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Irritating Effects Of Isoflurane On Sheep Tracheal Mucosa, Rocky N. Vulgamore

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Effects Of Pre- And Post- Trial Caffeine Treatment On Memory For Prose, Malva F. Walters

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Caffeine is a central nervous system stimulant which is considered part of the normal diet. One approach to understanding whether ingestion of caffeine influences human cognition is to examine the effects of caffeine on memory.

This study examined the effects of caffeine ingested both before and after a prose learning task. Two hundred-forty-five subjects (121 males, 124 females) were divided into two groups. One group received 0, 2, or 4 mg/kg of caffeine before hearing three narrative prose passages. The second group received 0, 2, or 4 mg/kg of caffeine after hearing the prose passages. All subjects returned 24 hours …

Cepstral And Auditory Model Features For Speaker Recognition, John M. Colombi

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The TIMIT and KING databases, as well as a ten day AFIT speaker corpus, are used to compare proven spectral processing techniques to an auditory neural representation for speaker identification. The feature sets compared were Linear Predictive Coding (LPC) cepstral coefficients and auditory nerve firing rates using the Payton model. This auditory model provides for the mechanisms found in the human middle and inner auditory periphery as well as neural transduction. Clustering algorithms were used to generate speaker specific codebooks - one statistically based and the other a neural approach. These algorithms are the Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) algorithm and a Kohonen …

The Relationship Of Gender And Marital Status To Depression And Personality And Demographic Variables Among The Well Elderly, Virginia C. Schwalm

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship of gender and marital status to depression and personality and demographic variables among the well elderly.

There were three research questions: (1) By gender, what is the relationship of the inventory scales scores and the demographic variables to the CES-D Depression Scale? (2) Are there significant gender differences on the inventory scales scores and on the demographic variables? (3) Is there a gender by marital status interaction on the CES-D Depression Scale scores and on the inventory scales scores?

Subjects were 214 females and 103 males ages 55 to over …

The Role Of Cognitive And Personality Mediators In Stressful Transactions, W Clinton Mcsherry

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Restrained Eating : The Effects Of Privacy And Perception Of Having Overeaten On Subsequent Food Consumption, Geraldine T. Merola

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Herman & Mack (1975) theorized that "restrained eaters," conflicted between social pressure to be thin and biological pressure to be fat, tend to alternately eat very little or a great deal, as they respond to one or the other constraint. According to restraint theory, restrained eaters' chronic dieting induces physiological and psychological states that make them highly susceptible to external disruption of eating controls. Research has shown that when led to believe they have already overeaten (i.e., when they are "preloaded"), restrained eaters will loosen restraints and "counterregulate" (i.e., binge-eat). In contrast, "unrestrained eaters" (i.e., normal eaters) will compensate by …

The Eccentric And Concentric Amplitude Of The Biceps Brachii Muscle During A One Repetition Maximum Curl Exercise, David L. Brown

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Personality, Sex, And The Neuropsychology Of Attention, Peter A. Williamson

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The influences of sex and personality on attentional style were examined in two neuropsychological studies in which perfor mance and event-related potentials (ERP's) were employed. Pribram and McGuinness1 (1975) conceptions of Activation and Arousal were recast in a lateralized framework in which the former was seen as characteristic of left hemisphere function while the latter was identified more closely with the right hemisphere. Four equal groups of nine subjects were selected on the basis of sex and ex treme extraversion scores (I-E), while controlling for neuroticism, to participate in two lateralized attentional tasks. The first, a vigilance task designed to …

Synthesis Of 3-(Substituted-Aryl)-1,2,3,4-Oxatriazolium-5-Olates As Potential Hypotensive Agents, Mary Quinn Lund

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Hypertension or high blood pressure is a major cause of illness and death in the United States today.^1,2 An estimated thirty-six million people suffer from this disease.³ Prolonged hypertension and its attendant strain on various organs may cause heart failure, brain stroke or kidney damage.⁴ Usually, a pressure of 140/90 mm Hg is taken to be the dividing line between normotension and hypertension.^5,6

The hypertensive condition is generally characterized as either primary (essential) hypertension or secondary hypertension.¹ A specific cause can be identified in secondary hypertensive patients, such as, pheochromocytoma or adrenal tumor. These causes …

Sex, Sickness And Statehood: The Influence Of Victorian Medical Opinion On Self-Government In Utah, E. Victoria Grover-Swank

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In the struggle for self-government which occupied the Mormon population of Utah between their entry into the Great Basin in 1847 and statehood in 1896, the issue of polygamy dominated public discussion. The non-Mormon population of the United States generally objected to the practice of polygamy, in large part because of Victorian attitudes towards sexual activity and the presumed physical and mental results of violating Victorian sexual norms. It was assumed by most Americans that polygamy, by violating those norms, caused real physical damage to the Latter-day Saints in Utah; damage that disqualified them from holding full and equal political …

The Effects Of Ileocolic Translocation Upon Digestion And Passage Time Of Feeds, Mark R. Magnusson

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A Study Of Elementary Accreditation In North Dakota, Rick E. Mcclure

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The Effects Of High Pressure Helium-Oxygen Atmosphere On Mice Serum Lactate Dehydrogenase, Glutamic Oxaloacetic Transaminase And Alkaline Phosphatase, Tibor Ritter

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A Study Of The Activity Of Erythrocyte Carbonic Anhydrase Exposed To A High Pressure Gas Environment, Roderick L. Reinke

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An Analysis Of The Opinion Of The Values Of High School Biology As Held By Selected Groups, John L. Rhoades

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Requirements For The Bachelor's Degree For Men Students Majoring In Physical Education In The Northwest And Northcentral Sections Of The United States, Alvin E. Siegle

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Effects Of Pyridoxine On Absorption From The Small Intestine Of The Rat, Lyle J. Coen

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Metabolic Changes In Newborn Dogs During Development Of Temperature Regulation, Donald G. Mcintyre

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The Health Training Given Prospective Teachers In Mid-Western Colleges And Universities, Homer M. Engelhorn

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History Of Health Legislation Affecting The Public Schools Of Minnesota, Alfred Jerome Cole

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