After the species of the captured rodents was determined, a small piece of the spleen (500 mg) from each animal was used to extract DNA.
Either way, the result is a pain in the P.C. Users should ask themselves this question, Mr. Methwin said: "Is the benefit it offers me really worth the reduction in systems resources and stability?" Once a user has determined that a piece of software has become an unwelcome guest, the next challenge is to get rid of it.
His work showed that, in the earliest stages, the fate of the embryonic parts has not been determined: if a piece of presumptive skin tissue is excised and transplanted into an area of presumptive nervous tissue, it will form nervous tissue, not skin.
In another instance, FCI Petersburg officials determined that a piece of legal mail from "Todd Bussert, Esquire, Attorney at Law," complete with the appropriate bright red stamps, didn't qualify as legal mail.
Knife wear and the use of a piece breaker determined a marked increase in the incidence of small chips (8 3 mm) and fine particles (<3 mm), and a parallel reduction in the incidence of large chips (45 9 mm).
Ms. Moore said that letting audience members determine "how a piece of music sounds -- to a large degree, not to a cosmetic degree -- is clearly something very new and radical".
However, although Castano and Kidd proved that literary fiction improves social empathy, at least by some measures, they were not prepared to nail their colours to the mast when it came to using the results to determine whether a piece of writing is worthy of being called literary.
It might be used to determine if a piece of food is contaminated with nasties like salmonella or if a cute little doll is stuffed with cocaine.
Laudan points out that it is often very hard or even impossible for a judge to determine whether a piece of evidence is unfairly prejudicial.
