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Though this will doubtless irk many readers (as will the lack of citations to some influential prior proponents such as Douglas and Martin [1991]), some (though not necessarily this) strong form of abstraction and omission is necessary to get to clear functional ideas.
Although this model is simplified, the abstraction may be useful for conceptualizing the nature of functional relationships between families of protein domains.
Most historians--particularly those enamored of what Rosenbaum calls the "great and grave abstraction," the systemic rather than biographical explanation of the Holocaust--have resisted Dawidowicz's thesis that Hitler conceived of the physical annihilation of the Jews early in his political career, between the years 1919 and 1924.
Author 2 (KFH) contributed to the study design, did the literature search and data abstraction, conducted the analyses, interpreted results and wrote the manuscript.
Just as the art world is revving up for the Jackson Pollock extravaganza at the Museum of Modern Art in November, it's good to be reminded just how far along the line of abstraction and monumentality Monet had traveled by the end of his long life.