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Experimental evidence seems to favour higher average mutations rates for tetranucleotide STRPs [ 33 ] , while theoretical results favour higher average rates for dinucleotide STRPs [ 34 ] . Analysis of STRPs typed in CEPH reference families for construction of human genetic maps revealed that the fraction of dinucleotide/dinucleotide STRP pairs < 200 kb apart with linkage disequilibrium at p < 0.01 was 18.
His daughter having noticed that the death-warrant was expected from London, attired herself in men's clothes, and twice attacked and robbed the mails (between Belford and Berwick), which conveyed the death-warrants; thus, by delaying the execution, giving time to Sir John Cochrane's father, the Earl of Dundonald, to make interest with Father Peter (a Jesuit), King James's Confessor, who, for the sum of five thousand pounds [something like $5 million today], agreed to intercede with his Royal Master in favour of Sir John Cochrane, and to procure his pardon; which was effected.
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
For May, and other scientists on the continent, the ERC offers a real chance to redress the balance of fortune in favour of young scientists.
[The Times, 20 June 1988] There is probably something to be said in favour of the occasional use of rude language in drama for the sake of realism; on the other hand, in the real world rude language is often the resort of those who are unable to articulate their thoughts and emotions, and the presence of characters so afflicted is certainly dispensable in drama.
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