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High-Pressure Liquid-Chromatographic Techniques For The Nicotinamide Nucleotides: Application To The Study Of The Acid Breakdown Of Reduced Nicotinamide Adenine Dinucleotide, Joy Roberts Miksic

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The Relationship Between “Rapid Induction” And Placebo Analgesia, Hypnotic Susceptibility, And Chronic Pain Intensity, Lorraine Luke Snow

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The effects of Rapid (hypnotic) Induction Analgesia (RIA) and an oral placebo on clinical and experimental pain were compared in 30 volunteer male paraplegic veterans with chronic pain syndrome. Scores of hypnotic susceptibility and chronic pain experience were also correlated with the effects of RIA on clinical and experimental pain. Self-ratings of S’s clinical pain on a 0-100 scale were obtained before and after RIA and placebo treatments. Threshold and tolerance for ischemic muscle pain (experimental pain) was measured during baseline control, RIA, and placebo sessions. The general linear hypothesis was used to analyse the data. The results indicate …

Time Dependent And Rotational Effects In Salt Finger Convection, Raymond W. Schmitt Jr.

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A model is developed to examine the growthrates of salt fingers under supercritical conditions. Solutions valid in a linearly stratified Boussinesq fluid are derived which include complete dependence on the Prandtl number and diffussivity ratio, to allow comparison with data in both the heat-salt arid sugar-salt experiments. It is found that the finger amplitudes cane-fold within one local Brunt-Vaisala period in much of the main thermo-halo-cline of the world ocean, with significantly faster growth rates realized in waters with higher salinity gradients. It is also found that the ratio of the density flux of heat to the density flux of …

The Effect Of Systematic Desensitization And Information On Attitudes Toward The Physically Disabled, Susan F. Cohen

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This study was designed to investigate the modification of attitudes of the non-disabled toward physically disabled individuals via systematic desensitization and information. Subjects for experimental and control groups were taken from a pool of 212 non-disabled college freshmen and sophomores enrolled in basic psychology courses at the University of Rhode Island. Seventy-four subjects participated in the study. Their selection was made on the basis of their having little or no previous contact with physically disabled persons, and ATDP scores falling below the 50th percentile of students pretested.

The study was conducted considering the following assumptions: (1) anxiety is aroused on …

A Study Of Larval Amphibian Population Dynamics In A Rhode Island Vernal Pond, Thomas Locker Doty

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A Direct Comparison Of Three Fear Assessment Techniques, Donald Paul Corriveau

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A review of the literature in avoidance behavior in general and response prevention (RP) in particular revealed that three different assessment procedures have been used to measure fear. Although the relative advantages and disadvantages of each procedure have been addressed at the conceptual level, they have received little empirical comparison. The present study systematically examined the following assessment procedures: l) the avoidance extinction technique, 2) the approach procedure, and 3) the conditioned emotional response (CER) procedure. Two different dependent variables were recorded within each assessment procedure. The first purpose of the study was to compare the relative sensitivity of each …

The Effects Of Carbon-Dioxide And Breathing Resistance On The Thermal Balance Of Divers Subjected To Cold, Joseph Charles Van Ryzin

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A Comparison Of Direct Cell-Mediated Cytotoxicity And Lectin-Dependent Cell-Mediated In Tumor-Bearing Hamsters, Morakot Tunticharoen

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Effectiveness Of Butyrophenones And Related Drugs In Narcotic Withdrawal In The Rat, Martin Dennis Hynes Iii

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Narcotic dependence was established by continuous intravenous infusion of gradually increasing doses of morphine. Several days at the terminal concentration of morphine (100 mg/kg/day) was allowed prior to withdrawal. Morphine withdrawal body shakes were reliably observed upon the termination of continuous morphine infusion. The administration of morphine, methadone or _fentanyl, potent narcotic drugs, reliably abolished the occurrence of withdrawal body shakes 8 hours after the termination of morphine infusion. The narcotic antagonist naloxone or pentazocine had no significant effect on the rate of occurrence of withdrawal body shakes; however, there was a slight trend towards an increase in the frequency …

Drug Induced Changes In Ventricular Defibrillation Threshold, Charles F. Babbs

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Life Satisfaction In Mobile And Non-Mobile Adults In The Early 30s, William Lawerence Wilson

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Developmental theorists have suggested that adults progress through normal developmental stages. The time around age 30 has been identified as a period of turmoil followed by a stage of settling down and setting roots in the early 30s. This study was done to determine if forced mobility has a negative impact on couples in their early 30s who are assumed to be facing a strong need to set roots.

Subjects for this study consisted of two groups of 20 mobile and 20 non-mobile couples. The mobile population consisted of 20 couples in which the male was a military officer experiencing …

An Empirical Investigation Of An Existential Theory As It Appears To The Elderly: The Will To Live, Ann M. Varna Garis

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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the Will to Live concept as it applies to the elderly. This was accomplished by exploring the relationship among the variables of Purpose in Life; Locus of Control; Depression; and a self-rating Will to Live scale. These are variables which, according to the literature, could be expected to be major components of the Will to Live concept. The subjects for this study were 63 volunteers, ranging in age from 60 to 95, taken from different housing settings, nursing homes; apartments for the elderly; and private homes in the community. In order …

Relative Response Values For Flame Ionization Detector At Different Geometric Designs And Working Conditions, Show-Chuen Chen

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Remote Determination Of Sediment Parameters In A Multi-Layered Sea Bottom, John Irving Salisbury

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Flotation Mechanisms And Ionic Relations Of The Non-Motile Marine Dinoflagellate Pyrocystis Noctiluca Murray (1885), Norman Maurice Kahn

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Computer-Aided Analysis Of Camera Tubes, William Vance Mccollough

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A Theology Of Juxtaposition: Muriel Spark As A Catholic Comic Novelist, Joanne Catherine Parnell Mongeon

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Ship Collision Dynamics And The Prediction Of The Shock Environment For Colliding Ships, Michael Peter Pakstys

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A Study Of Artificial Reefs Constructed From Unit Shelters Designed For The American Lobster (Homarus Americanus), Daniel James Sheehy

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Chemical Mutagenesis Studies With Cultured Mammalian Cells, Alexander Russell Malcolm Jr.

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An Empirical Investigation Of An Existential Theory As It Applies To The Elderly: The Will To Live, Ann M. Varna Garis

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An Addition Formula For Green's Functions For Elliptic Partial Differential Equations, Jeffrey Stephen Cohen

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Negative Ion Currents In Turbulent Counterflow Of Superfluid Helium, Robert Alan Ashton

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Effects Of Succinic Acid 2,2-Dimethylhydrazide (Sadh) Sprays On Anatomy And Morphology Of Vaccinium Corymbosum L, Robert Edward Gough

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Physiological Ecology Of Codium Fragile Subsp. Tomentosoides, Michael Dennis Hanisak

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Functional Differential Systems With State-Dependent Delays And Applications To The Two-Body Problem Of Classical Electrodynamics, Deh-Phone Kung Hsing

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The Chemical Synthesis And Physicochemical Properties Of Pulmonary Surfactant Analogs, Arthur Michael Sacco

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Late Cenozoic Antarctic Radiolarian Distributions: Their Paleoclimatic And Paleoceanographic Implications, John Keany

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Grouping Of Marine Sediments Using A Multivariate Analysis Of Seismic Profiles, Stephen Douglas Milligan

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Studies Of The Sea To Air Transport Of Trace Metals In Narragansett Bay, Stephen Romuald Piotrowicz

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