Sentences with phrase «against observations on»

It also seems unfair to say that the model - weighting approach is better because it doesn't rely on the existence of a linear relationship when you * chose * the variable to compare against observations on the basis of that variable providing a good linear fit to your predictand.

Not exact matches

The reader is encouraged to take that seriously, to weigh the statements in this book against research and observations on the knowable world, and to consider them in relation to the thousands of other religions from throughout history that also profess with absolute certainty to be the one «Truth.»

And so, with Lot's wife as a warning against dwelling on the past, here are some observations....

Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted observation and direct verification of theories by the «facts.»

Finally, and much as I appreciate rhetorical high spirits, I hope Professor Griffiths will permit me the observation that it really doesn't advance the ongoing debate to suggest that James Turner Johnson is blowing smoke when he explains how James Childress» seminal 1978 article on prima facie duties and the just war tradition jump - started the «presumption against war» trope.

Thus the annual Human Rights Report of the U.S. State Department, mute the previous decade on discrimination and the occasional acts of violence against Christians, included in its January 1990 report the observation that «Christians have had difficulty in getting permission to build new churches» and that «Christians complain that there are barriers to Christians rising to high positions in public service, public corporations, universities and the military.»

Against that background, let me offer four observations on the character of Christian involvement in the life of the world, dimensions of the Christian ethic which are deeply rooted in our understanding of the death and resurrection of Jesus.

I'm so tired of people making these damning comments that aren't even based on observation; it's almost funny how biased some people are AGAINST their own players.

Anticlimactic as it was for those expecting a high - charged game, Brazil's 1 - 0 win against Germany in Berlin on Tuesday nevertheless offered some interesting observations about the Selecao's state of affairs for Russia 2018.

ALBANY — After months of listening to Gov. Andrew Cuomo assail him as responsible for a bill he voted against, U.S. Rep. John Faso closed a letter to the governor on Thursday with an especially cutting observation: He's not the man his late father was.

Creel's paper was seen as damning evidence against wolves, but his results were based on indirect observations.

They go on to suggest that «lowering levels of TNF may be an effective strategy in improving host defense against S. pneumoniae in older adults,» and that, «although it may be counterintuitive to limit inflammatory responses during a bacterial infection, [some existing] clinical observations and our animal model indicate that anti-bacterial strategies need to be tailored to the age of the host.»

It is a fundamental requirement of scientific method that all hypotheses and theories must be tested against observations of the natural world, rather than resting solely on a priori reasoning, intuition, or revelation.

Astronomers from almost all over the world worked against the clock to present their observation proposals on time for the new cycle that begins in October this year and ends in September 2018.

By taking advantage of Spizer's large distance from the Earth, the researchers were able to observe the light curve of the event from the vantage point of the orbiting telescope and study its variations with time in order to check them against similar observations that were conducted at the same time with the OGLE telescope on Earth.

Working with Tom Chase, a colleague at the institute, the researchers were comparing climate simulations from the Community Land Model — part of a select group of global models used in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's 2007 climate change report — against observations.

Based on these observations, DF's and substances that are part of the fibre complex such as antioxidants, flavonoids, sulphur containing compounds and folate have been proposed as potentially protective agents against colon cancer.

Perhaps being ignored because the film is too unobtrusive and relaxed in its observations of primal human interaction to register against weightier fare at this time of year, Zachariah is at its most immediate when focused on Robbie's precise acting choices.

(To generate the weights, we regressed a teacher's average student - achievement gain in one class against the three different measures from another class, resulting in weights of.758,.200, and.042 on value - added, student survey, and classroom observation, respectively).

A calligraphic leafed vine, painted in varying forms and colors against different grounds, is a recurring motif in the new work, which continues Amenoff's thirty - year exploration of an intense, romantic, physical, and densely woven semi-abstract landscape vision based both on observation and personal interpretation of the natural world.

In Excursion on the Thames (1953), one of several pictures in the exhibition deriving from Avery's only trip to Europe in 1952, the perfect balance is struck between loving observation of the everyday and visionary form - making: the pleasure boat slowly moving down the Thames, observed from the steps of the Tate at Millbank, is simultaneously two bands of vibrant colour glowing against the almost - black of the middle ground.

Are ocean models so robustly based on first principles that they can be trusted without validation against sound observations over the time scales of interest?

Whether the issue is tracking Arctic methane or American stream flows, there's a vital need for sustained, consistent observations, but — unfortunately — there's a two - edged bias against such investments, given the appeal of focusing on science's frontiers and the tendency to target monitoring programs — which are akin to bridge maintenance — when looking to cut budgets.

There are important implications in this observation not least the possibility of biased regression coefficients in attempts to reconstruct past low - frequency temperature change based on long density series calibrated against recent temperatures.

Gray's crusade against global warming «hysteria» began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old - fashioned stuff based on direct observation.

Otherwise, your observations about ability to rationalize and so on are well made, but — my advice is don't bet against the second law.

