This study investigated the factors that influenced the adaptation of migrants to the country of Brazil. The review of the literature, as well as a qualitative study conducted by the author in the country of Brazil, indicated that education, gender, age at migration, length of t…
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The association between reading problems and behavior problems has been established for children learning to read English (see Gellert & Embro, 1999). To date, however, little research has examined this relationship in bilingual situations. The goal of the current study was to i…
A large body of literature attests to a positive relationship between adherence to treatment and favorable outcomes in weight loss programs (Dubbert & Wilson, 1984; Israel, Silverman & Solotar, 1988; Karlsson et al., 1994; Lansky, 1981; Mancini et al., 1999; Sandifer & Buchanan,…
Health care workers have been known to carry into the workplace a variety of judgmental and negative attitudes towards their patients. In no other area of patient care has this issue been more pronounced as in the management of patients with AIDS. Health care workers have refuse…
The present study examined, using a cross-sectional survey design the relative influence of the family, peers, media, the school as well as personal knowledge and beliefs on the risk behaviors of adolescents in Nigeria (a country which from many indicators, still has a window of…
The purpose of this study was to provide a theoretical framework based on a review of the literature of the practice of Sabbath-keeping to determine whether this practice promotes psychological health and spiritual well-being. Psychological health and spiritual well-being were d…
The simultaneous presentations of independently-established discriminative stimuli can control rates of operant responding higher than rates maintained by the individual stimuli. This “additive-summation” phenomenon has been shown with a variety of different reinforcers (e.g. fo…
Teenage sexuality has become a social concern, because of its impact on teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, abortion, government aid and school drop-out. In an effort to better predict risk of early sexual activity, a secondary analysis was conducted on data collected…
In the United States, millions of young girls have developed negative attitudes toward their bodies leading them to engage in behaviors that promote eating disorders and obesity. There is a need for prevention programs which examine interactions between body image, behavior, cul…
Circadian rhythms in rodents can be phase shifted by activity bouts or light pulses. Syrian hamsters were entrained to a 14:10 full photoperiod (FPP) and were induced to run in the middle of their subjective day. Four of 11 hamsters showed high levels of induced wheel running an…
Prepubertal animals differ vastly from adults in their social behaviors. These behavioral changes during puberty must be mediated by changes in the structure and/or function of the central nervous system. In the present dissertation, the male Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus…
Mating Behavior in the male Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus) is initiated in limbic system brain areas including the medial nucleus of the amygdala (Me), bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNST) and medial preoptic area (MPOA). In this thesis, a multiple mating behavioral…
To date, the ability of animals to perform the operation of summation has only been examined in chimpanzees (Rumbaugh, Savage-Rumbaugh & Hegel, 1987; Boysen & Berntson, 1989), and in only one of these studies was the summation of symbols investigated. The present series of exper…
Acetate and adenosine have been shown to modulate some of the physiological and behavioral effects of ethanol. In this study the role of acetate and adenosine in ethanol reward was investigated using the limited access drinking paradigm in C57BL/6 mice and the place conditioning…
Problem. The purpose of this study was to seek an understanding of the problem of stress and decline of personal job satisfaction among Nigerian Catholic priests. The study identified major variables in the lifestyle and social interest of the priests that contribute to their hi…
The overall goal of this thesis was to assess the roles of photoperiod and sociosexual stimulation on the seasonal reproductive rhythms of Syrian Hamsters. In the first set of studies, we found that hamsters underwent gonadal regression (decreased uterine weight, abnormal estrou…
It is the intention of this research to develop and test a systematic post occupancy evaluation tool suitable to the unique society of Saudi Arabia. The purpose of this study is to present a systematic approach to evaluate buildings designed for use in Saudi Arabia. A conceptual…
In the mid-1950's, a new model of housing was introduced to Saudi Arabia. This model did not develop naturally from traditional housing or evolve according to the society's needs, rather, was developed for other countries and was grounded in concepts foreign to Saudi culture. Th…
Since universal education was adopted in Saudi Arabia in 1932, the Ministry of Education has been challenged to build new facilities while replacing rented and deteriorated ones for its rapidly expanding population. The sudden increase in oil revenues in the early 1970s enabled …