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We determined the accuracy and reproducibility of whole-community fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) analysis with two model bacterial communities differing in composition by using the Microbial ID, Inc. (MIDI), system. The biomass, taxonomic structure, and expected MIDI-FAME profiles under a variety of environmental conditions were known for these model communities a priori. Not all members of eac...

Measures based on the Link Recommendation Assumption are hypothesised to help modern Web search engines rank ‘important, high quality’ pages ahead of relevant but less valuable pages and to reject ‘spam’. We tested these hypotheses using inlink counts and PageRank scores readily obtainable from search engines Google and Fast. We found that the average Google-reported PageRank of websites operat...

In general, except when quoting the article being reviewed and/or other sources and in footnotes, the uppercase identifiers “Thimerosal,” “Merthiolate,” and “Thiomersal” will be used interchangeably throughout this review, with preference being given to “Thimerosal” because these are/were trade names, even though the active mercury-containing ingredient in vaccines is, in most cases, the ethylm...

What Locke devotes in his Essay to the topic of individuals and universals, and to abstraction as a way that leads from the former to the latter (II, 11, sections 9, 10, 11; II, 32, sections 7, 8; III, 3) is a watered down version of scholastic textbooks. One starts with a relation of similitude among individuals (III, 3, 13), one performs a leaving out and a retaining of features in the given ...