This report is one of a series issued in cooperation with the ANC-17 Panel on Plastics for Aircraft of the Departments of the Air Force, Navy, and Commerce. Information reviewed and reaffirmed 1960. Original report issued October 1955.
A mooring system was designed and constructed to make possible
the installation and the recovery of racks of sample panels for
a study of deep-ocean wood-boring molluscs. Racks containing
pine, fir, oak, and cedar boards were exposed to borer attack at
six stations with depths of 50, 100, 150, 200,...
This project was initiated in an attempt to control furunculosis
(Aeromonas salmonicida) in a production hatchery rearing coho salmon.
An oral vaccine was prepared and administered to 520,000
juvenile coho salmon (Oncorhynchus kisutch) at the Siletz River Salmon
Hatchery prior to the onset of a predictable naturally occurring
epizootic of...
A biosystematic investigation was undertaken in 15
species and three subspecies of the genus Aster, in western
North America. Previous studies had been based entirely on
external morphological features, and it was believed that
much could be learned about the natural affinities of the
taxa by exploring their cytological and...
Systems Tableau is suggested as a convenient tool for the
integration of the three phases of systems theory: the synthesis of
a model from the analysis of a system; the evaluation of the model;
and the decision-making process for the design and control of the
resulting system.
From a basic...
Chironomidae occurring in stabilization lagoons were studied
from 1964 to 1966 in Oregon. Observations of other insects and
their impact on the lagoon environment are included. Quantitative
data were obtained from two lagoons near Corvallis and qualitative
observations from preliminary work on two other lagoons are reported.
The objectives of...