Alpers ' syndrome in infants is also thought to be a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy caused by a prion.

Alpers ' disease, also called Alpers ' syndrome, progressive sclerosing poliodystrophy, and progressive infantile poliodystrophy, is a progressive degenerative disease of the central nervous system that occurs mostly in infants and children.

Alpers also classifies pastoral as a mode of literature, as opposed to a genre, and he defines the attitude of pastoral works maintaining a humble relationship with nature.

Busiek was to write a script treatment, and also to executive-produce, along with Barenholtz and Alpers.

With William Empson's notion of placing the complex into the simple, Alpers thus critically defines pastoral as a means of allegory.

Paul Alpers distinguishes pastoral as a mode rather than a genre, and he bases this distinction on the recurring attitude of power ; that is to say that pastoral literature holds a humble perspective toward nature.

Paul Alpers, In his 1997 book, What is Pastoral ?, describes the recurring plot of pastoral literature as the lives of shepherds.

Alpers talks about pastoral lyrics and love poems in particular.

Alpers talks about love poems and how they can be turned into pastoral poems simply by changing words like lover to shepherd.

Furthermore, Alpers says the pastoral is not only about praise for the rural and the country side.

In regards to pastoral narration, Alpers says that pastoral narration contradicts “ normal ” narrative motives and that there is a double aspect of pastoral narration: heroic poetry and worldly realities with narrative motives and conventions.

And in respect to pastoral novels, Alpers says pastoral novels have different definitions and examples depending on the reader.

In What Else Is Pastoral ?, Ken Hiltner argues that Renaissance pastoral poetry is more often a form of nature writing than critics like Paul Alpers and Annabel Patterson give it credit for.

As Paul Alpers states, Lycidias ' gratitude in heaven is a payment for his loss.

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A study of their activity on thyroglobulin has shown that thyroxine is not preferentially released and that the degradation proceeds stepwise with the formation of macromolecular intermediates ( Alpers, Petermann and Rall, 1956 ).

At the time of her death she had made substantial progress towards a first edition of the Etymologicum Genuinum, a project continued under the direction of Klaus Alpers.

Alpers ' disease is caused by certain genetic mutations in the POLG gene.

While some researchers believe that Alpers ' disease is caused by an underlying mitochondrial metabolic defect of POLG, no consistent defect has been identified.

There is no cure for Alpers ' disease and, currently, no way to slow its progression.

The prognosis for individuals with Alpers ' disease is poor.

It is named after Bernard Jacob Alpers.

In addition to Hill, Timm and Étienne, these were William Alpers, George Loder, Louis Wiegers and Alfred Boucher.

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* Anthony Alpers, Maori Myths and Tribal Legends.

These include Friedrich Schiller, George Puttenham, William Empson, Frank Kermode, Raymond Williams, Renato Poggioli, Annabel Patterson, Paul Alpers, and Ken Hiltner.

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