Summer mortality of farmed Pacific oysters causes financial losses for shellfish growers, and selective breeding to improve survival of offspring is a promising way to reduce losses. This dissertation has two objectives to assist the development of tools for use in selective breeding programs.
Objective 1: Identify candidate genes for...
Data attacks on state estimation modify part of system
measurements such that the tempered measurements cause
incorrect system state estimates. Attack techniques proposed
in the literature often require detailed knowledge of system
parameters. Such information is difficult to acquire in practice.
The subspace methods presented in this paper, on the...
The relative merits of the Fisher linear discriminant function
(Efron, 1975) and logistic regression procedure (Press and Wilson,
1978; McLachlan and Byth, 1979), applied to the two group
discrimination problem under conditions of multivariate normality and
common covariance, have been debated. In related research, DiPillo
(1976, 1977, 1979) has argued...
It is the purpose of this thesis to present a course of study in
general "Power Mechanics" which would enable the junior high school student
to understand the elementary principles of power generation and distribution,
and to appreciate the relationships of the use of power to our social order.
The...
Vibrio marinus MP-1, an obligate psychrophilic marine
bacterium, was severely damaged when heat-shocked in the presence
of nutrients. Thermally induced leakage materials from cells tested
for in the medium were 260 mμ absorbing material (nucleic acids),
orcinol reacting material (RNA), ninhydrin reacting material (amino
acids), protein, malic dehydrogenase, and glucose-6-phosphate...
The West Coast Demersal fishery in Western Australia includes some
highly prized recreational fish: dhufish, pink snapper and baldchin groper.
Following a recent assessment that found these stocks are under threat from
overfishing, a range of new regulations designed to restrict effort have been
introduced with the objective to facilitate...
