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The cleaning process for this contaminant involved a worker pouring 7.6 liters (2 gal) of methylene chloride into a tote, tipping and rolling it, releasing the lid to "degassify" it (as the manager explained it), getting into the tote and scraping for eight hours a day for three days.
They computed a test statistic t(A,B,x) for each sequence x as the difference of log-likelihood ratio dissimilarity measures, D ( A , x ) = -2logλ( A , x ), for two data sets, a control set A and an outgroup B , such that t(A,B,x) = D(A,x) - D(B,x) . A negative value for t indicates that the sequence more closely resembles words from A ; conversely, a positive value indicates a likely contaminant related to B . (Dissimilarity is conceptually related to distance.
Other explanations for the absence of an observed effect may be the secular decline in the contaminant load of PCBs and other contaminants in fish [ 40 ] , residual confounding stemming from our inability to control for duration of breastfeeding prior to the index pregnancy [ 41 ] or other unmeasured confounders.
The main contaminant of the ON transient was a non-linear outward current, presumably a K +channel that was not always completely blocked by the pipette solution.
Also, simulations using contaminant data located close to the true mode (67 thpercentile) showed that mode estimators performed poorly under those conditions, as noted elsewhere [ 2 ] , especially with the normal and coarse original distributions.