"From Ashes of Yukos, New Russian Oil Giant Emerges" (news article, March 27), about the politically motivated expropriation of Yukos and the current rigged "sale" of its assets, did not mention that the renationalization of the company sanctioned by President Vladimir V. Putin did not simply affect the company's now-imprisoned billionaire chief executive, Mikhail B. Khodorkovsky.
The flaw in the theory became apparent as soon as it was proved, once and for all, that irresponsible behaviour in a market did not simply affect the parties involved but could also, thanks to the knock-on effects of modern derivatives, bring whole national economies to their knees.
The researchers still didn't know, however, whether NO was working in the lantern or simply affecting the nerves that trigger the flashing.
Both the simulations and experiments clarify that the random defects in nanohole arrays simply affect the focusing efficiency of microlenses and the focusing coupling effect as predicted occurs under both the single wavelength and broadband illumination.
Therefore, repeated immunization of wild-type mice increased the susceptibility to prion diseases by modulating prion accumulation, spread, and/or propagation rather than by simply affecting the onset of clinical signs.
However, if the Ser667Phe mutation simply affected the affinity of the mutant band 3 for GPA, then a titration of GPA with S667F-B3 would be expected to show a linear relationship.
But does reward simply affect the accumulation of sensory evidence and the motor response, or does it also affect neuronal representations of the sensory stimulus, for example in visual cortical area V5/MT?
Thus, the environment does not simply affect the individual aging rate through stochastic effects (e.g. U.V). but also modulates the activation of a particular program/strategy that influences lifespan (e.g. caste, calorie intake).
Nonetheless, more studies are required to answer the following questions: does the presence of SNP rs12252-C allele results in expression of the truncated IFITM3 protein, which localizes differently from the full length IFITM3, or does it simply affect the level of expression of IFITM3?
Freddie Mac has said repeatedly, and emphasized again yesterday, that the restatement has no impact on the actual results of its business last year, and simply affects when the profits it made in 2002 are reported.
