The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between parental childrearing practices and sex role orientation with the development of dependency traits. Participants were 99 volunteer undergraduates (27 men ...

This project deals with synthesis ofmodified nucle ides and their incorporation into 10-base sequence DNA and RNA strands (oligomers). These DNA and RNA fragments possess the proper polarity to easily enter cells through ...

The purpose of the present study was to investigate whether an individual's prior victimization experience and their general fear of crime would predict perceptions of crime seriousness. In contrast to a majority of past ...

The purpose of this study was to determine if Purpose in Life scores (PIL) were related to Lifestyle Inventory (LI) scores among fraternity and sorority members at Emporia State University. The participants of this study ...

"Critical" and "contributive" reading are two levels of reading more engaged than the "informational" reading most college freshmen do. Critical reading interrogates the text, analyzing it and investigating its origins and ...

The dielectric constant is a property of matter, which describes the macroscopic response of an insulating material to an applied electric field. When the dielectric is placed in an electric field, molecular dipole moments ...

In summer and late fall 1997 and 1998 I compared plant and small mammal communities in tallgrass prairie subject to two different management regimes: annual summer haying and spring burning with moderate grazing. The eight ...

Researchers (Mathis & Yingling, 1990; Olson, Russell, & Sprenkle, 1983) have found differences between family drawings made by children from functional and dysfunctional families. Children from dysfunctional families often ...