Government studies suggest that drug treatment does reduce drug abuse — a sprawling, vague term for the vast catalog of substance-related ills — by 40 to 60percentt.
We are dealing with a situation where … there is already a vast array of substances being sold on our streets, in our shops, and that's what we have to try to deal with because many of these are actually quite dangerous".
This is shown in the huge improvement that the metadata made to the ranking performance (Tables 4, 5). Figure 3 shows clearly that the vast majority of substances were either ranked first or second based purely on the reference count, with most other candidates having much lower counts.
Adipocytes also produce adiponectin, a potent insulin-sensitizing and anti-atherogenic cytokine, now included in a vast group of substances named adipokines or adipocytokines.
Such biomarkers comprise a vast array of substances, including cytokines as the interleukins, acute phase proteins, adhesion molecules, tumor necrosis factor (TNF) and monocyte chemoattractant protein (MCP) isoforms, interferons, chemokines, etc [ 4].
Numerous intriguing reports have appeared suggesting that a vast variety of substances, whether of synthetic [ 1] or natural [ 2] origin can restore or stimulate nonspecific and specific immunity in domestic food animals, particularly in swine and, hence, act as immune response modifiers (IRMs) and/or adjuvants.
In his article Ether in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, Maxwell described the vast expanse of the substance, some of it possibly even inside the planets, carried along with them or passing through them as the "water of the sea passes through the meshes of a net when it is towed along by a boat".
Considering the vast array of sources, substances, and methods with which food is produced, practically every kind of microbe is a potential contaminant.
The skin secretions of frogs and toads (Anura) have long been a known source of a vast abundance of bioactive substances.
However, where "peak inventories" are reported, the vast majority of the substances or peaks detected in samples typically remain unidentified [1 3].
