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Thesis--University of San Carlos. / Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves [90]-92).

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1968. / eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Florida, 1987. / Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Rutgers University, 2008. / "Graduate Program in Plant Biology." Includes bibliographical references (p. 210-225).

The objective of the thesis is to examine Dr. Broom's Top Management Game. The examination covers the realism of model input output relationships, the cost of an application, the design structure utilized and the adequacy of the model presentation. Before the analysis is undertaken two analytical tools are developed. The first of these is a management game typology which provides a standardized, method for describing gaming models. The second tool is a two dimensional matrix which may be employed for design or analytical purposes. The rows of the matrix represent input for the current period and the columns output for the current period. In order to determine the feasibility of converting The Broom Game, to modular design, the structure of a modular game is outline. Dr. Broom's Game, is an educational model which employs the computer to calculate the results for a period. Though the model is supposedly total enterprise the personnel function is absent. The marketing function of the model performs in a highly unrealistic manner. Also the production function is inadequate in that no attempt is made to break production into its component parts. The cost of an application is approximately two dollars. In the authors opinion it is not feasible to convert the model to modular design. Finally the administrators' presentation was found to be inadequate. / Business, Sauder School of / Graduate

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Plant growth inhibitors were isolated from Haplopappus acradenius (Green) Blake and Baccharis sarothroides Gray, two desert species, found at the Boyce Thompson Southwestern Arboretum. Leaf and stem tissues of B. sarothroides were extracted with 80% methanol (v/v). This extract was reduced to an aqueous phase in vacuo and partitioned with ethyl acetate at pH 7.3 (NF, neutral fraction), pH 2.8 (AF, acidic fraction), and again at pH 2.8 following hydrolysis at pH 11 (HF, hydrolyzed fraction). Thin layer chromatography (TLC) on silica gel H in chloroform:ethyl acetate:formic acid (CHCl₃:EtOAc:HCOOH) produced a region between R(f)'s 0.5 to 0.6 from AF of B. sarothroides which inhibited wheat seed coleoptile and radicle growth 52.7% and 66.5%, respectively, using 500 ul of a 1.9 mg/ul extract. This section inhibited wheat coleoptile straight growth 38.6% at the same concentration. Additional TLC, UV spectrophotometry, spray reagents, NMR, and GC/MS indicated that the compound was 3,8-dihydroxy-5,6,7-trimethoxy-2-(4-methoxyphenyl)-4H-1-benzopyran-4-one at a concentration of 265 ug/g fresh weight. This compound significantly inhibited the wheat coleoptile straight growth bioassay 18.4% using 2 to 3 ug/ul. An 80% methanol extract of H. acradenius leaves evaporated in vacuo produced an aqueous insoluble brown resin. This resin dissolved in absolute methanol and separated by TLC in CHCl₃:EtOAc:HCOOH contained a region between R(f)'s 0.6 to 0.7 that inhibited wheat seed coleoptile growth 71.8% and radicle growth 90.7% using 200 ul of 1.5 mg/ul solution. Wheat coleoptile straight growth was inhibited 53.7% in this region at the same concentration. Further examination of this region by the same methods as those used for B. sarothroides indicated the presence of a C-12 alkenyl alcohol (2 mg/ml), an aromatic heterocyclic hydrocarbon (4 mg/ml), and an alkyl substituted version of 7-hydroxycoumarin (5 mg/ml) at a concentration of 0.7, 1.4, and 1.8 ug/g fresh weight, respectively. A combination of these compounds inhibited the wheat coleoptile straight growth bioassay 41.1% using 11 ug/ul. A 2 M HCl extract of H. acradenius was partitioned with diethyl ether, which was evaporated and the residue resuspended in 95% methanol. TLC in CHCl₃:EtOAc:HCOOH separated an area between R(f)'s 0.5 to 0.6 where wheat seed coleoptile growth was inhibited 49.7% and radicle growth was inhibited 54.6% using 1000 ul of a 3.3 mg/ul solution. Identified in this region was 7-hydroxycoumarin at a concentration of 150 ug/g fresh weight. The wheat coleoptile straight growth bioassy was inhibited 13.2% using 2 to 3 ug/ul.

In this paper, we explore the singular values of adjacency matrices {An} for a particular family {Gn} of graphs, known as broom trees. The singular values of a matrix M are defined to be the square roots of the eigenvalues of the symmetrized matrix MTM. The matrices we are interested in are the symmetrized adjacency matrices AnTAn and the symmetrized exponentiated adjacency matrices BnTBn = (eAn − I)T(eAn − I) of the graphs Gn. The application of these matrices in the HITS algorithm for Internet searches suggests that we study whether the largest two eigenvalues of AnTAn (or those of BnTBn) can become close or in fact coincide. We have shown that for one family of broom-trees, the ratio of the two largest eigenvalues of BnTBn as the number n of nodes (more specifically, the length l of the graph) goes to infinity is bounded below one. This bound shows that for these graphs, the second largest eigenvalue remains bounded away from the largest eigenvalue. For a second family of broom trees it is not known whether the same is true. However, we have shown that for that family a certain later eigenvalue remains bounded away from the largest eigenvalue. Our last result is a generalization of this latter result.

Thesis (M.S.)--Oregon State University, 2004. / Printout. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 84-90). Also available via the World Wide Web.