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Production Of Monoclonal Antibody To Avian Adenovirus-Associated Virus For Detection Of Latent Infection, Theresa Helen Piela

Open Access Dissertations

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Fundy Tidal Power: A Need To Reassess The Environmental Framework Protecting The Transboundary Environment, Robert W. Rudolph

Marine Affairs Theses and Major Papers

The concept of harnessing the tides for energy is receiving renewed attention in the maritime provinces of Canada and northeastern United States where a scarcity of indigenous energy resources exists. While proposals for several small tidal power facilities are being considered in Maine, in Canada, Nova Scotia officials are moving ahead with plans for a major tidal power project (4,028 MW) in the Minas Basin in the Bay of Fundy. The vast majority of the power generated from this facility is expected to be exported to the New York and New England areas which have a greater energy demand that …

Resistance Of Escherichia Coli To Bicozamycin, Mittri Luksniyanont

Open Access Dissertations

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The Mechanism Of Inactivation Of Chemotactic Factor C5a By Normal Porcine Sera, Dominick Arthur Iacuzio

Open Access Dissertations

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The Residential Market For Fuelwood In Rhode Island: Demand, Supply And Policy Implications (Household Production, Logit, Discrete-Choice, Wood Heat, Wood-Burning), John Mackenzie

Open Access Dissertations

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Determination Of Iodine In Bread And Fish Using The Iodide Ion-Selective Electrode, Joanne Burkhart Steiner

Open Access Dissertations

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Nutritional Evaluation Of Products Prepared From Composite Flours Containing Wheat Breadfruit And Soy Bean, Peanut Or Whey Protein Flours, Carmen L. Fraser Nochera

Open Access Dissertations

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Effects Of Magnetic Field Cycles On The Circadian Activity Rhythm Of The House Sparrow, Passer Domesticus (Geomagnetic, Entrainment, Relative Coordination, Masking, Free-Running), Randall G. Van Dragt

Open Access Dissertations

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Drug- Cyclodextrin Inclusion Compounds. Studies Of The Formulation Of Pharmaceutical Products Containing Cyclodextrins., Ramachandra P. Hegde

Open Access Dissertations

Interaction of beta-cyclodextrin with ampicillin, phenobarbitone, and phenytoin was studied and complexation was observed with all three drugs. Analytical methods for the quantification of these drugs were validated. In order to obtain an inclusion compound in the solid powdered form, a variety of methods (freeze drying, spray drying, kneading, and solvent evaporation) was evaluated. Among these methods freeze drying was the most feasible and reproducible method from a laboratory scale to a pilot scale and to the manufacturing level. Methods using an industrial model freeze drier were developed which resulted in an increase in yield from 53% to more than …

Cycle Of Changing Abundances In The Fishes Of The Narragansett Bay Area, Harry Perry Jeffries, Mark Terceiro

Graduate School of Oceanography Faculty Publications

Winter flounder Pseudopleuronectes americanus in Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island reached peak abundance in 1968 and then went into an 8 yr decline, dropping to 1/7 of its former population size, as estimated form weekly tows by otter trawl. Meanwhile a succession of species increased offshore: red hake Urophycis chuss became the commercial dominant in 1973, the ocean pout Macrozoarces americanus and silver hake Merluccius bilinearis in 1974, but among these coastal migrants only scup Stenotomus chrysops entered the bay in substantial numbers. By 1976 scup had increased 25 times in the bay, numerically overshadowing the flounder’s 8 yr decline. A …

Uri Undergraduate Course Catalog 1985-1986, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island Undergraduate Course Catalog.

Uri Graduate School Course Catalog 1985-1986, University Of Rhode Island

URI Course Catalogs Archive

This is a digitized, downloadable version of the University of Rhode Island Graduate School Course Catalog.

Factors Influencing Food Habits In Antigua, W.I., Jill E. Armstrong

Open Access Dissertations

A cross-cultural food habit model constructed after review of available literature was used as a guide for investigating food habit determinants. A food habit survey was conducted in Antigua, W.I. in December, 1981 and January, 1982 to test the model. Data collected by questionnaire from 305 households included household food purchase and production, food consumption via 24-hour recall and food frequency, food-related beliefs and socioeconomic characteristics of respondents and household members. Results showed that the Antiguan diet is starch-based and that, despite crop production by about two-thirds of the households sampled, many diets appeared to be deficient in selected fruit …

An Investigation Of The Effect Of Holocaust Survivor Parents On Their Children, Cynthia Budick

Open Access Dissertations

Studies of the Holocaust have shown that the Concentration Camp victims were traumatized in so massive a fashion as to make a permanent and irreversible change in their character.

The purpose of the present research was to make a direct inquiry into whether the character traits and symptoms of the survivors had an effect on character structure and personality of their children. Further, it was an attempt to distinguish two groups of survivors' children: children of survivors who were adolescents in the Concentration Camps and children of survivors who were adults in the Concentration Camps.

The subjects in this study …

Causal Inferences Among Perceived Work And Nonwork Stress And Satisfaction, And Psychological Distress: Empirical Tests Of Path-Analytic Models, Jocelyn J. Johnson

Open Access Dissertations

The present investigation was designed to integrate work and nonwork domains in the study of perceived stress, satisfaction, and psychological distress. Causal inferences among perceived work and nonwork stress and satisfaction, and psychological distress were determined by empirically testing two basic path-analytic models depicting causal relationships among those variables.

