IN a previous paper,1 the clinical features of fluid retention complicating the use of guanethidine were discussed. Of 134 patients treated continuously for over a year, 44 (32.8 per cent) were observed to retain fluid and yet, comparing these with the 90 who apparently avoided the complication, no significant differences could be found in respect to age, previous renal disease, change in the f...

Exchangeable sodium (NaE), plasma active renin concentration and blood pressure were measured in rats with a sole remaining kidney before and after the development of hypertension induced by clipping of the single renal artery and again after unclipping. Control observations were made in sham-clipped and sham-unclipped uninephrectomized rats. Renal artery clipping caused hypertension and expans...

Four alkaline biosolids were produced from sewage sludge using lime, lime/sodium silicate, cement and cement/sodium silicate. X-ray diffractometry (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX), single chemical extraction and sequential extraction were used to determine the characteristics of alkaline biosolids and untreated sewage sludge. The results of extr...

A random partition of the positive integers is called partially exchangeable if for each finite sequence of positive integers n,, ... , nk, the probability that the partition breaks the first n1 + + nk integers into k particular classes, of sizes nl,.. . ., nk in order of their first elements, has the same value p(nl,...,nk) for every possible choice of classes subject to the sizes constraint. ...

Consider a (possibly infinite) exchangeable sequence X= {Xn : 1≤ n < N}, where N ∈ N ∪ {∞}, with values in a Borel space (A,A), and note Xn = (X1, . . . ,Xn). We say that X is Hoeffding decomposable if, for each n, every square integrable, centered and symmetric statistic based on Xn can be written as an orthogonal sum of n U statistics with degenerated and symmetric kernels of increasing order...

Total body potassium determined by whole-body monitoring and exchangeable body potassium estimated with (43)K were measured simultaneously in 12 patients with stable chronic renal failure. Values for the exchangeable potassium were obtained after equilibration periods of 24, 48, and 64 hours. The exchangeable body potassium, expressed as a percentage of the total body potassium (mean +/- S.E. o...

Soil salinity is a major abiotic stress adversely affecting plant growth and crop production worldwide. Increased salinization of arable land is expected to have destructive universal effects, resulting in 30 % land loss within the next 25 years and up to 50 % by the middle of twenty-first century (Porcel et al. 2012; Kapoor et al. 2013; Abdel Latef and Chaoxing 2014). The term ‘‘salinity’’ ref...

In partitioning-­‐-­‐-­‐a.k.a. clustering-­‐-­‐-­‐data, we associate each data point with one and only one of some collection of groups called clusters or partition blocks. Here, we formally establish an analogous problem, called feature allocation, for associating data points with arbitrary non-­‐negative integer numbers of groups, now called features or topics. Just as the exchangeable partit...

Fresh water source scarcity in arid and semiarid area is limitation factor for saline-sodic soil reclamation. The reusing of agricultural drainage and industrial wastewater are preferred strategies for combating with this concern. The objective of current study was evaluation in application of industrial sugar manufacture wastewater due to high soluble organic compounds in saline-sodic and sodi...