The smartphone app hosts many additional features such as: voter registration information, voter specific polling place information, sample ballots, access to Associated Press real-time election coverage, videos, candidate and local ballot initiative information, and election results.

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"To help people like my sisters, there needs to be a large enough sample of people who contribute genomic information so we can draw statistically significant inferences, " says Mr. Wilbanks.

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It is an efficient way to tease out trends and sentiments by extrapolating information from a relatively small sample group, as long as the sample is representative of the population that you want to learn more about.

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The Insight section has sample portfolios with easy links to message boards and information on individual stocks.

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This workshop introduced the participants to the key concepts of the Convention, community-based inventorying methods, free-prior-informed consent in the process of inventorying, creative processes and techniques of generating and systematizing information with the community, a community-driven sample inventorying framework and much more.

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The experimental characterization of a sample or sub-set of cancer cells from a patient provides totally inadequate information to satisfy the condition of Comprehensiveness.

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Type in your demographic information and you'll see a screen listing your free-sample options -- everything from cleaning products to Harlequin romance novels to toiletries.

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