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The Isolation And Biochemical Characterization Of Basement Membrane Collagen From Limited Pepsin Digests Of Whole Placental Tissues., Thomas Francis Kresina Jan 1979

The Isolation And Biochemical Characterization Of Basement Membrane Collagen From Limited Pepsin Digests Of Whole Placental Tissues., Thomas Francis Kresina

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An Investigation Into The Mechanism Of Action Of H(1)-Histamine Receptor Antagonists On Histamine Release From Rat Peritoneal Cells., Donald Lawrence Denney Jan 1979

An Investigation Into The Mechanism Of Action Of H(1)-Histamine Receptor Antagonists On Histamine Release From Rat Peritoneal Cells., Donald Lawrence Denney

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An In Vitro Electrochemical Corrosion Study Of Coupled Surgical Implant Materials., Charles Durward Griffin Jan 1979

An In Vitro Electrochemical Corrosion Study Of Coupled Surgical Implant Materials., Charles Durward Griffin

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The use of surgical implants in the human body is common and increasing in frequency. The materials used in biological applications vary widely according to the specific conditions of use. In cases requiring high strength, resistance to fatigue and wear, the chosen material is often a metallic alloy. Regardless of the choice of materials, one of the major design criteria.is compatibility between the implant and the human body. Two of the basic phenomena of interest in observing the effect of implanted materials on tissues of the body are: the direct response of tissues adjacent to the implanted material, and the …


Acuity, Luminance And Monocular Deprivation In The Cat., Elizabeth Cates Smyly Jan 1979

Acuity, Luminance And Monocular Deprivation In The Cat., Elizabeth Cates Smyly

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Hubel and Wiesel (1970) described a "critical period" in the developing visual system of the cat extending from birth through the first three to four months of life based upon the ocular dominance condition of cortical neurons in monocularly deprived (MD) cats. Monocular deprivation during this period resulted in ocular dominance shifting in favor of the nondeprived eye. They determined that the effects of monocular deprivation were approximately proportional to the period of deprivation with a maximum sensitivity during the fourth and fifth week. After four months, cortical ocular dominance was found to be relatively immune to deprivation. Later physiological …


Regional Vulnerability Of The Non-Human Primate Brain To A Reduction In Blood Supply., Frank Williamson Marcoux Jan 1979

Regional Vulnerability Of The Non-Human Primate Brain To A Reduction In Blood Supply., Frank Williamson Marcoux

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To Love Of Useful Clory: Prince Henry The Navigator And The School At Sagres., Rebecca Mullins Jackson Jan 1979

To Love Of Useful Clory: Prince Henry The Navigator And The School At Sagres., Rebecca Mullins Jackson

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A casual observation of Europe just prior to the sixteenth century period of westward expansion and Renaissance gives the impression of a continent in an ignorant cocoon-like state of suspension between the glories of its past and the brilliance of its future.


The Relationship Between Religious Orientations And Levels Of Moral Judgment., Logan C. Jones Jan 1979

The Relationship Between Religious Orientations And Levels Of Moral Judgment., Logan C. Jones

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This paper will investigate the possible relationships between religious orientations and morality. While it is generally assumed that religion and morality are related, previous research has not supported this contention. The evidence to date indicates that only a slight or even negligible correlation exists between religion and morality (see Hartshorne and May, 1928; Kilpatrick, 1949; Black and London, 1966; Batson, 1976). This research has mainly concentrated on overt behaviors; for example, religion has been defined as the frequency of church attendance and morality has been defined in terms of altruism.


Postnatal Testicular Development In 3 Inbred Strains Of Mice., John Howard Wilters Jan 1979

Postnatal Testicular Development In 3 Inbred Strains Of Mice., John Howard Wilters

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A large amount of genetic variability exists in the size and functional characteristics of male gonads between strains of inbred mice (Shire and Bartke, 1972; Hayward, 1973: Eleftheriou and Lucas, 1974). Shire and Bartke noted marked variations in both the absolute and relative postnatal testicular weights in 11 strains from 56 to 112 days of age. The relative weight (mg of testes/100g of body weight) increased for most strains. The DBA/2J strain increased by 123mg, the C57BL/6J by 84mg and the AKR/J strain by only 45mg. The C57BL/10J strain however was unique in that it showed a decrease of 235mg …


Regulation Of Epstein-Barr Virus Early Antigen Expression In Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines Containing Different Numbers Of Intrinsic Viral Genomes., Bodil Inger Maria Lidin Jan 1979

