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A prospective cohort study of maternal factors in childhood asthma: Parity, obesity, fetal growth, and social stressors.
(2000)
This project uses prenatal, postnatal, and follow-up data from a prospective cohort study of 131 mother and child dyads to examine (1) risk factors for asthma in children at 4--7 years, (2) how having asthma changes the ...
Correlates of extra-pair paternity and the effects of ectoparasites on nestling growth, parental provisioning and reproductive success in the house sparrow.
(2000)
In addition, I looked at another aspect of the reproductive biology of the House Sparrow, the effects of ectoparasites on nestling growth, parental provisioning and reproductive success. To determine whether Pellonyssus ...
Theories of the Earth from Descartes to Cuvier: Natural order and historical contingency in a contested textual tradition.
(2000)
Parts I and II together suggest that the language of biblical idiom fostered the expression of historical sensibilities in the tradition, although such idiom was never an essential characteristic of Theories of the Earth. ...
The Native American postmodern-mimetic novel.
(2000)
This dissertation examines a new literary phenomenon---the Native American Postmodern---Mimetic novel. This genre is heralded by N. Scott Momaday's House Made of Dawn, and it is exemplified by his subsequent novel, The ...
Minutes of a Regular Meeting, The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, December 7, 2000
(The University of Oklahoma Board of Regents, 2000-12-07)
Impact of culture circles on minority high school students in mathematics.
(2000)
Especially important to the findings of the study was the establishment of an environment for positive change in the students' performances by having the culture circle group meetings. The impact of the culture circle ...
Essays on international economics and macroeconomics.
(2000)
The first chapter, entitled "Dumping in a Linder Model of Trade, " provides an explanation for a recent proliferation of price dumping and antidumping laws. The last decade has witnessed an accelerating adoption of antidumping ...
Computer-assisted instruction: Demographic variables and student attitudes.
(2000)
This study was an investigation of the relationship between demographic variables and student attitudes toward computer-aided instruction (CAI). selected demographic variables were mathematics aptitude, level of education, ...
A generic Picard-Vessiot extension for GL(n) and the inverse differential Galois problem.
(2000)
Let F be a differential field with field of constants the algebraically dosed field C. Let Yij be differential indeterminates and let R = F{ Yij}[X11, ..., Xnn] be a differential ring with derivation D (Xij) = k=1n ...
Social learning for sustainability: A local government approach.
(2000)
This research integrates theoretical constructs from the literature on social learning and policy innovation, together with site-specific information, in the creation of a decision-making schematic for environmental policy ...