The p-value cutoffs used to define each signature were, in a sense, arbitrarily chosen, the idea being that a "sizable" number of genes (on the order of a few to several hundred) were desired to represent each pathway.
In the first interview sessions parents were asked to draw an ecomap [ 20], starting with a circle that represented the parent and adding other circles as desired to represent people, activities, and places that are part of their lives.
Assuming we desire to represent λ w within accuracy ε = 10− p, where p is some positive integer, then we need exactly (12) binary variables zℓ ∈ {0, 1}, so that λ w ≈∑ℓ=1 Z 2−ℓ zℓ.
In the 1940s, workers of the Stork Club desired to be represented by a union, and by 1957, the employees of all similar New York venues were union members.
Saunders quotes the philosopher Donna Haraway: "Taxidermy fulfills the fatal desire to represent, to be whole".
Bartoli's decision may have been linked to a desire to represent her country.
That West Indies cricket sustained itself at all was down to a collective desire to represent a region and show it had real strength.
Both have a passionately puritanical side, and are caught between a somewhat contradictory desire to represent sex and to idealize it.
The South African-born batsman also reiterated his desire to represent his adopted country again despite falling out with Flower and Paul Downton, the managing director of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
"We don't want to apologize for or throw water on Mr. Mavis's desire to represent his city," Bartlett told reporters Tuesday, according to The Tulsa World.
