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2. chorometry : land surveying :: atmidometry : ?
An impeccable, moustachioed Sergeant Major MacMahan, gaunt like all the others, wearing the beret and polished insignia of a Scots regiment, stood erect as a flagpole at one end of the barrack hut surveying it all, the angel in charge.
At the request of this Subcommittee, we are surveying federal managers again to follow up on whether there have been improvements in these critical areas.
The technique of RNAi, whereby the introduction of a sequence-specific double-stranded RNA leads to degradation of matching mRNAs [ 62 ] , has allowed the systematic surveying of thousands of C. elegans genes for phenotypes following transient gene knockout [ 63 64 65 ] . Such information is potentially transferable to understanding which genes have crucial roles in parasitic nematodes where high-throughput RNAi is not yet possible.
Written in 18 th century English ("magical" is spelled "magickal," for example, and the predominant punctuation marks are the dash and the apostrophe), it tells the picaresque tale of two astronomers best known for surveying the Mason-Dixon line, which separates Pennsylvania from Maryland and the American cultural North from the cultural South.