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For most journalists and opinion makers, including intellectuals on the left, Turkey's democratic reforms were superficial, undertaken on paper to impress European decision-makers.

On the face of it, an undertaking as superficial and already guaranteed of a certain amount of breathlessness as a fashion show ("Darling, those knits... ") would hardly seem to require spin.

Further in vitro studies on the EBLV-1 neurotropism and similar fox experiments with the subcutaneous route to mimic superficial exposure should be undertaken to assess the risk of EBLV spillover.

The challenge for President Obama and Congress is to resist superficial sound-bite solutions and undertake the harder task of reinventing our national security system.

In order to perform a site specific repair of the impaired uterine suspension dissection of a peritoneal tunnel for later mesh placement through the superficial portion of the uterosacral ligament (USLs) is undertaken.

Unfortunately, the pyramid lies within a restricted military area since 1970 and consequently no excavation has been undertaken there since Reisner and Fisher's superficial work, leaving the structures beneath the pyramid in doubt.

At the superficial level, the project seems a challenge too large to consider undertaking.

Shaha et al undertook a retrospective review of 35 parotidectomies (20 superficial parotidectomies, 15 removal of the parotid tail for isolated cysts) for BLEC with up to six years of follow-up.

Between January 1991 and December 1992 a phase I trial of superficial photodynamic therapy (PDT) using topical application of 5-aminolaevulinic acid (ALA) was undertaken to treat Bowen's disease, superficial basal cell carcinomas (BCCs) and metastatic skin secondaries from breast (adenocarcinoma) or pinna (squamous cell carcinoma).

During January 2003 a geophysical study was undertaken on Nisyros volcanic island in order to investigate the formation of a 600m long superficial fracture.

Studies were undertaken to test the possibility that these species may be transported on pine logs either as superficial contaminants or as colonists of bark or wood.