As a result, by about 1412, al-Kalka-shandī could include a respectable, if elementary, treatment of several cryptographic systems in his encyclopaedia Ṣubīal-aīshī and give explicit instructions on how to cryptanalyze ciphertext using letter frequency counts complete with lengthy examples to illustrate the technique.
Several case series showed definitely respectable results in the treatment of vulvar LS with systemic and topical retinoids [ 126– 128].
Historical debunking exercises of psychical research have regularly involved intellectual 'virtues' that would quickly cost the critic his or her job if employed in the treatment of respectable fields of study.
But for a short, sharp dose of sun, with good food, great service and a respectable range of good-quality spa treatments (at respectable prices), it could be just what the doctor ordered.
The respectable one, he says, is the medical treatment of people with life-threatening drug addictions.
With its chase scenes, heists and second-guessed East End underworld setting, this is Sherlock by way of Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels; a film treatment scrubbed up to look respectable but with its drawn-on tattoos still showing.
(Dr. First finds it hard to believe that her "treatment" was sanctioned by a respectable medical professional, and he worries that her psychologist's actions were "completely irresponsible and unprofessional").
Polypharmacy is common in most areas of medicine (e.g., cardiology, cancer, or seizure treatment), and is becoming more widespread and respectable in psychiatry despite a previous pejorative connotation.
However, the test gives respectable power in the remaining situations, at least when the treatment effect is close to the null value.
But meta-analysis, though a respectable technique for extracting information from multiple trials of particular treatments too small to be of individual significance, is being stretched to the limit here.
