Lawyer Philip Cooney, a CEQ chief of staff and a 15 - year veteran of the American Petroleum Institute, spent the first term of the administration editing science reports from various agencies on climate change to downplay the role of greenhouse gas emissions — emphasizing
elements of uncertainty from a 2001 National Research Council report on climate change, according to an investigation by the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.
It also removes
the element of uncertainty from divorce, because the spouses make all the decisions instead of a judge who doesn't know them or their family.
Not exact matches
But parts
of American energy security policies are at odds with influential
elements in President Obama's Democratic Party, who want to curtail what they perceive to be Canada's «dirty crude»
from the oilsands — witness the continuing
uncertainty over the future
of the Keystone XL Pipeline.
Beyond first - choice Hector Bellerin, there is an
element of uncertainty about Arsenal's right - backs, with Mathieu Debuchy having been linked with a move away
from the club and Carl Jenkinson currently out injured.
The practice
of science, which includes the packaging
of findings
from science for use in the public - policy arena, is governed by an unwritten code
of conduct that includes such
elements as mastering the relevant fundamental concepts before venturing into print in the professional or public arena, learning and observing proper practices for presenting ranges
of respectable opinion and
uncertainty, avoiding the selection
of data to fit pre-conceived conclusions, reading the references one cites and representing their content accurately and fairly, and acknowledging and correcting the errors that have crept into ones work (some
of which are,
of course, inevitable) after they are discovered by oneself or by others.
The
uncertainty of character makes for a nice double feature with the movie's also dominant pure Oedipal
elements, straight
from the doctor's ideas about how a male understands the world through the more prudent aspect
of sexuality.
*** «Perhaps concern over «
uncertainty» in complex, adaptive, open systems should be investigated by inductive generalization
from observations
of the dynamics
of a wide range
of such systems: ecosystems, social systems, computer systems, immune systems, economic systems... It is curious that the following things are never admitted as «facts about the world,» but here goes: the observer would note
of all
of these systems that they undergo oscillations within apparent parameters and occasionally flip into new regimes; they often demonstrate novel emergence; and that increased forcing, whether
of native
elements or exotic ones, increases the rates
of oscillation and catastrophic shifts, sometimes after a quieter period
of sub-threshold build - up.
Medicine is interesting
from a number
of perspectives including
uncertainty, science, rules -
of - thumb, ethics, etc., and it has been a significant area
of interest over the years for decision theory and artificial intelligence researchers in part because it has non-trivial
elements of uncertainty, serious outcomes, extra-medical considerations, etc..
To give «appropriate» an evaluative gloss, allowing a party to delay the commencement
of proceedings for some tactical or other reason beyond two years
from the date the claim is fully ripened and requiring the court to assess to tone and tenor
of communications in search
of a clear denial would, in my opinion, inject an unacceptable
element of uncertainty into the law
of limitation
of actions.»
SBA also raised issue with removing the seventh data
element from the definition
of application because it might create
uncertainty about when the provision
of the Loan Estimate is required as well as require the Loan Estimate to be provided earlier in the process.