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However, in spite of the glamour, Hollywood’s rather seedy image persisted.
Many high-scoring candidates were previously noticed to be rich in complementary nucleotide repeats (such as CAG, UUG and CUG, AUAU, or poly(A)-poly(U) repeats) and were presumed to be poor candidates in spite of occasionally remarkable helical structure: nearly all of them were eliminated by the step 3 filters.
The hero, in a sense, is the company doctor, who helps Vincent realize his dreams of becoming an astronaut in order to spite the biotech-state (the doctor's own eugenically planned son "didn't turn out the way they promised").
In spite of political barriers, the academic circle in the mainland of China prefer dian nao to their original translation of calculating machine: calculating being just one of the several functions of computers, Taiwan's translation is felt to be more exact.
Other works [ 21 ] indicate that global optimalization of the l 1norm of expansion's coefficients might be the best choice [ 17 ] , but, in spite of recent advances in linear programming, computational complexity is still very high.