"The biggest challenge we face is the absence of a set of clearly defined, broadly accepted standards for environmentally and socially responsible mining," said Tiffany's chairman, Michael Kowalski.
Like Egyptian hieroglyphs, whose code was indecipherable until the rediscovery of the Rosetta Stone, the string of 1s and 0s on a floppy is meaningless in the absence of a set of computer instructions for translating them.
The Globe's artistic director, Dominic Dromgoole, says: "Because of the absence of a set, lighting and sound, you're asking music to do an enormous amount of work in creating focus and mood and pitch and tempo, and lots of the things that you've usually got a huge collection of weapons to articulate with.
It is impossible to rigorously assess the effect of dimensional compression due to the absence of a set of 'true' gene gene association inside metabolic pathways.
In the absence of a set of pseudogenes defined with certainty, we used a set of pseudogenes manually curated by the community to benchmark our pseudogene identification pipeline.
The absence of a set of well-defined human essential genes poses a challenge on studying them and urges for alternative solutions.
We use these images to track the presence or absence of a set of morphological markers of cell cycle progression (Figs 1– 3).
As they discussed, some important limitations of their studies have to be noted: retrospective study, selection bias of samples, the availability of suitable tissue and absence of a set of nonmalignant control samples, all affected miRNA expression differences.
The DSM-III-R [ 1] and DSM-IV [ 2] have operationalized the required diagnostic criteria necessary for establishing diagnoses of ASDs based on the presence or absence of a set of categorical symptoms.
In the absence of a set of well defined human essential genes, we consider a set of 1,789 ubiquitously expressed human genes (UEHGs), also known as housekeeping genes, as an approximation.
In the absence of a set of guidelines for effective public-researcher interaction in research decision making processes, such committees are open to unconscious domination by the research community, a process that defeats the purpose of public representation.
