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Via Venti Settembre `20th of September Street' illustrates the Italian propensity for naming streets after historic dates, in this case the date of the breach in the ancient fortification wall of Rome, through which Italian troops stormed the city to bring the Risorgimento to an end.
However, the policy implications of any male propensity to fight would depend on other questions.
Assays of 30 randomly chosen clinical isolates from the middle ear of children with otitis media and from the sputum of adults with COPD show that isolates of nontypeable H. influenzae demonstrate striking differences in their propensity to grow as biofilms in vitro.
We did not find an association between diabetic ketoacidosis and viral infections other than hepatitis C, notably cytomegalovirus, nor did we find an association between diabetic ketoacidosis and antibody induction therapy, which would be expected to decrease immunity but might also allow for a greater propensity to viral infections.
Consideration of nucleotide bias at the 5' end of miRNA (including a propensity to begin with U) may improve predictions [ 11 ] , although we stress that our algorithms were designed to predict pre-miRNA genes and not mature miRNA sequences themselves.