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Identifying and Quantifying Political Risk Factors for Petroleum Investments
(1979)
One of the types of risk encountered in petroleum investments is political risk. Political risk is the probability of changes in the business environment due to political changes. There exists a need to treat analysis of ...
A Study Of The Effectiveness Of The Distar Instructional System In Elementary School Reading Programs
(1979)
This study investigated teacher opinions of the Direct Instruction Systems for Teaching Arithmetic and Reading (Distar Reading only) when used in elementary special education classrooms. A survey was sent to 116 special ...
Validity Of Soviet Physical Fitness Tests Administered To Texas Secondary School Students
(1977)
The present study attempted to investigate a number of Soviet “PWD” Physical Fitness Tests in terms of their validity for describing the physical fitness levels of a sample population of Texas secondary school students. ...
Preparation Of Thin Films Of Biomolecules By The Electrospray Method
(1976)
The preparation of thin uniform films of biomolecules has been a frequently encountered problem in chemical analysis techniques such as charged particle activation analysis, photoelectron spectroscopy, and with the recently ...
The Kennedy Investigation: Its Politics And Structure
(1977)
This paper is divided into two sections. The first is a brief history of the assassination and the ensuing investigations. It draws primarily on the Warren Report, and secondarily on the account of historians and contemporary ...
A Model for Predicting the Distribution of Albacore Within Environmental Temperature Gradients
(1977)
The albacore, Thunnus alalunga, is a high seas pelagic tuna (Scombridae) whose distribution frequently seems governed by temperature. Tunas probably behaviorly thermoregulate using kineses. One method for explaining this ...
Development Of A Laboratory Scale Model Food Extruder
(1977)
Extrusion processing has many useful applications in the food industry. The process yields low-cost texturized proteins which has great potential for growth on a world market. Most of the research in the area of texturization ...
Nitrogen Digestion in Different Segments of the Equine Digestive Tract
(1979)
Four horses fitted with permanent posterior ileal cannulas were assigned diets in a 4x4 Latin square experiment to measure nitrogen digestion in different segments of the digestive tract. Using a commercial protein supplement, ...
Thermal Structure of the Dryline: A Case Study
(1977)
The dryline is a phenomenon of the southern Great Plains region where thunderstorms are known to develop. The dryline occurs when maritime tropical air from the Gulf of Mexico encounters continental tropical air flowing ...
"Development and Characterization of Guanine Transport" Mutant in Neurospora crassa
(1977)
Initial attempts to find mutant strains incapable of transporting guanine into the cells yielded no mutants. Further studies on the transport of guanine into N. crassa cells revealed a second guanine uptake system which ...