The NAS report correctly states that "a gene drive knows no political boundaries" and identifies the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) and its protocols as one of the key international governance bodies that must address gene drive governance (the three that it fails to mention are ENMOD, the Biological weapons Convention and the UN Committee on World Food Security).
Central to the case studies are actors' efforts to create a regional identity, including forming institutions, defining regional boundaries, and identifying social/symbolic shapes for the region.
We have already remarked on the fact that neither modern nor classical Chinese use spaces, but machine learning algorithms for modern Chinese are at least able to latch onto punctuation, which helps in distinguishing word boundaries and identifying probabilistic patterns.
In addition, compared to traditional soil survey methods, EMI can more effectively characterize diffuse soil boundaries and identify areas of dissimilar soils within mapped soil units, giving soil scientists greater confidence when collecting spatial soil information.
To distinguish between haplotypes that originated from recombination and those that arose by mutations, the RECMIN program [18] implemented in SNAP Workbench [20] was used to calculate site compatibility matrices of each locus, determine the recombination boundaries, and identify putative recombinant haplotypes.
The alignment was then inspected for structural mutations and adjusted manually to preserve tandem repeat boundaries and identify inversions.
Muscles are also preserved in each trunk segment of Thylacares brandonensis and help to define their boundaries and identify the segment count.
Sakaguchi et al. (2011) measured R o across the dark gouges in the megasplay fault and the plate-boundary thrust and identified zones of anomalous R o values symmetrically distributed around the gouges (Figure 6).
TEM inspection of the FIB sliced samples determines that the most brittle phase in the coating is the C-enriched columnar boundary, and identifies the location of failure within the interlayer.
The coincidental site lattice (CSL) model is a powerful mathematical tool to characterize grain boundaries (GBs) and identify 'special' boundaries, which display beneficial mechanical behavior.
