1.  The first component in this classical stimulus-response link is specific injury-detecting nerve fibres, the nociceptors.

2.  The first principal component has most information and hence the greatest contrast and least noise.

3.  Atlantis, with a seven-member crew, is slated to dock with the unstaffed first components of the new international space station.

4.  It is to be followed a month later by the first U.S. component.

5.  On Christmas Day, the first component became evident in Texas as Austin and Waco established new daily records for rainfall.

6.  Once aloft, the shuttle crew will dock late Saturday with the uninhabited first components of the international space station.

7.  That name already has been applied to the first ISS component that will be launched to connect to a Russian-launched section.

8.  The Atlantis crew plans to replace failing batteris aboard the first components of the new orbital outpost and repair the U.S. communications system.

9.  The astronauts stowed tools and other equipment used during their successful effort to join the first components of a new international space station.