In other words, the time it takes to shepherd newborns through absolute helplessness to a point of relative self-sufficiency predicts primate intelligence more strongly than the best measure that has previously been proposed, namely, head circumference.
And Buck's role now includes preparing Chelsea to move through the transition of changing an aging side, to move toward a point of financial self-sufficiency, and to prepare for the day when Abramovich is no longer the private and personal benefactor of its fortunes.
This is not to arrive at a point of internal self-sufficiency where a bank might be expected to entirely supply its own domestic requirements for cord blood.
There is no reckoning, since the higher educational system has attained a point of total self-sufficiency, immune to whatever goes on outside.
The authors interpreted this as a beneficial effect of folate supplementation compared to deficiency but limited to some point of sufficiency, where increases provide no additional benefit.
In respect of both conditions it is perfectly possible to have a good sense of what counts as adequate autonomy, even if there is no clear bright line marking the point of sufficiency.
But Obama, whose ego is so securely under control that his self-sufficiency has become a point of criticism among Washington pundits, would never devote more than a paragraph to his own personality (as opposed to his biography) — which was the subject not just of Christie's convention keynote speech but of his entire political career.
The interviews and the coding process stop when the researcher reaches to the point of theoretical sufficiency for analytical generalization (Strauss & Corbin 1990; Sandberg 2000; Creswell 2005; Eisenhardt & Graebner 2007).
Mr. Hines is no skylarking eccentric looking to prove a point about human self-sufficiency.
Even if it had overcome the latest cash crisis, even many of Seymour Cray's biggest supporters questioned whether Cray Computer could ever have reached the point of self-sufficiency.
Interestingly, adding more resources above a "threshold of sufficiency" does not boost creativity.
