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The position and intensity distribution of the first-order diffraction pattern was monitored by a photodiode array which was scanned electronically every 0.5 ms.
After May 1998, when both countries surprised the United States by testing nuclear weapons, these dangers became daily first-order concerns of the State Department.
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.
Although each drug was allowed to have a distinct first-order degradation rate in the model, the three drugs were assumed to have identical error distributions in their assay variability.
All of these opioids except fentanyl follow first-order kinetics.