With few exceptions, both left and right seem to think that history is a directional process whose end point — after many unfortunate detours — will be the worldwide duplication of people very like themselves.
When he first moved here, he found the city's daily reminders of the Holocaust — for example, subway trains whose end point is Wannsee, where the Final Solution was decided on — very upsetting.
The apparent emphasis on perfected surfaces that once enraged conservative critics like Midge Decter, who derided all the pulchritude — there was no muscularity that did not suggest "some activity whose end point is not beauty," she wrote — now looks to have been an early indicator of the drift a narcissistic culture was taking anyway.
Wnt is a complex signalling pathway whose end point involves activation of transcription from LEF-1/TCF transcription factors and it is known to be involved in the development and progression of numerous human epithelial tumours including prostate cancer.
The values stored in B will represent the columns at which the minimum value of Z(f) decreases compared to any columns to the left, i.e. the columns containing an end point of a fragment f for which Z(f) is smaller than Z(f') for any f' whose end point has already been processed and which is in a column to the left.
In The Lexus and the Olive Tree, published in 1999, the influential New York Times columnist celebrated globalisation in triumphal fin-de-siècle fashion as a process whose end-point is universal Americanisation.
We then enumerate all the horizontal line segments and searched for vertical line segments whose end points satisfy the distance criterion.
Nevertheless, she says, "we found an increased degradation of some soil organic matter components whose end-point is CO2, so CO2 levels would increase with higher rates of degradation".
The percentage of patients whose end points could be pursued 4 weeks after registration was 95%, 8 weeks after registration was 77% and 12 weeks after registration was 64%.
Particularly in populations with a low HIV prevalence, and for which further confirmatory testing may not be available, the use of a third POCT device is recommended to minimise any risk of false positive diagnoses.[ 38] It is important to select POCT devices that are highly sensitive and specific, easy to perform and whose end-point reaction is easily read.
