Instead of a disease, Cirulli focused on cognitive ability, asking more than 1600 subjects, mostly Duke University students, to provide blood or saliva samples and take two standard tests that measure attention, verbal fluency, different aspects of memory, and other mental abilities.
To be sure, women's bodies in various states of undress are standard attention-getters for all manner of male-oriented products, from beer to screwdrivers.
There's more good stuff sprinkled throughout the bill - a boost in CAFE standards; some attention focused on creating dense, walkable cities; a vow to use the federal government's purchasing power to accelerate cleantech markets.
A prolific writer on education and an assistant secretary of education under President George H. W. Bush, Ravitch has long advocated high academic standards and attention to the Western canon in history and literature.
By now, he could do it in his sleep; that he keeps his place humming at this level is a tribute to his high standards and attention to detail.
He was good at telling jokes, and rehearsals with his own Ensemble Intercontemporain were conducted in a happy atmosphere in which the highest standards of attention and execution were simply taken for granted.
In order to increase the validity and relevance of the evidence from trials of surgical interventions and meet international reporting standards, careful attention to study design, conduct and reporting of the intrinsic rehabilitation components is required.
Human Rights Watch observes that standard focuses attention "not on the crime, but on the nature of the subject", often against a backdrop where "inflammatory stereotypes and highly charged characterizations of Islam and foreigners often prevail".
The concentration of ferric ions was calculated, referencing with ferric chloride standard with attention on the volume used.
The usual care included standard medical attention in the public system (hospital and outpatient clinic including primary care) and the social support of the local FM association.
