Sweet onions are valued for their unique flavor and praised for their health and dietary character. Onion sweetness is perceived as the degree of pungency decreases. Pungency can be quantitatively determined in onions by measuring enzymatically produced pyruvic acid. The onion industry quantifies a sweet onion as one having a...
Doxorubicin is a widely used cancer therapeutic, but its effectiveness is limited by cardiotoxic side effects. Evidence suggests cardiotoxicity is due not to doxorubicin, but rather its metabolite, doxorubicinol. Identification of the enzymes responsible for doxorubicinol formation is important in developing strategies to prevent cardiotoxicity. In this study, the contributions...
The design of this study was suggested by the following observations:
(1) the successful application of recurrent selection
techniques in obtaining improvement of hybrid performance in corn
and Drosophila, (2) the increased production realized by rotational
crossbreeding, and (3) the expression of a relatively large degree
of hybrid vigor in...
Litter site and birth weight data compiled from the
farrowing records of 275 litters out of 109 purebred
Berkshire sows of the Oregon State University swine herd
during the years 1953 to 1960 inclusive were used in this
study. Genetic and environmental factors influencing
four components of reproductive performance, namely,...
In budding yeast, many of the genes that encode enzymes required for DNA precursor synthesis (MCB genes) are expressed under cell cycle control in late G1/S. The relationship between MCB gene expression, dNTP synthesis and DNA synthesis was investigated by using α factor-synchronized Saccharomyces cerevisiae. The levels of all four...
The field of geography has been transformed in recent years through the use of spatial tools such as geographic information systems (GIS) satellite and acoustic remote sensing, the global positioning system (GPS), Internet mapping and more. Studying geography and earth science in the digital age now requires a sophisticated and...
The purpose of the present study was to test the selfconcept
and store image congruency theory with an elderly
population. The self-concept and store image congruency
theory predicts that individuals patronize stores that they
perceive as having an image similar to their own self-concept
(Martineau, 1958). The present study specifically...
The development of new technologies in science is a balance between existence and use. There are three versions of this duality – something is built and users come, something is built and users don’t come, and, finally, potential users show up but the ballpark has not yet been built. In...
Only when all aspects of the German film industry of
the 1920's have been fully analyzed and understood will
"Weimar film" be truly comprehensible. Once this has been
achieved the study of this phenomenon will fulfill its potential
and provide accurate insights into the Weimar era.
Ambitious psychoanalytic studies of...