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Indeed, Lukas was so drawn to the story and its details that he sometimes seems to have lost his bearings, trying to read significance into every little shard of information that his research had uncovered.
Throughout the 19th century, the United States, keenly interested in the island’s strategic significance and its sugar market, had become increasingly involved in Cuban affairs.
If Freud had had his say on the significance of this Spoonerism he would probably have assumed that Mudd unconsciously voiced not only his unspoken disrespect for the Pope but also gave vent to the universally repressed notion that it is conceivable that a Pope could be a homosexual.
The genes having t -statistics that deviate markedly from the bulk of the observations were labeled as potentially having biological significance and may deserve further investigation [ 8 ] . Plots of t -statistics against average intensities and different components of t -statistics against each other (Figure 3) are especially useful in identifying genes with substantial statistics and in studying the features of these genes [ 7 ] . The average intensity for each gene is the average of the mean expression level for the patient and the control groups.
Qualified critics who request money from the NIH to look for viruses are told by NIH bureaucrats that if the virus turns out not to exist, then their study will have been "of insufficient significance and scientific merit" and thus not worth doing.