But the most intriguing aspect of this awards ceremony (and of all award rituals) is the need to establish hierarchy, to conclude definitely – statistically, officially – a rank order of talent.
It cannot, however, be concluded definitely that chemotherapy is responsible for the lack of NT-R, since another chemotherapy-treated patient (Table 1) had a high NT-R expression over 6,000 dpm/mg tissue in his tumor.
Despite - or because of - the plethora of problems identified, NHS England concludes that "it is impossible to conclude definitely whether the current level of bed provision is sufficient to meet the need".
When asked whether the US knows whether the Russian warplane was shot down over Turkey or Syria, Pentagon spokesman Peter Cook said US officers were "not able to conclude definitely right now where the aircraft were".
It is hard to compare effectiveness between educational strategies and to conclude definitely which educational intervention shows better outcome, because of the differences between the participants' characteristics.
Larger fine-mapping studies are required to conclude definitely on the extent of the region that presumably contains the causal variant.
It is hard to compare high-volume injection with PRP injection and conclude definitely which therapeutic option shows better outcome, because of the differences between the participants' characteristics.
Thus, as discussed above, an increase in MD may reflect several physiological processes, and we cannot conclude definitely on which processes contributed to the increase in MD observed after WMT.
I have seen many inventive, even inspired curtain calls over the years, and the seriously adorable one that concludes "Room Service" definitely makes the top 10.
To conclude, we definitely prefer a Darwinian working hypothesis to the fortuitous emergence of enantiospecific enzymes followed by automatic segregation of two types of lipids.
