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ROIs (ventral striatum and orbitofrontal cortex) were selected on the basis of extant literature implicating these neuroanatomical structures in depression67, 68, 69, 70 and reward anticipation.16,31 The ventral striatum ROI comprised only the nucleus accumbens and olfactory tubercle.

Instead, in exploratory experiments phenomena are investigated without first limiting the possible outcomes of the experiment on the basis of extant theory about the phenomena.

Victory, it stated, would be achieved when Americans, industry and media understood the uncertainties on climate science, and those supporting the Kyoto Protocol "on the basis of extant science appear out of touch with reality".

Although these two scenarios are difficult to distinguish on the basis of extant data alone [ 50], several lines of evidence support the high extinction hypothesis.

It is not possible to compare the genetic basis of extant trait variation in a given population today to what it was a century ago.

A crown clade is one defined on the basis of extant taxa, while a total clade includes the crown plus any extinct taxa located on the ancestral 'stem' of the crown clade.

On the basis of the extant literature, there appears to be no evidence of differential efficacy between exposure and cognitive therapy in PD, PTSD and OCD and strong evidence of superior efficacy of cognitive therapy in social phobia.

Thus, the genus Plakina should be redefined and, potentially subdivided into several genera on the basis of a comprehensive analysis of extant species.

Abu Bishr Matta received his Aristotelian education at the monastery of Mar Mari and came to Baghdad, where in the first decades of the 10th century he had al-Farabi, a Muslim, and Yahya ibn 'Adi, a Jacobite Christian, among his pupils.[91] He did not know Greek and his translations were made on the basis of the Syriac translations already extant.[92] Plato.

If we assume that type I venom in adults is ancestral on the basis of its higher frequency among extant species [ 29], then the transition to type II venom has occured multiple times in rattlesnakes within the last ∼12.7 million years [ 36], a remarkable example of parallel phenotypic evolution.

New work on genome sequences, the total amount and quality of all of the genes that make up a live being, permits more accurate assessment of the material basis of the theoretically smallest and simplest extant free-living organisms.