The purpose of this study is to identify the ten most frequent complaints of consumers in Central California. Legislators can initiate legislation to alleviate problems which have been identified. Businessmen can correct unfair practices which hav . . .

This study examined the behavior of 80 subjects including 39 mentally retarded, 21 emotionally disturbed, and 20 normal children (mean mental age [MA] = 8.2 years), on a problem-solving task involving partial reinforcement to three stimuli. The ma . . .

For the bulk of my project, I will be using the Oxford English Dictionary to single out words recorded for the first time in three plays (Hamlet, King Lear, and The Tempest). The tragedies, Hamlet and King Lear, were chosen for their high levels of em . . .

The primary purpose of this study was the cultivation of my personal growth through increased self-awareness and self-acceptance. This view of personal growth emphasizes becoming aware of and expressing my feelings, and experiencing that "I am what . . .

The Lake Tahoe Basin is an area of unique and unsurpassed beauty situated high in the Sierra Mountains along the California-Nevada border. The 500 square mile Basin is divided lengthwise by the stateline with 75 percent of the land area and 70 per . . .

The early 1820's found the area later to become the American Southwest almost totally devoid of white men, The missionary and military exploits of the intrepid Spaniards had come to an abrupt end years before. The young and troubled Mexican Republic w . . .

The Panoche Giant Injection Complex (PGIC), Panoche Hills, CA is one of the best exposed sand injectite complexes in the world with all of the constituent units observable over a 300-400 km2 area. The PGIC offers unparalleled access to a regionally d . . .

In the past, the teaching of nursing stressed the practical and mechanical approaches to patient care and avoided the subtle under standing of the patient's emotional needs. Today, the finer aspects of understanding and communication are being in . . .

In a study developed by Norman and Bohn in 1961, industrial arts was proven to he a beneficial part of the total general educational program in our public schools. The industrial arts teacher, through the variety of tools, materials, and industria . . .

A Holocene paleoclimate record for northern central Chile has been constructed using two lacustrine cores from the high-elevation Andes at ~30° S latitude. The 1.37-m Laguna Cerritos Blancos (LCB) core has been dated from 0-4.0 cal kyr BP using paleom . . .

To remain viable as a helping profession, social work needs to constantly consider ways for improving its functions. Whether focusing on the availability of social assistance programs or the enhancement of an individual's situation, one task is to . . .

It is often said that the elements of man which set him apart from the rest of the organisms occupying space on the earth are his reasoning faculties and his ability to communicate verbally. Therefore, it is no surprise that man has expended endle . . .

Analytical methods for certain mixtures of organic peroxides are either inadequate or unavailable. Two such mixtures are the isomers of methyl ethyl ketone peroxide and the residual quantities of a dihydroperoxide in the presence of its peroxyeste . . .

The purpose of this study is to test models of millennial-scale climate response to hemispheric-scale drivers during the late Pleistocene in northwestern North America. Towards this end, a 12.5-10.5 mbgs section of the BB3-I core, spanning 38-35 ka in . . .

The primary purpose of this study is to examine the strategies biracial and interethnic individuals use in self-identification of racial/ethnic identity. In the United States, multiracial/ethnic individuals have socio-historically been expected to ide . . .

I present seventeen new U-Pb and eight 40Ar/39Ar ages from a previously unstudied geological traverse across the central Sierra Madre Occidental silicic large igneous province along the Chihuahua-Durango state border in Mexico. These data indicate pro . . .

The Yashkun are a Dardic-speaking ethnic group who live in Gilgit-Baltistan in extreme northern Pakistan. Most researchers assert that the Yashkun are immigrants to northern Pakistan from Central Asia. However, other authorities maintain that the Yash . . .

Paleontological, geochemical, and geophysical data from pluvial Summer Lake, Oregon, western Great Basin are the basis for a high resolution paleoclimate record during a time interval (38-34 ka) including the Mono Lake Excursion, Dansgaard-Oeschger in . . .

The focus of this project is to explore how employers in Bakersfield experience recruitment and retention and to recommend the adoption of specific programs and activities that may improve the Kern County Mental Health Departments ability to attract a . . .

