Title of Thesis: EVALUATION OF CONSERVATION STRIPS AS A CONSERVATION BIOLOGICAL CONTROL TECHNIQUE ON GOLF COURSES Steven D. Frank, Master of Science, 2003 Thesis directed by: Assistant Professor Paula M. Shrewsbury Department of Entomology Conservation strips combine the conservation biological control tactics of beetle banks and flowering insectary strips. Conservation strips were established ...

We study the following geometric hypergraph coloring problem: given a planar point set and an integer k, we wish to color the points with k colors so that any axis-aligned strip containing sufficiently many points contains all colors. We show that if the strip contains at least 2k−1 points, such a coloring can always be found. In dimension d, we show that the same holds provided the strip conta...

this study examined the influence of pre-frying treatments and oil type on the moisture outflow and oil uptake during the frying of potato strips. the pre-treatments were 6 min blanching in a 85°c a water bath containing 0.5% calcium chloride and immersion in a 1% solution of carboxymethyl cellulose; 6 min blanching in a 85°c water bath containing 0.5% calcium chloride and immersion in a 2% sol...

among other things, a paleobotanist and an evolutionary biologist, and he is clearly in his element here as he ranges from the enigmatic origin of the Ginkgo alliance at least 220, and probably 245, million years ago, through its evolutionary radiation to become an important tree in appropriate habitats in temperate regions worldwide, to its subsequent decline in diversity and geographical rang...

Filter strips are strips of herbaceous vegetation planted along agricultural field margins adjacent to streams or wetlands and are designed to intercept sediment, nutrients, and agrichemicals. Roughly 16,000 ha of filter strips have been established in Maryland through the United States Department of Agriculture’s Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program. Filter strips often represent the only ...

The reactivity of vascular smooth muscle in helical strips from femoral arteries of normotensive, spontaneously hypertensive, renal hypertensive, and deoxycorticosterone acetate— (DCA-) hypertensive rats was studied. Spontaneous rhythmic contractions occurred in 25 of the 30 strips from the three groups of hypertensive rats and in only 2 of the 10 strips from normotensive rats. Strips from rena...

This study was an attempt to examine the effect of using comic strips on improving grammar recognition and performance among Iranian young EFL learners. To this end, one experimental and one control groups were formed, each having 45 preintermediate participants chosen via convenience sampling. The researcher-made pretests of grammar and speaking assured the researchers that the participants di...

BACKGROUND The Accu-Chek Inform glucose monitor is a point-of-care system for testing blood glucose. New test strips, calibrated to deliver glucose plasma-like values, were launched on the market in May 2005. The aim of our study was to perform analytical validation of these new strips. METHODS We compared the new plasma strips with whole blood strips; results for the plasma strips with plasm...

The paper analyzes the vertical penetration of a small object through a floating sea ice plate. The analysis takes into account the fact that the bending cracks reach only through part of the ice plate thickness and have a variable depth profile. The cracks are modeled according to the Rice-Levy nonlinear softening line spring model. The plate-crack interaction is characterized in terms of the ...