While Mr. Ginsborg makes reference to New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Rupert Murdoch and other media entrepreneurs who have achieved a measure of direct or indirect political influence, he contends that Mr. Berlusconi represents a special case.
I think most people are happy to accept that when it comes to deciding what's hot and what's horrible, barring a measure of direct harm, there's often little scientific basis for decisions which place a particular image into one camp or another.
If this view is correct, then phenotypic potential is not so much a measure of direct buffering, but rather of functional importance and of functional centrality in cellular networks.
It is important to note that this novel analysis depicts differences in the degree of task modulation for each load-size condition rather than a strict measure of direct connectivity between regions as explored by previous studies.
Alternative matrices, such as amniotic fluid, might provide a more accurate measure of direct fetal exposure.
ETRs provide a proportional measure of direct impact on time to event (eg, an ETR of 1.25=a 25% increase in the length of hospital stay).
We used ITC as a measure of direct metal binding in the active site of wild-type cPAH and the D139 mutants studied here.
