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Biology and distribution of staphylinid beetles associated with bovine feces in south central Texas
(1985)
The staphylinid fauna of a south central Texas pasture was identified. Species composition were compared in two habitats; open and wooded pasture. Over 27,000 specimens of Staphylinidae were captured during a field study ...
Implications of the emerging revolution in American education on special education
(1985)
Objectives of this study included identifying the potential effects of educational reforms in the United States on three areas of special education: funding; instruction; and the graduation from high school by handicapped ...
A biosystematic study of the genus Erioneuron Nash (Poaceae, eragrostideae)
(1985)
A biosystematic treatment was made of the New World genus Erioneuron. Materials for morphological, electrophoretic, anatomical, and cytological studies were collected from naturally occurring populations, and from herbarium ...
Factors involved in oviposition by the egg parasitoid Telenomus heliothidis (Hymenoptera : scelionidae)
(1985)
When a parasitoid forages for hosts, it must decide (1) where to search for and how to recognize hosts (2) which hosts to parasitize, (3) what sex ratio to produce and (4) how many eggs to lay. Various aspects of these ...
Metaphor, motif, and the moment : form and human relationships in Laurence Stern's Tristram Shandy, James Joyce's Ulysses, and John Barth's Lost in the funhouse
(1985)
Without defining another subgenre of the novel, this study calls the centripetal/centrifugal, open-ended forms of Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, James Joyce's Ulysses, and John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse, encyclopaedic ...
Asymptotic expansions of the distributions of test statistics for the slope in a simple linear functional relationship
(1985)
A set of multivariate observations is said to satisfy a linear functional relationship if their mean values satisfy a linear relationship. The objective of this research is to investigate the distributional properties of ...
Reactions of sudangrass accessions to maize dwarf mosaic virus strain A and strain B
(1985)
Seventy-nine sudangrass (Sorghum sudanense (Piper) Stapf.) accessions obtained from foreign and domestic sources were inoculated with maize dwarf mosaic virus strains A and B. Sudangrass accessions were evaluated both in ...
Chromosomal aberrations in resident small mammals at a petrochemical waste dump site : a natural model for analysis of environmental mutagenesis
(1985)
Small mammals of two species (Peromyscus leucopus and Sigmodon hispidus) were trapped at a locality polluted with a complex mixture of petrochemical waste products, heavy metals, and PCB's, and from two matched, uncontaminated ...
Effect of carbon dioxide enrichment on diffusive resistance for gas exchange, water use, and water use efficiency of greenhouse tomatoes
(1985)
Three adjacent ventilated mini-greenhouses (MGH) made of clear polyethylene film, transmitting natural solar radiation, were enclosed in a conventional inflated polyethylene greenhouse. In each MGH, an equal number of ...
Studies of cross-strain protection between two strains of Babesia microti and the effects of several immunomodulators on these two strains
(1985)
Mice were infected with a non-lethal strain of Babesia microti and challenged with a lethal strain of B. microti, 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks post-infection. At all times tested the mice were protected ...