So in honor of the upcoming Mother's Day, I picked a sampling of some of the favorite advice I have been given -- basically an Advice Anthology.
The weight was commonly given a hollow bottom filled with tallow to pick up a sample of the seabed for comparison with the composition indicated on the chart.
Following are the highlights of comments made by Warren Buffett and his vice chairman Charlie Munger, covering a broad range of issues, and picking a sample from over 1,500 questions submitted to them, in a Q&A session that lasted eight hours.
Based on this association, we pick a representative sample of relevant documents for each gene in Gw to form our corpus consisting of documents D={d1,..., dM} for topic modelling.
To get a better idea, a team led by astrophysicist Gabriele Ghisellini of the National Institute for Astrophysics in Merate, Italy, surveyed archival data and picked out a sample of 217 bright supermassive black holes for which they could find gamma ray observations (which reveal the brightness of the jets) and optical observations (to get the luminosity of the accretion disks).
Although the nasopharyngeal sampling in these studies was designed to recover primarily the major microbial colonizers of the nasopharyngeal space, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Moraxella catarrhalis, the method also picks up a sample of other natural inhabitants of the upper respiratory tract - such as S. aureus.
To better understand the nature of this subset, we picked a random sample of spots from the set of spots which showed at least a 1.5-fold difference in fluorescent intensities between wild-type and dyf13 mutant cells, and identified the corresponding proteins by mass spectrometry.
The study team carried out regular quality control procedures by picking a random sample of test kits from the shop for testing using standard positive blood samples.
To make sure that they are not coding RNAs, we picked a random sample of them and BLASTed them to see whether they have hits to coding RNA.
Right now, the device works something like a Nielsen survey -- it picks up a sampling of passing radios and then calculates patterns of listenership.
