Another method of creating a candidate virus also mixes wild virus with a second, fast-growing strain, but instead of growing them in eggs, lets the viruses mingle in a special solution while scientists manipulate them through a complex technique called reverse genetics.

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The RHN invented a complex assessment technique known as SMART, which explores all five senses.

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Through complex algorithms, the technique can extract patterns or anomalies in data collections that a human analyst could not possibly discern.

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Such an attack is easily sustained if, as the Ehrlichs do, the technique is to sum up a complex view in a sentence and then attack it as parody.

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To do so, astronomers resort to Fourier analysis, a mathematical technique that allows them to break a complex curve into a set of simple ones called sine waves.

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One finding of this technique, which is known as genome-wide complex-trait analysis, is that many of the same genetic factors seem to explain why people differ in intelligence in childhood and old age.

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If her technique is hardly more than that of a home movie, her strategy is complex: the myth of the unimpeachable innocence of wild children against an uncaring world converges with the public image that Le Besco, the actress, projects.

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With a whimsically eclectic technique (including musical sequences and special effects), she sets in motion a flashy yet complex superstructure of personal life that rests on a solid, implicit base of quasi-divine technological power and sociopolitical openness and energy.

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