The direct observation of behavior in natural settings offers the researcher a unique and promising data collection procedure. The reliability of the observing and data reduction process needs to be evaluated before the ...

A normative economic model is developed in this study for analyzing the effects of changes in (1) resource availabilities, (2) resource prices, (3) operating environment (e.g., energy and environmental policy), and (4) ...

Little research is currently available concerning the most accurate method for assessing discriminative control during a two-lever choice operant task when extinction sessions are utilized. Past and present research has ...

A review of the scholarly literature on John C. Calhoun reveals that many of the critical questions about his political philosophy are as yet unresolved. One of the most important of these concerns Calhoun's relationship ...

Five strains of rats, two outbred (Sprague-Dawley and Holtzman) and three inbred strains (Buffalo, Lewis, and Fisher), received subcutaneous implants of either morphine or placebo pellets. The naloxone-precipitated opiate ...

Forty-nine college level subjects were selected from a subject pool of over 200 respondents to an advertisement requesting volunteers, age 23 years or older, for an experiment on astrology and personality. The subjects ...

The purpose of this research was twofold; first the purpose was to use the technique of frequency analysis to interpret EMG signals generated in an operational situation which involved isotonic exercise to develop baseline ...

Norms were developed for children on the Visual Retention Test: Multiple Choice Form I (VRT-MC). The VRT-MC is a 16-item multiple-choice test consisting of complex geometric figures. Two administrations were used: memory ...

Clinical reports have indicated that a magnetic field will result in the relaxation of muscle cramps. Two experiments were designed to study the phenomenon. Experiment I was- designed to determine if the observed phenomenon ...