In Ms. Clinton's case, IAC said her "skills and background complement the existing areas of expertise of other board members".
Assessing the population impacts of disease, particularly those caused by emerging pathogens, within wildlife populations is problematic because little is known of the background species complement of their parasites and because the detection and diagnosis of disease in most wildlife species is challenging.
Trained in botany (BS, 1939) and plant physiology [ 2] with minors in biochemistry and microbiology at Cornell University, NY, USA, Dr Mandels' background complemented the array of projects in the Pioneering Research Laboratories at NLABS.
Similarly, testes from a M/+ animal harboring wild-type clones (labeled M+), which normally predominate in a M/+ heterozygous background, contained a normal complement of GSCs (Supplementary Fig S6B).
In addition to unmutagenized parent wheat lines, wild-type segregant siblings resulting from the same crosses performed to combine TILLING mutations were used as controls for analysis throughout this report since they contained a similar complement of background mutations in the genome.
The detection accuracy of the data matrices W and S in distinguishing the four interaction categories (SL, SS, PE and PS) from the background variability (i.e. the complement of the category in the dataset under evaluation) was assessed using the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curves [61].
Similar results were obtained by using the full complement of human genes as background.
Using the complement of the dilated cell region mask, the background pixel intensity of the multichannel image was measured.
Given the degree of molecular diversity observed in human prion disease, it may be extremely difficult to isolate the full complement of human prion strains in transgenic mice having a single genetic background.
Our main result proves unitary equivalence of the doubly commuted operator, restricted to the orthogonal complement of the eigenspace corresponding to the newly inserted eigenvalues, with the original background operator.
