Ms. Vendler acutely observes that the deaths of Mr. Heaney's mother in 1984 and his father in 1986 "caused a tear in the fabric of Heaney's verse," and the poems in "The Haw Lantern" (1987) tend to focus on absences, rather than presences, on virtual, metaphorical and metaphysical questions rather than material realities.
The desert environment, the nomadic lifestyle, and the need for constant travel all contribute to a poetic vision that focuses on absence, departure, lack, and nostalgia.
The latter is more focused on absence or reduced numbers of commensal species rather than presence/absence of pathogens.
The FP's certification practice has been the subject of relatively little research as compared to studies focusing on absence from work because of sickness itself and on the extent to which the working environment contributes to health problems resulting in sickness certification.
Although research suggests that high rates of absenteeism is a significant issue for many students, minimal evidence exists focusing on absences among the nation's youngest students those in pre-kindergarten.
Ads came in fall 2003, when politically conscious Internet users were starting to focus on the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and "I remember there being peak days of 60,000 page views, which was really incredible".
Adam Smith International's Peter Young said it was important to focus on the absence of electricity, and cited the economic benefits in Nigeria of improving the power supply, bringing the price of power down by £1bn a year.
The mother should do her best not to overly focus on the absence of the father -- something she cannot control -- and focus instead on what she can control: providing her child with lots of love, support, positive core values, and quality attention.
Despite these suggestions, traditional methods of measuring oral health use mainly clinical dental indices and focus on the absence or presence of oral diseases.
In this study, we focus on sickness absences patterns and trends over a 5-year period, overall and by age group.
