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Ecological Archives A 020 - 020 - A 5

I. Height allometries Since 1999, FIA data include height measurements. However, pre-1999 FIA data (which currently comprise most of the available plot re-measurements) do not include height data for most of the U.S. Therefore, incorporating tree height into analyses of pre-1999 FIA data requires height-dbh allometries, which we estimated using the post-1999 FIA data. Because we wished to treat...

013-020 Cole_E

Introduction The International Commission on Microbiological Specifications for Foods (ICMSF) has proposed a preventative scheme for managing microbial risks in foods that introduces the important new concept of a food safety objective (FSO). The FSO concept translates public health risk into a definable goal: a specified maximum frequency and/or concentration of a [microbiological] hazard in a...

PW02-020 - Colitis revealing mevalonate kinase deficiency

Case report Here we report for the first time two patients with MKD revealed by a severe neonatal colitis. Both patients had chronic bloody diarrhea and failure to thrive, one patient since the age of one month and the other twelve days. Total parenteral nutrition was required. A marked elevation of acute phase reactants was present, and no evidence of infection was found. In patient 1, ileocol...

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