Two trials were performed with same feed, housing conditions and fattening duration, but with different flooring designs.
The objective of this study was to evaluate the effects of different types of flooring designs on antimicrobial resistance in commensal Escherichia coli from turkeys treated with enrofloxacin.
At the request of Nita Ambani, say the designers, if a metal, wood or crystal is part of the ninth-floor design, it shouldn't be used on the eleventh floor, for example.
"The Floor Show," an exhibition of 20th-century floor design and materials, starts Wednesday and runs through Oct. 6.
She still hopes to install a ceiling-to-floor design, made from monofilament thread and called "Gravity," in the Pantheon.
Because the Silverstein analysis did not allow for the possibility that the floors could give way, the assertion that the floor design played no role was in some ways foreordained, Dr. Osteraas said.
The vestibule, intended to represent the 1880s, for instance, features a floor design of imitation tile and a portrait of the imaginary proprietor, who wears a rather snobbish expression.
You could almost smell the Bacardi Breezers from Chloe Lamford's brilliantly scuzzy set, which evoked their local club, the Mantrap, with a live band upstage, booze-cluttered tables at the sides and its floor design suggesting tartan uniforms.
A fan would help, and MoMA's third-floor design gallery has one: a neat little cast-iron German model made around 1908 that would look right at home on Matisse's table.
