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Raymond Pepi, president of Building Conservation Associates in Manhattan, said that the earliest methods were often used to analyze interior paint finishes in residential buildings and were derived from the work of art restorers, who often had to strip away successive layers of paint.

The administration does not acknowledge scaling back the Central Intelligence Agency's secret detention program, perhaps to avoid implying that earlier methods were immoral or illegal.

Mr Sarkozy insists that earlier methods were too lax, treating policemen like social workers not law-enforcement officers.

These early methods were problem specific.

However, although these earlier methods were good at estimating the average BMI of a population, they were not so good at estimating the percentage of people in each state with BMIs at either end of the extreme — the underweight and the obese.

Documentation was limited for many years because holo-TC II concentrations are very small and early methods were crude and often indirect (69).

Early methods were sufficiently developed to examine a limited set of genes with bisulfite sequencing, methylation-sensitive PCR or methylation-sensitive restriction enzyme analysis.

Early methods were based on PCR and included degenerate oligonucleotide-primed (DOP) PCR [ 8], primer extension pre-amplification (PEP) [ 9], and ligation-mediated PCR [ 10].

The early methods are mainly based on coherent estimation and subtraction of RFIs [2].

Most of the earlier methods are not ideal since they are time-consuming, have high limits of detections, use of surplus organic solvents, strenuous sample preparation, involve expensive instrumentation and long chromatographic run times.

The first membrane protein topology prediction algorithms were based solely on the hydrophobicity plots, for example, [ 14, 16, 18], and it seemed that the performance of these early methods was rather poor in practice.