Quantitative data on the feeding of Cyclops strenuus Fischer and Cyclops viridis Jurine. [Translation from: Trudy saratov.Otd.vses.nauchno-issled.Inst.ozer.rech.ryb.Khoz. 1, 163-176, 1951.]

Cyclopids, exactly in the same way as daphnids, significant component in the nutrition of plankton-f and the young of the majority of fishes. It is established that the food spectrum of cyclopids is extremely broad: daphnids, planarians, Copepodite stages of copepods (cannibalism), rotifers, protists, bacteria, phytoplankton and so on. It is clear that the problem of studying these or other components of feeding in the general food spectrum can be definitely resolved only after obtaining exact quantitative data on the feeding of cyclopids. This article attempts to fill the gap in the study of the quantitative side of the feeding of cyclopias; in it is investigated the size of the 24-hour ration of cyclopids feeding on protists, the dependence of the ration on some factors of the external medium, and the difference of 24-hour consumption per unit weight of tody with two species of cyclopids (Cyclops strenuus and Cyclops viridis)

Feasibility of search for nuclear electric dipole moments at ion storage rings

The sensitivity much better than $10^{-24} e$ cm may be expected in the searches for electric dipole moments (EDM) of $\beta$-active nuclei at ion storage rings. It would be a serious progress in studies of the CP-violation problem.Comment: 9 pages, latex, no figure

Income Risk and Welfare Status of Rural Households in Nigeria: Ekiti State as a Test Case

income risk, welfare status, social indicators, Ekiti State, rural households

Botulism in fowls : types a and c, commonly called limberneck

"A brief statement of the cause of botulism in poultry, how it may be recognized in a flock, and how it may be combated."--Cover.Cover title

On Quantization of Black Holes

A simple argument is presented in favour of the equidistant spectrum in semiclassical limit for the horizon area of a black hole. The following quantization rules for the mass $M_N$ and horizon area $A_{Nj}$ are proposed: M_N = m_p [N(N+1)]^{1/4}; A_{Nj} = 8\pi l_p^2 [\sqrt{N(N+1)} + \sqrt{N(N+1) - j(j+1)} ]. Here both $N$ and $j$ are nonnegative integers or half-integers.Comment: 4 pages, late

Comment on ``Proton Polarization Shifts in Electronic and Muonic Hydrogen''

We demonstrate that criticisms concerning our work nucl-th/9704043, made in the recent preprint hep-ph/9903352, are unfounded. The improvements over our results claimed in hep-ph/9903352 are in fact spurious, being based mainly on misunderstandings and on dubious theoretical models.Comment: 3 pages, latex, no figures, corrected style of references in abstrac

A model of job choice, labour supply and wages

Macroeconomic Models;Labour Market;labour economics

Lepton asymmetries and the growth of cosmological seed magnetic fields

Primordial cosmological hypermagnetic fields polarize the early Universe plasma prior to the electroweak phase transition (EWPT). As a result of the long range parity violating gauge interaction present in the Standard Model their magnitude gets amplified, opening a new, perturbative way, of accounting for the observed intergalactic magnetic fields.Comment: 4 pages, no figures, final published version available online at http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1029-8479/2008/03/06

GIS Application to Support Land Administration Services in Ghana: Institutional Factors and Software Developments

In June 1999, the Ghanaian Government launched a new land policy document that sought to address some fundamental problems associated with land administration and management in the country. The document identified the weak land administration system as a particular problem and recommended the introduction of computer-aided information systems in the ‘lands sector’. In 2001, the Government made further proposals to prepare and implement a Land Administration Programme (LAP) to provide a better platform for evolving an efficient land administration that would translate the ‘National Land Policy’ into action. Thus, an up-to-date land information system (LIS), supporting efficient management of land records, is to be constructed, which provides a context for the research reported in this paper. We document two aspects of our research on the adoption of GIS by the Lands Commission Secretariat (LCS) which form part of a pilot project in GIS diffusion. Part one of the paper mainly outlines the empirical results arising from fieldwork undertaken during 2001 to determine the information and GIS requirements of the LCS in relation to their routine administrative processes and to identify the critical factors that are required to ensure that any new GIS applications are successfully embraced. Part two explains the prototype software system developed using ArcView 3.2 and Access that provides the LCS with a means to automate some of the routine administrative tasks that they are required to fulfil. The software has been modified and upgraded following an initial evaluation by LCS employees also conducted as part of the fieldwork in Accra

Preference interdependence and habit formation in family labor supply

Economics