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Our inability to ascertain the activities of Hazmi and Mihdhar during their first two weeks in the United States may reflect al Qaeda tradecraft designed to protect the identity of anyone who may have assisted them during that period.
In order to ascertain more structural information, we again screened the LGL leukemia library and identified the presence of several members of the NKG2 gene family including NKG2 A, NKG2 D, NKG2 E and NKG2 F (GB Accession Nos.
The rationale for using p51 D186Amutant was to ascertain that the wild type polymerase activity observed with p66 INS/p51 WTwas not due to residual polymerase activity of p51.
To ascertain whether increased caspase 3 activity in BRCA1+ cells could also affect DNA repair pathways, the DNA repair enzymes PARP, a known substrate of caspase 3, [ 27 ] and ERCC1, a repair protein not dependent on caspase 3 [ 35 ] were examined (Figure 4).
In the succeeding minutes, controllers were attempting to ascertain the altitude of the southbound flight.