Introduction ....................................................................................................................................283 DeÞning a Species and Symbiont..................................................................................................284 Wolbachia as a Model System for Symbiont-Induced Speciation................................................285 Abund...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcomes of severely burned patients treated at a regional burns unit and to develop a predictive model for survival and length of hospital stay for major burn patients in Hong Kong. DESIGN Retrospective study. SETTING Burns unit of a regional public hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS Two hundred and eighty-six severely burned patients treated from March 1993 to Febru...

Given a hyperbolic quadric of PG(5, 2), there are 28 points off this quadric and 56 lines skew to it. It is shown that the (286, 563)-configuration formed by these points and lines is isomorphic to the combinatorial Grassmannian of type G2(8). It is also pointed out that a set of seven points of G2(8) whose labels share a mark corresponds to a Conwell heptad of PG(5, 2). Gradual removal of Conw...

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 Pikli, Natália. Shakespeare’s Hobby-Horse and Early Modern Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2021. 286 pages. ISBN 9780367514150. Hb. $160.00

s of the Fifth International Complement Workshop, Hotel Del Coronado, Coronado, California, February 23-25. 1973 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 NUMBZR 2, AUGUST 1973