People are often described as though they were a particular kind of substance, a specific subgroup within the over-all category of objects, whose distinguishing features happen to include consciousness and autonomous motion.
Category Z was created to include permease function, distinguishing sugar permeases (Zs) and other permeases (Zr).
For the first time an organism exists that got its genome not from the direct replication of another organism's, but from a description of another organism's, stored in a computer – and slightly modified, at that, to include a distinguishing "watermark" that might as well be, and perhaps already is, a trademark.
Thus, there are different levels of action to be distinguished, and these include at least the following: unconscious and/or involuntary behavior, purposeful or goal directed activity (of Frankfurt's spider, for instance), intentional action, and the autonomous acts or actions of self-consciously active human agents.
Distinguished graduates include Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, a Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist, and naturalist Roy Chapman Andrews.
Distinguished alumni include Apple cofounder Steve Wozniak and Google CEO Eric Schmidt.
Distinguished alumni include President William Howard Taft and Joseph B. Strauss, constructor of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Furthermore, we believe the existence of two separate clusters to be biologically plausible, insofar as the gene signature used to distinguish them includes a number of genes and pathways known to be important in the pathophysiology of sepsis and inflammation.
The receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve was used to select the optimal cutoff value according to the maxima of sensitivity and specificity to distinguish CIN3+ (including CIN3, CIS, SCC, AC and ASC) and CIN2− (including normal controls, CIN1 and CIN2) patients [ 30].
Though MTV currently enjoys strong ratings for hits like "Jersey Shore," it has surely noticed the ever-expanding roster of scripted shows that other cable networks are using to distinguish themselves, including AMC, Starz, TBS and Spike.
