We are a strong family and we have been living a somewhat altered reality for some time".
Ordinarily, the Science section of the Times is dealing with a somewhat altered theory, a somewhat more dire prediction of, say, asteroid collision.
"I've solved most of my problems at the end of the workday, in a somewhat altered state of consciousness," Mr. Lewis said.
The Adolescent Health and Development in Context study in Ohio incorporates a somewhat altered version of the PADS + Space-Time Budgets.
But TV spots such as Nike's can make viewers feel better about buying things by "tapping beneath logic to a somewhat altered state of consciousness". The ad man who created the new Nike campaign finds such speculation rather amusing.
Let X j denote the probability of a perturbed or altered function of a gene, G j.
NBN p.Arg215Trp was of interest because association studies have found evidence that it confers modest risk of several cancers (for review, see [ 66]), and there is biochemical evidence, albeit somewhat conflicting, of altered function of this nibrin allele [ 67, 68].
Is age-of-onset dependent on an increased load of misfolded protein or on an altered function of modifiers?
Small molecule biochemistry was an altered function in all cases.
trkB1 is likely to be an altered function or gain-of-function mutation.
We therefore considered the possibility that ot108 (which is recessive) is an altered function allele (Table 1).
