In 1991, Castaneda was an ambitious young man from an elite but slightly peculiar background.
"Because of my peculiar background, I felt this war very keenly, and wished to serve the cause of democracy in the best way that seemed open to me," he writes, explaining that "a haunting sense of unreality, of not quite belonging, which has always bothered me, made me seek for an answer among the Nisei".
Further studies, however, are needed to evaluate the influence of a peculiar genetic background on antibody level and to explore therapeutic interventions that can be directed toward specific patient subgroups considered to have the highest risks.
Peculiar Ground, by Lucy Hughes-HaLucyt (Harper).
Jobbik insists that it is not racist, since the "unique form of delinquency" which the Roma are responsible for, it claims, can be explained by "their peculiar socio-cultural background, not genetic pre-determination".
I've just come from his office, – in the David Lean building, no less – where he has filled me in on the background to this particular, peculiar production of Anna Karenina.
Exploring the background behind the peculiar subject of his experiment – a mechanically spinning disc – reveals a hidden prehistory of spark-illuminated photography: physicists' pre-photographic techniques for stopping time.
She gave us a paragraph-length background on both, which seemed peculiar to me, since we'd all come specifically for them.
Thus, mapping signatures of selection may not be a very effective alternative to GWAS for the identification of genomic regions influencing economically important traits, as the peculiar structure of livestock populations generates high background.
However, by now substantial data has accumulated that the peculiar properties of certain targeted mutations on the C57BL/6J background are not seen when the mutation is expressed on the background of other popular strains such as FVB/N or 129/Sv, or mixed (hybrid) mouse backgrounds, or even in the patient, whose disease was modeled in the mouse.
His peculiar cosmopolitanism is partly the result of his background — his almost simultaneous discovery, as a child growing up in a small town in Chile, of Hollywood B-movies and classic European literature.
