[...] Since the Interest behind this project was to elucidate the physiology of insulin secretion and the light such knowledge might shed on the pathogenesis of diabetes mellitus 5t is proposed to review in the historical section the more significant…

The initial objeot of the research was to convert cellulose, a linear polymer, into branched-chain polymere of known constitution by condensing some of its free hydroxyl groups with acetobromoglucose, acetobromocellobiose, or acetobromocellodextrins. A comparison of the linear starting material and…

Written for the Dept. of Philosophy., Plato's Republic is essentially an ideal Republic. It is ideal in the sense that a rational polity would be in accord, when once established, with perfect knowledge and would resemble the divine pattern. Yet…

The seed hairs of the typha family (cat-tails) are easy to collect and appear to the eye to consist of cellulosic fibers of nearly uniform length radiating from a central stem. The object of the present Thesis was to review…

On all sides, one hears appeals to objectivity and exhortations to be objective. These admonitions are usually made by scientifically-minded people. Laudable as these appeals may be, they are sometimes so framed as to give the impression that objectivity is…

Fluid flow has been measured through almost every type of porous material. A considerable portion of these permeability studies has been directed towards the flow of gases through a bed of charcoal grains. The interest in gas flow through charcoal…

[...] The experiments to be presented in this thesis have been undertaken with the object of further studying the role played by the adrenal cortex in the protein metabolic changes following stress, as well as other factors which may have…

This paper describes some of the development work undertaken by the author on an electronic synchronous speed regulating system for the National Research Council of Canada. Its purpose is to show how a control system of this type may be…

Bone formation may be studied from two different aspects; the morphological, which reveals the existence of various modes of ossification, and the biochemical, which shows the deposition of calcium phosphate in all types of bones and teeth. The correlation of…

Trichinosis as a human disease has its roots in antiquity, but no positive knowledge of the nature of the disease was obtained until the 19th Century, with the discovery of the worm itself by James Paget, a first-year medical student…