Title | Date | Views | Brief Description |
The intimate friendship scale: factors and association with drinking patterns among college aged friends |
2009 |
30019 |
The purpose of the present study was to examine the development of the Intimate Friendship Scale (IFS), a 32 item self-report measure of close friendship initially developed using adolescent Kibbutz children. Investigations of the structure of friend... |
Women's assertiveness in drink refusal |
2009 |
4075 |
This study examined how gender specific assertiveness, drink history, and sexual experience history, were associated with women’s ability to refuse alcoholic beverages from a man in a simulated high risk situation. Women (n=111) answered an anonymous... |
Temporal diagenetic alternations in Adélie penguin eggshells throughout the late holocene of Antarctica |
2009 |
2630 |
Data from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with energy dispersive X-ray
(EDX) analysis of late Holocene Adélie penguin (Pygoscelis adeliae) eggshell fragments were
used to investigate the role of diagenesis on paleoecological reconstructi... |
Petrology and geochemistry of the Wildcat Gulch syenite, Gunnison County, Colorado |
2009 |
5644 |
Southwest of Gunnison, Colorado, within the Wildcat Gulch study area, syenitoid plutons
intrude the Proterozoic Dubois Greenstone. Limited work has been done to document their
lithologic character, ascertain their origin, or place them within the r... |
Is a word to the wise sufficient? character education in public secondary schools |
2009 |
3393 |
Student perceptions of a character education program utilized at a southeastern North Carolina public high school were gathered and analyzed from an initial exploratory survey. The instrument gathered student responses to statements regarding charact... |
Patterns of larval distribution and settlement in a river-dominated estuary |
2009 |
1639 |
Several species of crabs utilize the estuary as adults, with larval development occurring in the
plankton either within the estuary or offshore. Habitat selectivity necessitates postlarval
movement within the estuary in order for suitable settlemen... |