  An earlier extraction from the HERMES experiment of the polarization-averaged
parton distribution of strange quarks in the nucleon has been reevaluated using
final data on the multiplicities of charged kaons in semi-inclusive
deep-inelastic scattering obtained with a kinematically more comprehensive
method of correcting for experimental effects. General features of the
distribution are confirmed, but the rise at low x is less pronounced than
previously reported.