The basis of this investigation was five written passages chosen to correspond to the features of English style described by Martin Joos. From eight subjects, spoken paraphrases of these passages were recorded and transcribed. Fifteen features of . . .

Obesity is considered by the medical profession to be one of the most prevalent health hazards in the American culture. Estimates of its incidence in the United States range from 20% to 40%. Overweight individuals, as compared to individuals of . . .

Throughout history, cities have been portrayed by artists, writers, and philosophers as centers of vice and crime. This real or imaginary association of cities with crime among early leaders of this country, such as Thomas Jefferson, fostered a str . . .

"Teachers struck in Minneapolis, Minn., Muskogee, Okla. , and Butte, Mont., as Los Angeles teachers voted over- whelmingly to quit their classrooms This quotation is the first sentence of an article in the April 20, 1970, U, S. News and World . . .

Basic skills in interviewing are an integral part of the stock of skills that any worker in the helping professions should have at his command. "Regardless of what area of social work, what method being practiced, what treatment mode or theoretica . . .

Tulare Lake level predominantly fluctuates due to varying amounts of runoff from the Sierra Nevada as a result of changes in regional climate. It is important to constrain the details of such change because they allow us to capture the range of natura . . .

Chemicals are often sequestered by various organisms to defend against predators by making prey noxious, and in some cases, toxic. Sequestration has been observed in various taxa, however, there are few vertebrate examples available. Further, little i . . .

The subject of women in the planning profession has received much attention from the professional planning organizations (American Institute of Planners and American Society of Planning Officials) over the past two years. Concern that women planne . . .

In recent years man has had a growing concern over the earth's food supply. At the same time people are becoming more concerned with the quality of the food they are eating. As a result, there has been a growing and continual search to find new an . . .

California's Probation Subsidy Program (formally known as the State Aid for Probation Services Program) began operation on July 1, 1966. The program provides a kind of partnership between the state and counties with the intent of providing effecti . . .

The purpose of this study will be to examine the ideology formulated by Erants Panon as it relates to the politics of war and peace. The perspective thus gained will then be applied to the political, economic, and social systems which shape the po . . .

With the advent of the universal type of weight-lifting apparatus and its general popularity with all levels of physical education instruction, there is a need to establish valid grading norms. In many current weight-lifting-conditioning classes, t . . .

The rise in the number of persons in the United States receiving long-term hemodialysis therapy for chronic renal failure is reflected by the growth in numbers from 300 in 1963 to 4400 in 1971.1 During this period, patients were selected for treatm . . .

Although Buddhism found fertile soil in China in which to grow and develop its doctrines, it suffered many persecutions and mass destructions of its art. Conse- quently the art of Chinese Buddhism is almost nonexistent. A few major monuments e . . .

Ehrenfreund (1948), in an early review of the continuity-noneontinuity controversy, concluded that learning will occur only when stimuli are placed so that they impinge on S's sensory receptors. This conclusion was based on his finding that presolu . . .

Five substituted dinitroaniline herbicide compounds were evaluated for crop tolerance and weed control. It was determined that safflower and cowpeas were tolerant to all five compounds, while sugarbeets and tomatoes were susceptible. All compounds . . .

For many years, men have experimented and developed various techniques for the treatment of wood with preservatives. One of these techniques is the preservation of lumber by impregnating with chemicals. By impregnating chemicals into the wood, the . . .

An excellent stratigraphic section is exposed near Devils Den, California (Figures 1 and 2) , where the California Aqueduct crosses the Coast Ranges. The section is approximately six kilometers southwest of the town of Devils Den, northwestern K . . .

According to Phillip Garver, director of special projects in the Clovis (California) Unified School District, there are many changes being made in voca- tional education which are a result of the Vocational Education Act of 1968. 1 Many of the . . .

In his poem, W. H. Auden characterizes the social order of today's "Cities Without Walls." Without walls, the cityl is filled with Nothing. Nothing is "the Unbounded / beyond the Pale," and the "unpoliced spaces / where dragons dwelt and demons ro . . .