Regulation Of Epstein-Barr Virus Early Antigen Expression In Human Lymphoblastoid Cell Lines Containing Different Numbers Of Intrinsic Viral Genomes., Bodil Inger Maria Lidin

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Nerve Growth Factor Synthesis By Cultured Cells Of The Vascular Wall., John Philip Naftel Jan 1979

Nerve Growth Factor Synthesis By Cultured Cells Of The Vascular Wall., John Philip Naftel

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Molecular-Cellular Interactions In The Secretory Immune Response., Sylvia Sizemore Crago Jan 1979

Molecular-Cellular Interactions In The Secretory Immune Response., Sylvia Sizemore Crago

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Studies On Purine Biosynthesis De Novo: Folate Coenzyme Requirements And Nucleotide Intermediates Of The Final Two Reactions., Joseph Edmund Baggott Jan 1979

Studies On Purine Biosynthesis De Novo: Folate Coenzyme Requirements And Nucleotide Intermediates Of The Final Two Reactions., Joseph Edmund Baggott

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Behaviors Of First-Time Fathers At The Time Of Their Initial Acquaintance With Their Infants., Janice Templeton Gay Jan 1979

Behaviors Of First-Time Fathers At The Time Of Their Initial Acquaintance With Their Infants., Janice Templeton Gay

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Nanosecond Pulse Fluorimetry Of Immunoglobulin A And Membrane Vesicles., Bang Maw Liu Jan 1979

Nanosecond Pulse Fluorimetry Of Immunoglobulin A And Membrane Vesicles., Bang Maw Liu

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The Effect Of Progressive Relaxation Training On The Incidence Of Health And Psychological Changes In Groups Who Have Experienced Life Events Changes., Phyllis Brewer Graves Jan 1979

The Effect Of Progressive Relaxation Training On The Incidence Of Health And Psychological Changes In Groups Who Have Experienced Life Events Changes., Phyllis Brewer Graves

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Properties Of N-Species Volterra Systems Satisfying The Riccati Restriction., Grace Marie Buettner Jan 1979

Properties Of N-Species Volterra Systems Satisfying The Riccati Restriction., Grace Marie Buettner

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The Comparison Of Ethidium Bromide With Its Photoreactive Azide Analogs., David E. Graves Jan 1979

The Comparison Of Ethidium Bromide With Its Photoreactive Azide Analogs., David E. Graves

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Immunoregulatory Effects Of Serum Lipoproteins., Kuo-Hom Lee Hsu Jan 1979

Immunoregulatory Effects Of Serum Lipoproteins., Kuo-Hom Lee Hsu

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Simulation Strategies: A Theoretical And Practical Investigation., James William Hooper Jan 1979

Simulation Strategies: A Theoretical And Practical Investigation., James William Hooper

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Role Of Rna Synthesis In Conjugational Transfer Of Chromosomal And Plasmid Dna., Larry James Maturin Jan 1979

Role Of Rna Synthesis In Conjugational Transfer Of Chromosomal And Plasmid Dna., Larry James Maturin

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Treatment For The Reduction Of Fears In Young Dental Patients., Leesa Kay Rogers Jan 1979

Treatment For The Reduction Of Fears In Young Dental Patients., Leesa Kay Rogers

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Age Differences In Judging The Frequency Of Events., Sheila Ann Mitchell Jan 1979

Age Differences In Judging The Frequency Of Events., Sheila Ann Mitchell

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It is generally recognized by layman and scientist alike that memory functioning decreases to some extent due to aging. Most of the available literature focuses on age changes in memory with respect to storage and retrieval deficits. However, a lack of evidence exists related to some of the more basic characteristics of memory decline due to aging.


Behavioral And Neurochemical Effects Of Neonatal Administration Of Monosodium L-Glutamate In The Mouse., Ralph Jr Dawson Jan 1979

Behavioral And Neurochemical Effects Of Neonatal Administration Of Monosodium L-Glutamate In The Mouse., Ralph Jr Dawson

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Hetherington and Ranson (1940) demonstrated that small bilateral lesions in the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus. (VMH) produce overeating and obesity. Their observation served to focus attention on the central nervous system (CNS) as the site of systems that regulate food intake.


