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By mapping stretches of Neanderthal DNA to its human equivalent, the researchers were able to complete bits of the jigsaw.

the dwarf asked him as they stuffed themselves with cold capon and a relish made of carrots, raisins, and bits of lime and orange.

But still he could not get away, there was nothing for it but to let himself be thrust into a black-pudding with the bits of bacon.

The murky figure twisted into itself as the fire engulfed it. It hissed and howled. Bits of burning shadow fluttered off in the wind.

In the last few years we have found that some stars seem to be circled by clouds of small bits of matter.

He took some paper and a few bits of wood and soon made a fire.

The superstition seems to arise from the belief that mirrors don't just reflect your image; they hold bits of your soul.

As these continue to transmit, they take root and become bits of the code with which youth cultures from around the world communicate.

Bits of you seem to be popping up all over the shop! ! !

After a while, Haw made his way back to Cheese Station C and found Hem. He offered Hem bits of New Cheese, but was turned down.

Assets were bundled into a pool, securitised, stuffed into a CDO, bits of that plugged into the next CDO and so on and on.

These bits of awareness came one after another, like fast cuts in a film. There was no sensation of time passing between them.

When we got out of the car, our cat Val was sitting in the front garden soaking up the last bits of sunlight. Val rolled on to her back.

Minification basically involves stripping out the extra bits of your source code to produce a lean and smaller file.

He took a bit of paper and a few bits of wood and made a fire.

It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused.

in the evenings we'd watch the state-run TV station, trying to spot bits of real news through the haze of official propaganda.

she kissed him on the breast , and made two bits of forget - me - not lodge one over each nipple , kissing him again.

So, if you were to read off the bits of information on the CD player without decoding it you would not get music.

To an unusual degree, the reader is left to make sense of a disjointed plot in which key bits of information are either missing or vague.

He took some paper and a few bits of wood and made a fire.

Since they were in a hurry, the shredders tended to stuff all the bits of a given document into a single bag.

The remaining bits of him, locks of hair and pieces of bone among them, are sacred.

What is sad, we do not understand, his face wearing a trace of laughter is often a collection of bits of joy.

for the simple reason that I was left with several curiously shaped bits of metal which did not seem to fit anywhere.

If these altered bits of DNA could be picked up in a patient's bloodstream, they would serve as a direct and sensitive marker of cancer.

He knew that the Countess Olenska had brought some of her possessions with her-bits of wreckage, she called them.

Any goal you want to accomplish: get yourself a calendar. Break the task down into little bits of time. Make it a game.

Yet Iceland is special in another way: it did not issue a blanket bail-out to its banks, but rather let bits of them go bust.

The time passed. It was the bits of snow that kept rousing him when he did not want to be roused. At last his will clicked into action.

When the new arrivals got to Rio, often the only way to find a home was to build one out of orphaned bits of timber and masonry.

One of the only bits of good news amid this doom and gloom is the steady rise in digital music sales.

Little bits of fairy dusts shimmering worldwide with a counter up top and an hourly time series chart on the bottom.

'binary' - A legacy encoding. Used to store raw binary data in a string by only using the first 8 bits of every character. Don't use this.

Just now, when he was told to pick up a few bits of paper lying round on the floor, he wanted to ring the police.

When it had been raining, thou didst float bits of straw on the gutters , and watch them pass away.

The basic idea of a macroscope is to link myriad bits of natural data into a larger, readable pattern.

The basic idea of a macroscopy is to link myriad bits of natural data into a larger, readable pattern.

From his pockets, he got out his bits of toys, marbles and rubbish.

Curled up in a corner of the seat I amused myself for hours making funny little holes in bits of cardboard.

people push, run up and down the steps, drop bits of litter, and perhaps take a small stone as a souvenir.

THE Horn of Africa is one of the last populated bits of the planet without a proper connection to the world wide web.

How? We seem to be stealing ever more bits of free time throughout the day.

I don't know whether they were searching for small bits of food at the bottom or just lingering in the coolness of the water below.

Above all, Toll Collect and its suppliers were unable to develop the software to marry together all the bits of their elaborate system.

The introduction of filter searches can eliminate time browsing hundreds of matches, if you know any bits of information about the file.

We seem to be stealing ever more bits of free time throughout the day.

Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few year, to be told anew in one form or another.

To make it easy to find these later, surround both bits of text within spans.

but it litters up her desk to such an extent that every time she opens it, loose bits of paper fall out in every direction.