The school health program and the school nurse have several areas of concern, "the supervision of the school environment, health protection and promotion, health instruc- tion, and the handling of special problems."^ A review of the literature . . .

There seems to be a general resistance to humanizing or analyzing the motivations and inner lives of these “evil” women. In my opinion, if Shakespeare wrote such a fully developed character in Cordelia, who only appears alive in four scenes of the pla . . .

J. Paul Getty has described shale oil as "the oil of the future," and although this statement overemphasizes its actual potential, it expresses the initial reaction of most people upon learning about shale oil. The oil shale deposits in the Green . . .

This study was concerned with the establishment of a connection between thermal discomfort and perceptual preference. The reasoning for such a study and how it fits into the broad scheme of geography necessitates the weaving of several differen . . .

In the past several years there has been increasing interest and emphasis given to the use of nonprofessionals as a link between the service agencies and their target communities. The use of service workers drawn from the population served by publ . . .

The numerous Mexican-American children in central California schools usually come from a Spanish-speaking background. When they enter school, however, they find themselves in an English speaking environment. The children are expected to understand . . .

Behavior is a "socially evaluated and socially regularized product; and behavior problems represent conflicts between individual behavior and social require- ments for behavior". The very existence of a behavior problem indicates a personal or . . .

A population of three-spined sticklebacks Gasterosteus aculeatus L. from the San Joaquin River below Friant Dam near Fresno, California, was found to be infected with the plerocercoid larval stage of a pseudophyllidean cestode, Schistocephalus sol . . .

Environmental issues are not a new phenomenon. However, the rapid development in the last decade of science, technology and industry, tooether with rapid growth of the population which has caused the tremendous increase in property development, es . . .

In the decade 1962-1972 , more than twenty major pieces of federal consumer legislation were passed. Among the many subjects covered were: protection of children against hazards, toy safety, restricted sale of potent drugs, cigarette labeling and . . .

The nutritional value of fruits commonly grown and consumed by Americans is well documented (26). However, the fruits of the cacti of Arizona, which are widely used in the diets of native desert peoples, are not well characterized for nutritional c . . .

Chromosomes were analyzed from the mitotic bone marrow of nine mountain pocket gophers (Thomomys monticola J. A. Allen, 1893). All the specimens, collected from three different localities in the'Sierra Nevadas, had a diploid number (2N) of 40. Ani . . .

The structure of intermittent streams has been described by Abell (1956) . Her work was based on the analysis of Dry Creek, Fresno County, California, which she considered a typical intermittent stream. An earlier work (Stehr and Bransen, 1938) ha . . .

On August 30, 1973, the Omaha World Herald announced in big headlines on its first page a sensational finding. The cameras of the skylab-satellite had helped to discover a lost group of Mennonites in the Paraguayan Chaco. This article is a typical exa . . .

Recent concerns about well stimulation and oilfield disposal practices has resulted in the desire to learn more about the distribution of usable groundwater that might be impacted by these practices. Waters that require protection are classified by th . . .

Many school districts are finding it difficult to service a large and growing percentage of students who have challenging behaviors that impede their learning. As more and more students with challenging behaviors are struggling in the classroom, the a . . .

The main focus of study in this paper was the actual use and practice of games in the teaching of kindergarten children. One way to assess the practical use of games is an analysis of the actual use in kindergarten programs of games as a method of . . .

The problem was to create costumes appropriate to the play utilizing the basic elements of costume design described under the problem section of this chapter. To solve this, the designer analyzed the script, researched the historical period, devel . . .

The first instance of encounter took place when a person moved his finger and watched his muscles tighten and he was amazed; he knew he was. He realized there were others and together they moved the evolutionary arrow forward: Socialization, and a . . .

Numerous agencies and groups have recently been addressing themselves to the problems of the aged in our society. The White House Conference on Aging in 1971 was held to attempt to determine the areas for concern and to determine solutions to the . . .

