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The island’s next important historical encounter was with the Mongols under Kublai Khan, when Kyushu was the target of abortive assaults in 1274 and 1281.
In 1946, the AFL-CIO launched "Operation Dixie," an abortive attempt to organize the entire region, but it collapsed when unions proved more interested in raiding other unions for members than in organizing new workers.
In order to determine if CMV was undergoing an abortive or replicative infection, separate CMV superinfection experiments were performed.
The numbers of p52 positive cells was also observed to decrease with respect to time, perhaps indicating an abortive infection may be occurring.
Moreover, it is likely that the promoter recognition differs during different stages of transcription initiation [ 16 17 ] , and it is unclear what particular contacts are made during open and closed complex formation, and during productive versus abortive initiation.