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Several molecular biology approaches, such as T7 in vitro transcription and PCR based assays, have been attempted [ 8 9 10 ] . However, only cursory analysis has been carried out to validate the assays, and limited confirmation experiments have been performed to evaluate the validity of the amplification results.
On the other hand, many social scientists, myself included, find the NIS studies of such limited value that we rarely use the data or even reference the studies beyond a cursory mention that they have been conducted.
As dubious as that sentiment might at first appear, a cursory look through his fellow participants' answers shows that he's quite right: As far as News Quiz readers are concerned, those are the two activities associated with livestock.
And the expression gone with the wind antedated Margaret Mitchell's book--indeed, she so named the book because of the cliché, not the other way round; a cursory check of my Bloomsbury Thematic Dictionary of Quotations (1988--nudge!
One is given to wonder how manufacturers of other staple consumer products manage to come up with identical packaging (say, 1 pint, 10 fluidounces or 2 pounds 13 ounces) and identical pricing on supermarket shelves without being in collusion; even the most cursory view of college dictionary publishing at once reveals a most extraordinary example of the workings of “market forces”: no publisher wants to be the first to break the $20 barrier; the Indexed edition of the Random House is the first to touch that mystical figure.
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