A minor specimen of his image ownership is his ballyhooed "half interest" in the Empire State Building, which he acquired in 1994.
For those of us who had been missing those old-style numbers (George Balanchine and Frederick Ashton excelled in them) in which a ballerina seemed to make something out of nothing, it was oddly endearing to see a new if minor specimen of the genre.
Mosquitoes that could not be identified morphologically directly in the field due to minor specimen damage such as a missing leg or wing were sent to the Amani Research Centre of the National Institute for Medical Research NIMRR) for further identification assistance.
Water samples, sediments and free floating macrophytic plant, Lemna minor specimens were collected from five designated sites in Anchar lake (Srinagar, J&K, India) to assess its heavy metal (Cu, Cr, Zn, Ni, Cd, Pb) load and changes on seasonal basis.
Insect specimens included gut contents from the worker castes of three lower termite species, Zootermopsis nevadensis (ChiA1), Reticulitermes hesperus (ChiA2), and Insisitermes minor (Pas1), and specimens of two cockroach species, Cryptocercus punctulatus (nymph and adult) and Periplaneta americana (adult).
To demonstrate the ability of real-time PCR assays to detect drug-resistant viruses present as minor variants in specimens, assays for L90M, K103N, Y181C, M184V and T215Y were applied to assortment of clinical samples that had major resistance mutations, but had no evidence of the targeted mutation by bulk sequencing.
The cases included detailed photographing and video tape-recording of histories and certain practical diagnostic and therapeutic procedures (e.g. "direct microscopy", Doppler sound investigation, taking of skin biopsy specimens, minor skin surgery).
The system has been integrated with an FEI Tecnai microscope and does not require any modification to the microscope and only minor modifications to the specimen holder.
When the heating temperature over 500 °C, the high temperature damage play a major role, but the PPF melting channels provide path for steam overflowing, which made the specimen suffered minor high temperature damage, so its incorporation provides a positive impact on flexural strength in this temperature range (HRPC2 > HRPC1).
X-ray parameters (voltage, current, and power) were the same for all five scans (150 kv, 0.24 mA); slight differences in the source-object distance (<7.9 mm) resulted from minor orientation differences for the specimen among the specimen scans (N, A, B, C, and D), and a scanner software update between scans B and C that changed some instrument parameters.
For phytopathogenic species it is not uncommon that only minor parts of the specimens are affected by the disease and often herbarium specimen consist only of a single leaf.
