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These responses were almost comparable, but slightly weaker, in TLR2-, TLR4- and TLR7-deficient mice relative to wild-type mice, suggesting that this enhancing effect is not due to plausible LPS contamination.

That's much better than Mr. Santorum was polling before Iowa, but slightly weaker than he was polling in surveys conducted on Wednesday and Thursday, which had him with 22 percent support on average.

The results in Panel D are similar but slightly weaker: 77.9% and 45.9%, respectively.

but slightly weaker in the latter case (5.1 p.p. relative to the baseline effect of 6.7 p.p).

The index was up 0.6% for August, its fourth-straight positive month, but slightly weaker than July's 0.9% advance.

Similar but slightly weaker spike patterns were observed in New York City, Washington and Chicago over the same time (in UTC).

Luca Canonici is an appealing but slightly weak tenor soloist.

The story essentially revolves around Mr. Harding, a good natured but slightly weak episcopal minister, trying to find his way, alongside his extended family, amongst the catty and manipulative ecclesiastical hierarchy plying its "business" in the shadow of Barchester Cathedral.

But slightly weaker-than-expected sales in the final quarter of fiscal 2014, coupled with concerns over the anticipated termination of a key services agreement, had investors dumping the stock once again earlier in the year.

Compared to the qPCR, the microarray strategy presents thus a well higher throughput but a slightly weaker sensitivity [ 133, 137].

After adjusting for PCBs, DDE, and HCB, the association between BDE-209 and cognitive development remained, but was slightly weaker.