The purposes of the research presented in this thesis were
to: (l) assess the nutritional status of vegetarian and nonvegetarian
Seventh-day Adventists (SDA), non-SDA non-vegetarians,
and non-vegetarian hormone dependent cancer subjects; (2) determine
the relationship of various blood and urinary biochemical
parameters to dietary intake; (3) determine hormonal status in...
The Russian Old Believers in Oregon maintain a manner of dress which distinguishes them in the communities in which they live. Originating as a group because of a schism within the Russian Orthodox Church in 1666, the Russian Old Believers migrated to the edge of the Russian Empire and beyond...
The feasibility of using hollow fiber ultrafi1tration
for clarification, stabilization and preservation of white
grape juice was evaluated. Flux and process parameters of
a hollow fiber membrane ultrafi1tration unit (Romicon pilot
scale, model FXS-MXII), were studied using white Riesling
grape juice. Optimum processing conditions were determined
for different nominal membrane...
The purpose of this study was to gather participant/ campus data, and to measure morale and teaching faculty participation in institutional governance on the 107 California public community college campuses to determine if collective bargaining faculty have statistically higher or lower morale and greater or lesser participation in institutional governance....
Two experiments were conducted to evaluate the effects of
gonadotropin releasing hormone (GnRH) on the function of the bovine
corpus luteum during the estrous cycle. In Experiment 1, 10 heifers
were assigned randomly into two groups with each heifer serving as
her own control. Heifers in Group I (n=5) were...
Experiments were conducted to examine the effects of a tumor-promoting phorbol ester, a calcium ionophore and indomethacin on bovine luteal oxytocin (OT) synthesis and secretion and progesterone secretion. Six 18-month-old crossbred beef heifers in Exp. 1 and five similar heifers in Exp. 2 were observed twice daily for estrus using...
The Mien are recent United States immigrants from Laos. They left
Southeast Asia at a time of great political upheaval. Because of their
close ties with United States governmental operations during the Southeast
Asian war, conditions for Mien in Laos made flight imperative as
Pathet Lao forces now control the...
In 1974 Tribhuvan University implemented the National
Development Service (NDS) program as part of the graduate
curricula. The program required all the graduate students
to serve ten months in the rural areas of Nepal, helping in
the on-going projects related to agriculture, health, education,
and social sciences. This study describes...