While there are examples on user-generated projects on both ends of the extreme, a majority of crowdsourced material is equal to or better than professionally-produced content.

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This vast majority of genetic material known as functional noncoding DNA, mostly embedded within and around the genes, was thought to play an important but murky role in regulating how the coding genes go about their business.

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Since then, Libya has declared all of its nuclear and chemical weapons programs and embarked on a three-phase disarmament program in which the United States and Britain have removed the majority of WMD material, about 1, 032 metric tons, from the country.

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The IAEA said Iran had continued its production of 20% enriched uranium, though the majority of the uranium had been converted to fuel, which is not material that can be used for a weapon.

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It uses a non-silicon material called cadmium telluride to make ultra thin solar panels while the vast majority of its competitors use silicon.

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The United States has shuttered the vast majority its rare earth mines and now imports over 90% of the rare earth material needed for both economic purposes as well as weaponry.

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This rehab effort wouldn't have been material for ExxonMobil, but it's made a handsome return for Wapiti's majority owner Richard Agee.

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The Chinese company becomes the majority shareholder, a broker is paid a fee for the introduction, and an 8-k (material change in the company) is filed.

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It gets the majority of its revenue in the U.S., where the use of quartz as a counter material is relatively new but expanding, trailing more common materials like granite.

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