The purpose of the research was to investigate the chemical
composition of five starches and the physical characteristics of their
respective starch pastes as these properties relate to the characteristics
of starch-structured breads. Starch-structured breads were prepared
with five starches, corn, wheat, potato, arrowroot and waxy
maize, used as granular...
In the formulation of fisheries management plans required under the
Fisheries Conservation and Management Act of 1976 specific attention is
paid to the "capacity" of domestic fishing vessels to harvest the predetermined
optimum yield on an annual basis. Capacity is interpreted in
this thesis as the technical harvesting potential of...
A rural watershed containing a protected forest area in the north
and a small rural community in the south was monitored for numbers of
fecal indicator bacteria as well as the incidence and origin of the
enteric pathogen Salmonella. Isolation of Salmonella only occurred
once in the protected watershed, while...
Some nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation procedures
are developed for the class of pairs of distributions which have proportional
failure rate functions. Special consideration is given to the
case in which the shape of the failure rate functions are assumed to
be either increasing or decreasing. Estimators of the proportionality
constant,...