Test Excavations at Site 41LK269 Live Oak County, Texas

Hays County, Texas

The widespread Berberis trifoliolata is sympatric with the narrowly restricted B. swaseyi in central Texas, where apparent intermediates occur. A detailed field study of sympatric populations in northern Hays Co. during 2004 to 2007 clarifies the morphological and phenological differences between the two species and shows that intermediates almost surely arose from hybridization. Limited eviden...

Isolation, Partial Purification and Characterization of Texas Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis) Lectin

Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins with agglutination properties. There is a continuous interest in lectins due to their biological properties that can be exploited for medicinal and therapeutic purposes. The objective of this study was to isolate and characterize lectin activity in Texas Live Oak (Quercus fusiformis). More specifically, the study aimed to determine the lectin’s blood gr...

Sodium azide poisoning at a restaurant - Dallas County, Texas, 2010.

In April 2010, Dallas County Health and Human Services (DCHHS) staff members investigated reports of acute-onset dizziness among patrons in a local restaurant. Symptoms, which included fainting resulting from low blood pressure, occurred within minutes of consuming food from the restaurant and were consistent with chemical poisoning. Toxicologic and epidemiologic investigations were begun to de...

Assessment of plant and invertebrate remains from excavations at Cawthorn Camps , N . Yorkshire , 1999 ( site 654 )

Plant (and in two cases also invertebrate) remains were investigated from 24 contexts associated with two of the Roman >forts= at Cawthorn Camps, on the southern edge of the North York Moors, N. Yorkshire. Ancient plant remains were limited to small to moderate concentrations of charcoal and a very few other structures; all of the uncharred plant material and the few invertebrate remains encoun...

Geophysical Survey at archaeological site Kaszaper, Békés County, Hungary