Treble-knotting its tie straps above my buttocks I slipped into the main pool, noting a dozen stout and swarthy forms spaced neatly around its circumference, like digits on a clock face.
"Glance at the men," the pooler noted, "and you know that it has been a long time since Richard Burton" — the nineteenth-century British explorer — "observed that he had never seen a fat man in the desert".
This number of individuals/pool was selected since we have extensively validated use of pools of this size [13] [17], [37], [38] with respect to statistical power as well as the advantages and disadvantages of pooling noted above.
If a more even representation of all samples is desired, a normalization step can be included before pooling (note that this adds about $1−3 per sample, depending on the quantitative PCR platform and reagents needed for quantifying the libraries before pooling).
People in Sandusky are proud of their Blue Hole, which is a bottomless pool… NOTES FOR A GAZETTEER about Winston-Salem, N.C.
Our future president probably also discovered, as I did, that wonderful community known as the law school study group, where overworked students divide responsibility for portions of a syllabus and then pool their notes and interpretations.
The speech is expected to last for about 10 minutes, a White House pool report notes.
For the second day in a row, the official also declined to say "whether POTUS plans to play golf," the pool report notes.
"There was an appropriately masculine embrace," the pool reporter noted.
"That narrows the pool, considerably," noted [Ellen P.] Chapnick, who set her friend up on a blind date.
"Both leaders were seated when reporters arrived in the room," the pool reporter noted.