Data were obtained from a sample of 105 female clerical workers on five variables (work stress, nonwork stress, work satisfaction, nonwork satisfaction, and psychological distress) and support for the contention that work and nonwork domains are interdependent was found. Nonwork variables contributed more to perceived psychological distress than work factors.

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Evaluating The Economic And Environmental Effects Of Pretreatment Standards On The Upper Narragansett Bay Region (Cost-Effective, Bubble, Rhode Island, Copper), Richard Michael Kashmanian

Open Access Dissertations

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An Investigation Of The Effect Of Some Formulation And Manufacturing Variables On The Wet Granulation Process, Sambasiva Rao Ghanta

Open Access Dissertations

A Hobart mixer was instrumented with a slip ring torque sensor, signals were amplified and the output was recorded using a Bascom-Turner recorder. The relative dynamic torque on the paddle was measured in millivolts as a function of granulating fluid added and time. The data generated from a formulation containing lactose, corn starch and povidone were reproducible. The maximum relative standard deviation was less than two percent at any time point on the torque curve. Formulations containing lactose, dicalcium phosphate and mannitol matrices (with four different drugs) shoed five distinct phases in the torque profile. Phases I, II, and III …

Time-Series Modeling: Applications To Long-Term Finfish Monitoring Data (Harmonic, Impact, Regression, Assessment, Power-Plant), Linda Eberhardt Bireley

Open Access Dissertations

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Fisheries Management Under Stochastic Conditions: A Bioeconomic Simulator Of The New England Groundfish Fishery, Dominique Francois Greboval

Open Access Dissertations

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Some Factors Related To Self-Esteem In Women (Mother-Daughter Relationship), Robin H. Hasenfeld

Open Access Dissertations

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Cognitive And Learning Processes In Children With Down Syndrome (Assessment), Siegfried M. Pueschel

Open Access Dissertations

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Rate And Stoichiometry Of Nutrient Remineralization In An Anoxic Estuary, The Pettaquamscutt River (Rhode Island, U.S.A.) (Sulfate Reduction, Regeneration, United States), Patrick Fernand Roques

Open Access Dissertations

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Discrimination And Classification Of Striped Bass Stocks (Mixed, Isoelectric Focusing, Linear Functions, Morphometrics, Stock Composition, Connecticut, New York, Rhode Island), Mary C. Fabrizio

Open Access Dissertations

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Studies Of The Formulation Of Pharmaceutical Products Containing Cyclodextrins, Ramachandra P. Hegde

Open Access Dissertations

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The Impact Of Atmospheric Aerosols On Trace Metal Chemistry In Open Ocean Surface Seawater, Hal Barton Maring

Open Access Dissertations

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Descriptive Community Dynamics: Background And An Application To Tropical Fisheries Management (Philippines), John William Mcmanus

Open Access Dissertations

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Factors Controlling Short Term Variations In Marine Bacterial Populations, Michael Edward Sieracki

Open Access Dissertations

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Size, Development Of Pigment, Upstream Migration, And Relative Abundance Of Young American Eels, Anguilla Rostrata In A Coastal Rhode Island Stream, Alexander J. Haro

Open Access Master's Theses

Progressive epidermal pigmentation of Anguilla rostrata elvers in a coastal Rhode Island stream was essentially identical to that described for A. anguilla, and proceeded rapidly in freshwater. Earlier arriving elvers averaged larger than those arriving later in the season, paralleling studies of European elvers. Mean total lengths of elvers collected in 1984 were significantly greater than those for 1983 and are the largest recorded for the Western North Atlantic. These differences may be due to sampling technique. Migration of elvers into freshwater may be induced by decreasing flow rates and/or increasing stream temperatures. The relatively slow upstream migration of …

Effect Of Temperature And Packaging Material On Vitamin A And Riboflavin In Milk, Abdulaziz Ahmed Al-Zawawi

Open Access Master's Theses

The effect of different heating times and temperatures and packaging on vitamin A and riboflavin retention was studied in whole and skim milk. Refrigerated storage (40C) in the dark for 15 days resulted in losses of vitamin A ranging from 9-12% in pasteurized whole milk, and 14% in pasteurized skim milk fortified with vitamins A and D. Riboflavin losses did not exceed 8 % • Vitamin A was also more labile than riboflavin when stored at room temperature ( 230C) • ' Vitamin A was retained better in whole milk than in skim milk where there was no protection from …

The Role Of Individual Sewage Disposal System Regulations In Land Use Planning: An Application For Carrying Capacity Analysis, Russell A. Deconti

Open Access Master's Theses

This paper attempts to define the role of current individual sewage disposal system (ISDS) programs as they relate to the overall land development process. Specifically, the focus is on residential development with emphasis given to the criteria used to determine site suitability. Two state programs, Rhode Island and New Hampshire, will be evaluated in this manner in order to provide some insight into the scope of this type of regulation and its potential impact on development. To demonstrate the effect of each program on residential land use, a case study of a Rhode Island subdivision proposal is included. This discussion …