Such a physician might be able to guide the parents of colicky babies through a difficult time that is (mercifully) usually transient, and could also help patients requiring hormone replacement therapy (whether for low thyroid hormone levels or low testosterone levels) decide what replacement dose makes sense, and reach a conclusion that would be informed by numeric criteria but not exclusively defined by it.

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Moreover, at BGI most faculty are transient and paid for what they are, temporary, part-time teachers.

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If you produce a short-term memory -- if you look up a telephone number you just remember for a short period of time (or) you meet somebody and remember their name briefly -- you have a transient change in the strength of communication.

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