The Petchburi Irrigation Project was built in the southern part of
the Central Plain of Thailand in 1942. The purpose of the project was
to divert water from the Petchburi River to irrigate the principal part
of the Petchburi Plain where lands were used for rice and upland crop
production....
The Federal Republic of Nigeria, on the west coast of the continent of Africa, is divided into four Regions: Northern, Western, Midwestern and Eastern. The Federal Capital of the country is Lagos. Eastern Nigeria occupies the south-eastern portion of the country, nearest to the Federal Republic of Cameroun.
The propensity...
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Experiments were carried out to purify and characterize the
galactosidase of the Streptococcus lactis 7962. Purification was
accomplished using standard procedures; however the lability of
the enzyme to numerous treatments limited the techniques that could
be used and the amount of active enzyme recovered. Gel filtration
revealed that the enzyme...
Data were gathered on the life history of the pile perch
(Rhacochilus vacca) from Yaquina Bay, Oregon, between April,
1966, and July, 1967. Pile perch feed on the bottom and consume
mostly molluscs, barnacles and decapod crustaceans. Food habits
varied among seasons and locations within the bay, whereas the
diet...
A total of five individual experiments were conducted with
gonadectomized, male sheep to study the influence of estrogen on
the plasma level of pituitary activities, with the greatest emphasis
given to gonadotropic activity. Estrogen treatments employed were
as follows:
1. 12 mg. diethylstilbestrol (DES) implanted subcutaneously.
2. 1 mg. DES...