Probably the story is one of those mysterious bits of folklore that reappear every few years, to be told a new in one form or another.

The villagers chanted to call the spirits home and tied bits of white string on to my wrists with three knots.

The smallest bits of jetsam, like the most transient incidents in a life, can be the most evocative.

Or, to put it slightly differently, two bits of nature disagree with each other.

Die-cut pages through which bits of a monster are revealed are designed to help a child control nighttime fears of monsters.

It only uses the least four significant bits of the address in the register (the ones ignored by the load) to determine how far to rotate.

and the tessellated bits of this substance are, as it were, similar in regard to position to a scale.

The code word of the optimal RLC should be equal to the actual length of run length that is corresponding to the total bits of binary code.

These IMs typically featured short bits of analysis and did not involve the spread of insider information.

I've no patience trying to get bits of Ikea flat pack to fit together, let alone boulders.

About the size of a grain of rice, the microchip can be encoded with bits of information and implanted in humans under a layer of skin.

Laws that govern radio and television broadcasts already give the American authorities the right to shut bits of the internet, they argue.

Meanwhile, like any demigod, he made bits of legend: that he failed math in school (not true).

How bits of dust and ice and gobs of gas came together to form the planets without the sun devouring them all is still unclear.

Countervailing bits of evidence suggest the economy has not suddenly grown a pair of wings.

On stripping down a damaged motor, the tappets are invariably found to be heavily pitted and bits of metal broken off the camshaft lobes.

One of the best bits of advice ever about perfectionism comes from Melody Beattie's book Codependent No More.

The Solar Probe Cup will scoop up bits of the sun's corona and solar wind to continuously measure its speed, temperature and density.

Little bits of these efforts are strewn through the stimulus legislation, the pending climate legislation and elsewhere.

I hope these little bits of gold I've brought down from the sky will help the wolf from the door.

I go in and there are peas and broken bits of plate in the passage, the fat secretary has locked herself in her room, she's screaming.

Bits of it dropped from the branches of the trees and made little holes in the softening snowbanks below.

He took some paper and bits of wood and soon made a fire.

PowerPC provides a set of instructions for performing boolean operations on specific bits of the CR as well as copying CR fields.

It is inefficient; by using only 6 bits of each byte, it adds about a third to the length of a message.

Few bits of furniture are so rich in symbolic meaning as the door: it can be an opening or an exit, a beginning or an ending.

Hanging over the patient was a big ball made of bits of brightly colored paper, folded into the shape of tiny birds.

This year Mr Brown, governor once again, signed the last bits of that goal into law.

Broadcasts can be directed to specific portions of a network by setting all bits of the host identifier.

Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus .

For the technology to work like a disk, though, the same bits of data will have to pass repeatedly under the reading and writing heads.

You are strong enough to do the tough bits of parenting. You're wise enough to know how important a strong parent is.

"So many bits of the rocket engine fall off that it would be dangerous to aircraft if [flights] were allowed. "

Bury the ashes, the cinders, and bones. The bits of the box that did not burn.

Liu Rui, a project manager at IBM, suggests fans of these books focus on the little bits of wisdom they provide.

Bits of fluffy gently dance and are frolicly carried by the wind in the air.

Bits of her dress floated down to the bottom but not her shoes?

The bits of fur left over she was sewing together to cover him a greatcoat . She was sewing it, this night.

A vigorous argument about whether to open pristine bits of coastline to drilling had already been under way in Norway.

She pounded the arms of her chair in fury , so that bits of stuffing leaked out of the holes .

This was what the residents use for a stove. The fuel comprised coal bits as well as other bits of wood and combustible materials.

It looks like a unified binary containing bits of a number of different programs.

As a consequence the bits of lower significance and the correction bits or correction capacitors are likely to reside in a sub array.

Sigh gently, by hand fondle the clock bits of glass, your image has been blurred, the you who would like to see me once.

A few times he added further bits of information and clarified the message he had already delivered.

Only about a third of Barclays' activity is in Britain, partly thanks to its purchase of bits of Lehman Brothers in 2008.

It's further evidence that RAGE is one of the best bits of technology in gaming right now.

Beyond banking and housing, other bits of the American and European economies managed for much of the year to struggle on.

For hours afterwards, the sea was strewn with bits of wood for miles around -- all of this was from the houses in the slum.

They scoop up insects and larvae, shellfish, and worms in their bill along with bits of gravel and mud from the bottom.

Glancing at the bits of WOOD AND METAL that lay around him , the man SADLY picked up the mattress and carried it into his house .

