In addition to the estimation of q itself, it should be noted that our method adopted an assumption that the pre-existing immunity offered a complete protection from infection (i.e. all-or-nothing protection).
In baseball, for example, it was common for pitchers to deliberately throw at opposing batters' heads (who had nothing for protection but a cloth cap), and retaliation was the norm.
It was nothing more than protection money.
As is often the case, many business owners in the storm's path had not bought insurance beyond standard business protection — nothing for floodwaters or business interruption.
But these people should not be asked to risk their lives if a homeowner has done nothing for wildfire protection, we told the crowd.
Their "graph of doom" shows soon they will be able to pay for nothing beyond minimal protection for children and the frail old.
"Rationally speaking, the costs of critical habitat designation add virtually nothing to the protection of the species," said Craig Manson, the assistant secretary of the interior in charge of the issue.
The only sign that anyone was aware that this tree was special was that it was enclosed by a low, broken-down chain-link fence that offered, if nothing else, symbolic protection.
AIMING to set the outside world's mind at ease, China this week vowed to pursue a peaceful foreign policy, and spend only modestly on an army of 2.5m that will serve as a force for nothing but the protection of the motherland and a secure international environment.
