Since our aim was to measure expression profiles from very few cells, we tested whether WTA-based expression profiling provides reliable results from 100 pg of total RNA and how well these results compare to measurements from RNA equivalents of much larger cell populations, namely nanograms to micrograms of total RNA.
"This is the design equivalent of 'too much information.' ".
Detailed medical tests are out of the question for Tu's parents, whose combined monthly income is the equivalent of $350, much of which goes to medical care.
This suspicion was confirmed when I suggested the Germans, with no equivalent of "so much for that", simply use my original title.
The money — the equivalent of $1.4 trillion, much of it most likely "illegal or quasi-illegal" — is the equivalent of about 30 percent of China's gross domestic product, according to the study, which was conducted for Credit Suisse and published last week by the China Reform Foundation.
But in response to another letter, written after the Second Quartet was completed, in which Janacek confided that the third movement was a musical rendering of his wish that she would bear a child of his, I can only imagine what she might have thought: a 1920s Czech equivalent of too much information.
While her latter albums often became bogged down in the aural equivalent of too much information (Moist, from the 2004 album Damita Jo, being a particular nadir), Any Time, Any Place – an ode to public sex – is the perfect crystallisation of igniting a mood and remembering to make a memorable song.
In the lush farming region of Waimaro, one village spokesman produced receipts to show that Lolohea had collected the equivalent of as much as twenty-seven thousand dollars — a Fijian windfall — from thirteen impoverished villages in exchange for jobs in Kuwait which never materialized.
He starts asking me a few questions in Arabic, and I respond the best I can (I have been living in Saudi Arabia for 14 months and have picked up small amounts of the language), then he asks me if I know it fluently, and I'm fairly certain that I responded with the equivalent of "How much do you cost?" Whatever — I'm trying.
But now the FSB has officially said it has determined that a "homemade explosive device," with the equivalent of as much as 1 kilogram (2 lbs) of TNT, had ripped through the plane in midair.
