Rates of growth and the multiple factors affecting them are of primary concern to those involved with the production of food, both plant and animal, for human populations. Knowledge of critical factors influencing growth is of use in farming animals…

Note: Missing Page 155., Libertines of the seventeenth century vigorously disputed the conventional beliefs and systems of knowledge generally accepted in their time. Offspring of a time of transition in politics, religion and scientific knowledge, their individualism was formed and…

The theme of this thesis is the method of learning. At the beginning of section 11 of the Religio Medici, Browne writes, "In my solitary and retired imagination … I … forget not to contemplate his and his attributes ……

The impact of Euro-canadian civilization on the Algonkian speaking aborigines of the Province of Quebec poses many problems. sane of these problems, espeaially those involving changes in social organization and culture patterns are of interest to anthropologiste and other social…

For purposes of mechanistic study and structural assignment in organic chemistry it is often of great practical value to possess some knowledge concerning the basic strengths of various functional groups. The present work will concern itself primarily with a study…

The first isolation of free living nitrogen-fixing bacteria by Winogradsky and Beijerinck stimulated the attempts to assess the importance of non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation in the nitrogen economy of the soil. Most non-symbiotic nitrogen fixation investigations have been concerned with agricultural…

Miescher, who may be regarded as the founder of the knowledge of the chemistry of the cell nucleus, carried out his initial investigations on isolated pus nuclei obtained from discarded surgical bandages. He showed (1) that the nuclear material contained…

Numerous attempts have been made to classify the various types of lentic environments. None of the systems of classifying lakes, whether based on dissolved oxygen, thermal conditions, chironomid larvae or numerous other criteria, has been wholly successful, nor are they…

The study of the effects of sleep loss in animals has been a neglected area of research. If sleep is a basic need, then the deprivation of sleep, as the deprivation of any basic need, should lead to certain physiological…

This thesis concerns the question of intellectual loss in schizophrenia. To obtain evidence of such loss, the investigator must demonstrate that an individual with schizophrenia has a lower intelligence than he had at a time when the disorder was presumably…