Winter city side, crystal bits of snowflakes all around my head in the wind.

No. These tears that you're seeing are the very same ones that keep our eyes moist and comfortable, and wash out bits of dust and debris.

Or toss bits of your favorite cheeses (including a little cream cheese or feta) in with green beans, spinach, or kale.

Do not use namespaces as mere carriers of bits of information for related elements; use attributes instead.

And so we got two bits of information, one that came from physics that said the flow goes from high concentration to smaller concentration.

The first time I looked at the map I spent the better part of an hour reading and then rereading the bits of information in those boxes.

Researchers assembled flat ribbons of nanoparticles - tiny bits of matter only billionths of a meter long - in a darkened laboratory.

The quickest route to understanding the brain is to watch what happens when small bits of it go wrong.

Long hair flying over her head, bits of meringue dropping on the porch, she took a dramatic bow.

And miners use blowtorches to burn off the bits of mercury that do find gold, infecting both the air and themselves.

The rain had cemented bits of sand, silt and clay into clumps up to a centimeter wide.

We become mere signal-processing units, quickly shepherding disjointed bits of information into and then out of short-term memory.

Bits of blackened flesh lay on the road and a piece of blue cloth hung from a bush.

Attending an event like this is a great way to slip back into history and experience bits of it firsthand.

The squirrel held little bits of the plastic and ran quickly up the wall.

THE dullest bits of the many electronic devices people plug into mains sockets in their houses and offices are the power adaptors.

"Infiltration" across the "line of control" dividing Indian and Pakistani bits of Kashmir, has fallen.

Sometimes they threw (him) bits of food, and got scant thanks; sometimes a mischievous pebble, and a shower of stones and abuses.

A rough-skinned newt, one of the garter's favorite bits of prey, can contain enough tetrodotoxin to kill seven humans.

You can achieve highly modular design with Velocity if you conditionally render entire sections of a page rather than just bits of data.

Bits of her ruddy cheeks sparkled as the amber glinted in dazzling lights.

Dr. Charlier's team examined the jar's contents: a human rib, bits of apparently carbonized wood, a fragment of linen and a cat femur.

Investors will want to know whether they are funding the safe bits of the bank, or riskier ventures.

That said, the firm now supportsmany open standards and has even started using bits of open-sourcesoftware.

The problematic conflicts that are left all involve bits of the former Soviet Union, for which the lure of EU membership does not work.

Using a power of 2 allows for much quicker selection of the bucket to use, but at the expense of loosing the upper bits of the hash value.

Even so, many bits of it, especially private mortgage-backed securities, remain moribund (see article).

He left them in the oven so long that they burst, sending little bits of cake sticking to the walls.

Instead of nibbling on bits of food up until mealtime, close the kitchen two hours before food is served and at least one hour afterwards.

She, too, was clad only in a chemise and a knitted petticoat patched with bits of old cloth.

The other imperative is to make sure that the bits of the shadow system that act just like banks are regulated accordingly.

Fake body panels painted to match the car are covering large portions of the lower fascia, so new bits of bodywork can be expected there.

So it would take only one or two disappointing bits of data on inflation to make rate rises a tangible prospect again.

but, if the banks got into trouble again, it might allow the state to rescue only the bits of them that really matter to the public.

During the winter he read to her all of the odds and ends of thoughts he had scribbled on the bits of paper.

Exchanging one financial asset for another [swapping bits of paper] Buying stock is not buying a product but buying ownership of the firm.

Long lists of references, simple bits of algebra, or other documentation are good candidates for footnotes.

Harry's stomach blew out from his back and intestines, bone and tiny bits of flesh showered the people behind him.

Particle accelerators smash bits of matter at near light-speed, all in an effort to recreate stuff that existed shortly after the Big Bang.

For Mr Hackwood, the value of the MBA was in using the best bits of business management to help in his pastoral career.

Quilt-making originated as a means of fashion bed covers from bits of fabric.

He shakes down a Brazilian babysitter for bits of Portuguese, and asks for Dora the Explorer's Spanish to be translated to English.

The slave latches latch the values of the effective dynamic-range bits of these input data.

It has shown how regulators can, if they choose, take vigorous action to shake up uncompetitive bits of the aviation business.

And suddenly Tyrant was struck by the plastic fork. Bits of cake, piece of icing and Tyrant tumbled to the ground.

The game of "Fox Hunt" (or " Hare and Hounds " ) imitates hunting, with bits of scattered paper instead of a scent as the trail.

