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The Use Of A Repeated Carbohydrate Loading Diet Upon The Swimming Performance Of Male Albino Rats, Charles A. Patton

Master's Theses

Introduction

This thesis was designed to study the effects of a repeated carbohydrate loading diet upon the swimming performances in male albino rats.

Statement of the Problem

The problem was to study the effect, if any, on the repeated utilization of a carbohydrate loading diet and the swimming performances of untrained adult male albino rats.

Definitions

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A Study Of Factor B Of The Early School Personality Questionnaire(Espq) As A Valid Measure Of General Mental Ability, Claude S. Iles

Electronic Theses & Dissertations

This study investigated the validity of the general ability factor, Factor B of the Early School Personality Questionnaire(ESPQ), in two ways. First, validity coefficients for Factor B were obtained by computing product-moment correlation coefficients between the ESPQ Factor B raw scores of 40 developmentally disabled subjects and their raw scores on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised (WISC-R). Second, the Kruskal-Wallis rank sums test and a distribution-free multiple comparisons test were employed to determine if there were significant differences among the mean ESPQ Factor B raw scores of subjects designated as mentally retarded, learning disabled, or normal. Specifically, it was …