To find the median mark for a group of marks, list them in ascending order and take the middle mark in the list; for example, it is the fifth of nine marks on a nine-judge panel.
For example: of this rather striking mark, or group of marks, our panel asserts it is a "[f]irst century Christian monogram in Hebrew and Greek letters; it means 'Jesus Christ Son of the Father' " — quite a lot to pack into that squiggle, especially when we consider that both Hebrew and Greek are alphabetic, not pictographic languages.
Western diplomats conceded that less had been achieved than had been hoped, but claimed that the Baghdad meeting had met the minimum goal set by the six-nation group, of marking the start of the first serious and detailed negotiations about Iran's nuclear programme since January 2011.
This distinction between these two groups of marks is evident when examining levels of histone modification at individual loci.
PLAB graduates are shown as the 12 red points, corresponding to the different grouping of marks at the first attempt at PLAB Part 1, relative to the pass mark.
They allow for marketers to feel they are directly addressing a group of easy marks.
The change, announced Thursday night in a letter that Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius sent to a group of senators, marks the first exception the administration has allowed to the law's so-called individual mandate.
Moreover, while all forms of methylated H3K27 can be found over genes and are associated with transcriptional repression, little overlap is observed between the small group of genes marked by H3K27me1 and the much larger set of genes marked by H3K27me2/3, suggesting that these modifications define two repressive pathways with distinct gene targets (Supplementary Tables VI and VII).
Hemophilia (actually a group of disorders, marked by different missing blood factors) has no cure.
In the late 1960s Stella expanded his use of colour in the Protractor series, an influential group of paintings marked by intersecting geometric and curvilinear shapes and plays of vivid and harmonious colours, some of which were fluorescent.
Trekking up through the Khumbu valley, I encounter at least 60 climbers heading to the summit: bearded Norwegians, an American multimillionaire with his own high-altitude camera crew, a group of Gurkhas marking their 200th anniversary with an attempt on the summit, a documentary team, and on the long walk back from Kandi Sherpa's home, a dozen or more climbing Sherpas.
