Many methods have been developed to identify conserved sequences across species; however, existing methods only model conservation as a decrease in the rate of mutation and have ignored selection acting on the pattern of mutations.
This is also an outcome of the fact that most miRNA prediction tools take phylogenetic conservation as a strong validation parameter, thus generating a bias towards the non-conserved in the pool of yet to be discovered miRNAs.
He is correct to identify energy conservation as a key issue, but there his insight ends.
Mr. Nadel believes conservation as a national policy will not arrive until it costs too much to avoid it.
After all, Theodore Roosevelt, one of the greatest Republican presidents, launched conservation as a national political movement.
Gone were references to conservation as a mere "personal virtue" with no place in sound public policy.
The rising cost of gasoline could be thwarted if the administration promoted conservation as a national policy.
But with opinion polls showing that more than three-quarters of Japanese people view energy conservation as a personal responsibility, many are willing to pay.
This grant is part of the foundation's larger program to promote wildlife conservation as a source of sustainable economic development in Botswana".
This reasoning is pervasive in the U.S., its most prominent spokesman being Vice-President Dick Cheney, who once dismissed energy conservation as a "sign of personal virtue".
But Dick Cheney dismissed conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," and administration officials waved aside pleas for a price ceiling.
