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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.
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.
Returning to the first-order, normative question, we can now ask to what extent should physicians rely on RCTs as opposed to clinical experience or observational studies.
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.
To investigate whether the mRNA degradation rates were first-order, we fitted a linear regression model for the three drugs for each gene (see Materials and methods).