It has been kept isolated in an experimental closed herd established from 24 founders (4 males and 20 females) in 1944.
All rats were examined prior to use by otomicroscopy to document abnormal middle ear and were kept isolated in an infection-free zone for 2 weeks.
Five residents of Eastern Cape have died of a virulent strain of tuberculosis that leaves patients virtually untreatable, and 28 others are being kept isolated in hospitals, the health department said.
"I don't see how it can be voluntary," said Shahira Hafez, 53, an Egyptian-born anesthesiologist and treasurer of the Toronto chapter of the Canadian Council of Muslim Women, "when all these women from Pakistan, India and Afghanistan are kept isolated in their own communities, do not learn English and only deal with the outer society through their husband and their husband's family".
People no longer dared look death in the face, and no longer had to.In America, as Dr Kübler-Ross found when she arrived at the Manhattan State Hospital in 1958, the dying were kept isolated, in distant wards where nurses did not have to hear their constant, hopeless ringing of the bell.
But Alexander noticed something so obvious, everyone else had overlooked it; namely, that all the rats in the experiments were kept isolated in cages.
Before mating, individual males or small groups of five to ten virgin females were kept isolated in vials with fresh food.
Each dam and offspring were kept isolated in confined units without any contact with other animals, and the scrapie group was under video surveillance.
It is possible that because our beetles were kept isolated in controlled environments for much of their lives, their energy expenditure was low, possibly reducing differences in residual reproductive value between old and young males and thus the likelihood of detecting age effects.
ANNALS OF SCIENCE about a case of child abuse in which a child named Genie was kept isolated from the world, locked in a restraining harness in a silent bedroom in her parent's house in Temple City, California.
