Finally, the hierarchical framework ensured that both local multi-voxel patterns within a cluster and global multi-cluster patterns within the brain were used so that information at different spatial scales was taken into account in the MVPA analysis.
Primers for premature miR156b rather than mature miR156 sequence were used so that measurement of transcripts originating from other miR156 genes would be excluded.
For equally parsimonious gap parameters, selected parameters (gap opening penalty of -1,000 and gap extension penalty of -10) were used so that known "young" transposition events were treated as a single insertion/deletion event.
Lid locks were used so that the moisture content does not decrease rapidly (see Fig. 4).
Random gap lengths were used so that we could test the effects of differing sound introduction points in an active period.
These quantities (volumes) were used so that at least 60%% of the length of the thermistor probe would be submerged in the liquid mixture.
Newly planted rather than established trees were used so that commercially viable species could be planted in a way that would suit the management of the chicken enterprise, and small colonies were used so that farmers wishing to diversify could buy into the system progressively.
For the Young's modulus and Poisson ratio of each element, the artificial mandible manufacturer's publicly disclosed values were used so that they would be similar to the physical properties of the experimental model.
Nighttime land surface temperature (LST) data were used so that sun reflection does not affect the observation and we get actual emissivity data from the earth surface (Huang and Pollack 1997).
The fusion vectors eYFP-C1 and eYFP-N1 (BD Biosciences Clontech, San Jose, CA, USA) were used so that we could readily assess the presence of stably inserted OX40L DNA.
In our experiments, relatively low shear rates and low temperatures were used, so that the entangled network chains cannot be broken up or disentangled, and the shish nuclei must be formed from oriented and stretched network chains instead of a bundle of pulled-out chains.
