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After entering soy intake into a regression model as the dependent variable and calories as the independent variable, we added the residuals from this model to the median caloric intake and to the intercept to obtain adjusted intake estimates.
The United States should combine terrorist travel intelligence, operations, and law enforcement in a strategy to intercept terrorists, find terrorist travel facilitators, and constrain terrorist mobility.
This 24-parameter model explains somewhat more of the variance in both codon and amino-acid responses (slope and intercept), although the marginal benefit is greater in prokaryotes than in eukaryotes (Table 4).
Then a linear model (with zero intercept) was fitted to the pooled AD svalues for the 11 spike-in transcripts from all arrays, ignoring negative AD svalues or those associated with Marginal/Absent Absolute Decisions.
USAT 's front reports on a bit of unintended technology first revealed in the British publication The New Scientist : The Palm III pocket organizer can intercept the signal used to open an infra-red car lock, the type found on Mercedes and Chryslers.