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The WTO is a non-democratic (unless you want to stretch the definition of "democratic" to absurd proportions) organization with great power to affect, well, everyone . It is symptomatic of the decay of accountability and legitimacy in ostensibly democratic, people-centered government.
The weight matrix match is a surrogate for the energetic preference of a transcription factor for a particular sequence, and Ahab models the competition of several factors and their binding energies for a stretch of DNA (a module).
The program was designed to provide the instantaneous frequency of the afferent spikes at the corresponding amplitudes of the displacement motor that produced the muscle stretch.
Strings of prayer flags stretch from the tower’s pinnacle, and around the base are hundreds of small prayer wheels.
Another piece wonders how the Jefferson legacy might change: "While it will require a rather large stretch to transform Jefferson from a thinking man's racist to a multicultural hero, some commentators are sure to make the leap."