National farm legislation seeks to moderate the conditions of low farm incomes and commodity price instability. Homogeneity of producer response is generally assumed in national models of aggregate commodity supply. Differing conditions of soil, climate, production systems, costs of production, markets, etc., could cause disparate acreage responses to the commodity...
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This study was designed to establish a baseline of data
regarding guidelines for curriculum development in the
preparation of health education specialists in health-care
delivery settings.
The survey method was utilized and an expert panel of
15 jurors was selected to respond to a 51 item questionnaire.
Professions represented on...
This study was undertaken to compile a comprehensive
review of the literature and to gain a better understanding
of the host-parasite relationship in corynebacterial kidney
disease of salmonid fishes. An indirect fluorescent antibody
technique was developed which allowed differentiation
of intra- and extracellular bacteria. This technique was
used in combination...
In the spring and summer of 1975 a study was conducted under natural conditions to determine whether wild adult Dermacentor andersoni Stiles would transmit Anaplasma marginale to cattle. The ticks were collected from the range pasture of Squaw Butte Experiment Station where anaplasmosis is enzootic and D. andersoni is indigenous....
The nucleosome appears to be the basic structural unit of the
eukaryotic chromosome. The usual nucleosome preparation, isolated
from a micrococcal nuclease digest of nuclei, is heterogenous in DNA
length and protein composition with some particles containing spacer
DNA and associated protein. This heterogeneity complicated physical
and reconstitution studies. As...
The primary purpose of this study was the identification of
specific medicine education learning outcomes which are important
and appropriate for ambulatory, non-institutionalized older adults.
A modification of the Delphi technique was utilized and a panel
of 16 national experts was selected on the basis of four criteria to
respond...