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Many plants accumulate malonate, but it was shown earlier that malonate does not accumulate as a deadend product of metabolism in soybean (Glycine max v. Hodgson tissues. The metabolism of malonate in the soybean plant at the whole tissue and enzymic level was followed, and the pathway of malonate biosynthesis in young soybean root tissue was shown to be via acetyl-coenzyme A carboxylase.

The Zipf distribution also known as scale-free distribution or discrete Pareto distribution, is the particular case of Power Law distribution with support the strictly positive integers. It is a one-parameter distribution with a linear behaviour in the log-log scale. In this paper the Zipfian distribution is generalized by means of the Marshall-Olkin transformation. The new model has more flexi...

THE ASSOCIATION of psoas abscess with tuberculosis of the spine or sacroiliac joints is well recognized and occurs in about a fifth of such cases (Mercer & Duthie, 1964). It has long been known that psoas abscess may also occur without evidence of spinal disease, when it is often not of tuberculous origin. Mynter (1881) described cases of 'acute psoitis', and of the seven psoas abscesses withou...