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In 2014, I initiated a Change.org petition calling on the Obama administration to address the FGM problem in the US by first ascertaining the prevalence of FGM here and then devise a national plan to end the practice and provide services to FGM survivors.

If routine practice had been followed, by first ascertaining the scale and extent of landslide, and then making the official decision, action would have been delayed, and casualties would almost certainly have resulted.

We examined whether TrkA participates in the neurite growth-promoting actions of proNGF in postnatal SCG neurons by first ascertaining whether proNGF activates TrkA in these neurons.

Therefore, we focused our attention on the MAPK pathway by first ascertaining if there was constitutive signaling from integrins through to ERK by measuring the levels of pFAK, pMEK, and pERK in non-adherent suspension cells.

Numerous researchers, including ourselves, have studied polymorphic Alu insertion loci by first ascertaining them in a small set of individuals and then genotyping them in a larger set using locus-specific PCR primers and gel electrophoresis [ 4, 43- 45].

Much of our knowledge about the patterns of ME insertion variation, especially in humans, has been collected by first ascertaining polymorphic ME insertion loci in a small sample of chromosomes and then genotyping those loci in a larger sample from the population (e.g., [ 3- 5]).

Optimum collector configurations were first ascertained by FEA modelling.

Accuracy of the theoretical formulations and the solution method is first ascertained by comparing the results with that already available in the literature.

That the salary of a judge shall not be increased or diminished during his continuance in office, otherwise than by general regulations of salary, which may take place on a revision of the subject at stated periods of not less than seven years, to commence from the time such salaries shall be first ascertained by Congress.

Since we decided to focus on miR-20a throughout the experiments, the presence of the mature form in MEF cells was first ascertained by Northern blot (Figure 1c).

DNA polymorphisms were first ascertained by dHLPC, combined with DNA sequencing, in a panel of 40 genomic samples representing individuals of sub-Saharan African, Native American, European, Middle Eastern, and Southeast/East Asian descent [ Sinnett et al., 2006].