In summary, synthetic lethality is a valuable concept to understand the functions of genes, the mechanism of action of drugs and their interactions, and has immediate relevance for cancer therapy.
De novo drug design has emerged as a valuable concept for the rapid identification of lead structure candidates.
To analyse a spatial resource such as a waiting area or section of infrastructure over a period of time, a valuable concept is that of space-time capacity, which is calculated by multiplying the spatial dimension of the resource by the duration of the period.
Favourable metrological characteristics of this analytical procedure, as prevalidation figures of merit, recognized the metrological procedure as a valuable concept in preliminary evaluation of quality of analytical procedures.
For decades, anthropologists have grappled with questions about whether the idea of race is a valuable concept, and the danger (or for some, the detached privilege) of writing off its significance.
It thus is unquestionably a valuable concept.
This is a valuable concept that is in widespread use by researchers, especially evolutionary ecologists, who are trying to understand the causes of intraspecific phenotypic variation.
Osborn proposed the valuable concept of adaptive radiation, postulating that a primitive plant or animal in many cases evolves into several species by scattering over a large land area and adapting to different ecological niches.
He also introduced the world to the valuable concept of FYTP.
We propose, in keeping with the principles of EDC assessment in mammals and the valuable concept of the NOAEL (no observed adverse effect level) (Foster and McIntyre 2002; Lewis et al. 2002), that fish chronic testing data be expressed as adverseNOEC or adverseEC10 values, which in turn should be used to derive PNECs.
