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Metabolites of such compounds might be more active than the parent compound.
Let be the genotype for the i th female parent and for the j th male parent.
For a particular subclade, JEvTrace can perform a parent or child trace, identifying the subclade specific conservation within a chain of parent or child subclades of a node (Figure 3a).
A Wall Street Journal feature flagged in its front-page news box explains how the recent settlement between General Tire and the union workforce at the company's facility in Charlotte, N.C., is the wave of the future: the union set up a Web site to give the union's take and also made it easy for strikers to e-mail company management in Charlotte and at the company's corporate parent in Germany.
I think that we are slowly beginning to understand the dynamics of why the disruption occurred: the changing role of women; the interaction of that change with "the pill"; the "freedom" that resulted for some men (no longer "responsible" for being a parent); the excesses that accompanied the moral "freedom" that many felt from normative setting institutions such as the church; and many of the other powerful ideas that caught on so very quickly (e.g., that mental illness did not exist) and shaped social policy.