Socrates' exposure and criticism of the ancients' error no doubt hints at what Plato sees as his philosophical forerunners' failure to recognize the essential stability of values.
Because BestKeeper software is designed to determine a reliable normalization factor but not to compute the goodness of each RG independently, we took as the stability-of-expression value the coefficient of determination of each gene to the BestKeeper index.
Another program, geNorm (Vandesompele et al. 2002), was used to calculate the average expression stability of M value and analyze the stability of the candidate reference genes.
Stability of the value of magnetic moment was observed to be ±0.05% per day which can be considered fare for sensitive experimentation.
The stability of this value allows these explosions to be used as standard candles to measure the distance to their host galaxies because the visual magnitude of the supernovae depends primarily on the distance.
The concentration of borate in the sample was considered an important parameter for sensitivity enhancement, mainly owing to the requirement of a high stability of pH value during derivatization of biological fluids, even in the presence of other buffering agents.
These mean measured values were plotted for each variable, to assess the stability of reported values over the 9-year follow-up period.
It may also account for the relative stability of %CD4/lymphocyte values in aged blood samples, since loss of lymphocytes with time is likely to affect both CD4-positive and CD4-negative lymphocytes to similar degrees.
Because the overall stability of parameter values over time cannot be easily measured, and because it is unknown if the model's parameters behave independently or in a colinear fashion, these sensitivity analysis predictions are relevant for hypothesis generation only.
Prmt1 was selected as a reference gene for heart based on the stability of expression values across all samples obtained from the microarray experiments and then tested by RT PCR.
Harmonic means were calculated using the sump command in MrBayes, with a conservative burn-in corresponding to the first 500,000 generations after assessing that stability of likelihood values had been reached in each case after much fewer generations.
