A market survey of aluminum users' purchasing
policies and the concept of opportunity costs are combined
in a quantitative decision model designed to
assist aluminum suppliers' efforts in directing products
and services improvements.
The opportunity cost, as the percentage of business
forgone, is determined for seven criteria representing
the products...
Spot fires caused by lofted embers (i.e., firebrands) can be a significant factor in the spread of wildland fires. Embers can be especially dangerous near the wildland-urban interface (WUI) because of the potential for the fire to be spread near or on structures. Many studies have investigated the transport of...
Gazing behavior is a vital part of nonverbal communication, as it can provide information about attentional state, subtext, environment, and point of view. Both dogs and cats have previously been shown to display gazing behavior when presented with an unsolvable task, as well as follow nonverbal directional ques given by...
Provides information about complexity of watersheds. Outlines ways to form partnerships, to develop strategies for enhancing watershed resources, and to implement enhancement projects.
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together
as a unit—an ecosystem or a watershed.
Watershed Soils, Erosion,
and Conservation
Hudson Minshew
Environmental swabs and meat samples from two of three seafood
processing plants sampled on the Oregon Coast were found to
contain Salmonella. Although these enteropathogens were not isolated
from the finished products, the danger of contamination is great
since the processing received by many seafoods is not designed to
yield...
The serological detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin A by the
quantitative technique of Laurell electroimmunodiffusion is described
as well as the application of the technique to the detection of small
quantities of enterotoxin A in foods.
High dilutions of type-specific rabbit antiserum were used in 1%
agarose gels, 1 mm thick,...