He saw his table had gaps for elements as yet undiscovered, such as those below boron, aluminium and silicon.
"Over the last couple of years, half of the rotas I have worked on have had gaps.
Photographic evidence of the trade center suggests that this material, which is easily damaged, had gaps and possibly larger missing sections.
"It became clear we had gaps and holes," Mitchell said, "and we weren't doing things at least the way I was accustomed to".
Dr. Barnicoat said proponents of the hydrothermal theory still had gaps to fill, too, to explain how so much gold was dissolved in those hydrothermal vent waters and not elsewhere.
These students had gaps in the neural circuitry that the normal readers used for the basic processing of sound and language, but had learned to enlist other parts of the brain to compensate for the difficulty.
The F.A.A. action stirred a response 14 months after international auditors first found that the Korean Civil Aviation Bureau had gaps in regulations and no training program for inspectors.
Saying she had gaps in her memories of the night, the woman testified that one of the officers had peeled down her tights and raped her as she lay face down on the bed.
She said her husband had been given a vest that had gaps of protection on the side; when the man fired a shotgun, the blast ricocheted and struck him in the side of the chest.
As a court proceeding, it still had gaps — the transcripts left out some of the most sensitive bits — but it provided a relatively large window in a case of national interest, and stirred debate about China's movement toward an independent judiciary with due process.
For example, in a letter published last November in Emerging Infectious Diseases analyzing 15 family clusters from 2003 through mid-2005 in Southeast Asia, scientists from the disease control centers, the W.H.O. and several Asian health ministries noted that four clusters had gaps of more than seven days between the time family members got sick.
