Mr. Payton argued that the cutoff score on a written examination to define the pool of qualified applicants had a disparate impact on minorities -- a contention to which the city conceded.
In this study, single, metabolic gene knockouts define the pool of bacterial strains among which potential cross-feeding interactions are examined.
The termite 'digestome' is defined as the pool of host and symbiont genes that collaborate to achieve high efficiency lignocellulose digestion in the termite gut [ 5].
The core genome is defined as the pool of genes corresponding to the orthologous protein coding genes present in all strains.
This repertoire includes the core genome, defined as the pool of genes shared by all strains of a given species, and the dispensable genome constituted by genes present in some, but not all, strains of the same species [ 11].
An animal's condition is defined by the pool of resources available to allocate to the production and maintenance of traits that enhance fitness, and reflects an individual's ability to acquire food, avoid predators, and resist disease [ 1].
"To see the actual framing of the void is a major step in filling in the wound," said Joseph C. Daniels, the president and chief executive of the memorial and museum, as he looked across ground zero on Oct. 31, toward the embryonic north pool and the pale-green steel framework that has begun to define the south pool, the site of 2 World Trade Center.
Total investment costs for RE at the stage of planning and installation, as well as the revenue from the sales of RE at the stage of system operation define the overall pool of value that a region can theoretically capture from the investment and operation of RE.
There are three broad approaches to defining the donor pool.
Based on the extent of this overlap and prior characterization of these gradients [ 16] we operationally define the PM pool in these gradients to be in fractions 15-20.