Use this parameter to specify the size (in bits) of the RSA public key associated with the certificate that you are creating.

They have been forced to raise new capital and to sell off bits of the company.

The requirement to fight piracy is one of the oldest bits of international law.

Operator to perform logical negation of the individual bits of a numeric expression.

Remaining bits of bronze sank away from sight. A star or two began twinkling.

Demodulator and the received constellation phase of the carrier signal to determine the sender to send bits of information.

Take the first (unchanged) block and exclusive OR each of its bits with the corresponding bits of the second (reversed) block.

He may come under pressure from directors to sell bits of the company.

If matter just is extension then you cannot have two bits of extension as it were overlapping.

The air was filled with live sparks, then with burning bits of wood and paper until soon it was raining fire.

Mike spent a whole day modeling a ship out on bits of wood.

The same goes for the other bits of the old Yugoslavia (Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia and Montenegro) plus Albania.

Black doorcase does not see more, the entrance door with outer stainless steel is added inserted every bits of bit fashionable breath.

When Laura walked behind Ma on the path to the barn, the little bits of candle-light from the lantern leaped all around her on the snow.

Retroviruses work by adding their genes into the chromosomes of their hosts, which then merrily churn out bits of new viruses.

So the commission recommends higher standards only for the bits of the banking system that are rooted in the domestic market.

In honor of the new year, we've compiled a quick list of 10 bits of wisdom that are as timeless and useful now as they were years ago.

Bits of plaster rained down on their heads from the ceiling, filling their hair and eyes.

Traditionally, people have thought of robots as whirring bits of metal, but there are those in the field who ask why that need be so.

There are, of course, some bits of doctrine that are more problematic than straightforward things like universal brotherhood and creation.

It's absolutely the same sort of level as we have with music and other bits of popular culture which is great.

So what I'm actually doing is I'm joining tiny bits of platinum wire and creating these structures.

He jogged the waitress's arm and she dropped the heavy tray she was carrying. Bits of china were scattered everywhere.

Goldstein's team has towed nets across the ocean to collect and analyze the tiny bits of plastic accumulating there.

Pieces of slips of paper and bits of sand soared into the sky, frighten me half-dead.

"He told me to sell up straight away before all our savings became useless bits of paper. "

When he saw bits of gold in his pan, he laughed out loud and danced around in the shallow water.

Operator to perform inclusive logical disjunction on the individual bits of two numeric expressions.

Kai: I actually didn't see a single one of them. I saw just little bits of the very first one, I guess.

Especially prized are so-called zero-day exploits, bits of disruption coding that spread immediately because there is no known defense.

The six bits of control allow maximum flexibility in torque control for a variety of step methods, from microstepping to full step drive.

With heavy blood loss and bits of missing flesh, he needed to draw on his nine lives to make it.

They also want to go back to the compound, to get back bits of a helicopter abandoned in the raid.

'Maybe we live in a multidimensional world and we have to get used to handling a reasonable number of bits of information.

The second course is another appetiser, quickly seared scallops with a sauce of beets, chives, citrus and tiny bits of cocoa beans.

It then gets even hotter even quicker, and bits of it will start to melt and react with the steam.

Remarkably, our brains are able to construct an understanding of form based on these fragmentary bits of information.

If you can capture bits of information with a command, you can probably display that data at the prompt.

What bits of the pulse can you step away from for a bit?

Every project manager is familiar with situations in which the final few bits of work for a task take an inordinate amount of time.

At its core is a protocol that allows a multitude of digital devices to speak the same language and thereby exchange bits of information.

The blast broke his bedroom window and strewed blackened bits of the chopper over a nearby wheat field.

What's really hard about real-time search is figuring out the meaning and value of those fleeting bits of information.

Brazil has not fought over any bits of the Amazon since the scrap with Bolivia over Acre 107 years ago.

In an unchecked context, the most significant bits of the result are discarded and execution continues.

The numbers at the top indicate the width (in bits) of each field, with the leftmost items stored at the highest addresses.

When we walked out of class, the air was full of swirling bits of white.

We used to rely on our neurons to hold onto these crucial bits of information.

So Mr. Bird went down the lane to the forest. He saw some bits of wood in the lane, but he could not see Mrs. Loaf.

To meet the simulation accuracy and minimize the hardware occupancy rate, design the data bits of the control system.

A purely and imaginary object or bits of smoke desiring to get through, but rests on the paper (some on glasses) to the end of time.

