In regions where soil temperatures limit plant growth, artificial
soil warming may be an economically feasible practice. This hypothesis
was evaluated in a soil warming experiment near Corvallis, Oregon.
This experiment was prompted by the observation that multiple
use of waste heat discharged in the condenser cooling water of thermal...
To learn more about the role β-galactosidase plays in rate of
acid production in milk by lactic acid bacteria, several lactobacilli
were examined for this enzyme. Cells from different species were
grown in lactose broth to induce β-galactosidase activity. The specific
activities of whole, solvent treated cells, and of cell-free...
Flood plain regulations are one of six major adjustments
used to cope with flood hazard in the United States. This adjustment
was essentially neglected in the national flood hazard policies
until Congress enacted the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968.
The implementation of regulations, as called for in the Act,...
A simple matrix method for the analysis of protein circular dichroism (CD) spectra is presented and used to compute the secondary structure of globular proteins in their native and denatured states. The method uses singular value decomposition and generalized inverse algorithms, and a basis set of CD spectra for proteins...
The surface wind and stress responses to sea surface temperature (SST) are examined using collocated moored buoy and satellite observations in the Gulf Stream and the eastern equatorial Pacific. Using 17 buoy pairs, differences in the wind speed, 10-m equivalent neutral wind speed (ENW), and surface wind stress magnitude between...