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American English. Anyway, the BBC page you quote gives me a 404 (not found) error. The Knowledge (XXG) page you quote is exactly what I used as a reference for this. There is an example there "The Clash are a well-known band" in British English. In the case with the U.S., this is just an abbreviation of "United States" and it's strange that it's not plural. (If we say "United States" instead of "U.S", at least then it must be plural?!) If it was "USA" instead of "U.S." then perhaps singular as you say, I don't know. In Bulgaria we always use plural too, albeit this is irrelevant, of course. In any case, there are other places in the "Prediction..." article that use the U.S. as plural and I think that all occurrences should be made equal. If you would like, you could replace all of them with the singular form. Thank you very much! --
751:, but I do think that this is a trivial waste of administrator time. We've now got to about 10K words trying to defend why (in an article about an institute) it is inappropriate to mention to mention that the Technical director who happened to be a member and elected officer of yacht club and occasionally served behind the club bar happened to spark the interest of someone at the bar who then introduced her to AW (despite the fact that we have other evidence that it was actually an ex-colleague.) Apparently this is all part of a cover-up conspiracy on the part of a CFS patient cabal (rather than preventing irrelevant content) being inserted into an article. --
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also boycotted by most patient groups representing UK's chronic CFS sufferers. So this is one hell of a selection bias on the population group. The group were also assessed on an old psychological centred assessment. (You don't even need the classic delayed prolonged fatigue after exercise that most of us suffer from.)
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Hi, I noticed one day when I logged in that it said 'Have you considered logging in on the secure server?' Well, I did. Can't say I noticed any security problems before, but it seems sensible. But I don't always remember, of course. And it sometimes creates problems and asks you to log in again when
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Keepcalmandcarryon and RetroS1mone accounts were created within hours of each other and within days they were both being used to mount a coordinated set of posts on a common agenda. Both were quoting (therefore had an in depth knowledge of) all sorts of
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and it says that U.S. can be singular or plural. It contains an example for plural usage: "The United States are a major power in the World". The "Prediction..." article has a passage which says "back in 1998 when the U.S. were at the peak of their might". Is the plural there correct? As to bands,
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Illness and Autism, ..." from Congresswoman Berkley's
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Mikowits critique on the sensitivity of this type of test, rather than the
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Freitas' earlier paper on a possible
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to understand the difference and correct use of primary vs. secondary sources; that a primary study is published in a science journal is irrelevant; it's still a primary study until it has been covered in a secondary review.
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Hi, many thanks for your mail. I am glad you dropped me a line about it (my intellectually challenged mail program filed it as spam, so it didn't appear in my in-box). Just having a read-through now. Best wishes,
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The PCR amplification processes are also different, and based on the couple of papers on this that I've read, the type I / type II characteristics of such amplification is very sensitive to these procedure
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for everyone at XMRV. I think going back to the strict sourcing requirements is the only resolution that will bring some peace to the article. Cheers!
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I've been taking abuse from you for several months. Your accusations of sockpuppetry, recruiting and COI are over-the-top. I've posted to AN/I.
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