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For the majority of well-measured genes on the Lymphochip, the mRNA abundance decreased with first-order kinetics (Figure 3) and could therefore be used to measure mRNA turnover rates (see Materials and methods).
All of these opioids except fentanyl follow first-order kinetics.
Our experience, however, has been that the first-order corrections are sufficient and the higher-order corrections are more difficult to compute and make little difference in the final analysis.
Hence, an important conclusion of this analysis is that while interactions between adjacent trophic levels lead to predictions of higher-order dynamics during the derivation of the community model (Figure 1), the act of following the coefficients from the individual trophic-level models ( sensu [ 32 ] ) allows us to observe that trophic interactions may also appear in first-order density dependence.
Though Shultz elevated the status and visibility of counterterrorism coordination by appointing as coordinator first L. Paul Bremer and then Robert Oakley, both senior career ambassadors of high standing in the Foreign Service, the department continued to be dominated by regional bureaus for which terrorism was not a first-order concern.