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The script, meanwhile, is the stuff of bad two character plays, with spurious excuses for conflict (Boone storms out when Whale speaks tenderly of the naked, young men who once populated his pool) and a long, climactic monologue about a (fictional) wartime trauma that ostensibly shocked Whale into keeping his past under wraps.
Suspecting that this first phrase was spurious, Today's Papers now regrets not having mentioned this anomaly.)
If whole-length proteins were used, the searches were carried out using the composition-based statistics [ 37] in order to prevent the detection of spurious matches that could arise from low-complexity segments in the query or target proteins.
A spurious association due to population stratification can only occur when two conditions hold: (i) the population strata differ with respect to the phenotype, and (ii) the population strata differ in allele frequencies.
The story reports one countermeasure the Federal Trade Commission has put into play: the establishment of a "teaser sting site" (one of a dozen relating to various spurious health claims and get-rich-quick schemes) that promotes fake impotence and sex aids but leads to nothing more than a warning that such e-commerce is dubious.