Others have been because the receiving corps has not been able to get open (the absence of the suspended No. 2 wideout Josh Gordon has had an effect).
Participants were apparently healthy consenting university undergraduates who met the following criteria: no skin rashes or open infection, absence of structural deformities affecting lower and upper limbs, and no medication that can negatively affect wakefulness/alertness during water immersion.
He opens with "Absence," which used to be as good a reason as any to set pen to paper.
More realistically, and considering the long and flexible linker that separates LysM1 from the LysM2 LysM3 body, the binding groove significantly opens in absence of the ligand and closes upon ligand binding, leading to substrate-induced intrachain LysM domain dimerization.
But their open-ended absences are unsettling, and reason enough to wonder if Halladay's timetable is also too optimistic.
The reserve opener Brown was not recalled to open in the absence of Barnes; instead, Hassett would improvise and open with Morris, while the teenaged Harvey came into the middle-order.
As for the Open Championship, the absence of the man who once dominated golf will only increase the attention on the newly minted US Open champion Rory McIlroy.
Romania were forced to play by their enthusiastic new king, Carol II, who picked the squad himself and convinced their employers to keep their jobs open despite an absence that would stretch to three months.
She realized that even an injured and out-of-form Safina could spring an upset in the first round of a tournament left wide open by the absence of the defending champion Serena Williams.
When I worked in a big ad agency, briefly, in the mid-eighties, in a skyscraper on Lexington Avenue, visitors entered elevators unimpeded and, though each floor had receptionists, doors were kept open in their absence (and purses had a way of disappearing — we were all warned not to keep our wallets or other valuables unattended at our desks).
