Falsely positive results in effusions may occur due to chronic irritating states of different kinds (Kutty et al, 1981; Guzman et al, 1992).
It is an enjoyable dig at the irritating way people state the obvious as if it were revelatory.
The press––particularly the mainstream outlets the White House finds most irritating––is in a collective state of anxious transition, hurt by scandals (Congressman King was quick to mention Jayson Blair, the Times serial fabulist), by the appearance of a blizzard of new technologies and ideologized alternatives like Fox News, and by a general sense of economic, even existential, worry.
Music played at high volumes, for example, may be irritating, but researchers from Penn State and the National University of Singapore concluded it was one of several factors that leads to overstimulation and "a momentary loss of self-control, thus enhancing the likelihood of impulse purchase".
Whereas Braff's last film, the equally irritating navel-gaze-athon, Garden State, famously encouraged its audience to "Let Go" as the credits rolled, this new weenie roast of a movie implores you to give up.
"What member states find most irritating is this perennial argument that the United States is a special case, that rules are for everybody else," one diplomat said.
"My vote doesn't count" is a common and irritating refrain – given every vote has equal weight, that state of affairs should at least worry mathematicians.
Since Sept. 11, the Port Authority's control of the World Trade Center site has been an increasingly irritating thorn in the side of many city and state officials who are involved in the rebuilding of Lower Manhattan.
We used a non-irritating contrast agent in an attempt to provoke symptoms from capsular distension, similar to the state of joint effusion rather than chemical irritation.
For the Republicans in the State Senate in particular, the issue meant a choice between irritating the Conservative Party and irritating voters in pivotal New York City districts, where at least two Senate seats are up for grabs.
