BLOSSOMING AND PIGMENT CONTENT

Quantification and variability of eggshell pigment content

A high-~rforman~e liquid chromato~aphy method was used for the deter~ation of the eggshell pigment constituent. Using this method, the content proto~rphyrin IX in seven bird species was quantified. It was found that this compound is most abundant in the eggs of the blackbird (65.55 nmol per egg), but when the amount is related to the eggshell mass, then the greatest amount is in the egg of the ...

Programming Support for Blossoming

A C library has been created to facilitate pro totyping of curve and surface modeling techniques The library provides blossoming datatypes to sup port creation of modeling techniques based on blos soming analysis The datatypes have e cient oper ations that are generalizations of important CAGD algorithms and can be used to implement many algo rithms Most importantly the library is able to inter...

The blossoming of bioethics at NIH.

The establishment of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has coincided with a burgeoning of interest and activity related to bioethical issues at NIH. The department has precipitated a reexamination and revitalization of existing bioethics activities in the Clinical Center and has launched new programs especia...

A Blossoming Development of Splines

Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study.

Vegetarianism, the practice of abstaining from eating meat, has a recorded history dating back to ancient Greece. Despite this, it is only in recent years that researchers have begun conducting empirical investigations of the practices and beliefs associated with vegetarianism. The present article reviews the extant literature, exploring variants of and motivations for vegetarianism, difference...