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Despite being a widely used tool in merger enforcement, there have been few studies of whether antitrust divestitures are successful. We help fill this void by conducting a study of the divestitures relating to Johnson & Johnson’s $16.6 billion acquisition of Pfizer’s consumer health division in 2006. Six brands were divested in this matter to alleviate antitrust concern. For three of the brand...

II. PHALARIS ARUNDINACEA L. (REED CANARY GRASS) AS AN INVASIVE SPECIES ................................ 417 A. General Features of Reed Canary Grass in Its Native Range ............................................................................ 417 B. The Repeated Introductions of Reed Canary Grass and Its Subsequent Invasion in North America ...................... 417 C. Ecological Impacts of...

GeoPAT modules are written in ANSI C and are designed to work within the GRASS GIS 7 (GRASS Development Team, 2012) environment. Embedding GeoPAT in GRASS has a number of advantages: • GRASS is an open source software available for major computing platforms, • GRASS is especially well suited to work with large datasets, • incorporating a toolbox into an already existing, well-established enviro...

BACKGROUND Flooding may affect aeroallergen sensitization. OBJECTIVE To evaluate aeroallergen sensitization in children with asthma and/or allergic rhinitis (AR) by skin prick test (SPT) before and after the great flood of 2011 in Bangkok, Thailand. METHODS The study was performed retrospectively in asthma and/or AR children (aged 0-18 years) in Siriraj Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand from 2009...

Cockatoo grass [Alloteropsis semialata (R.Br.) A. Hitchc.] is considered a keystone species in northern Australian ecosystems as it provides a food resource for many species, including several endangered vertebrates. This study examined both local and regional environmental factors influencing cockatoo grass distribution and abundance in the Wet Tropics of north Queensland, Australia. Local dis...

The efficiency of wet explosion applied as modified dilute acid pretreatment at previously identified reference conditions (150°C, 0.3% H(2)SO(4), 15 min) was investigated on lucerne, ryegrass, fescue grass, cocksfoot grass, rye fescue, forage grass, and wheat straw in order to identify their potential as feedstock for cellulosic bioethanol production. After pretreatment, cellulose recovery was...

Non-native plants are invading terrestrial ecosystems across the globe, yet little is known about how invasions impact carbon (C) cycling or how these impacts will be influenced by climate change. We quantified the effect of a non-native C4 grass invasion on soil C pools and fluxes in a Hawaiian tropical dry forest over 2 years in which annual precipitation was average (Year 1) and 60% higher t...