The Chrisitian Attitude Toward Birth Control

This thesis grew out of a paper presented to the Northern Alberta Pastors’ Conference or the Alberta-British Columbia District of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod. The discussion showed that many of the pastors were poorly informed on the matter, and not a few based their views mainly upon tradition rather than on the clear Word of God. The writer of this paper thought, therefore, that a thesis on “The Christian Attitude Toward Birth Control might fill a need and serve some purpose. This monograph presents only a bird\u27s eye view, and in no way does the writer consider it as exhausting the subject

A QTL for osteoporosis detected in an F2 population derived from White Leghorn chicken lines divergently selected for bone index

Osteoporosis, resulting from progressive loss of structural bone during the period of egg-laying in hens, is associated with an increased susceptibility to bone breakage. To study the genetic basis of bone strength, an F cross was produced from lines of hens that had been divergently selected for bone index from a commercial pedigreed White Leghorn population. Quantitative trait loci (QTL) affecting the bone index and component traits of the index (tibiotarsal and humeral strength and keel radiographic density) were mapped using phenotypic data from 372 F individuals in 32 F families. Genotypes for 136 microsatellite markers in 27 linkage groups covering ∼80% of the genome were analysed for association with phenotypes using within-family regression analyses. There was one significant QTL on chromosome 1 for bone index and the component traits of tibiotarsal and humeral breaking strength. Additive effects for tibiotarsal breaking strength represented 34% of the trait standard deviation and 7.6% of the phenotypic variance of the trait. These QTL for bone quality in poultry are directly relevant to commercial populations

Structural traits of an eight year old secondary forest in the Central Amazon.

Presentation of the floristical composition, stratification and growth-form structure of the vegetation in the 1 ha secondary forest in Manaus-AM (Brasil). The variation of the vegetation within 1 ha area is analysed with the aid of multivariate analyses (PCA) of the floristical composition of the plots, and the resulting ordination model is displayed as a covariance biplot. Conclusions are drawn from the floristical and structural analyses concerning the key environmental factors leading to the vegetation studied, and the influence of the surveys on vegetation development, i.e., disturbance such as trampling and cutting of trees, is discussed

Electronic structure of nanoscale iron oxide particles measured by scanning tunneling and photoelectron spectroscopies

We have investigated the electronic structure of nano-sized iron oxide by scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) as well as by photoelectron spectroscopy. Nano particles were produced by thermal treatment of Ferritin molecules containing a self-assembled core of iron oxide. Depending on the thermal treatment we were able to prepare different phases of iron oxide nanoparticles resembling gamma-Fe2O3, alpha-Fe2O3, and a phase which apparently contains both gamma-Fe2O3 and alpha-Fe2O3. Changes to the electronic structure of these materials were studied under reducing conditions. We show that the surface band gap of the electronic excitation spectrum can differ from that of bulk material and is dominated by surface effects.Comment: REVTeX, 6 pages, 10 figures, submitted to PR

Morphological traits and ecological behavior of selected secondary forest tree species in the central Amazon.

The aim of the study is to detect causal links between the parameters measured and the ecological behavior of the species observed in the field, as a contribution to an autecological description of the secondaty forest tree species, in the Manaus-AM (Brasil). The results show some characteristics which can be interpreted as "functional traits" of certain types of secondary forest plants, e.g. the plant biomass of the species examined is negatively correlated with leaf sizes and with the percentage of leaf biomass in relation to total biomass

Tyrosine phosphorylation profiling in FGF-2 stimulated human embryonic stem cells

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Indicator value of anthropogenic vegetation in the Amazon.

An evaluation of the effects of the experimental variants on the useful plants and the plantion systems calls for knlwledge of the extremely complex interaction between useful plants and spontaneous vegetation and of other environmental factors. A preliminary analysis of the spontaneous vegetation revealed that species compostion and structural traits of the vegetation were closely linked to the pre-use of the sites and recent management measure. In this study the data sets and some of the results of theira analysis to date are presented and discussed

Indicator value of anthropogenic vegetation in the Amazon.

The main objective is to device a system whereby individual species of vascular plants and structural traits of vegetation can serve as indicators of site conditions, especially for the intensity and type of pre-use of sites (=disturbance) and hence with that for the actual suitability of the sites for agriculture

Indicator value of anthropogenic vegetation in the Amazon.

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