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He also believes that while our propensity toward certain types of intelligence is inborn, our abilities are not fixed.
But I do worry that the Barro offer sends the wrong signals to younger economists--that by telling them the profession still insists on the appearance of superstardom, that it only values home runs when we really ought to be looking for a solid series of base hits, it will encourage what is already a disturbing propensity to favor attention-grabbing showmanship at the expense of deeper, more time-consuming work.
Although myofibroblasts were not detected in vivo [ 51 ] , the propensity of keloid fibroblasts to express α-SMA in vitro and the loss of this protein upon matrix contraction (gel relaxation) do not allow one to dismiss a role for myofibroblasts in keloids.
This difference may possibly be due to the high propensity of the uncharged part of the molecule {poly(naphtalene)} to be involved in hydrophobic interactions.
These data could imply the existence of metastasis promoting gene(s) in that region or, alternatively, the observed molecular changes may be used as a marker of metastatic propensity [ 28 ] .