This thesis examines one aspect of social change in Nepal. Contact
with the outside world since 1951 has provided a non-traditional
means of achieving access to highly valued occupations, resulting in
the formation of an emerging elite. High caste status is no longer
absolutely necessary to gain access to education,...
The genotype frequencies of one-year-old oyster spat
(Crassostrea gigas) from parents of known genotype, are compared
to the frequencies expected with Mendelian inheritance. The genotypes
are characterized at three enzyme loci, Aspartate amino-transferase
(AAT), Phosphohexose isomerase (PHI) and Leucine
aminopeptidase (LAP), and a general protein locus. In this study
expression...