A House for Mr Biswas is episodic and packed with conflict.
The idea that both back pain itself, and many of the other risk factors for it, can be episodic, recurrent or persistent means that the likelihood of chains of risk moving neatly from cause to effect is improbable.
In rural Burkina Faso, all behaviors for which we found some evidence for an intervention effect were episodic.
For most, the pain is episodic and not particularly disabling.
But the support by the Pakistani Army and civilian government for the tribal militias has been "episodic" and so far "unsustained," the official said.
"Thirty per cent of people on the disability support pension have mental-health conditions which are episodic in nature; for example, severe depression or anxiety.
Awareness, however, is necessary for trace conditioning, where the stimulus is episodic and must be remembered during the delay [ 78, 79].
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention-funded Project ECHO study is an ongoing behavioral intervention trial for non-treatment seeking MSM who are episodic substance users (clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT01279044) [ 70].
Also, Sancisi's study suggested that CDH sufferers were 2.71 times more likely to have poor sleep than were episodic headache sufferers [24], but no distinction could be made for specific types of episodic headache.
Their accounts published for this anniversary are necessarily episodic: too much was happening for one person to witness it all.
