LAVA is a fast MR imaging sequence (acquisition time about 22 s), thus, when possible (cooperating patients), acquisition in the three spatial planes allows achieving better anatomical localization of small peritoneal implants, without prolonging too much the examination time.
(That national pride is expressed not with an air of self-congratulation but with historical self-examination — but not too much self-examination, just enough, done tactfully and tastefully).
"Too much self-examination leads to self-destruction," Mark said with a smile.
And through the continual repetition of this idea, and the repression of too much self-examination or self-criticism, you will almost hypnotise yourself into "successful" thinking.
If behaving a certain way helps a stock trader or a regulator fit in with his crowd, he's likely to keep doing it without too much rigorous self-examination.
His charges, 10 biology teachers from various middle and high schools in Nassau and Suffolk, were going to do some reconnaissance in the marsh, but the high tide meant some areas would be unreachable and others under too much water for fruitful examination.
If asking questions feels too much like a cross examination, focus on affirmative statements instead.
The reason for including only healthy subjects in the intra-rater reliability study was that we considered three consecutive examinations too much of a strain for the patients to be ethically defensible; it would also have made the results of the third examination difficult to interpret.
At the same time, the contents of the examinations have attracted criticism for lacking balance: the examinations focus too much on knowledge of grammar and do not test the English communicative proficiency of examinees (see e.g., Brown and Yamashita 1995; Guest 2007; Ichige 2006).
