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In order for the system to reliably characterize gene expression, correspondence between the quantity of transcript and the numerical measure selected as its proxy (intensity) must be demonstrated.
So long as color is a proxy for entitlement, there will be many who find it useful to ostentatiously posit a conflict between their racial core and their assimilated shell.
Another limitation of the present study is the fact that investigators were proxy respondents, rather than patients responding themselves.
Instead they tested each other constantly in proxy wars, for instance, and over Taiwan.
This tells us about the age of the victim , not of the shooter, but it's the best rough proxy I've seen in my professional readings (I teach a seminar on firearms regulation at UCLA Law School).