"Because the U.S. had moved ahead so fast, we had the opportunity to watch and decide in some cases that there were extremes we didn't want to go to," Kevan Cowan, the president of the Toronto Stock Exchange, said at last week's conference.
The Stoics' view of good and bad were extremes of perfection and imperfection.
In the family we report here, there were extremes of phenotypes, with proteinuria presenting in teenage years leading to ESRD before 30 years of age contrasting with minimal proteinuria and preserved renal function at the age of 53 years.
In multivariate analyses, risk factors for case-fatality were extremes of age, coma on admission, CSF protein >300 mg/dl, blood leukocyte count <15,000 cells/mm3 and penicillin resistance (MIC>0.06 μg/mL) (Table 2).
When the NPQ values we measured for the natural accessions in the field were plotted against values measured for plants grown indoors, no correlation was found except that those of npq4 and oePsbS were extremes.
The 40 lines within Exp. 1 represent a broad range of Central European forage maize germplasm, and were extremes within a larger collection of >300 maize inbreds with respect to stover cell-wall digestibility (unpublished data).
