Sentences with phrase «from spurious»

As a final step, one can use VarScan to limit variant calls to a set of targeted positions, which removes variants arising from spurious read alignments.

That detection was riddled with problems, drawn out from spurious data, and ignored a low signal - to - noise ratio in search of a sensational new planet, the kind science fiction has long dreamed of.

If I understand him correctly, Ramsey takes intuition to be a form of immediate and indubitable knowledge which is not subject to revision or correction; if it is «self - authenticating», the problem of distinguishing genuine from spurious disclosures can never arise.

Bullard sounded as if he would not be in favor of the Fed raising rates because of the inflation rate turning away from the spurious 2 percent mandate.

Not exact matches

The probability of a randomly selected mutation in a randomly selected gene having precisely that effect is quite low, so just as with the stones in the field, a positive finding is more likely than not to be spurious — unless the experiment is unbelievably successful at sorting the wheat from the chaff.

But we may, I think, conclude with Errol Harris (AT 74) that from the Hegelian perspective, the philosophical shortcomings of classical logic extend to mathematical logic as well, and that as logic of the understanding, both deal with the «abstract concept of class or aggregate,» and are both inextricably connected with a metaphysics of externally related particulars that lose themselves in a «spurious infinite,» and with a concomitant mechanical cosmology.

And in truth, egregious fibs like the spurious mammogram claim mostly stem from wishful thinking on the part of defenders of the abortion giant, rather than from its own publicity materials.

Bonhoeffer also believed that the concept of God as a «supreme Being, absolute in power and goodness,» was a «spurious conception of transcendence,» and that «God as a working hypothesis in morals, politics, and science... should be dropped, or as far as possible eliminated» (Letters and Papers from Prison, S.C.M. Press edition, Great Britain: Fontana Books, 1953, pp. 122, 164, 360).

Since our earliest technological achievements, the story suggests, we have been trying to attain a spurious oneness derived from human self - sufficiency and autonomy.

A spurious religion, mind you, that was ripped off of cousin Israel's spurious religion that was ripped off of preexisting Egyptian, Persian, Greek, etc. religions, that themselves were ripped off of preexisting religions from...

To many men there has remained only the spiritual authority they derived from personal religious life, or, as a spurious substitute for any kind of authority, personal attractiveness whether genuine or fictitious.

Now in this case, I do think the argument is spurious, because from what I understand this is a museum.

All four arrests sparked criticism from all around the world with Christian campaign groups branding the accusations levelled against the men as «spurious» and therefore demanded that they all be released.

Spiritual growth is synonymous with increasing sanity, and it comes from unremitting effort to strip away false ideas and spurious goals.

So that our legislatures will no longer be limited by the spurious interpretation of the right to privacy that prevents them from criminalizing abortions.

White liberals, guilt - ridden (I write from experience), accepted this spurious definition at face value.

More specifically, as the above - mentioned case illustrates, from the Dalit communities» point of view the economic, social, cultural, and religious distance between Christian and non-Christian Dalits is exaggerated, if not altogether spurious.

The suggestion had been made long since in the spurious Decretals of the ninth century which significantly emanated from the lower church clergy of France who desired the centralization of Church government and the enhancement of the papacy as a defense against the highhandedness of overlords, alike lay and clerical.

Besides imparting visually stimulating aesthetics for the end users at the point of sale (POS), packaging also offers enhanced functionalities for enabling better interface with the the end users; extending shelf life by imparting optimised barrier properties and providing safetnet from the fake and spurious through impregnable brand protection / anti-counterfeiting solutions.

Studyingthe chain of supply, agents from Albany County were able to lay bare a drugpipeline that marries the power of the Internet with spurious antiagingcenters, board - certified compounding pharmacies and venal doctors.

Studies on the effects of divorce are plagued by spurious correlations, incalculable variables, and the near - impossibility of separating cause from effect.

Although it is welcome that NSAs are «encouraged» to submit only actions within their core area of business, spurious marketing strategies masquerading as health initiatives could be registered and so gain credibility from the image transfer from WHO.

Reacting immediately to the spurious claim, Dr. Omane Boamah, in a statement while revealing Dr. Zubeiru had called him to apologize, stated emphatically that he did his job to the best of his abilities and in no way withheld information from anybody.