This was established on the systematic comparison between models» predictions with actual observations obtained over almost one solar cycle (1998 — 2007) at four European ionospheric locations (Athens, Chilton, Juliusruh, and Rome) and on the comparison of the models» performance against two standard prediction strategies, the median - and the persistence - based predictions.

I am a Good and Righteous man, so I struggle on despite what is stacked against me (current observations).

Your arguments against irrelevant observations based on geological timescales are spot on — and it's amazing how these simple ideas can be ignored in mainstream coverage!

The historical climate record and recent observations (as against fallible computer models) show that CO2 doesn't cause warming — game over for the AGW supporters, which means that the thousands on non-jobs that have been supporting this non event (hoax) need to go.

These studies also find that the impacts are highly conditional on assumptions made in the assessment, for example, with respect to weightings of global climate models (GCMs)-- according to some criteria, such as performance against past observations — or to the combination of GCMs used.

While such observations are convenient to use as evidence for already - formed opinions on the matter, these should not hold as scientific proof for or against the climate change science.

The suggestion that there are no solar effects seems to contradict observations and the suggestion that extra infra red warms the oceans on timescales that are meaningful is against logic given the net cooling effect of evaporation.

Previous hemispheric - scale, temperature reconstructions over the past millennium, with one notable exception (Mann et al., 2009), have focused on reconstructing tem - peratures in the time domain only, an understandable consequence resulting from few 20 and sparsely distributed high - resolution proxies that can be calibrated directly against instrumental observations.

Regrettably we never see the test of the skill of the Hansen model against the latter (it clearly has greater skill than either Hansen or the prediction based on the latest observation) because in the past this model hasn't been a good predictor of the future.

In Hargreaves the skill test for Hansen is only reported against the forecast based on latest flat line observation, not for any other models.

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO, and, on the second hand, the fact that the rate of warming over land is larger than it is over sea (and also that the shallow (0 - 700m) ocean layer never actually cools).

Each representation is based on direct observations of the processes in question and is tested against many different constraints.

What are telling observations against the hypothesis of a largely internally driven imbalance are, on the one hand, the fact the sea level variations are relentlessly positive, irrespective the phase of the PDO

This sounds like a good and easy math check / spreadsheet function that can be set up on observations of monthly CO2 saturation value against the various RCPs.

The CKD paper on the water vapor continuum verifies the radiative transfer calculation against field observations.

We focus on assessing reliability against present - day climatology with rank histograms, but also investigate the effective degrees of freedom (EDoF) of the fields of variables which makes the statistical test of reliability more rigorous, and consider the distances between the observation and ensemble members.

Based on recent observations of law firms or practice groups grappling with the new business of law and trying to evolve as quickly as possible, I am seeing a consistent pattern within firms that are concerned with their lack of progress against their plans and are contacting us out of frustration and for assistance.

Mullin's observations do not add up to a sure bet either way, although his piece seems to suggest that the smart money would be on a bet against business method patents.

The UN Committee's Concluding Observations provide a clear road map for how we can and should do better on a wide range of issues crucial to the dignity, security and freedom of BC women, from child care to the gender wage gap; from housing and poverty reduction to violence against Indigenous women.

Our firm's experience and observations advising small and mid-size firms on business strategy, profitability, and internal operations, persuasively demonstrate that smaller firms can compete very effectively even against some of the best - known and most powerful law firms in the world.

It is useful to quote key observations by Stadlen J [at paras 126 - 129]: «In my view, notwithstanding the absence in the FTPP proceedings of some of the statutory and non-statutory safeguards which apply to criminal proceedings... [I] n deciding whether it would be fair to admit the hearsay evidence, the requirements both of Article 6 and of the common law obliged the FTPP to take into account the absence of all those [safeguards]... [I] n my judgment, no reasonable panel in the position of the FTPP could have reasonably concluded that there were factors outweighing the powerful factors pointing against the admission of the hearsay evidence... The means by which the claimant can challenge the hearsay evidence are... not in my judgment capable of outweighing those factors... The reality would appear to be that the factor which the FTPP considered decisive in favour of admitting the hearsay evidence was the serious nature of the allegations against the claimant coupled with the public interest in investigating such allegations and the FTPP's duty to protect the public interest in protecting patients, maintaining public confidence in the profession and declaring and upholding proper standards of behaviour... However, that factor on its own does not in my view diminish the weight which must be attached to the procedural safeguards to which a person accused of such allegations is entitled both at common law and under Article 6... The more serious the allegation, the greater the importance of ensuring that the accused doctor is afforded fair and proper procedural safeguards.

However, the headlines draw not from any actual observation about the network's performance, but on mounting disagreement over what bitcoin was intended to be, how it was performing against this ideal and the steps the industry can take to achieve a unified path forward.

In 2014, the United Nations Committee against Torture Concluding observations on the fourth and fifth periodic reports of Australia also raised concerns that mandatory sentencing disproportionately affects Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

The current study aimed to develop a reliable laboratory measure of socially indiscriminate forms of attachment behavior based on direct observation and to validate the measure against assessments of early care and later behavior problems among home - reared infants.