At the university library, Alicia looked through all hundred and fifty volumes of the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum, a vast reference work that catalogues Greek vases from around the world.
Attempting to do so would require scanning the tables of contents, indexes, and the body of the text itself of a wide array of books, periodicals, whatever might be is the print analog of a blog, government reports from many nations, and vast reference works containing the information of online databases, for instance, the names of biological taxa or geographic locations.
As a result of increasing read length, sample multiplexing capability and reducing costs, 16S sequence data is being accumulated from various microbial ecosystems, and vast reference databases like Silva [ 13, 14], Greengenes (GG) [ 15] and RDP [ 16] have been built to enable phylogenetic analysis of high-throughput data.
The vast list of references he drops could be an encyclopedic dictionary of hip-hop, and the rhythm of his patter is so finely modulated that his 10-minute speech sounds like a grand aria of rap.
Karl Lagerfeld's mind is a vast store of references, handled with a sense of play in his Fendi collection, where black-framed color-blocked skirts and dresses seemed folded like construction paper.
The fact of the matter is that today one finds the word gene used with such a vast range of references that the search for a useful common denominator seems pretty hopeless.
The vast majority of references were not articles primarily relating to anaphylaxis, or anaphylaxis treatment.
Infectious disease is also a common topic of scientific papers [ 5, 6], and the vast majority of references within these papers are citing other journal articles [ 7].
In addition, it would be interesting to explore the sensitivity of results to blinding reviewers to the identity of the hospital, although this would be expensive given the vast number of references to the identity of a hospital in a case record.
One critic denounced it as "a monstrosity of a book", and suggested that its vast range of reference and style amounts to little more than heavy-handed pastiche.
