Soil degradation has been implicated as a cause of the poor vegetation condition over much of the unimproved tussock grassland in the South Island high country and as a threat to the sustainability of extensive pastoralism (Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment, 1991; South Island High Country Review Working Party, 1994). A key requirement for assessment of sustainability is an ability...

There has been some diiïereiice of opinion as to whether there is an association between catalase activity and respiration. In 1910 Appleman (1) ^ noted a correlation between the two in the potato tuber and later (2) observed the same thing in potato tubers manipulated in various ways to modify respiration and in stem and seed ends of the same tuber. He found a similar correlation in stored swe...

We evaluated the effects of irrigated crop management practices on nitrous oxide (N(2)O) emissions from soil. Emissions were monitored from several irrigated cropping systems receiving N fertilizer rates ranging from 0 to 246 kg N ha(-1) during the 2005 and 2006 growing seasons. Cropping systems included conventional-till (CT) continuous corn (Zea mays L.), no-till (NT) continuous corn, NT corn...

? mil a Zelda, mercurial child of the hectic '20s, captured the love of novelist, F. Scott Fitzgerald. In a frenzied effort to match his genius she threw herself into painting, writing and ballet before tragically ending her life in a mental hospital.

In this paper we give an example of a countably-based algebraic domain D such that max(D) is Hausdorff but not regular in the relative Scott topology, and such that max(D) contains the usual space of rational numbers as a closed subspace. Our example shows that certain known results about max(D), where max(D) is regular and D is countably based, are the sharpest possible. MR Classifications: pr...

The Eckbo-Masulis (1992) theory predicts that a seasoned offer is more likely to be underwritten the higher the proportion of shares expected to be sold to new investors, and further predicts a negative relation between abnormal returns on announcement and sales to new investors. The evidence in this paper does not support these predictions. The proportion underwritten is determined primarily b...

In the biotechnology industry today, there are many business models for project commercialization. These models range from independent vertical integration to certain forms of collaboration with pharmaceutical companies to complete acquisitions of projects by the big pharmaceutical companies. In this thesis, we wanted to study commercialization strategies of several biotechnology companies. We ...