I try to explain what I've learned, from watching my mother and now living it: that all medicine is guesswork, that doctors rarely admit when they encounter a gap in their knowledge, that neurology is so murky, that these kinds of chronic illnesses are neglected because they don't warrant drug studies.
Most first-time researchers encounter a gap between the work they're doing and what they learned in their courses.
Thus, we encounter a gap in the structure/function relationship: having accumulated an extraordinary amount of detailed information about biological structures, we can't assemble it in a way that explains the correspondingly complex biological functions these structures perform.
Thus, the simplest pathway by which SCE likely occurs is through HR-mediated restart of a broken DNA replication fork when it encounters a nick or gap in one parental strand [ 13].
In towns along the coast, officials say they have encountered a "generation gap" that is hampering their efforts to rebuild.
When they reach for the radio knobs to pass the time, father and daughter encounter a generation gap: He likes sports talk radio; she would rather listen to the New Pornographers.
Such lacunas are common in classification problems of this kind (see, e.g., [23], [24], p. 219], [56, 62, 86]), and we will encounter a similar gap phenomenon in the complex setting considered in the next section (see Corollary 4.7).
Confinement of light in subnanometre gaps encounters a fundamental limit in the quantum tunnelling regime.
He cast OJ Simpson's likeness – after adding a few extra layers to make the head big enough – but he had never encountered a tooth-gap before.
When Gap encountered a problem over child labour in India last October, the damage proved a "two-day wonder", according to Mary Robinson, the president of Realising Rights: The Ethical Globalisation Initiative.
