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Instead, they maneuver and feint, applying the strength of their will (ki) rather than physical strength to overcome the other.
Over the next few months in PLoS Biology , we plan to explore the more pervasive of these misunderstandings, in an effort to expose the real challenges that need to be overcome and to identify some possible solutions.
The fears of opponents of Proposition 209, which eliminated racial preferences in California's public institutions, seemed to be coming true--despite the efforts of UC officials to compensate for the end of race preferences by giving an edge to students who have overcome economic hardships.
To overcome the difficulty of estimating the variance of microarray data with few or no biological replicates, so-called "cross-gene models", "global error models" or "local error models" have been proposed [ 7 8 ] . According to such models, genes with similar expression levels from the same chip can be "borrowed" to construct a pseudo sample as the basis to estimate the "global" or "local" errors for each individual gene.
I remember these moments, as I'm sure you do, and I also recall many other moving performances when our athletes reached deep within themselves to overcome what appeared to be insurmountable odds.