Frequently, people interested in the behavioral sciences can be heard discussing the many facets of the American culture. Much has been written about trends that may lead to the deterioration of the family. Of major concern to this investigator is . . .

For years the student in today's school has been thought of as an individual. Even students with the same I. Q. may vary greatly from subject to subject. If allowed to progress at their own rate, students in a given class will not progres . . .

There probably is not a person who at one time or another has not felt the poignancy of guilt feelings even when these could not be ultimately ascribed to something that person has done. The restlessness and affliction he experiences do not necess . . .

Making errors is very natural for students when they are learning a foreign language. Errors occur in various aspects of syntax, phonology, and semantics. However, some aspects of the target language seem to cause more errors than others, depending . . .

Spoilers have been proven to reduce the aerodynamic lift of automobiles. Since, theoretically, lift causes a certain amount of drag, a reduction of lift should result in a reduction in drag. This can be stated in the form of a null hypothesis, t . . .

An estuary is a coastal area where river water meets oceanic water. A characteristic of a tidal estuary is brackish water which shows fluctuations in salinity. These fluctuations are due to the diurnal periodicity of the tide and the influx of fresh w . . .

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Suicide is the one form of dying in which a person can choose his own time, place, and way of death. Death by suicide has numerous ramifications: it may exaggerate grief by creating guilt in the survivors; it removes workers prematurely from the . . .

Controlling the size and shape of plants growing in home landscapes, under powerlines, along city streets and highways, and in parks and cemeteries is an expensive, time consuming and difficult maintenance problem. It is a problem that increases i . . .

With the tightening of the job market it is becoming increasingly apparent that prospective employees must become diversified in order to qualify within selected job areas to provide increased opportunities for employment. One specific job area wh . . .

The early birth control movement can be thought of as mainly a feminist protest in which women refused to let large and inevitable families chain them to the home." Though the birth control movement may have had its roots in emancipation, the reas . . .

In 1969 the nine California State Mental Hospitals treating the mentally ill housed approximately 15,700 patients. By 1972 the number of patients in state hospitals in California had decreased to approximately 7,200 and the number of state hospita . . .

As the ninth largest city in California, Bakersfield drastically lacks the resources to provide adequate exercise and fitness centers for its community (United States Census Bureau, 2014). Aside from the typical corporate gyms such as InShape, Body Xc . . .

The lacustrine Amnicola Clay separates the upper and lower members of the Pleistocene-aged Tulare Formation at the Elk Hills oilfield in the southern San Joaquin Valley, California. The Tulare Clay is found within the upper Tulare Formation south of t . . .

The Rio Bravo oil field is located about fifteen miles northwest of Bakersfield, California. The zone of importance is the Vedder Sandstone, which is about 1,250 ft (380 m) in thickness. The thin (<100 ft, 30 m) Miocene Rio Bravo sandstone, which unco . . .

The Rio Bravo oil field is located about fifteen miles northwest of Bakersfield, California. The zone of importance is the Vedder Sandstone, which is about 1,250 ft (380 m) in thickness. The thin (<100 ft, 30 m) Miocene Rio Bravo sandstone, which unco . . .

The McKittrick oil field is located near the western edge of the San Joaquin basin approximately 60 km west of Bakersfield and just north-east of the McKittrick thrust fault. The oil field is currently in production with over 480 producing wells. The . . .

A potential approach to lower the release of anthropogenic CO₂ into the atmosphere is carbon capture and sequestration (CCS). CCS is the process of capturing CO₂ from high-CO₂emission facilities, compressing it into a supercritical state (CO2 (sc)), a . . .

The widespread presence of Neogene and Quaternary units in the southeastern San Joaquin Valley provide evidence for the tectonic evolution of the Bakersfield Arch, an area of major oil production in California. The purpose of this study is to test two . . .

The fragmented Paleozoic passive margin of Cordilleran North America, its Precambrian basement, and its Mesozoic cover are preserved in metasedimentary and metavolcanic crustal fragments known as roof pendants within the Sierra Nevada batholith. This . . .

The purpose of this phenomenological study was to explore Nigerian immigrants’ lived experiences of cultural diversity in the workplaces in California State, United States of America and obtain a holistic understanding of their experiences and facilit . . .

