Sentences with phrase «in spurious»

Initially, replication problems of case - control studies were often attributed to population stratification (case and control groups originating from genetically distinct populations) and to multiple testing without appropriate corrections, which could result in spurious associations.

«The combination of the low small claims limit and QOCS means that the insurance industry has generally seen a surge in spurious claims.

Fu et al. 2004 found that stratospheric cooling (which is also a result of greenhouse gas forcing) had contaminated the UAH analysis, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Hurrell and Trenberth 1997 found that UAH merged different satellite records incorrectly, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Wentz and Schabel 1998 found that UAH didn't account for orbital decay of the satellites, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

Mears and Wentz 2005 found that UAH didn't account for drifts in the time of measurement each day, which resulted in a spurious cooling trend.

In them the spurious lower stratosphere cooling in the NCAR / NCEP reanalysis was noted and also noted that it had no effect on the subject at hand.

However, if these other issues are the ones that really «matter», as they now say, then they should not have embarked on the coretop redating that resulted in a spurious uptick.

They include most of the important dynamics even though they probably have far too much numerical dissipation, but this should stabilize the integration, not result in spurious reactions to small changes in initial conditions.

The movement of a site to a location with a slightly different mean climatology will also result in spurious changes to the data.

Unless this is studied and accounted for volcanoes are likely to result in spurious warming «corrections».

In addition, we have to assume that for some reason we have yet to understand, stationary displays such as a and b produce differential activation within the motion receptive field, thereby resulting in spurious activation of motion neurons.

The most troubling of these were vibrations of the entire apparatus that resulted in spurious microscopic variations in the distance between the two mirrors.

The growth in spurious and exaggerated personal injury claims and excessive legal costs has resulted in higher costs for consumers, local authorities and the NHS, as well as making it harder for genuine claimants to get compensation.

But it is a pity that he feels the need to cloak that welcome reappraisal in some spurious rubbish about the Lib Dem approach to the same negotiations.

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.

But if the concern was that liberals went beyond the text and engaged in spurious moral reasoning, the corrective surely would be to show why the reasoning was spurious.

And I would suggest also that there is an imaginative component associated with employment of the term «chance» that explains its psychological attractiveness to its devotees in the spurious chance vs. design debate.

But it is also certain, that this recognition, because it is in a spurious eternity before the imagination, develops double - mindedness, if it is not slowly and honestly earned by the will's purity.

In every spurious sex abuse case, there is an original accuser, whose story proves contagious.

This type of allegation is common in spurious sex - abuse cases, in part because it solves a common problem: If the victim was never alone with the predator, when and where did the assault take place?

Not exact matches

In a bad quarter, they could find spurious reasons to release those reserves and — voila!

So their adoption of a blockchain, in fact, a whole family of blockchains, seems spurious.»

None seemed credible to me — all spurious talk about waking up all the cells in your body and boosting your immune system.

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.

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.

Special pleading is a form of spurious argumentation where a position in a dispute introduces favorable details or excludes unfavorable details by alleging a need to apply additional considerations without proper criticism of these considerations themselves.

This tract was thought spurious by some, but is known to be St. Augustine's by his mention of it in Epistle 231 ad Darium Comitem.

«Available information suggests that the charges against Zhang are spurious and are aimed at preventing him advocating on behalf of churches and individuals affected by the cross removals in Zhejiang Province.

Creationism / ID do not present any testable hypotheses, all they do is try to poke spurious holes in the theory of evolution (which itself has evolved and continues to evolve, as many good theories do).

It is not merely that no one is saved; it is that hope is spurious and there was no chance of redemption in the first place.

They argue that there is a true faith that results in works, and a spurious or false faith that does not.

With reasons so spurious and disagreement so large, the boyfriend really seems like the driving motivator in this decision.

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 the decision of the Supreme Court of Canada in R. v. Morgentaler (1988) holding even relatively minor criminal code restrictions on abortion contrary to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (on similar» and similarly spurious» grounds as those of the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade), Canada has been without restrictions on abortion.

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Several of them have pointed out that the tradition concerning the correspondence between King Abgar and Jesus is only apocryphal and hence spurious and that the king who became Christian in Edessa was not Abgar V but Abgar VIII (called the Great) who came to the throne in AD.

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

Since Boyle was a» lover of the truth», he refused to financially support the publishing of SPURIOUS books, such as the non-biblical writings in the Apocrypha!

Self - deception, as we saw in the previous chapter, happens because our natural longing for significance often leads us into spurious kinds of «performances» before others whose esteem we regard as essential to our own sense of self - worth.

The actual texts of the constitutions were all too often ignored in favour of vague and spurious invocations of «the spirit of the Council», or else they were superficially raided for selective and misleading quotations.

No American can ever attain to understanding the loyalty of a Briton towards his king, of a German towards his emperor; nor can a Briton or German ever understand the peace of heart of an American in having no king, no Kaiser, no spurious nonsense, between him and the common God of all.

This is the first of many spurious comments in this article.

In our secularized culture this spurious repentance often appears in the «public apology» that falls short of the real thinIn our secularized culture this spurious repentance often appears in the «public apology» that falls short of the real thinin the «public apology» that falls short of the real thing.

I do not mean to imply that the evil are anything other than a small minority among the religious or that the religious motives of most people are in any way spurious.

There is no evidence of anyone worrying about spurious belief anywhere in the old testament.

The appearance of objectivity thus given is spurious, however, since the New Testament does not «stand» in such a manner.

Vodafone Hutchison Australia has accused the competition regulator of using «failed gambles» and spurious analysis in its regulation of mobile phone and text message prices.