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The botanical term refers to the two-winged fruit (similar to the “key” of the common sycamore) borne by a large number of the forest’s tallest trees.
These efforts have recently borne fruit, particularly recent agreements with Japan and Italy to collaborate on climate modeling efforts and with El Salvador in a "forest for debt" swap that will preserve tropical forests there that sequester carbon.
This biological rationale is borne out by evidence that interacting proteins have more highly correlated expression profiles than do non-interacting proteins [ 27 ] . However, if a single component of a signaling network is independently (and differentially) regulated, it would not necessarily be excluded using our approach, if for instance, it connected two halves of a pathway which had similar average expression profiles.
This is borne out by a Sunday Times article [13 March 1994] about a survey showing that fewer than half of entrants to university were capable of identifying to which part of speech words in a handful of very simple sentences belonged.
It must be said—and I believe I shall be borne out on this—that relying on citations appearing in the OED or in works written long ago is a precarious business: the only accurate, safe statement that can be made about such information is that it provides evidence for the existence of a word in a given context at the time of publication of the work: it cannot and must not be construed as the first time the word appeared on the face of the earth, merely as the first written evidence we have of its appearance.
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