Those choices by consumers, especially in the aggregate, represent an economic matter that Congress may decide to regulate.
But the effect is to transfer life-insurance policies, which in aggregate represent $4 trillion of customers' assets, to entities which often do not have licences to issue insurance themselves and are beyond the scrutiny of credit-rating agencies.
These marine dead zones in aggregate represent 95,000 square miles (about 20 times larger than the area impacted by last year's BP oil spill).
A soil aggregate represents a key soil structural unit that influences several physical soil properties such as water infiltration, runoff and erosion.
We showed that a 3-D aggregate representing the actual microstructure of the composite is required to understand the local and global mechanical properties of the composite studied.
Optimization of SPR experiments involving "sticky" proteins, or proteins that tend to aggregate, represents a typical scenario where it is important to minimize errors in the data and the kinetic analysis of those data.
An elementary volume (3D aggregate), representing the inner surface and sub-surface of the 304L steel tube, is built from successive polishings and orientation mappings thanks to an Electron Back Scattering Diffraction method.
Indeed, it is interesting that within our aggregates, we observe what appears to be a legacy of differentiation, with a mineralized core in the centre of the aggregate, representing the original aggregates which formed in static suspension culture and a non mineralized cortex.
Curiously, the loss of SDS-stable Sup35 NM aggregates from a particular lineage coincided with a loss of detectable fusion protein, as assessed by Western blot analysis, suggesting that the loss of aggregates represented an indirect consequence of a radical drop in protein levels (see 'Discussion').
