Sentences with phrase «accurately characterize»

Furthermore, the interpretation of character is a science, which demands considerable experience and insight (fyi I have a BSN in nursing, I did training in psychiatry) in before anyone can accalim they can accurately characterize another human being.

Unless you can accurately characterize what my opinion is, then you can't possible determine whether anyone's blowing smoke up my butt.

Do you think that you could construct or adapt a spectrophotometer so that it could accurately characterize the absorption spectrum of gaseous CO2?

«Though we have questions about the study's emissions estimates, it nevertheless highlights the critical importance of getting better data so that we can accurately characterize air pollution from natural gas development,» Ramon Alvarez, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, said in an e-mailed statement.

* Correction, March 31, 2015: This issue brief has been corrected to accurately characterize Antonio Hurt's position at Frederick Douglass High School.

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory researchers Priyadip Ray (left) and Brenden Petersen and their teams, using machine learning algorithms, have developed computer models that can more accurately characterize a patient's progression through stages of sepsis and better predict mortality risk by integrating past medical history, real - time vital signs and other diagnostics.

IPMNs can be characterized as either low - or high - risk for the development of pancreatic cancer; however, the only way to accurately characterize the severity of IPMNs is by their surgical removal that is in itself associated with a risk of complications, such as long - term diabetes and death.

The optimal circuit design was then synthesized and sophisticated methods of florescence spectroscopy were used to accurately characterize the results.

That motion, over a period of months, would allow researchers to very accurately characterize the wobble in Mars's axis of rotation, and might therefore provide a long - sought answer to whether Mars has a molten core, as Earth does.

«The results underscore the importance of accounting for changes in vegetation communities to accurately characterize future stream flow for the Sierra Nevada.»

Had Berke stopped for a moment to reflect, he might have asked if his subjects accurately characterize what Holocaust revisionists say (they don't).

«That said, recent data is more accurately characterized as a hint of stagflation rather than anything more acute and, therefore, it shouldn't be a surprise that many of the economic metrics that have characterized periods of more pronounced stagflation historically, such as unemployment, still remain low,» he added.

How can the current decline of Catholicism in American letters be accurately characterized?

Whether or not the statements made by supposed believers on this blog and elsewhere are accurately characterized as Pascal's Wager is of secondary importance at best.

Fever is most accurately characterized as a temporary elevation in the body's thermoregulatory set - point, which is usually by about 1 - 2 degrees Celsius.

This understanding of cancer's evolution has key implications for treatment, he noted, «In addition to pointing out that we will need to target driver genes that are mutated early in cancer, this evolutionary approach provides a method that accurately characterizes which genes are being mutated early and late.

«Classifying lower grade tumors in these three molecular clusters more accurately characterizes them than current methods used to group and grade tumors,» Verhaak said.

As Aileen's lover Selby, a fictionalization of the aforementioned Ty, Christina Ricci was accurately characterized in Theron's Oscar speech as the «unsung hero» of Monster: Though Selby personifies Aileen's salvation, Ricci drops any pretense of precociousness in the early going, a move that would seem as humbling for her as gaining weight was for the slender Theron.

Indeed, although the description is much less poetic, Sandback's work might be more accurately characterized as «drafting in space.»

It might be most accurately characterized as a tentative result suggesting a possibility, rather than a firm conclusion — the sort of thing that would be in GRL rather than Nature if the implications weren't so sensational.

On the other hand, if the GISS model is accurately characterizing the earth's climate and temperature than perhaps climate in general is very unpredictable.

Depending on the nature of legal work, accurately characterizing matters may only occur well into the life of the matter.

Kennerly accurately characterizes the different types of practicing lawyer blogs, which he divides into three main types: the mainstream, the personalities, and the marketers.

As an attorney for the Copyright Office observed, «[a] lthough presented as a «Restatement» of copyright law, the project would appear to be more accurately characterized as a rewriting of the law.»

Not exact matches

The biographer might just as accurately have characterized it as an outgrowth of the 19th - century Social Gospel movement.

When Hartshorne speaks, then, of metaphysical factors common to all possibilities, we understand him to be referring chiefly to factors any conceivable actuality (more accurately, any concrete singular or particular) will exhibit, not to factors which characterize possibilities or abstractions as such.

They should exercise caution in markets characterized by consumers» limited ability to accurately assess quality differences and imperfect information.

Such distances are key in pinning down the cosmological parameters that characterize our universe or in accurately measuring black hole masses.

But even as current technologies allow us to characterize the biological components of cancer with greater levels of accuracy, the massive amounts of data they produce have out - paced our ability to quickly and accurately analyze them.

«We were surprised at how fast G - FAST was able to converge to the correct answers and how accurately we were able to characterize all three earthquakes,» said Crowell.

First, one 24 - hour urine collection might be insufficient to characterize an individual's habitual salt intake, but it does accurately reflect the average salt consumption of groups of subjects.42 Thus, our analyses based on tertiles of 24 - hour urinary sodium should be less vulnerable to the high intraindividual variability of sodium excretion.

It's not enough to write home about, but at least the issue should be characterized accurately.

«Regarding the latter, it's been very frustrating to accurately predict the primary causes of the current market turmoil — the weak U.S. economy characterized by persistently high unemployment and a feeble housing market, plus the sovereign debt crisis in Europe — but to have done so a year too early (lest you think we are engaging in revisionist history, we've attached excerpts from our July 2010 and 2010 annual letter in an endnote at the end of this letter).

It has not been around long enough to characterize accurately.

More often than not, the game is an exercise in frustration, which unfortunately characterizes The Flame in the Flood most accurately: a promising, interesting survival game that is ultimately left to drown in the waters of mediocrity by its own core mechanics.

That's how the artist Ryan McNamara (accurately) characterized it at the premiere of his «Battleground» on Monday night, while smartly shaking up the format of the Guggenheim's Works & Process series and redefining the term «dance battle.»

Jenny Saville's figurative painting is an extraordinary one, characterized by high - caliber brush strokes and a rich use of color that accurately transmits her subject's physical, but also mental state.

To characterize this fully documented global warming only as being «likely» a» substantial» anthropogenic contribution is clearly resorting to unscientific understatement that does nothing to clarify or accurately portray our understanding of global climate change.

In my respectful view, Conforti (Re) accurately reflects the proper approach to be taken by the court when asked to characterize «income» (or «property», for that matter) under the Act.

Writing a great brief isn't easy, but you want enough credibility and transparency that the court knows exactly where you're coming from, and they don't need to go to the defense brief to get the facts, the relevant law, or to check to see if you've characterized the defense position accurately.

He held the issue the Tribunal faced more accurately should have been characterized as «deciding a question of mixed fact and law in the particular circumstances of this case.»

In Kerr, the S.C.C. recognized that this remedial dichotomy did not accurately reflect the realities of many domestic partners, and introduced a «value survived» monetary award to be used in instances where the parties» relationship can be characterized as a «joint family venture.»

Security researcher Brian Krebs has had direct, personal conflict with them in the past, and their errors permitted him to characterize them accurately.

These data offer the opportunity to more precisely, accurately, and richly characterize sexual motivation in older adulthood.