Participants resided in 22 clusters on the main island and 6 from Rodrigues, constituting representative samples.
While the seed alignments are claimed to be phylogenetically diverse, constituting representative sequences from different phyla, the large number of sequences that make up the final optimal alignments for each group from NCBI sources may give false impressions of the level of sequence conservation at a given site due to sampling bias in the databases themselves.
The result, which he calls well-ordered science, is a system in which the decisions actually made track the decisions that would be a made by a suitably constituted representative body collectively deliberating with the assistance of relevant information (concerning, e.g., cost and feasibility) supplied by experts.
Totally, 1007 out of 1426 candidates (response rate 70.6%) agreed to participate, constituting a representative sample of the population living in this particular area.
Consequently, the low response rates in USA and Canada have the potential of constituting a representative survey, but organizational or cultural differences needs to be further considered.
The sample consisted of 2,948 subjects constituting a representative sample of the German population interviewed by a demographic consulting company (USUMA, Berlin) in 1994.
For the present study, we selected a set of 40 genomes from different bacterial species (Table 1), constituting a representative sample of the prokaryotic world in terms of evolutionary distance, genome complexity and GC content.
Participation was high and the global estimated coverage was approximately 87% of all hospitals in Benin, thus constituting a representative sample of acute care institutions in terms of region, type of wards, hospital size, and teaching status.
As indicated in Table 1, the four hospitals and twelve specialty clinics ranged in size and specialty, thereby constituting a representative sample of hospitals and specialty clinics in the Netherlands.
This hospitalized-based population from whom a blood sample was collected does not constitute a representative sample and cannot be considered representative of the entire child population.
Furthermore, it is not obvious that the potential cyclists are a representative sample of all non-cyclists, nor that the new cyclists will constitute a representative sample of all regular cyclists.
