For biochemical response, one of the two secondary outcome measures, incomplete biochemical data (available on 35 out of 57 patients), and the interference of various drugs (e.g., proton pump inhibitors; Mosli et al, 2012) and renal function (Bech et al, 2012) on serum chromogranin A concentrations, makes serial changes less reliable as an objective measure of response.
In a society riven by fear and mistrust, even a serial killer seems less threatening than a man who has learned to think for himself.
The F.B.I. places the incidence of serial murder at less than one per cent of all murders committed in any given year.
While conceding that his categories and methodology are "necessarily crude," Mr. Straus determined that during the period in question, more than two-thirds of the active composers were tonal, whereas serial composers constituted less than 15percentt of the total.
And, as Mr. Muir wrote in The Guardian, black soccer players in Britain are able to compete with far less "serial indignity" than their counterparts on some Italian teams.
To the contrary, Dr. Borgerhoff Mulder said, among the Pimbwe people of Tanzania, whose lives and loves she has been following for about 15 years, serial monogamy looks less like polygyny than like a strategic beast that some evolutionary psychologists dismiss as quasi-fantastical: polyandry, one woman making the most of multiple mates.
Cathy Rentzenbrink, author and associate editor of the Bookseller, agrees, describing novels such as Gone Girl, The Girl on the Train and SJ Watson's amnesia thriller Before I Go To Sleep as "a great relief and change from serial killer thrillers – less about women getting cut to pieces and more about complex, fleshed out characters, who are often flawed".
The SPI mode is a synchronous serial protocol with less complexity.
Although intact monoclonal antibodies have been considered candidates for targeted therapy due to their specificity, with their long residence time in the blood of days to weeks, they are not ideal carriers for imaging probes; it is extremely difficult to perform serial imaging of less than several days [37, 38].
States might also be regarded as conscious in a narrative sense that appeals to the notion of the "stream of consciousness", regarded as an ongoing more or less serial narrative of episodes from the perspective of an actual or merely virtual self.
