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Most weather variables were highly correlated with each other, so combining variables through stepwise multiple regression explained no more of the variance in fungal abundance and richness than did the average number of consecutive days with relative humidity less than 50%.
When Kendall asked why Starr's team conducted these briefings on background rather than on the record, Starr explained, "We do not want to in any way be part of [the] story."
The decline can be explained in part by workers trying to keep up with their American counterparts in an increasingly global economy.
At my younger son's first piano lesson, his teacher, Mrs. Sun, explained the rules.
...I heard this many years ago on at least one other occasion from a very knowledgeable South African friend who explained that he could not cite a reference but regarded it as common knowledge.