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For the bacterial and archaeal species groups, the vast majority of these comparisons were inconclusive because the evolutionary distance between phylogenetic partitions resulted in a saturation of K s . The more closely related human-mouse-rat group did not show saturation of K s . Comparisons of K s and K a for functionally diversified mammalian protein sets did not reveal any cases with K a > K s . This is probably due to the fact that, if directional selection led to the acceleration of the amino-acid substitution rate in these proteins, it acted in an episodic manner [ 6, 7] and on a minority of residues against a constant background of purifying selection [ 8, 9].
Its attention to terrorism was episodic and splintered across several committees.
The event cost for this episodic complication is $111.
Defenders call it a "largely episodic collection of great moments that aren't all causally linked in that comforting way we're used to" (Yahlin Chang, Newsweek ). Tom Wolfe, who attacked the book in the literary magazine Biblio on the basis of its title--without having read a word of the manuscript--draws a stinging retort from Kirn in the latest issue of Tin House , in which he writes a lovely parody of a negative review for his own book: "I consider it my duty as the author of this offensive work, to carry even further Wolfe's condemnation in hopes of neutralizing, from the start, a potentially harmful literary contagion."
One of the most damning things that can be said about a script is that it is "episodic," meaning that it dawdles when it should accelerate, that the writer is less interested in the ruthless propulsion of the story than in leisurely details of tone and character.
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