Adolescent suicide has been increasing at an alarming rate across the nation and within Kern County. The number of adolescent suicides in Kern County illustrates the need for the county to actively participate to remedy the existence of this problem. . . .

Today and throughout history ever since Intercollegiate Athletics has come into existence you will find plenty of problems that universities and schools have run into. First starting off in the 40’s and 50’s, women weren’t even thought of in playing a . . .

Privatization has increasingly gained prominence as one of the engines for economic growth and development. In fact, the success of this process in some nations has prompted others to consider implementing it because of its benefit in stimulating econ . . .

My results suggest that Desert Kit Foxes in the Mojave Desert in California prefer to consume rodents and invertebrates, but will prey upon a variety of other items, especially when preferred prey has declined due to drought or seasonal conditions. O . . .

Federal law mandates that students with disabilities be educated in the least restrictive environment to provide them with equal opportunities to access state curriculum just as their peers without disabilities. General education teachers often do not . . .

The issues associated with the foster care system are not a recent phenomenon. In fact, society has been dealing with such issues for at least a century. In the early 1900’s, children became orphans or lived in the streets and were in need of a safe h . . .

Juvenile recidivism is a current social issue that needs to be addressed. Juvenile delinquency refers to adolescents who are under the age of 18 and commit an illegal act. According to Harris (2015), in 2015 law enforcement arrested 71,923 youth. Depe . . .

The purpose of this research is to assess health outcomes of Hispanics in Kern County in comparison to Non-Hispanic Whites (NHW’s) and Non-Hispanic Blacks (NHB’s) by doing a comparative analysis between the groups on factors such as insurance coverage . . .

Unknown regulatory motif finding on DNA sequences is a crucial task for understanding gene expression and the task requires accuracy and efficiency. We propose DMF, a combinatorial approach that uses hash-based heuristics to skip unnecessary computat . . .

This paper proposes a comprehensive employee evaluation system that combines the MBO approach with the Psychological Contract approach. The MBO and the Psychological Contract methods, when combined, are the best approaches for improving managerial and . . .

This study explores how Latina teenage mothers navigated the college choice process as historically both Latinas and teenage mothers are minority populations in terms of attaining a postsecondary education. The purpose of this study was to analyze an . . .

The increase in childhood obesity has gained much attention from health care professionals, health policy experts, children’s advocates, and parents. All are concerned that today’s overweight and obese children will turn into tomorrow’s overweight and . . .

ccording to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) annual report, about 10,000 qualified International Medical Graduates (IMGs), who passed the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLEs), apply annually to residency training programs . . .

The central purposes of education are: (1) to prepare the young to accept constructive pathways to adulthood, (2) to help them engage these pathways successfully, and (3) to assist them in finding personal relevance in the options available to the . . .

In recent years mankind has been involved in major social problems. In the United States involvement with social problems has existed within persons and within groups, and between persons and between groups. The energies of our populace, whether m . . .

Mountain meadows offer aesthetic values and provide feed for cattle and wildlife, making it important for both financial and recreational reasons that they be maintained at maximum productivity. At the present, little is known about vegetation str . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

The assumption is generally made that through re-staffing of teachers, re-grcuping of children and utilization of a variety of teaching techniques, there will result an improvement in pupil achievement, professional performance, and attitudes of b . . .

The western foothills of the Sierra Nevada are dotted with small earthen reservoirs which are maintained by landowners primarily as a source of water for livestock. Most of these farm ponds have been stocked with warmwater gamefish such as largemou . . .

Powdery Mildew, or oidiurn as it is called in Europe, is the most serious fungus disease of the vine that is present in California according to Jacob (3). It has been found in every vineyard section of the state. In the cooler and more humid region . . .

The gradual liberalization of school board policies toward pregnant teachers, the recent implementation of Federal legislation, and growing leniency of the courts are closely related to the changing status of women in America. A short analysis of . . .

Xylella fastidiosa is a xylem-obligate plant pathogenic bacterium that causes disease in diverse crop plants. In grapevines, the infection is known as Pierce’s disease, which is limited to regions with warmer climates and fails to appear in cold cli . . .

A problem of relatively recent concern to health science researchers—thanks, perhaps, to new advances in the biological, social, and psychophysiological sciences— is how to isolate and identify relationships between human behavior and individual ( . . .

The effect of delay of reward upon acquisition of an instrumental response was examined using water deprived rats in a straight runway. Following stable performance in the . acquisition (preshift) phase, subjects receiving 0, £ or 16 sec access to . . .

The reporting of scientific news has long been a troublesome area .in American journalism; as a result numerous and frequent complaints come from those concerned with journalism and science. Scientists, for example, have often protested the handli . . .

The purpose of this experimental study was to modify, construct, test and evaluate thrust augmentation systems using model Ford 707 simulated gas turbine engines. The tests and statistical data show the investigator's alternative hypothesis to be . . .

