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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.
For the applications and validation tests that follow, we use just the first-order corrections.
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.
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.
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.