Strains of Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis and Lactococcus lactis ssp. cremoris with potential use in the food industry which had been previously isolated from nature using 16S rRNA probes were characterized for unique identifying traits and for attributes important for potential use in cheese manufacture. Strains of Lc. cremoris which...
As the performance gap between processor and memory grows, memory latency will be a major bottleneck in achieving high processor utilization. Multithreading has emerged as one of the most promising and exciting techniques used to tolerate memory latency by exploiting thread-level parallelism. The question however remains as to how effective...
Between 1880 and 1900, the Oregon Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) significantly impacted the lives of Oregon women. Not simply an organization of middle class white women, the Oregon WCTU enlisted Native American and African American women, and persistently advocated for improved conditions for working women. The WCTU aspired to...
Frost injury is one of the major factors limiting potato production in many parts
of the world. It would be desirable to transfer the frost-tolerance traits from the hardy
relatives to the cultivated potato, however, progress has been very slow. Since Solanum
commersonii has been the major source of frost...