The word
"observable" means something that can be seen, noticed, or detected with the human senses or with instruments. It refers to things that are able to be observed or perceived.
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Ultimately, as he states, the God creative enough «to make the entire
observable universe in a dense dot of pure energy is incomprehensible, beyond human imagining,» but still «we can see the consequences of this unimaginably powerful creative act: a universe congenial to the ultimate formation of life, life giving rise to intelligence that can ask questions science can not answer.
The theory of evolution by natural selection is a beautiful explanation for the diversity of life based on
observable facts.
If the diagnostics come up positive for blast - related brain trauma, the neurosurgeon takes action based
on observable signs of trauma.
We can make things happen with math, but let us not forget that we live in a real world where mathematics must align
with observable reality in order to be proved true.
If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by other
observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.
The Transaction Broker must disclose all known facts and defects that materially affect the value of the property and are not readily
observable by the buyer.
The only
observable evidence is that of very limited horizontal (or downward) changes within strict limits.
It cheapens and discredits those findings where global warming is a real and immediate cause for
observable phenomena.
The new report shows that even in a very low functioning brain «a shift in
observable behaviors from none, a vegetative state, to some limited ones — a minimally conscious state — can occur,» said Dr. Nicholas Schiff, a neurologist at Weill Cornell Medical College who was not involve in the current case.
We are encouraged further in this by our ability to transform observed spatial measurements into temporal measurements and vice versa as we seek to describe the facts as
observable from various inertial frames of reference.
This means that it is impossible to control statistically for
observable differences in the children who were lost at the point of randomization.
I was able to adjust
for observable changes in student composition, such as the district's racial and socioeconomic makeup and its students» prior achievement.
I'm just not sure why we should take the natural,
observable world, and hang something supernatural on it.
A single generation of adaptation to the hatchery resulted in
observable changes at the DNA level that were passed on to offspring, scientists reported.
Parent alienation includes behavior by an alienating or favored parent as well
as observable behaviors in the child or children.
«Contrary to the common perception that grass eating is associated with
observable signs of illness and vomiting, we found that grass eating is a common behavior in normal dogs unrelated to illness and that dogs do not regularly vomit afterward.
The
only observable differences between the two are their sizes and the appearance of their ears.
The 2016 Interim Legal Services Market Study Report of the Competition and Markets Authority asked [4] «Are there any measures of quality that can readily be collected by regulators or government... on
observable trends in quality of legal services?».
FHA appraisers must report all readily
observable property deficiencies, as well as any adverse conditions discovered performing the research involved in completion of the appraisal.
At the same time we have had
observable increase in solar contribution, probably accounting for about half the estimated warming of the Twentieth Century17.
The empiricists of the 1950's had claimed that science starts from publicly
observable data which can be described in a pure observation - language independent of any theoretical assumptions.
If the benefits of marriage for children can be explained by
other observable characteristics of the family, and especially money or parenting behavior, then policy may be more successful if focused on those pathways.
Problems like arthritis, joint pain, fibromyalgia, and carpal tunnel are treated homeopathically with real
observable results.
Further, I suggest that the guilt might sometimes be felt by AE2 when it forms a contrast which includes the crime - committing decision of AE1 as well as the publicly
observable consequences, if any, and finally, the goal of continuing to achieve a moral equilibrium in an ordered society.
In today's society, he would be viewed as data - driven, and he taught his students to simply describe
observable symptoms rather than try to interpret them.
Rather than being selected on the basis of past performance, candidates were chosen on the basis of
more observable factors such as good references, their career path - whether the person has held one or more managerial posts and has had fairly clear upward progression - and the board's anticipated approval of them, what is called «fitting in».
Report in Brief >> Climate change is already causing
observable impacts on terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems in polar regions, and as climate continues to change, scientists expect these impacts to grow.
Middle school students identify
observable traits of zebrafish offspring, and, in high school, students learn how scientists determine the genetic makeup of parents by studying their offspring.
This is not a directly
observable thing: there is no time series labelled «potential supply».
As we grow from childhood to adulthood, we continue to seek out efficient and easily
observable patterns.
«Science (from the Latin scientia, meaning «knowledge») is the effort to discover, understand, or to understand better, how the physical world works, with
observable physical evidence as the basis of that understanding.»
This research is part of a multi-pronged effort in the ongoing inertial confinement (ICF) program, which is used to study ignition and burn in a laboratory setting, and which aims to tackle arguably the most challenging
observable condition in ICF implosions — stagnation, the termination of the compression process before fusion takes place.
In fact, the biopsy is fast losing position as the gold standard diagnosis because of extraintestinal manifestations of gluten immune response that don't
cause observable changes to the small intestinal villi (joint pain, or rash, or gait - instability without obvious gut symptoms).
Greater candor also stems from the focus on description, rather than judgment, that grounds criticism in comments
about observable phenomena in the class, rather than ad hominem judgments.
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