Because it is crucially indistinguishable from any ordinary quarrel, with two creatures trying to get hold of something, and the stronger, or the more persistent, one winning.
WHEN Robertson's, a British preserves manufacturer, announced two weeks ago that it was dropping Golly, its blackfaced, red-lipped mascot, it marked the end of what many considered one of the more persistent racist characters on Europe's grocery shelves -- a rival to the original Uncle Ben and Aunt Jemima in the United States.
The trade-off is also indirectly supported by the tendency of environmentally persistent pathogens to be more virulent than less persistent ones.
It was also found that the chemical composition and sizes of particles reveal practically no influence on the loss of particles, whereas irregularly shaped particles turned out to be more persistent than the regularly spherical ones.
As a consequence many deletions will include one, rarely more, persistent genes.
The study involved 56 outpatients with one or more persistent positive distressing symptoms of schizophrenia.
If genes are clustered, a small number of deletions will affect one or more persistent genes, while most deletions will affect none.
According to the proportional odds model which was used to evaluate potential determinants of lipid control, numerous variables were associated with one or more persistent lipid abnormalities.
The meaning of this line of communication is speculative but it is likely to convey a different type of message from that generated at synapses because of its global and more persistent (but low-level) nature, one that may translate peripheral signals, such as from hormones, into alterations in CNS function, or 'prime' neuronal responsiveness to synaptically released NO or other transmitters.
Persistent ones get caught more frequently, few escape the narrow aisles of pain".
