■ Abstract This review examines research on the assimilation of immigrant groups. We review research on four primary benchmarks of assimilation: socioeconomic status, spatial concentration, language assimilation, and intermarriage. The existing literature shows that today’s immigrants are largely assimilating into American society along each of these dimensions. This review also considers direc...

Within recent years glucose tolerance has been used as a means of investigating disturbances of carbohydrate metabolism, especially when following disorders of the endocrine system. In such tests it has generally been accepted that a normal adult, of about 60 kgrm. weight, can ingest and metabolize 100 grm. of glucose without the appearance of glycosuria. The ability to deal with more than this...

The conventional identification (assimilation profiles in the API 20C [bioMérieux Vitek, Inc., Hazelwood, Mo.] identification system, colony color on CHROMagar Candida [CHROMagar, Paris, France], and morphology on cornmealTween 80 agar) of 32 atypical isolates of Candida albicans recovered during a study of oropharyngeal candidiasis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected individuals could not...

In vast expanses of the oceans, growth of large phytoplankton such as diatoms is limited by iron availability. Diatoms respond almost immediately to the delivery of iron and rapidly compose the majority of phytoplankton biomass. The molecular bases underlying the subsistence of diatoms in iron-poor waters and the plankton community dynamics that follow iron resupply remain largely unknown. Here...

In order to improve the forecasting ability of numerical models, a sequential data assimilation scheme, nudging, was applied to blend remotely sensing high-frequency (HF) radar surface currents with results from a three-dimensional numerical, EFDC (Environmental Fluid Dynamics Code) model. For the first time, this research presents the most appropriate nudging parameters, which were determined ...

Once it has been decided to provide nutritional support via the enteral route the best formulation to meet the nutritional needs of the individual patient must be selected. A large number of enteral diets are now commercially available, and Table 1 summarises the different categories available. Until recently, controversy existed as to whether enteral feeds formulated and prepared in the hospit...

Several important issues in voice assimilation have been recently revisited. In particular, is it gradient or categorical? Distributional analyses of the voicing ratio in assimilating vs. neutral contexts conducted on French data have yielded somewhat discrepant results, yet suggesting that assimilation is categorical and optional at the same time. In this study, we compare between-word voice a...

In this study, apple pomace and brewery wastewater were used as nutritive agents and as alternative substitutes for the ingredients (soya flour, wheat germ and yeast extract) without affecting the production of the diet. The quantity of agro-industrial waste added during production was based on a regime where the different nutrients were maintained as a constant, such as proteins (3.71 ± 0.09 g...