characteristics
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They compared outcomes between those who also used hormone therapy and those who did not, ensuring both groups had similar baseline characteristics.
From Science Daily
Marie claimed this all happened because certain characteristics of “Ring My Bell” align with mysterious “coded phrases.”
The 18th-century French noble was the guy who got evolution wrong, believing that characteristics acquired during an organism’s life could be passed down directly to its descendants.
It added that when a cocker spaniel was bred with a poodle, those characteristics - combined with them having smaller crossbred offspring - could result in more problem behaviour.
From BBC
Cooler heads attribute surging withdrawals to the way even sophisticated individual investors often view private-markets investment vehicles such as BDCs and interval funds, which highlight the periodic redemption opportunities that give them semiliquid characteristics.
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