Usually, sorrow is spoken of in terms of absence, and it springs up this way in our idioms: "the missing piece," "a hole in my heart," "conspicuous by its absence," "empty nest," "empty-handed," "empty inside".
Using protein homology searches of genomes or assembled transcriptomes, we inferred either the presence (black box) or absence (empty box) of CenH3.
That is, orthology of a phylogenetically informative retroposon insertion requires identity of RE target site, RE orientation, RE subtype, and (if present) target site duplication, as well as a clear absence (empty RE insertion site) in other species.
Using protein homology searches of the genome or assembled transcriptomes of monocentric (indicated in black) and holocentric insects (indicated in blue), we inferred either the presence (black box) or absence (empty box) of inner and outer kinetochore protein components.
The headteacher at the school, built by the Farc, admits that the town's economy is dependent on the guerrilla presence, and their absence will empty its coffers.
The Buddhas continue still to communicate presence through absence, their empty niches in Bamiyan's ochre cliffs speaking to mankind's distressing tendency to discard the very qualities Levi cited: justice, law, illumination and mercy.
Libeskind explains this as representing "absence itself — an empty canvas of Nussbaum's martyred life".
Activists mocked his absence with an empty suit at an event on Tuesday. .
God is an absence, a void: the empty desert, the alien that never responds.
When it comes to our empty nest, absence will make the heart grow fonder.
