A significant fraction of the submissions involve brief case reports and concise clinical observations.
Kicking it all off was reader ibabel, whose concise and astute observation captivated the team for the remainder of the week: On the other hand, if you assume each couple has a possibly different probability p of producing a girl, where p need not be 0.5, it is a different and more interesting problem.
Equally concise are her observations on relationships, as in "Sight Seeing for Two" where the speaker retraces the spot where she fell in love, discovering in the cafe where the new couple had an argument that "a whole flammkuchen is too large for one person".
The disease description found in "Involvement in disease" is a very concise summary from published observations.
We have written a concise report on our observations and deliberately refrained from hypothetical explanations, but we do not believe that scheduling or dosing of ondansetron may explain these results.
Atherton reports that he got a swift, concise reply and that his piercing observations did not seem to disturb Tendulkar's concentration greatly.
These observations emphasize the need for a concise computational analysis of non-coding RNAs in yeast, and for a comparison of those elements with verified transcripts of recent large-scale experiments.
Those lines about a barfly open the section, a score of wonderfully colloquial sketches of character and scene, chatty and hip but tremendously concise and abounding in little marvels of intonation and observation: these sharp chic ironic girls with brisk hairstyles and subtle tattoos.
She is joined by Xiaolu Guo, with a tale of a Chinese girl who moves to London to study and falls unexpectedly in love, A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers, and British novelist Jane Harris, whose The Observations, telling the story of a maid in an 1860s Scottish country house, is the only debut to make the shortlist.
The shortlist Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Fourth Estate) Arlington Park by Rachel Cusk (Faber) The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai (Hamish Hamilton) A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo (Chatto & Windus) The Observations by Jane Harris (Faber) Digging to America by Anne Tyler (Chatto & Windus).
Olds' passion for observation through metaphor has always equalled her passion for emotional exploration, and her concise, odd, sometimes endoscopic photography continues to challenge the taboos that render the world, and us, invisible.
