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Dr. Basil Cottle, a scholar at the University of Bristol, in his useful little book, The Plight of English , devotes nearly four pages to it, describing it at the beginning as a deplorable little syllable.
This would be an increase of nearly 4 percent; a significant but limited effect.
A NYT front-pager covers the nearly tax-free status of cruise ship companies, a scandal first widely publicized by Donald Barlett and James Steele in their celebrated Philadelphia Inquirer series on America's economic disparities in the 1980s, "What Went Wrong?"
While this manuscript was in preparation and in submission, several other computational predictions of miRNA genes by similar overall strategies were reported [ 31 32 33 34 ] . The results of our studies are most similar to analyses by Bartel and colleagues predicting 200-255 miRNA genes in vertebrates, or nearly 1% of the predicted genes in humans [ 31 ] ; this is comparable to our estimate of flies.
The answer turns on so many metaphysical questions as to be nearly meaningless.