I know David Gilmour somewhat better than I know the other members of the band, and I was feeling diffident about the possibility that David would mind if the music was pushed into the background, half-heard, in order for my words to take the foreground.
User-defined settings were (a) GenePix negative-flagged spots for the print-tip loess, which were included for intra-array normalisation but excluded from any further analysis, and (b) a background-half correction method.
We then compared these data against CNV frequency data available from the general control population [2115 predominantly European background individuals; half from Ontario (19), and half from Germany (20)].
Jill's family ethnic background is half-French, half-Japanese, and she is a former operative of the U.S. Army's secretive special unit known as Delta Force, where she was an explosives expert.
Half the Havana-based company's dancers have a classical background, and half are from the world of contemporary dance.
Second, our targets were brighter than the background on half of the trials and darker than the background on the other half (our contrast sign manipulation).
But as a non-Baathist with a dangerous family background -- half his family was Communist, and his uncle was executed for being a founder of the outlawed Islamic Dawa Party -- he felt that his position was tenuous.
Analysis of the in vivo activities of full-length p53 oligomeric mutants reveals that while cell-cycle arrest requires tetrameric p53, transcriptional transactivation activity of monomers and dimers retain roughly background and half of the wild-type activity, respectively.
Anderson's own work, published this year in the journal Child Development, shows that kids three and under who played while an episode of the game show Jeopardy! aired in the background spent half as long with a toy before abandoning it, compared with those playing in the absence of the program.
