The microorganisms present determine to a great extent the quality of cured meat. Some of them may have unfavorable effects on the color and flavor, whereas others are known to have beneficial effects on these quality factors.
Yeasts, bacilli, and streptococci were found to be predominately present in a cover...
PART I. The concentration of nickel in some soils may be
insufficient to meet the requirements of enzymes such as
urease in soybeans and hydrogenase in Rhizobium. Nickel
availability in soils was examined by measuring microbial
urease activity in soils which were treated with glucose
and urea. Supplemental nickel was...
The effects of vertical ground motion are particularly significant
in the design of highway bridge girders. Conventional codes do
not recommend methods for solving the problem. The intent of this
work is to suggest an approach for such design.
A set of curves for velocity spectra which are the average...
This thesis presents a matrix analysis of structures
with semirigid connections. The stiffness factor of a
connection has been assumed to be a constant as represented
by the initial relationship of moment versus
rotation. Three cases are considered: Case I - structures
with semirigid connections, column width and beam
depth...
Three species of bacteriophagous nematodes, Pristionchus
lheritieri (Maupas) Paramanov, Pelodera chitwoodi (Bassen)
Dougherty and Rhabditis sp. were studied to determine their potential
roles as vectors of selected insect pathogens, Bacillus thuringiensis
Berliner, Beauveria bassiana (Balsamo) Vuillemin, Metarrhizium
anisopliae (Metchnikoff) Sorokin and a nuclear polyhedrosis
virus of Trichoplusia ni Hubner.
Chlorine...
The conventional method for structural design of wood-joist
floors is over-simplified and often results in stronger and stiffer
floors than necessary. There is also a need to include in the floor
design additional criteria dealing with human response to floor vibration
such as that due to walking.
This study develops...
The mean square displacement response of a point on a transmission
line conductor that is subjected to wind gust generated lift forces is
computed. The wind gust velocity and wind gust generated lift forces
are treated as random processes in both time and space. A lift force,
that is velocity...
The primary purpose of this investigation was to determine the
conditions necessary for the preparation of cell-free extracts of
nodule bacteroids capable of catalysing the reduction of acetylene to
ethylene and nitrogen to ammonia. Initial investigations were conducted
to determine whether intact soybean root nodules would reduce
acetylene to ethylene...