Embed your blind optimism in models of gratuitous upliftment.
While the foregoing is an intentionally facetious example, it is not far off from the situation in which colleagues of mine have sometimes found themselves: forced by anonymous reviewers to make, and then test, gratuitous predictions of their models just to get their work published.
It sounds gratuitous but I think animal models remain incredibly important, particularly in translational research.
Some of American Apparel's adverts were banned by the Advertising Standards Authority in 2013 for being "overtly sexual" and "gratuitous", while another raised concerns about models being vulnerable.
This statement was a thinly-veiled and gratuitous attack on a nonprofit that has been a model citizen.
There is apparently educational value, but the bisection and the naked model (there for a Heimlich manoeuvre demo, inter alia) are gratuitous.
The ultimate cause of scrambling, in the CNE model, is not an adaptive rationale, but a dynamic in which a gratuitous unscrambling capacity opens the door for the system to wander into a morass of scrambled configurations.
In the CNE model for spliceosome complexification, an ancestral intron is presumed to have the gratuitous capacity to reassemble and splice when split into pieces— as shown experimentally for group II introns and even for protein-based inteins [ 25]—, and this allows it to evolve into the multiple snRNAs of the spliceosome.
Even more entertaining is the chapter on the colourful magus Dr John Dee, the model for Marlowe's Dr Faustus and Shakespeare's Prospero, a tale that requires a largely gratuitous diversion into the 16th century.
The French renegade philosopher Georges Bataille made much of the potlatch, as a model for economics based on gift-giving rather than on exchange; and Hirschhorn follows suit, in the coin of gratuitous service and toil.