The bulk and clay mineralogy of sediments from Tulare Lake recovered from core TL05-4A were examined to identify sediment sources of the terrigenous lake sediments and to interpret paleoenvironmental change since the most recent glacial maximum (~25 k . . .

Much has been said and written about the necessity of universities to help students develop the skills and attitudes which will allow them to function successfully in an interdependent and interconnected world. Study abroad programs encompass this gen . . .

Graduation rates for African-American students at California State University Bakersfield (CSUB) were slightly lower than the national average ranging from 16.3 percent to 38.1 percent between 1995 and 2007. African-American graduation rates during t . . .

During the Late Eocene to Early Miocene, northern Mexico was affected by widespread silicic magmatism and extension coeval with the westward migration of the Cordilleran volcanic arc, forming the 300,000 km2 Sierra Madre Occidental (SMO) plateau. The . . .

The southern Sierra Nevada Region, California is currently responding to a delaminating lithospheric root remnant. Stream profile analysis of the Kern River and feeding tributaries was used to investigate the nature and timing of the dynamic topograph . . .

Invaluable research has been provided by various organizations that give researchers and scholars the ability to compare quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) rates on a local, state, national, and global level . . .

Nutrition plays an important role in all lives as it gives us the mental and physical strength to increase our well-being. In order to improve nutritional status, eating food will allow individuals body to continue to function in addition to giving th . . .

The results of an informal survey of family financial counseling services conducted by the writer primarily suggested this study. Few social service agencies in the greater Fresno area provide family financial counseling services. The agencies obs . . .

Television has probably made a greater impact on American society than any other communications medium. The Sloan Commission called television . .a predominant feature of the American scene, the primary instrument to which the mass of the populati . . .

Vesicular-arbuscular (V-A) myeorrhizae play a role in plant nutrition• Many workers have shown that V-A myeorrhizae increase the amount of phosphate uptake by higher plants (27) and may have profound effects when absent from nursery soils (31). Ros . . .

Man is a mobile animal and relies on his way-finding ability to maneuver in his surroundings. This mobility is accomplished through cognitive learning (images received by the individual through stimuli produced by the environment.) Cognitive mappin . . .

As societies grow larger and more complex, the individuals who compose them are constantly interacting and conversing. The average citizen must communicate verbally with a multitude of persons in order to conduct one's daily affairs, e.g., spouse, . . .

Microsporangial development in angiosperms is a well documented process. In contrast, difficulties such as availability of material, prolonged development, and problems in sectioning have made information concerning microsporogenesis in gymnosper . . .

Today quality of patient care is a social issue. There is a demand by the general public for "high level wellness" (Duff and Hollingshead, 1968:20). The best care possible for every individual is seen as a "right" rather than a "privilege." The consum . . .

Thomas A. Bailey, in an expanded version of his presidential address to the Organization of American Historians in 1968, stated that "False historical beliefs are so essential to our culture that if they did not exist, like Voltaire's God, they wo . . .

Improvement of what goes on in the classroom has been the eternal goal of teacher training institutions and inservice programs for teachers working in the classroom. The Stull Bill and all its implications for goal setting, writing the objectives, . . .

A number of previous investigations have shown that early exposure to an enriched environment results in superior learning ability in later life (Forgays & Forgays, 1962; Denenberg, Woodcock, & Rosenberg, 1968; Henderson, 1972; and Lundeen, 1973). . . .

One of the most significant problems encountered in public school hearing conservation programs, including screening and threshold testing, is the presence of high ambient noise levels in the test environment (Cozad, 1966) . The importance of quie . . .

The writer proposed to study Chinese design concepts and their accompanying impact on Chinese settlements in California because few of their artistic, social and historic elements having an impact on Chinatowns have been systemati­cally documented. So . . .

In recent years there has been a steady increase of geriatric patient population in the hospital setting. It has been estimated that twenty-five to forty percent of the patients in general hospitals are age sixty-five and over. As the geriatric po . . .