Extrapulmonary and, in particular, spinal tuberculosis (TB) constitutes a minor but significant part of the total TB incidence. In spite of this, almost no studies on the genetic diversity and drug resistance of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from spinal TB patients have been published to date. Here, we report results of the first Russian and globally largest molecular study of M. tubercul...

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We describe a new approach to default reason ing based on a principle of indi erence among possible worlds We interpret default rules as extreme statistical statements thus obtaining a knowledge base KB comprised of statistical and rst order statements We then assign equal probability to all worlds consistent with KB in order to assign a degree of belief to a statement The degree of belief can ...

The talk of Larisa Soboleva, professor of Ural Federal University, and Olga Zhuravel, associate professor and Dean of the Department of Journalism at Novosibirsk State University and the author of the book entitled Literary Work of Old Believers in the 17th – Early 21st Centuries: Themes, Problems, Poetics concerns the diversity of manuscript sources used and published in the abovementioned boo...

Diffuse phosphorus (P) export from biosolids application to agricult­ ural land above specified soil P thresholds or incidental losses of nutrients applied as manure or fertilizers during high risk periods, may be linked to deteriorating surface or groundwater quality. However, oui research suggests that not all land has an equal risk of contributing diffuse contaminants to receiving waters, ei...