The harmonious use of experimental and theoretical approaches represents an unprecedented starting point for driving the rational design of artificial metalloenzymes built up from papain with higher catalytic efficiency.
One reader, RPG from Lakeville, Conn., noted this possibility in a comment on the Times's Web site, saying: Having faced the fear, hazards and consequences of warfare, perhaps these veterans are recognizing the real threats of driving, whether rational or not.
Parents, grandparents and others who have ever loved a child probably know the illogical impulse that can conquer them when little Susie looks up at them with those innocent eyes and says she simply has to have that latest greatest thingamajig, driving otherwise rational people to line up outside a store at 4 a.m. to get it.
Mr. Shiller notably called attention to the bubble that had inflated the housing sector and explored the psychology — not always rational — that was driving the markets.
As Professor Bickart said, the wounds from the attacks of Sept. 11 -- especially among New Jerseyans -- were still raw, and emotion may be driving spending patterns along with more rational concerns over unemployment and stock market losses.
Starmer credits the training in Artley's class with driving him to work toward a rational, unified, observation-based approach to modeling clinical processes.
Driving on the right side may not per se be seen as preferable to driving on the left side, but all rational participants in motorized traffic easily agree that there needs to be some convention.
It is a baking hot day in Windsor, the sort of morning on which, after driving along a gridlocked M4, the only rational thing to do is stick your head in a bucket of cold water.
That those who cling to outdated, anti-rational beliefs are responsible for driving the so-called "clash" of world views in contemporary society.
As I said in the beginning, what's important to me is to really try to capture the truth of what's driving human thinking and actions, whether it's rational or irrational, standard preferences or nonstandard.
