Since the discovery that glycerol, a trihydroxy alcohol, would provide protection for spermatozoa during the freezing and thawing process, many questions have arisen concerning its metabolism and mode of action. Most of ...

"In this study, no attempt is made to try to determine how many beginning farmers are needed as replacements each year, or how to keep young people on the farm. Attention is centered on the procedures that have been used ...

"It is the purpose of this paper to actually evaluate the effectiveness of such as method as a measure of animal improvement; to determine if these phenotypic comparisons can actually foretell the final value of an animal, ...

"Has the fight against beef cattle dwarfism progressed? Are methods now available whereby the breeder can enjoy a "dwarf-free" production program? These questions are examples of those frequently encountered by the animal ...

"A purpose of this study is to determine the effectiveness of the various local markets in reflecting to cotton producers the average price level prevailing for cotton, and in reflecting central market premiums and discounts ...

"Bernarr Macfadden has often been written up in magazines and newspapers, and he has been the subject of a handful of biographies. This is not hard to understand when one learns something about the man. Macfadden was a ...

The conodonts of a previously unrecognized Upper Devonian formation, the Holts Summit, are unusually abundant and include unique forms which have not been elsewhere reported from strata of North America. An assemblage from ...

"The purpose of this investigation is to make an exploratory study of certain phases of a Japanese translation of Huckleberry Finn, in order (1) to find the method used in the translation; (2) to determine the qualities ...

"The objectives are to determine adequacy of present storage facilities by Crop Reporting Districts and to provide information for decisions relative to location, capacity, type, remodeling, and rebuilding of country ...

"The purpose of this study is two-fold. One is to present facts about the present conditions of the Chinese press on Taiwan whereupon the Republic of China is based. The other is to evaluate the development and limitations ...

"The purpose of the study which will be described in the following pages is to analyze the content of the Missouri state teletypesetter wire, and to see what use is made of it by the sixteen afternoon dailies it serves."--Page2

Foraminifera were examined in 159 samples cut from 23 piston c ores collected in the vicinity of Horn Island, Mississippi. The age of the oldest marine sediment cored is approximately 5000 years . The following data on ...

"Agricultural products in storage are often subject to serious attacks by insects. Insect damage to various stored materials constitutes an old problem and a considerable amount of research has been devoted to it...the ...

"Since magnesium has been involved in temperature studies and hibernation, the present study is an attempt to ascertain the levels of magnesium in serum and various tissues of rats exposed to cold for prolonged periods and ...

"The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of different levels of two types of fat on cellulose diges tion in lambs on a poor quality roughage. Methionine hydroxy analogue, the alpha keto acid of methionine, ...

Till-fabric analyses were made at five stations, three in Farmdale till, one in Farmdale drift too sandy and sorted to be termed till, and one in Illinoian till for comparison. Local inferrred ice-flow directions were ...

"The present study is designed to follow the course of the electrophoretic pattern of the serum proteins and water extractable muscle proteins during cold acclimatization. Body weight changes and body temperatures were ...

The design, construction, and operation of an electronically controlled expansion cloud chamber to detect soft showers produced by mu-mesons is described. The cloud chamber is sued in conjunction with a Geiger-tube telescope ...

"The major effect of the barbiturates is depression of the central nervous system, but the way in which these drugs exert their effect is not yet well understood...As the biochemical functions of the cell and its various ...

"The objective of this thesis then, is to determine if the enzyme glucose-6-phosphate phosphatase can be demonstrated in frog intestinal mucosa, and the determine the optimum conditions for its study."--Page 6