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The models were developed using a procedure that selects from all possible combinations of disjoint probability distributions the set of marginal (for one position) and joint (for multiple positions) distributions that most distinguishes physiologic RSS from other nucleotide sequences of the same length.
Costs for each postal activity (mail processing, delivery, etc) that can be attributed to mail volumes, are divided by total volume to obtain an estimate of the marginal cost.
Interestingly, the marginal decrease in the total surface area due to deletion of four residues in the β7-β8 loop does not account for the dimer instability, thus suggesting that polar interactions of residues in the β7-β8 loop of p51 with the palm subdomain of p66 may play a role in conferring stability to the heterodimer.
The Absolute Decision is a categorical call for each transcript: either Present, Absent, or Marginal.
By 1989, while the marginal effect of competition on expenditures in these services was still positive, it was no longer significantly different from zero.