That they worked because of the overpoweringly efficacious curative power we believe doctors and their nostrums to possess rather than because of any real change in our brain chemistry was beside the point for him – and I suspect it's beside the point for the vast majority of patients as well.
Another view that's been offered, more conventional if less Nash-ianly intriguing, might be called (obviously on a far more benign scale) the Ceaușescu effect: what Harper really signalled by cynically deploying the veil controversy was desperation, and once a professional politician known above all for the efficacious use of power is seen to panic his end is sealed.
Both vaccines were found to be safe and efficacious in large studies powered to detect intussusception risk [ 10- 13].
In any one sacrificial rite a number of intentions may be expressed, and the ultimate goal of all sacrifice is to establish a beneficial relationship with the sacred order, to make the sacred power present and efficacious.
Although the fundamental meaning of sacrificial rites is that of effecting a necessary and efficacious relationship with the sacred power and of establishing man and his world in the sacred order, the rites have assumed a multitude of forms and intentions.
In summary, by activating macrophages into a pro-osteogenic phenotype, the acBSP coating has demonstrated its competency as an innovative, open and efficacious platform to harness the power of host immunity for enhancing the regenerative performance of engineered tissue constructs.
In a series of studies of an efficacious agent, each with 80% power, 20% of the trials would show no significant efficacy.
While it is challenging as a modern Jew to imagine how this act might be efficacious today, I try to stretch myself and understand its sacred power for my ancestors.
Because religious institutions and beliefs are intimately connected with other social institutions, those who are set apart to establish efficacious relations with the transcendental powers that are believed to control the universe, as well as human affairs and destinies, occupy a key position at the dynamic centre in the social structure.
