Maganese geochemistry in Galveston Bay sediment
(1987)
The sediment geochemistry of Mn at a site in Galveston Bay, Texas, was investigated through a three-fold approach. A field study demonstrated that despite the coarse, quartz-rich nature of the bottom sediments, Mn was ...
Graduating nursing students' knowledge of child abuse
(1987)
The problem of this study was to compare the child abuse knowledge of student nurses prior to graduation from various degree levels of nursing schools. Four null hypotheses were tested in this study: (a) student nurses ...
Derived relations with exceptions
(1987)
Generalization rules are a powerful and versatile tool to represent knowledge at a high level of abstraction--as opposed to conventional data base systems which use data to represent specific facts. A generalization rule ...
An investigation of auditors' decision processes in a risk assessment during the planning stage of an audit
(1987)
The study reported here was an attempt to gain insight into the decision behavior of auditors when making a risk assessment. Although acknowledged by the profession and the auditing literature as being necessary to the ...
Effects of planting dates and spacing on several characteristics of short day onion varieties grown in South Texas
(1987)
The effect of planting dates and spacings on several characteristics of short-day onion varieties were investigated. In 1984/85 experiments, three varieties, Special 38, Asgrow 429, and Texas Grano 1015Y produced significantly ...
Interscholastic athletic participation and aspirations : an evaluation of school context and self concept
(1987)
This dissertation looks at factors which influence educational and occupational aspirations of black and white males. The research draws upon the recent literature in the sociology of sport to ascertain the impact sport ...
Modeling neurotransmitter binding to receptors in the brain
(1987)
A non-deterministic model based on the assumption that the binding of a neurotransmitter to its receptor is a Markov process is developed. This model is capable of describing the kinetic processes that occur when a ...