This thesis examines the cultural context in which Japanese children are constructing their
own perspective of the environment because in the development of environmental education in
Japan, the perspectives of children and teachers have not been taken into consideration. Although
educators have made efforts to give direction to environmental education,...
The reactions of aldehydes with proteins are of nutritional and
physiological significance. The nutritive value of food materials can
be impaired by a reaction necessitating additional dietary protein,
and enzymes have been shown in vitro to be inhibited by reactions
with aldehydes.
Aldehydes present may arise from the autoxidation of...
Hatchery-reared salmonid fish routinely encounter stress due to
handling, barging, tagging, and overcrowding. It has been demonstrated that
there exists a direct correlation between stress and transient immune
suppression which can last for many days in fish. Epizootic viral infections
routinely appear in hatcheries and can have a devastating effect...
The interaction of polylysine with DNA may be divided into two
separate phenomena: the primary interaction involved in formation of
a well-defined complex, and secondary interactions leading to aggregation
of these complexes. Most studies on the interaction of polylysine
with DNA have used techniques which measure properties of
the aggregated...
A fluorescent dye, 1-dimethylaminonaphthalene-5-sulfonyl
chloride (dansyl chloride), was covalently bonded to polylysine. The
dansyl tagged polylysine was complexed to DNA by gradient dialysis.
The polarization and intensity of fluorescence of the dansyl and the
turbidity of the complex were measured as a function of salt concentration
for a variety of...