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As an example, we show alignments and RNA folds of the four insect orthologs of 2R:11128979, which all adopt canonical, high-scoring stem-loop structures and collectively display patterns of nucleotide divergence characteristic of genuine miRNAs (preponderance of divergence within the loop, slightly less divergence along a nonconserved arm, and perfect conservation of a putative miRNA-encoding arm) (Figure 6).
The LAT lead summarizes the Clinton budget proposal as channeling the preponderance of forecasted surpluses into fixing Social Security and Medicare as well as to new expenditures in the areas of defense and social spending.
However, when these data are taken in combination with the reduced parallel neurite growth from neurons preincubated with NGF or treated with cAMP analogs, conditions known to interfere with the overall inhibitory effects of myelin on neurite growth (see discussion below), there appears to be a preponderance of data suggesting that the loss of myelin is directly responsible for the reduced parallel orientation of neurite growth.
Reporters, however, scrupulously pointed out that a civil trial only requires proof by a "preponderance of evidence" rather than proof "beyond a reasonable doubt."
The Guardian, another liberal British newspaper, said in an editorial that the U.S. refusal to accept Cuban and Iranian inspectors in a team due to inspect U.S. chemical-weapons facilities was justified by "precisely the same argument used by Baghdad about the preponderance of US--and British--inspectors on the team now in dispute."
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