What the public is really desperate to hear from Labour is that it will take a stand against at least the worst of the Tory attacks on people's living standards, e.g. reverse the iniquitous bedroom tax and call a halt to the callous stripping of seriously disabled people of their benefits on the utterly spurious grounds under the Atos farcical assessments that they are fit for work.

«The sample test results for Key Stage 2 science are based on five per cent of schools which makes spurious any comparisons with other test results from previous years.

According to the statement, «The transactions which gave rise to the false reports and the spurious claims from which they have sprung have already been submitted to the Court's consideration and ordinarily should not be the subject of discourse or advertorials.»

These spurious allegations are untrue and symptoms of mental exhaustion and stress coming from the lootee of the public purse.

Viewers could also pay to have an electronic filter installed to stop the spurious signals travelling from the LNB to the UHF cable.

The fact that postdoc pay generally comes not from state money but from research grants makes the university's argument spurious, counters UC Berkeley biochemistry postdoc Matthew «Oki» O'Connor, a member of the union negotiating team.

First of all, you need to separate the truly significant facts from the accidental or the spurious.

One way to find out is to wait patiently for a particle to smack into a detector buried deep underground to avoid spurious signals from ordinary particles raining down from space.

These methods are able to extract the most relevant information from a variety of sources, as opposed to their more standard counterparts, which typically assume every data point is of interest, spurious or otherwise.

The purported swirls in the cosmic microwave background could in fact be a spurious signal from within our galaxy, a rumor suggests.

Not only are broadcasts from ID not available to people whose dishes lack the enhanced LNBs, but some older dishes have been picking up spurious signals from the satellite that may interfere with terrestrial TV programmes (Technology, 4 February).

In an extensive sleuthing expedition that looked back nearly 20 years, two collaborating research teams contend that they have evidence that xenotropic murine leukemia virus — related virus (XMRV) resulted from the chance recombination of pieces of two mouse viruses in lab experiments and that the connections to human disease are spurious.

A seemingly threatening situation presents itself; you go into fight - or - flight mode; the threat proves spurious; you alert your (genetically close - knit) social group to the absence of actual danger by emitting a stereotyped vocalization — one that is amplified as it passes contagiously from member to member.

Trenberth points to disconcerting discrepancies and spurious variations in records, including those of precipitation and solar radiation, derived from different satellite sensors.

In response to claims that their use is often unscientific, statistical tools are now being designed to determine the probability that «matches» between a suspect and prints from a crime scene are spurious.

And their data are so spurious, that it is impossible to deduct any trend from them.

Last year, the FDA promised to crack down more harshly on spurious clinics that blinded people with eye injections of stem cells derived from people's fat.

Unfortunately, many online dating sites use spurious users to bulk up their numbers and generate interest from «real» users.

The tool identifies mismatches from IP addresses and locations, as well as remembering spurious email addresses and IP addresses that have been used by those previously identified by scammers on both the Global Personals network, and data acquired from every other dating site using Scamalytics.

Furthermore, it includes spurious and unsupported claims such as this: «Opponents also claim that the vouchers are tantamount to providing taxpayer - subsidized «white flight» from urban public schools.»

Henry Stewart, from Local Schools Network, a campaign group that supports locally maintained schools, said it was «absolute nonsense» to claim free schools would increase social cohesion, and added: «These are spurious claims for setting up a free school.»

Jason Agosto, our UFT chapter chair, has been subject to the most blatant retaliation from Mr. Urena in the form of negative observation reports, spurious disciplinary letters based on unfounded accusations, as well as the maligning of his reputation amongst parents on our School Leadership Team.

We are particularly concerned about spurious correlation arising from the

Add Los Angeles» notorious Superintendent John Deasy (with the fake PhD) to the list of Broad graduates to receive votes of no confidence from his teachers, at least those he hasn't forced out using false and / or spurious allegations and had targeted by administrators who often act out of fear of losing their jobs.

It's right up there in the prospectus for the SGQI exchange traded note, which implies to me they believe institutional investors will make the link between returns coming from dividends and future outperformance of income stocks, which is totally spurious.

Caines» spurious figures came from the bogus «BSL Fiscal Impact Calculator,» peddled by Utah - based fighting dog advocates, Best Friends Animal Society and designed by John Dunham, who formerly produced «research» for Big Tobacco.18

From appearances of the game at GamesCom to a somewhat spurious «interactive trailer» (linked below).