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, add two years if you're a happily married man, and subtract three if you don't exercise), while a sidebar explains the many benefits and few risks of estrogen therapy.
However--Boy and Girl Scouts that we are--we subtract this double counting in the figures we report.
To calculate the increase in the amount of membrane fatty acid in a particular group of seedlings, it is necessary to subtract the amount of seed fatty acid (both storage and non-storage) remaining in those seedlings from the total amount of fatty acid present in the seedlings.
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Let the signal obtained at spot number i from hybridization with the probe derived from muscle mRNA be denoted as H i . It may be represented as the sum of a background signal B i due to hybridization solely to the polyA segment in the spot, plus the gene-specific hybridization H i ', i.e., H i = B i + H i '. If we knew the background polyA hybridization B i , for example, by inferring its value from hybridization with the oligo(dT) probe, we could subtract the polyA background to obtain a corrected gene-specific hybridization signal, i.e.