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When we use the 'merging with overlap' procedure, we also look for the greatest number of subrepeats, but the length of the most representative repeat should be closer to the shortest repeat in the class.
The text says they are a favorite among criminals, but the stats go the other way: one box shows that SNSs only account for about 15 percent of all guns traced to crimes, and another shows that five of the nine models with the shortest time-in-existence-before-use-in-a-crime are not SNSs.
Sample joke: "Topping the list of top 20 shortest books of the century-- Al Gore: The Wild Years .")
8. The assumption of rising marginal costs (in any but the shortest of short terms) is widely regarded as the weak link in the logic of neoclassical economics.
The average sequence length of the Arabidopsis myosins is 1,400 residues, with the shortest sequence prediction being 1,085 (At VIIIA) amino acids and the longest 1,730 (At XIA).