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The potential importance of this approach lies in (i) conferring a degree of functional specificity on this aspect of effective connectivity and (ii) providing a model of modulation, where the contribution from a distal area can be considered to modulate responses to the psychological or stimulus-specific factor defining the interaction.— CiteULike: Everyone's library
It's called proximal - distal, dorsal - ventral, anterior - posterior.— ScreenTalk
If the skin under the nail is infected (distal subungual onychomycosis), the following symptoms may appear:
Cathrine Trangerud defended her thesis for the degree of Philosophiae Doctor at the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science on August 22, 2008, entitled "Growth patterns and metaphyseal irregularities in dogs: a study of 4 large breeds with emphasis on irregularities in the distal metaphysis of the radius and ulna in Newfoundland dogs".— innovations-report
From the results of their experiment, the authors conclude that "higher levels of globalization … are associated with greater propensities to favor cooperation with globally distal others compared with compatriots living in the same locality."— Ars Technica

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