"This gives us a reference set of genes and microbes from healthy individuals, " said James Versalovic, director of the Texas Children's Microbiome Center at Baylor College of Medicine and one of the researchers on the project.
Now there is just one rate that trades within a narrow band with a reference rate set by the central bank daily in conjunction with local financial institutions.
In a modest but significant step towards liberalising its currency, China loosened the trading limits for the yuan, allowing prices against the dollar to fluctuate by up to 1% either side of the reference rate set each day by the Chinese central bank.
First, the rates on loans paid by many consumers (adjustable-rate mortgages, for example) and companies are set with reference to the money markets.
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They cannot actually set a reference price for globally traded crude oil, and what ability they once had to balance the market has declined as traders have become more skeptical that the Kingdom is ready and willing to ramp up its production as much as it says it can.
With his accurate depiction of the nature, purposes and progress of Shariah, he has set the terms of reference for that debate, and he has challenged those who have been too ignorant or too timid to engage in it heretofore to do so now.
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Already, thousands of pictures have been deposited in the Herschel archive, which is set to become a key reference source for decades into the future.
Verita set out the terms of reference for the committee of inquiry in November, and Mr Williamson was asked to review them by Jersey's chief minister.
An 18k white gold skeleton frame is designed as a complex set of gears, in reference to the 1936 film in which the Chaplin character struggles to survive in the modern, industrialized world.
The project that I set up here in Southern Spain contains particular reference to rain harvesting and conservation of water.
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The hockey reference is actually something out of 9th grade debating, to set up a red herring as a distraction.
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If preferred, the owner also can take pictures of the surrounding area for reference, write a reminder note, email his or her location and set an alarm if the car is parked at a meter.
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And despite the occasional slip of a date reference from various executives, an official ship date still hasn't been set.
He also says that Apple (AAPL) has set the stage for mainstream adoption of Flash in SSD applications, a reference to the lack of a hard drive in both the iPad tablet and the new versions of the MacBook Air notebooks.
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Euribor was set up by the European Banking Federation in 1999 to establish a new interbank reference rate within what is now the 17-country currency union.
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