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The executive effect was calculated by subtracting the mean RT of congruent conditions from the mean RT of incongruent conditions.
Neurite density was quantified in relation to the crushed tissue by assessing the average total fluorescence at a range of spatial positions along the longitudinal axis and subtracting the fluorescence due to neuronal cell bodies.
St. Peter’s Basilica is the largest of all Roman Catholic churches and by any standards a grandiose achievement, but it inevitably suffered from the competing visions of all the architects called in to collaborate — Bramante, Giuliano da Sangallo, Raphael, Baldassare Peruzzi, Michelangelo, Giacomo Della Porta, Domenico Fontana, and Carlo Maderno — each adding, subtracting, and modifying, often with a pope looking over his shoulder.
Temporal changes in gene expression for each gene were evaluated at each time point by subtracting log 2 (red/green) of the time zero measurement from the corresponding log 2 (red/green) ratio at each time point.
Lowess enables deviations from this expected behavior to be detected and corrected by performing a local weighted linear regression for each data point in the R-I plot and subtracting the average ratio from the experimentally observed ratio.