Improved Calculation And Display For Dose Distributions Associated With Intrauterine Radiotherapy., Nora Chan-Chi Lin Jan 1979

Improved Calculation And Display For Dose Distributions Associated With Intrauterine Radiotherapy., Nora Chan-Chi Lin

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A computer program has been developed for dose distribution calculations associated with an intrauterine applicator. The program reconstructs the exact source positions from two orthogonal x-ray projections. The dosages delivered to reference points A and B are calculated. In addition, isodose curves are constructed on selected planes from which approximate three-dimensional dose distributions can be reconstructed.


Design And Analysis Of Refractive Optical Systems For Irradiance Redistribution Of Collimated Radiation., Patrick Walter Rhodes Jan 1979

Design And Analysis Of Refractive Optical Systems For Irradiance Redistribution Of Collimated Radiation., Patrick Walter Rhodes

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Lens systems that modify the irradiance distribution of a collimated beam of radiation are useful primarily in applications involving laser beams. Since a laser is a source of high intensity, coherent, monochromatic light, a number of diverse applications for lasers have been suggested. However, the laser beam does not have uniform distribution of light intensity across its diameter and there are many cases where this is a severe drawback.


The Tensor Analyzing Power In Deuteron-Proton Reaction With The Weakly Bound Projectile Model., Chang-Shung Tung Jan 1979

The Tensor Analyzing Power In Deuteron-Proton Reaction With The Weakly Bound Projectile Model., Chang-Shung Tung

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The computer program developed previously for calculating the predictions of the Weakly Bound Projectile model for (d,p) and (d,n) reactions on spin-zero target nuclei, has been modified to calculate the angular distributions for tensor analyzing components T20 and T22. Comparison has been made with the measured values for the reactions 52Cr(d,p)53cr (ground state, Jn = 3/2, Ï€=-1, Q = 5.719 MeV) and 52Cr(d,p)53cr (first excited state, Jn = 1/2, Ï€ = -1, Q = 5.149 MeV) to study the Jn dependence of the calculated analyzing power, to test the n model, and to determine the dependence of the calculations on …


Conservatism In Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920., Larry Patrick Battles Jan 1979

Conservatism In Transition: American Conservative Social Thought, 1860 - 1920., Larry Patrick Battles

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It required little perceptiveness to call this a period of transition. In a sense, all periods are transitional. Seldom, however, has the transition been so pronounced and the participants so acutely aware that they were living through a transition. Prior to 1860, as Wiebe put it, Americans lived in "island communities:" small, isolated, relatively homogeneous populations comfortable in their assumptions about the world and confident of their universal applicability.


Encoding By Children, Acoustic Or Semantic., Sara Akin Renard Jan 1979

Encoding By Children, Acoustic Or Semantic., Sara Akin Renard

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Underwood (1969) conceptualized memory for a word as involving the retention of a collection of attributes. Different types of encoded information are represented by these attributes, which serve to discriminate one memory from another. The attributes which are established as a memory during learning, may vary as a function of age.


The Effect Of Learning On The Perception Of Orthographic Symbols., Trudy J. Frey Jan 1979

The Effect Of Learning On The Perception Of Orthographic Symbols., Trudy J. Frey

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The process of reading requires that an efficient transition be made from a visual symbol to a word name and to its meaning. For most adults this process is relatively easy. The experienced reader does not have to consciously spell out every letter or word to arrive at the meaning of a sentence; however, the case is different for children who are learning to read. The translation from a visual symbol to a word name and its meaning is a seemingly difficult one.


The Synthesis Of C-Aryl-18-Nor-Steroids From Resin Acids And Their Derivatives., Ali Abd El-Salam Gawish Jan 1979

The Synthesis Of C-Aryl-18-Nor-Steroids From Resin Acids And Their Derivatives., Ali Abd El-Salam Gawish

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Our interest in the conversion of a resin acid to a C-aryl-18-nor-steroid was to see if this class of compounds could compete as starting materials in the medicinal chemistry field. Since resin acid derivatives are rather inexpensive compared to steroid systems, the economics seemed attractive.In order to cyclize a ring D onto the resin acid skeleton, it was important to convert the isopropyl group to an acetyl group. To achieve this goal, the Tahara modification of the Sanderson oxidation of dehydroabietonitrile was applied, to yield the 7-oxo-13-acetyl dehydroabietonitrile and the 7-oxo-13-isopropenyl derivative.Treating the diketone with formaldehyde and dimethylamine hydro-chloride, yielded …