The new design of the periosteal distraction device was successful in causing new bone to form.
The committee was not so interested in layouts, but in space as an end in itself, noting that "this report is not about rooms so much as about the activities that people want to pursue in their homes", the various new forms of leisure caused by what they called the "new affluence".
Rapid evolutionary changes often arise in response to new forms of selection caused (directly or indirectly) by human action – termed 'anthropogenic selection', as opposed to natural selection (Palumbi 2001; Stockwell et al. 2003).
LONDON--Ever since the first indication in 1995 that "mad cow disease" had crossed the species barrier into people, causing a deadly new form of brain disorder, one critical question has remained unanswered: How many more cases are likely to show up?
On the other hand, Bergson was more comprehensive in considering not just human life, but life as a whole: "Now the more we fix our attention on the continuity of life, the more we see that organic evolution resembles the evolution of consciousness, in which the past pushing into the present causes a new form of awareness, incommensurable with what went before".
Alternatively, if we all had perfect pitch (a trait for which there is a rather simple genetic cause), we might invent some radical new forms of making music or, at least, destablise the dominance of certain musical genres, as the value of a perfect voice will be diminished.
Biotransformation caused by a variety of factors can introduce new forms of the biomarker into samples with ill-defined behaviour in the ELISA assay (Mahler et al, 2009).
SARS is believed be caused by a new form of coronavirus, which may have originated in Guangdong Province in southern China last fall, then spread to Hong Kong.
More recently, COG dysfunction caused by mutations in specific subunits has been associated with new forms of Congenital Disorders of Glycosylation (CDG) in humans [reviewed in [ 30, 31]].
