Stress associated with gaining admission to first-choice colleges has increased
dramatically during the past decade in Taiwan (Republic of China) and has become a process
charged with anxiety. The purpose of this study was to explore the impact of college
entrance exams upon student well-being, based upon the assumption that...
Records of 889 litters of three populations of swine farrowed
between 1962 and 1973 were analyzed by least squares procedures.
Estimates were obtained for the effects of age and inbreeding of dam,
inbreeding of litter, inbreeding of dam's dam and inbreeding of the
sire of the litter on litter size...
Twelve chemicals (Busan 72, Chloropicrin, Dacthal, Dexon,
Duter, EP 161, Lanstan, Methyl bromide, Phaltan, Vapam, Vidden D,
Vorlex) were tested to determine their effect on populations of certain
important soil-borne microorganisms including the onion pink root
fungus Pyrenochaeta terrestris. The soil used was from a field in
Malheur County, Oregon...
Papain-like leader proteases are found in diverse families of human, animal, plant, and fungal positive-strand RNA viruses. In addition to autocatalytic processing, these proteases play a variety of roles in the virus life cycle. In particular, the leader protease (L-Pro) of a prototype member of the Closterovirus genus, Beet yellows...
The effects of hydrogen sulfide (H2S) on storage quality, cellular water distribution, and cell wall metabolism of strawberry fruit after subjected to shelf or cold storage were investigated. Fruit were fumigated with a range of aqueous NaHS solution (0.4-3.2 mmol/L), then stored at 20 degrees C for 3 d or...
The need to understand the oyster consumption patterns has become a more and more important issue for Australian marketers today due to the dramatic increase of oyster production. This study sought to gain an insight into the influence of the different demographic characteristics on the consumer attitudes towards oysters. The...
The peptidyl nucleoside blasticidin S (BS) isolated from Streptomyces griseochromogenes was the first non-mercurial fungicide used on a large scale to prevent rice blast. In the biosynthesis of BS, leucylblasticidin S (LBS) was suggested as the penultimate metabolite with 20-fold less inhibitory activity than the final product BS. Incomplete conversion...
The peptidyl nucleoside blasticidin S (BS) isolated from Streptomyces griseochromogenes was the first non-mercurial fungicide used on a large scale to prevent rice blast. In the biosynthesis of BS, leucylblasticidin S (LBS) was suggested as the penultimate metabolite with 20-fold less inhibitory activity than the final product BS. Incomplete conversion...
