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But on the Internet, communication is far more abstract.
But the following decade, even this gave way to works of pure nonrepresentational electricity, so bursting and swooping they make you want to use words like "painterly" and "gestural"--oxymoronically, they seem to be a kind of Abstract Expressionism built from little, carefully scissored bits of magazine photographs.
The abstract dimensions that the visual neuroscientist Alice O'Toole (University of Texas at Dallas) gave to facial characteristics are supposed to shed light on how we instantaneously recognize the friend we have not seen in 30 years.
For each gene profiled in the study, the summaries of the 50 most recent articles that mention the gene by any one of its common aliases in the article abstract were downloaded from the web, using the Entrez utilities (described at [ 26 ] ). An association was then made between the gene and any MeSH index terms included within those summaries.
In distinction to the gene co-occurrence method used by Jenssen et al, this approach does not require the symbols of two gene to appear in the title or abstract of the same paper in order to establish a relationship between them.