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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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…
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 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,…
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…
The objectives of this study were to investigate if female baboons exercise choice for mating partners and to examine the influence of female behavior on hybridization between anubis and hamadryas baboons in the Awash National Park hybrid zone in central Ethiopia. Female behavio…
Multinational flight crews are becoming common in cockpits of many international air carriers. Saudi Arabian Airlines (Saudia), a government-owned air carrier with flight crew staffing from 37 nationalities, serves as a model for international carriers of the developing world. M…
Circadian rhythms in the Syrian hamster can be adjusted by inducing the animal to become active during its usual sleep period. This type of clock resetting is distinct from clock resetting by light, and is thus known as nonphotic phase shifting. Although the prevailing view has …
As rates of HIV/AIDS continue to rise among youth in sub-Saharan Africa, the need for behavioral intervention to reduce rates of HIV/AIDS infection is becoming increasingly evident, The present study examined the association between risk and/or protective factors and HIV-hazardo…
The problem. The study was designed to investigate whether a relationship exists between the Situational Leadership model and employer-employee expectations. It was hypothesized that there would be a significant relationship between supervisor flexibility and effectiveness style…
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…
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…
Hemispheric asymmetry for processing printed material was examined for Urdu-English bilinguals in a series of experiments that presented material briefly to the right visual field/left hemisphere (RVF/LH), left visual field/right hemisphere (LVF/RH) or to both visual fields simu…
The purpose of this study was to examine causal attributions for winning and losing among professional Saudi soccer players, coaches, and administrators. The study also examined the attributions athletes gave to their coaches after a loss, the effect of audience on attribution f…
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…