Activity budgets and social aspects of feeding, among the adult females in a group of semiprovisioned baboons that fed from a garbage dump were compared with those of adjacent wild-feeding groups in Amboseli National Park, ...

Experiments carried out in a coffee plantation to determine the developmental period of Icerya paltersoni (Newst.) showed that the female and male scales lasted 157 and 129 days on average, respectively. The different ...

A new furoquinoline alkaloid to which we have assigned the trivial name nobiline, and seven other quinonline alkaloids were isolated and identified from the leaves and fruits of Teclea nobilis, an African medicinal plant.

The adaxial leaf temperatures of 3 cultivars of Phaseolus vulgaris and 1 cultivar of Tepary bean (Phaseolus acutifolius) were measured from 0600 to 1800 hours. 2 instruments having different measurement principles were ...

In this study, global sea surface temperature anomalies within ±300 latitudes of the equator were correlated with the time series of the major rotated principal component analysis (RPCA) modes of the seasonal rainfall ...

This annotated bibliography lists 642 works (with abstracts) on irrigation and drainage in Kenya, from 1970-1988. A geographical and a subject index are included.

The in vitro synthesis of proline from glutamate was followed in fat body homogenates from the tsetse fly Glossina morsitans. Rates of synthesis were much higher in freeze-thawed or sonicated homogenate than in untreated ...

The capacity factors for the chromatographic retention of naphthalene, fluorene, phenanthrene and pyrene in supercritical carbon dioxide using an octadecyl silate bonded-phase column have been measured between 300 and 400 ...