The last method GetCell is actually where the interesting bits of the data binding happen.

The second thermometer decoder is configured to decode middle bits of the digital signal to generate a second thermometer code.

That trapped bits of the Martian atmosphere within them, as a telltale of their origin.

But they may be spoilt for choice: think of all the tiresome bits of territory that other countries would like to offload.

But will Bulgarian tolerance last if funds remain frozen much longer or if other bits of EU funding have to be frozen in the future?

Operator to perform logical conjunction on the individual bits of two numeric expressions.

Verizon has sold bits of its landline businesses in three states and is negotiating to do the same elsewhere.

Many bits of fast consciousness, a bit less dilatory with perfect creed.

The funding was renewed for another year. Our little bits of progress convinced someone to throw more money down the hole.

The next bits of information your client needs are values for some properties.

I have been forbidden to aid you directly, save for a few bits of wisdom. For this is the hour of mortal Man's triumph. . . your triumph.

Private capital has poured into building power stations, but most other bits of the supply chain are in the hands of the state.

silly - milly burying the little dead bird in the kitchen matchbox , a daisy chain and bits of broken chainies on the grave.

I found these little bits of glass. And I had to make them square.

This idea of pre-assembling bits of the fire engine has made only fitful progress.

another tried to express "our society's abusive pattern of production and waste" by weaving bits of trash together.

Allows you to customize the way a webpage displays using small bits of JavaScript.

Negative space serves to give power to the small bits of information that it surrounds.

These bits of news aren't going to affect my focus and I will continue working hard at playing great football!

I could easily clip bits of information and then save them in different "notebooks" for later viewing.

a Chinese dish made of bits of vegetables and meat or chicken serve with rice.

SO the topSOil is bits of rock mixed with things that are once alive. These things in the topSOil that were once alive are called humus.

In the Great Game of global wage and cost arbitrage, bits of some rather surprising industries are drifting back to U.

There was blood and bits of white flesh on his face and on his flak jacket and on his camera lens.

Charlotte and Noah both started laughing loudly. Oliver sat alone in the corner, eating old bits of bread.

Many photographs show conspiratorial pairs of women: gossiping, telling secrets or otherwise staking out bits of privacy in public.

Week by week there will be startling bits of information, as slowly but surely the truth is coming out.

Represents the size , in bits , of the key modulus used by the asymmetric algorithm .

Pork large intestines are lightly coated with broken bits of glutinous rice, marinated with chili sauce, and steamed over sweet potatoes.

Some of the most popular faux verses are pithy paraphrases of biblical concepts or bits of folk wisdom.

bits of me are crumbling, or something.

Bits of smoke began to feather out from the chimney.

People will readily pay for bits of cheap information before viewing, particularly if the payment invisibly deducts itself from an account.

Besides this, he used part of an old army wireless set, and some bits of wood.

Give starchy vegetables (e. g. , carrots) in moderation, and use bits of fruit only in very, very small quantities, as special treats.

Elders offer various bits of tribal lore, although curiously enough, their oral histories differ remarkably from tribe to tribe.

I used to have braces and bits of food got stuck in them.

The fast detect feature allows fast overrange detection by outputting four bits of input level information with very short latency.

The speech, which he had written on little bits of paper, seemed endless.

The pixel format defines the number of bits of memory associated with one pixel of data.

He scooped up bits of eggs and tomatoes with a piece of bread.

Hanley was thus forced to rely on bits of information that Biro had posted on his Web site, several years earlier.

with only a handbag or briefcase, as far as possible the cosmetics, pens, bits of small things methodically put away.

Mr. Stepanian's haul has included chips of diamonds and rubies, bits of platinum and gold fragments from watches, earrings and necklaces.

The hungriest bits of the country are in the Danakil depression, where nothing grows and only small numbers of Afar nomads live.

Disregard these misguided bits of nonsense and you'll be well on your way to fulfilling your dreams. Now get out there and make a splash!

We get to take advantage of a huge amount of work that's already been done in Hadoop - many bits of HBase are reused from Hadoop.

Israel did after all invade Lebanon and occupy bits of it for 22 years.

Self-evident, really, but don't worry about a few bits of down leaking out: there are millions more inside there!

The implication is that without the fluffier but politically appealing bits of human space exploration, space science would not do so well.

Lower-value-added bits of the production chain moved to the developing world, where labour was cheaper.

The browser now also runs Greasemonkey scripts, little bits of code that allow you to change how certain Web pages are displayed.