The rest of the U.S. market is highly fragmented and handled by small, independent companies or farmer-owned cooperatives.
We observed efficient deposition of DNA molecules of up to 300 kilobase pairs in length from these droplets, as shown in Figure 4, though the vast majority of the DNA molecules are fragmented (due to handling prior to deposition) to lengths between 15 and 80 kbp (Supporting Information, Figure 6).
Here, SNP-typing methods will be very useful because many of the typing techniques can handle fragmented DNA in low quantities.
The lawsuit stems from a bizarre practice that arose over decades because of Medicare's fragmented and loosely administered process for handling beneficiary claims.
And he must determine how to handle claims from fragmented families, and how to cope with the inequities that are sure to emerge in awards made to victims of such widely disparate economic circumstances.
The thinktank said local authorities currently handle relatively small and fragmented pots of money for transport, housing, skills and economic development, and this makes co-ordination across economic policy areas more difficult.
As society has become more fragmented, European leaders have struggled with how to handle a wave of immigration from Islamic countries grappling with war, poverty and oppressive governments.
LAS VEGAS — At its disorganized, fragmented peak, Manny Pacquiao's endorsement strategy was being handled by anywhere between 30 and 50 friends who claimed to represent him and made hundreds of cold calls, often to the same company.
Developers need to carefully consider how to handle the tradeoffs described in this paper when developing fragmented video carving tools.
Since we compute a probability distribution over the entire state space, our approach can handle complex trajectories that may include same season loop-closures as well as fragmented sub-sequences.