In 1923 Lewis devised a general set of rules to define a basic species: all substances containing unshared pairs of electrons are bases. Organic amines (e.g. - R-NH^) with their unshared pair of electrons constitute one of the most important class . . .

The purpose of this study is to identify the process through an analytical and historical framework for the atonal concepts in the late piano works of Franz Liszt Over the last years the works of Franz Liszt have been evaluated. Through previous g . . .

The process of bringing work and laborer together goes back in man's history beyond the records of civiliza- tion. The first large-scale "employment" of people was probably through the institution of slavery. The first source of labor supply . . .

With the exception of a few unique areas, the economy of a community is largely dependent on the industrial base. The average residential area cannot, through simple taxation of real properties, support the increasingly myriad demands of local gov . . .

The provision of safe and decent housing has been emerging as a major concern of state and local government in recent years. In 1968 the United States Congress took an action which required a "housing element" as a part of any "comprehensive land . . .

The principal means of creating drama for children has been through the dramatic interpretation of standard literary works. Those who are involved with the production of children's dramas in the United States urge the playwright toward such interp . . .

It has long been recognized by nursing staff, their supervisors, and instructors of nursing that aides, technicians, and vocational and registered nurses are prone to take the most expedient methods whenever possible, although this may not be the w . . .

The purpose of this study is not to analyze the dichot- omy between developed and underdeveloped Mexico, but rather to narrow the focus to those regions of Mexico with relatively high concentrations of monolingual speakers of indigenous languages. . . .

Posthypnotic amnesia has long been considered an essential characteristic of hypnosis. It was first reported by the Mar- quis de Puysegur in 1784 while experimenting with his famous subject, Victor. Since it was well known that sleepwalkers experi . . .

Diabetes is a major health problem especially in Hail City, Saudi Arabia owing to lack of physical activities in their lifestyles. Studies by Ahmed et al (2014), Haque (2014), and Al-Herbish et al (2008) are all of the observation that children within . . .

The Wonderful Company is providing their employees with two wellness centers for the employees and dependents that work for this company. The centers are located in California’s Central Valley, which is known for having many health disparities like di . . .

A method utilizing Gas Chromatography is described for the analyses of trace amounts of specified impurities in spectral grade acetone and in spectral grade methanol. Retention indices, I, relative to hexane and octane, and &I, relative to the ret . . .

new concept in medical bacteriology was opened for investigation in 1935 when Kleinberger reported she had successfully separated a cell wall deficient variant from a normal culture of Streptobacillus moniliformis (Kleinberger, 1935). Kleinberger den . . .

The present study explored the contention that deaf children are deficient in the use of implicit verbal skills presumed necessary for the solution of a complex reasoning problem. Deaf children between the ages of eight and thirteen were matched b . . .

Fluid power is a science so ancient that its beginning precedes written history. The water wheel, in the pre-Christian era, is the first example of fluids in motion used to do work. The ancient Egyptians, in approximately 250 B.C., used the Archim . . .

I he diabetic patient is faced with a disease that does not significantly affect his appearance or his sense of well-being after control is achieved. However, this condition will persist for the rest of his life and will require considerable attention . . .

Metamorphic and igneous rocks marginal to the Academy Fluton were studied from the pluton contact outward from 1.0 to 2.5 miles. The area mapped covers parts of the Piedra, Academy, Watts Valley and Round Mountain 7.5 minute quadrangles. Igneou . . .

A study to determine the effects of gibberellic acid (GA) and kinetin on germination, emergence and seedling vigor was conducted on sesame (Sesame indicum L.). Rates of laboratory germination were increased by gibberellic acid and kinetin during t . . .

Since the beginning of civilization, man has tried in various ways to improve his appearance. Archaeologists have found hairpins and combs dating from prehistoric times, indi- cating that even then, men and women spent time and effort in arran . . .

Man's ability to communicate has led to many technological advancements. He nas conquered a large portion of the electro- magnetic spectrum for use in communicating with his colleagues and for transmitting data from computers to man and other c . . .

The Indians of Pre-Hispanic Central America made a great cultural contribution to the world. Although they produced no works of art strictly for the sake of artistic expression, their means of recording history and religion left behind a multitude . . .

Creative interpretations have been produced by designers of all types of material objects. It is not that the new objects were of totally new ideas nor of new materials. Each object contained a personal and individualistic style in representing fa . . .

The objective of this project was the expansion of this writer's knowledge of organ-building into the area of constructing mechanical action instruments. All prior experience had been solely in the field of electro-pneumatic and direct electric or . . .

Tradition has it that the beginning of a paper such as this should serve to convince the reader of the importance of studying violence and the need for further research in the area. In these times, however, it seems trite to quote statistics on th . . .