As the oldest potentially free-flying avialian known1,2,3, Archaeopteryx represents the prime candidate to consider in resolving the initial chapter of bird flight.
What follows here is the initial chapter of a planned memoir that Mitchell started in the late sixties and early seventies but, as with other writings after 1964, never completed.
This initial chapter of volume six discusses recent studies on the structure of pyridine, pyridine derivatives substituted at either nitrogen or carbon, benzo derivatives (quinolines and isoquinolines), and bipyridyl systems.
The data bank represents an initial chapter of a computer textbook of medicine.
The announcement in April that Zongshen would join the Piaggio venture after 32 months of negotiations brings to an end the sorry initial chapter of the Italian company's first foray into the China market.
Kenneth Lay Kenneth Lay 's refusal to answer questions this morning will close the initial chapter of congressional investigations into the Enron affair, and new legislative proposals are already forming in its wake.
Stearns, Nesse, and David Haig of Harvard University eloquently explain the importance of evolutionary trade-offs in the initial chapter of Evolution in Health and Disease (Stearns and Koella 2007): No trait is perfect.
The results of the excavations therefore add to the already rich picture of cultural development in the region, the initial chapter of human adaptation in the early phases of village life in the Near East.
As stated by Zimmet et al. (1) in the initial chapter of a classical textbook on diabetes, the major requirement for orderly epidemiologic, genetic, and clinical research on diabetes and glucose intolerance, and indeed for their clinical management, is an appropriate classification.
After an initial chapter on the history of thoracoscopy, the next three chapters of the book are devoted to the general technique of performing thoracoscopy, a topic on which the team of Dr. Boutin and his colleagues write with ample experience.
