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Cassidy offered an intriguing explanation: the metaphor probably originated in Caribbean folklore, which has it that sea turtles (the referent for caouane in standard French dictionaries) copulate for a hundred days at a time.
The article in the second half of the phrase, both makes the phrase appositional and indicates the upgrading of the referent.
, those who did not report to have used aspirin at least once a week for at least one year) served as the referent category throughout the logistic regression analyses.
The ambiguity probably arose from She/He taught her/him everything she/he knows (about something specified), in which the referent of the second She/he is ambiguous: common sense dictates that it refer to the subject of the sentence, not to the her or him, thus yielding the more reasonable She taught him everything she knows or He taught her everything she knows .
Rather, for each data permutation, we standardized the Welch statistic using an appropriate t referent distribution and used the resultant " p values" as described in the Method section; see also Westfall and Young [ 17 ] . By so taking into account between-group heterogeneity, Welch-SAM identified a set of up regulated genes that were not detected by t -SAM.