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aBonuses paid to IRS career senior executives are governed by the limits set forth in 5 USC 5384 and 9505, which provide that bonuses shall be not less than 5 percent of basic pay.
Self-educated visionary Cola di Rienzo governed briefly in 1347 until the nobles drove him out.
(One physicist insisted that the economy has "gone nonlinear," and is now governed by chaos theory.)
There is some overlap of membership on the editorial boards of PLoS Biology and the community journals, reflecting a level of dedication to open access, but as with all scientists who serve on multiple editorial boards and reviewers who review for multiple journals, these individuals are governed by confidentiality.
For example, whereas rhythmicity of locomotor activity is governed by a pacemaker within a discrete set of neurons in the Drosophila brain [ 8 9 ] , molecular and physiological studies have also established the presence of autonomous circadian clocks in isolated appendages and excretory structures [ 10 11 12 ] . Moreover, the molecular mechanisms underlying clock function in these tissues may not be identical [ 13 ] . Finally, many rhythmic phenotypes expressed in flies can occur on different time scales.