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A term appointment would provide continuity that spans the tenure of the political leadership and thereby help to ensure that long-term stewardship issues are addressed and change management initiatives are successfully completed.
We provide the z-value corresponding to the middle of each percentile step - e.g. for the 5 thpercentile, which spans babies from >4% to 5%, we present the z-value corresponding to 4.5%.
At least it does appear, based on the spans analyzed, that the discards were judiciously chosen.
A putative first exon, corresponding to the 5' end of the Celera transcript, maps at least 74-kb upstream of exon 2. Based on a combination of the public and Celera assemblies, the APBA2 transcriptional unit spans >197 kb.
Allen Walker Read, whose distinguished career now spans seven decades, contributed solid yet always thoroughly enjoyable papers, and in addition has given us the handy phrase “place-name cover” to describe how place names indeed blanket the country with richness, color, and texture.