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At the conclusion of this vast exercise, done without the aid of computers, there emerged a pattern of familial relationships that linked together languages spoken, in earlier times, from Britain as far east as Chinese Turkestan and from India as far north as Lappland.
As we stated earlier, the absence of stress fibers in the A549 cell suggests that stress fibers per se are not essential for RSV growth either, and that one or more steps of the Virus (F) → RhoA → profilin → actin signaling pathway is perhaps missing or nonfunctional in A549.
Unlike a USAT story earlier this year on sex sites, today's story contains no Web addresses.
Our earlier conclusions [ 23 ] have been substantially buttressed by the new features of these time-series analyses: With respect to its effects on clock-gene cyclings, the cry b mutation significantly reduces the number of rhythmic antennal pairs, heads, bodies and forelegs (but not wings) compared with cry +controls.
§ 801(a)(3) required that it take effect no earlier than May 13, 1997.