Vexed Fowls

That vexed problem of choice

Sean Wallis Survey of English Usage, UCL [email protected] Abstract A key challenge in corpus linguistics concerns the difficulty of operationalising linguistic questions in terms of choices made by speakers or writers. Whereas lab researchers design an experiment around a choice, comparable corpus research implies the inference of counterfactual alternates. This non-trivial requirement leads ...

Fibrous Feeds for Functional Fowls

Fibres are not digested by fowls, but their impact on digestive physiology, nutrient metabolism and intestinal microflora can be substantial. Analytical shortcomings have historically contributed to different notions on the significance of fibres, but modern techniques now enable us to better discriminate between various fractions of fibre and relate them with the performance of poultry. The fo...

Iritis ( White Eye ) in Fowls

One member of this family developed a spontaneous choroidal detachment about three months after sclero-corneal trephining, and tbI persisted unchanged for a year. It was (unsuccessfully) tven0d by a cautery puncture and is still present. The second family comprises six siblings out of a family of ten, one of whom died in infancy. Of the nine living siblings, eight are said to be glaucomatous, a...

Vaccinating Fowls for Chicken Pox

The vexed question of race-based admission to medical school.

Sixty-two years after the much reviled and now repealed Population Registration Act of 1950 was enacted, and 18 years into our new non-racial democracy, it continues to haunt South African public life. The Act classified South Africans into 'race' categories, thus creating the framework for the differentiated allocation of opportunity and privilege, and resulted in severe inequalities between t...