The latter parameter had been explored before, and the values reported here are within the previously estimated ranges, but to my knowledge, this is the first work that derives this parameter theoretically from completely independent data.
The story of the Kinks' Ray Davies has been explored before, but the forthcoming biography by Johnny Rogan Ray Davieses: A Complicated Life (Bodley Head, 5 Mar) – looks set to up the Kinks industry ante.
That theme — that Logan's immortality is both a blessing and a curse, and that Logan might actually welcome death — has been explored before, especially in the "Origins" film.
If the current location has not been explored before, then we expect the most visited location as the next one.
It is even more unexpected given that the novel, which has been translated from the Swedish, concerns a real-life figure, Mordechai Chaim Rumkowski, whose autocratic rule in the Lodz ghetto has been explored before in "King of the Jews," a 1979 novel by Leslie Epstein, and whose ambiguous legacy has been meditated upon by Hannah Arendt, Primo Levi and others.
The concept of "fixed points in time" has been explored before, such as in "The Fires of Pompeii".
However, the relationship between serum Ang-2 levels and clinical outcome in patients treated with VEGF-targeting drugs and chemotherapeutic agents has not been explored before, and this study is the first to investigate the impact of pre-therapeutic serum Ang-2 concentrations on the clinical outcome in patients with metastatic CRC under bevacizumab-containing therapy.
This is a new method that has not been explored before; it improves and complements the work by Cárdenas-Barrón (2009) and provides interesting managerial insights.
"To the best of my knowledge it's not been explored before, but it's an interesting idea to look into," Mr. Rugg said.
