"I didn't hear from the candidates anything really interesting or concrete about education," says Prof Pastore.
The most interesting and concrete result of constraining sink strength in cucumber plants by removing fruit was the sudden doubling of CO2 gas exchange in the root zone, which is thought to be the result of the exudation of organic compounds by the roots and their decomposition by micro-organisms.
Memoirs of aging are becoming more and more commonplace — from Diana Athill's "Somewhere Towards the End" to Joan Didion's "Blue Nights" to Julian Barnes's "Nothing to Be Frightened Of" — and in light of them the writerly inventories of the body Auster embarks on are less interesting than the concrete passages in which he reflects on death.
Inspiring keynote talks, interesting panels and concrete examples of good practice in workshops.
Howling and yowling aside, though, there would likely also be an interesting (and more concrete) effect should Obama win his second term in this fashion -- Republicans would suddenly discover an effort which has been quietly building steam ever since the 2000 election.
Three of the game-theory concepts Mr Cowen cites nuclear deterrence, "tipping points" between different equilibrium levels of conflict, and the fact that credibility can't be faked when it isn't anchored in concrete interests were interesting and clearly relevant.
The possibility of protectively treating fresh concrete is interesting from the logistic and economic standpoints, in the matter of early completion of on-site works.
From an applied perspective, the techniques used in [3] are interesting when applied to concrete difference equations, but additional difficulties appear, because among other things, we need to get explicit formulas for the solution of the equation to be studied.
Concrete is interesting in that it is a monologue delivered by a man who meant to write another book instead.
When we did, we talked through possible topics I could talk about and there were some interesting ideas, but nothing concrete.
