"It occurred to me", wrote Richard Gatling in 1877, "that if I could invent a machine a gun which could, by rapidity of fire, enable one man to do as much battle duty as a hundred, that it would, to a great extent, supersede the necessity of large armies".
It is demonstrated that the system entails many advantages such as being fully automated, and besides being characterised by rapidity, ease of operation and robustness, it is less prone to risks of contamination and personal errors as encountered in traditional batch systems.
Antiviral strategies based on RNA interference (RNAi) have been documented for numerous viruses characterized by rapidity, specificity, and high efficiency [ 11].
In our study, validation tasks and tasks related to elaboration of answer keys of the SC test seem to be well accepted by experts, as demonstrated by the rapidity of inclusion of the expected number of reference panel's members, without particular difficulty.
The study of mRNA/protein complexes in vivo is often hampered by the rapidity of the interactions and by nonspecific binding of abundant RBPs.
It is distinguished by the rapidity of its changes of style, by its revivals from earlier periods, and by its constant borrowings from elite art, folk art, foreign cultures, and modern technology for its song tunes and lyrics, radio and television broadcasts, novels, dances, and many other entertainments, objects, trends, and fads.
Sure, some people are drawn to this idea, but they are far outnumbered by the number of people negatively impacted by the rapidity with which we are stripping our forests, mining our soils, drying up our water and fundamentally altering our planet's atmosphere and ocean's chemistry.
Injury to the podocytes by a circulating toxin is further supported by the rapidity and relatively high incidence of disease recurrence in some patients after renal transplantation.
In Bethesda, Maryland, Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), was also struck by these two features of the virus, and by the rapidity of its spread.
This skinniness-craze is "a collective reactionary hallucination willed into being by both men and women stunned and disorientated by the rapidity with which gender relations have been transformed".
Further, depressed patients, especially the melancholic ones who have experienced treatment of sleep cycles, are surprised by the rapidity and extent of antidepressant efficacy but are subject to rapid relapse.
