Quarterly progress report on study of thermal radiation within solids and study of internally ablating composites.

[1] 1 Oct. 1960 to 31 Dec. 1960.

The water gas process: a study of the carbon and thermal balances,

At head of title: Department of Scientific and Industrial Research. Fuel Research.

A socio-psychological study of conforming and deviating behavior among adolescents; a final report of research under contract project 507 (8133) a cooperative research project of the United States Office of Education and the State University of Iowa. Project staff: Albert J. Reiss, Jr., project director [and] Albert Lewis Rhodes, research associate.

"The first two years of this three year project were undertaken as Cooperative Research Project 6399, by Vanderbilt University and the U.S. Office of Education."

A simulator study of the combined effects of alcohol and marihuana on driving behavior. Phase II. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

A simulator study of the combined effects of alcohol and marihuana on driving behavior. Phase I. Final report.

Mode of access: Internet.

Individual differences and family resemblances in animal behavior, a study of habit formation in various strains of mice,

Published also as thesis (PH. D.) Columbia University, 1918.

A study of factors relating to favorable attitudes toward the salary plan and the effectiveness of the performance appraisal program; the second phase of an exploratory investigation of the feasibility of including the measurement of "motivation" in the study of human behavior in the work situation.

"A technical account of this study appears as part 2 of a report entitled 'Motive patterns of managers and specialists!'"

Achievement motivation and risk- taking in a business setting; a study of the relationship between achievement related motives and risktaking behavior in a simulated business situation,

"This study ... was carried out ... in the Small Aircraft Engine Department at Lynn Massachusetts."

Depreciative behavior in forest campgrounds : an exploratory study /

Bibliography: p. 12.

Psychology, the study of behavior

Mode of access: Internet.

Computer simulation of driver behavior during car following: a methodological study; final report,

Mode of access: Internet.

FDA consumer nutrition knowledge survey : a nationwide study of food shopper's knowledge, beliefs, attitudes, and reported behavior regarding food and nutrition /

Includes bibliographical references.

Miscibility and phase separation in blends of phenolphthalein poly(aryl ether ketone) and poly(ethylene oxide): a differential scanning calorimetric study

Miscibility and phase separation in the blends of phenolphthalein poly(aryl ether ketone) (PPAEK) and poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) were investigated by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). The PPAEK/PEO blends prepared by solution casting from N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) displayed single composition-dependent glass transition temperatures (T-g), intermediate between those of the pure components, suggesting that the blend system is miscible in the amorphous state at all compositions. All the blends underwent phase separation at higher temperatures and the system exhibited a lower critical solution temperature (LCST) behavior. A step-heating thermal analysis was designed to determine the phase boundaries with DSC. The significant changes in the thermal properties of blends were utilized to judge the mixing status for the blends and the phase diagram was thus established. (C) 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Adsorption of argon on homogeneous graphitized thermal carbon black and heterogeneous carbon surface

In this paper we investigate the effects of surface mediation on the adsorption behavior of argon at different temperatures on homogeneous graphitized thermal carbon black and on heterogeneous nongraphitized carbon black surface. The grand canonical Monte Carlo (GCMC) simulation is used to study the adsorption, and its performance is tested against a number of experimental data on graphitized thermal carbon black (which is known to be highly homogeneous) that are available in the literature. The surface-mediation effect is shown to be essential in the correct description of the adsorption isotherm because without accounting for that effect the GCMC simulation results are always greater than the experimental data in the region where the monolayer is being completed. This is due to the overestimation of the fluid–fluid interaction between particles in the first layer close to the solid surface. It is the surface mediation that reduces this fluid–fluid interaction in the adsorbed layers, and therefore the GCMC simulation results accounting for this surface mediation that are presented in this paper result in a better description of the data. This surface mediation having been determined, the surface excess of argon on heterogeneous carbon surfaces having solid–fluid interaction energies different from the graphite can be readily obtained. Since the real heterogeneous carbon surface is not the same as the homogeneous graphite surface, it can be described by an area distribution in terms of the well depth of the solid–fluid energy. Assuming a patchwise topology of the surface with patches of uniform well depth of solid–fluid interaction, the adsorption on a real carbon surface can be determined as an integral of the local surface excess of each patch with respect to the differential area. When this is matched against the experimental data of a carbon surface, we can derive the area distribution versus energy and hence the geometrical surface area. This new approach will be illustrated with the adsorption of argon on a nongraphitized carbon at 87.3 and 77 K, and it is found that the GCMC surface area is different from the BET surface area by about 7%. Furthermore, the description of the isotherm in the region of BET validity of 0.06 to 0.2 is much better with our method than with the BET equation.

Asthma and internalizing behavior problems in adolescence: A longitudinal study

Objective: Clinical studies of asthmatic children have found an association between lung disease and internalizing behavior problems. The causal direction of this association is, however, unclear. This article examines the nature of the relationship between behavior and asthma problems in childhood and adolescence. Methods: Data were analyzed on 5135 children from the Mater University Study of Pregnancy and its outcomes (MUSP), a large birth cohort of mothers and children started in Brisbane, Australia, in 1981. Lung disease was measured from maternal reports of asthma/bronchitis when the children were aged 5 and maternal reports of asthma symptoms when the children were aged 14. Symptoms of internalizing behaviors were obtained by maternal reports (Child Behavior Checklist) at 5 years and by maternal and children's reports at 14 years (Child Behavior Checklist and Youth Self Report). Results: Although there was no association between prevalence of asthma and externalizing symptoms, asthma and internalizing symptoms were significantly associated in cross-sectional analyses at 5 and 14 years. In prospective analyses, after excluding children with asthma at 5 years, internalizing symptoms at age 5 were not associated with the development of asthma symptoms at age 14. After excluding children with internalizing symptoms at 5 years, those who had asthma at 5 years had greater odds of developing internalizing symptoms at age 14. Conclusion: Children who have asthma/bronchitis by the age of 5 are at greater risk of having internalizing behavior problems in adolescence.