A decade of research, wrote the psychiatrist Jerald Block, had only proven what the 1997 study had suspected, that the Internet could inspire the same patterns of excessive usage, withdrawal, tolerance, and negative repercussions as more traditional substance use.
But experts caution that the treatment has only proved itself in one woman and that the clinical trials are needed to see how effective the therapy could be in other cancer patients.
It was first proposed decades ago, but it has only proved practical in recent years thanks to advances involving artificial neural networks (see "10 breakthrough technologies 2017: Reinforcement learning").
However, they have only proved that their technique works well to locate the clone segments across several versions of a software system using a very small test set.
Robots may have transformed the way cars are made, but for effective care technology, so far, they have only proved useful as a back-up to human care, no matter what Japan's social services mandarins must be dreaming.
"I think this has only proved my point as a society, we don't look at things too closely," Zaq said.
To date, the most widely used blood-based CRC molecular marker is carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), which has only proved to be valuable as a patient monitoring tool.
Whether their distribution is clonal, dispersed, or localized preferentially to individual cardiac tissues is unknown since their identification by FISH has only proved possible with dispersed cells rather than tissue sections.
