Bulls-Eye

The mood in the purple and burgundy college auditorium is amiable and polite. Most of the questions to Raymond V. Gilmartin, the company s chairman, president, and chief executive officer, are on the order of. Why is my pharmacist always out of Timoptic eyedrops or. Are you doing any research into obesity The officially nominated directors are all approved the unofficial shareholder resolutions are all defeated. Everyone nibbles melon slices and chocolate pastries. 

Worse news—though the retired Merck scientists and secretaries in the purple auditorium don t know it—is yet to come. Within the next three months, there will be regulatory questions about their company s hot new arthritis drug and accounting questions about its Medco subsidiary, and their stock s value will plummet. 

A onetime administrative assistant has stock options that will expire at the end of the year. I might as well throw them out, she jokes bleakly, staring at herself in the ladies room mirror. 

Sheldon Schwartz worked at Merck for 14 years in the 1950s and 1960s, rising from mailroom to marketing. Now he does industrial lighting, and he s worried about the implications of some of the news stories he s read. Why does one say Merck is going back to basic research Hasn t Merck 

He s been going to the company s annual meeting for years. But this time, he says, it s not the same.  

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Other transport limitations, such as diffusion-controlled reactions, can lead to localized depletion of etchant, which results in a number of observable etch effects. The size and density of features can influence the etch rate at different locations on a single wafer, thus producing "pattern sensitivity." Depletion across a wafer produces a "bulls eye" effect, while depletion across a reactor is indicated by the fact that the leading wafer edge etches faster than the trailing edge. Similar effects are noted when product removal is transport-limited. Most of these effects can be reduced... 

Figure 10.8 Schematic bulls-eye view of the target nucleus.

Use the terms accuracy and precision to describe the results on the dart boards shown below. Assume that the darts represent data and the bulls-eye represents the expected value. 

Another factor affecting the mapping pattern is the source design. Short-arc (xenon and metal halide) lamps can be considered point sources, which generate bulls-eye patterns whereas long-arc lamps (xenon and fluorescent) will produce oblong patterns. Low-resolution mapping tends to obscure these differences, which are real. How pertinent these results will be to an individual study will depend on a number of factors, one of which will be the samples physical size. 

In general, the incubation period in humans after tick exposure is 7-14 days. The characteristic symptom seen in most infected individuals is a red, slowly expanding, bulls-eye rash. This is accompanied by general malaise, fever, headache, muscle aches, and joint pain. If the infection is not treated, the exposed individual may develop arthritis, neurological symptoms e.g., facial palsy, nerve, and/or brain inflammation and, rarely, cardiac abnormalities. 

While the first synchrotron IR microspectroscopy was performed at the NSLS of BNL during late 1992 [27, 28], in January 1993 the present author was able to access the temporary beamline set-up to obtain 6 x 6 pm confocal spectra of wheat cross-sections, including single cells in successive cell layers that form the bulls-eye pattern of the primary root (see Figure 7.11) [16]. The spectra in Figure 7.11... 

It s as if YOUR ENVIRONMENT DISAPPEARS and you FOCUS COMPLETELY on what s right in front of you. And you notice that it s like THIS THING is this bulls-eye target of your attention, and IT BECOMES YOUR ENTIRE WORLD. 

Fig. 3.43. Metastases of a neuro-endocrine carcinoma to the gastric body. Note the bulls eye -type lesions which are similar to nonpigmented melanoma deposits...

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