Lactating females are those with visibly swollen mammary glands, i.e. not only large teats, as can occur in females that have had previous litters, but those visibly carrying milk and therefore assumed to be currently feeding a litter of pups.
Anyone who had answered the survey prior to 26 completed weeks postpartum was removed from the analysis, and for those who answered at 27 weeks or later, feeding at 6 months was assumed to be breast milk feeding if the infant was still breast milk feeding at the time of the survey.
Naphtha hydrocarbons present in the liquid product were assumed to be unconverted feed and therefore conversion was calculated as feed hydrocarbons minus product hydrocarbons.
Based on experimental evidence [ 7], the metabolic state was assumed to be that of fed hepatic cells.
Reactor-grade plutonium (with a fissile Pu fraction of 59.6%) and weapons-grade plutonium (with a fissile Pu fraction of 94.0%) were assumed to be the feed Pu material for the MOX fuel rods in the BWR and PWR examples, respectively.
The feeding comes from a source point placed at the mean spherical droplet center in such a way that the injection process can be assumed to be isothermal (isothermal feeding regime) or adiabatic (adiabatic feeding regime).
Because of a lack of information, the period of mixed feeding (when the infant is fed both breast milk and formula) was assumed to be a period without breast-feeding, leading to a potential underestimation of infant exposure in cases with important mixed feeding.
Since transovarial transmission of B. burgdorferi to larval I. scapularis has not been demonstrated, infections found in molted nymphs were assumed to be acquired from a host through feeding.
This ambiguity is resolved when an ancestral mixed feeding state is assumed to be present in P. ginsburgi.
3.59pm GMT The colourful Tory education Twitter feed (widely assumed to be written by Michael Gove's aides, although they are coy about admitting being responsible for it) has gone into overdrive this afternoon about the Pisa report.
