A pasture and farm management survey was conducted on thirteen geographically paired regenerative conventional beef sheep farms in the upper North Island to identify differences attributes practices. Farms were by geographical location livestock type. When compared pastures, pastures had a similar number of grass, legume broadleaf species (averaging 4, 1 3 respectively), three times as much (13...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Little is known about long-term effects of pneumonectomy on lung function and exercise tolerance. We evaluated the long-term validity of two formulas frequently used to predict postoperative lung function, as well as trends in postoperative lung function and late postoperative exercise capacity. SETTING Nonuniversity teaching hospital of Eindhoven, the Netherlands. PATIENTS...

Probabilistic tests of topology offer a powerful means of evaluating competing phylogenetic hypotheses. The performance of the nonparametric Shimodaira-Hasegawa (SH) test, the parametric Swofford-Olsen-Waddell-Hillis (SOWH) test, and Bayesian posterior probabilities were explored for five data sets for which all the phylogenetic relationships are known with a very high degree of certainty. Thes...

We show, from a topological viewpoint, that most numbers are not normal in strong sense. More precisely, the set of $x \in (0,1]$ with following property is comeager: for all integers $b\ge 2$ and $k\ge 1$, sequence vectors made by frequencies possibile strings length $k$ $b$-adic representation $x$ has maximal subset accumulation points, each them limit subsequence an index nonzero asymptotic ...

The streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin B (SpeB) is an important virulence factor of group A streptococci (GAS) with cysteine protease activity. Maturation of SpeB to a proteolytically active form was suggested to be dependent on cell-wall-anchored M1 protein, the major surface protein of GAS (M. Collin and A. Olsen, Mol. Microbiol. 36:1306-1318, 2000). Collin and Olsen showed that mutant GAS stra...

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