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Additionally, health care costs in the three months before the influenza/ILI episode serve as a surrogate for the overall health status of a patient and could reflect the severity of the underlying diseases.
Results were examined for indications of whether or not the presence of ferrate in and of itself was sufficient to make the Martian surrogate soil self-sterilizing over a non-geologic time frame.
Ms. Lewinsky's increasingly creepy mouthpiece, William Ginsburg, cooperates with Time reporters--witness this week's long, generally sympathetic piece on "Monica's World," which portrays Ginsburg as her "surrogate dad" and describes, presumably on some authority, the ex-interns own thoughts (e.g., "You didn't do anything wrong!").
We used M. smegmatis as the host because it grows much more rapidly than does M. tuberculosis (generation time of 3 hrs vs. 24 hrs), does not require BSL-3 facilities, and is more easily manipulated genetically than M. tuberculosis . One possible advantage of using a surrogate host is that studies could be focused on one particular regulator which might avoid complications due to other regulatory proteins in the cell that may be able to recognize promoters in the library.
When the surrogate makes a sick joke and the guards erupt in laughter, the head guard, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks), silences them worriedly.