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Effect Of Cis-Trans Isomers And Related Physical Properties Of Monounsaturated Lipids On Shortening Power, Aneta Joyce Ostrander

Doctoral Dissertations

The effect of cis-trans isomers on the shortening power of lipids was investigated. Lipid samples studied included: a commercial vegetable oil (control), oleic acid, elaidinized triolein, two samples in which elaidinized oleic acid was substituted at different levels for oleic acid, and two samples in which elaidinized triolein was substituted at different levels for triolein. Breaking strengths of plain pastry wafers were used for estimating the shortening power. Melting point, surface tension, interfacial tension and viscosity measurements were made on the lipid samples. Lipid composition analyses included gas-liquid and thin-layer chromatography.

Except at the 100 percent level of substitution, wafers …

Experimental Zoogeography Of Islands, Daniel Simberloff, Edward O. Wilson

Doctoral Dissertations

A technique for insular defaunation utilizing methyl bromide fumigation was evolved. Seven islands in Florida Bay, of varying distance and direction from potential zoogeographic source areas were censused exhaustively. The small size (45 ft. diameter) and ecological simplicity of these islands, which consist solely of red mangrove (Rhizophora mangle) trees with no supratidal ground, allowed the determination of all resident species. The completeness of the censuses was corroborated by chloropicrin fumigation. The breeding land fauna of these islands is composed almost exclusively of terrestrial arthropods, with 20-50 species usually present. Surveys of these taxa in the Florida Keys, with emphasis …