Sentences with phrase «something as complex»

Jonathan Schaffir, a doctor at Ohio State University Medical Center who has studied the link between hormonal contraception and sexual desire but who wasn't involved in this study, suggested that trying to tease out the effect of hormonal birth control on something as complex as mate choice can be misleading.

Something not often noticed in something as complex as a smartphone is sound design.

And particularly with something as complex as personal injury law.

It is an art to be able to simplify something as complex as the construction industry into something that is factual, true and easily understandable.

I accept that there are big problems with modeling something as complex as the climate.

Of course, simplifying anything too much will lead to experts and more - informed viewers criticizing the work for oversimplifying the subject matter - and as I'll discuss below, even TreeHugger has written about the problems with this oversimplification - but in order for anyone to understand something as complex as how global trade, manufacturing and consumption functions in modern society, it can be helpful to start with a basic overview so the average person can more easily digest the material.

Something as complex as climate must be a nightmare to write and debug, and frustrating when it doesn't work as it should.

I think that they are more likely to agree with Tom who said that you should include as many variables as you can when trying to understand something as complex as climate.

Even if they break these down into smaller subsets of related data, this isn't anything like enough to get an accurate assessment of something as complex as climate.

Most of them understand that Mann's stick was crude cartoon science that peddled a simple - minded plot something as complex as global climate was never likely to live up to.

It is highly unlikely (to borrow an IPCC phrase) that a change in something as complex as climate would have nothing but bad effects, yet that's what the science literature presents.

Whether it be something as complex as Mark Langan's work or something as straightforward as these Christmas trees, these pieces are made from 100 % recycled cardboard and offer modern and environment friendly solutions to art, design, and tradition.

Do they actually think they can «model» something as complex as the climate and fluid dynamics of an entire planet and make such predictions accurately?

The consequences of widespread and rapid changes to something as complex as the world's ecosystems are difficult to predict.

BTW Terje do you think a google post debate between lay people even with science or academic backgrounds can definitively prove one way or another something as complex AGW?

Dr. Stiglitz: «While there is no single indicator that can capture something as complex as our society, the metrics commonly used, such as gross domestic product, suggest a trade - off: one can improve the environment only by sacrificing growth.

With something as complex as climate change, not one person can pretend to hold the whole truth.

When making something as complex as video games, it is perfectly natural (although of course, not recommended) to make mistakes in the final product.

Independent consultant Mark H. Goldberg, who organizes the annual Canadian Telecom Summit, said in an email that he agrees that a focus on price alone doesn't make sense with something as complex as wireless.

It is impossible to guarantee the outcome of something as complex as having to deal with information on your credit reports.

Today, a look at using Google Translate on something as complex as a novel.

Quality over Quantity — Yes, this age - old adage applies, even to something as complex as metadata.

Even if you need something as complex as a research paper medical, you'll find a home with us.

In 2013, a team of experts funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation wrapped up a three - year, $ 45 million project to identify Measures of Effective Teaching (MET)-- an effort to determine whether it's possible to put numbers on something as complex as teaching.

But they are nothing close to a comprehensive philosophy on which to base a lifetime of inquiry into something as complex as public education.

For a long time, people have realized that the principal alone can't run something as complex and enormous as a school.

Although VAM makes an important contribution to our understanding of program outcomes, we likely need multiple measures to capture something as complex as preparation quality.

Well, first of all, I abandoned the standard creating approach because, I mean, how can you even imagine capturing something as complex as a human being's performance in a single number, single digit, or single letter: a B, or a C, or an A?

Given that a Performance Support Tool can take myriad forms, and can range from something simple like a checklist, to something as complex as an Electronic Performance Support System, in short EPSS, how do we ensure that all stakeholders are on the same page — that one isn't thinking simple, while another is thinking complex?

People have been very slow to accept the fact that test scores are only weakly correlated with later life outcomes because it would be so convenient if readily available and relatively inexpensive test scores could capture something as complex as school quality.

Corbet concedes that there is no way of resolving something as complex and unknowable as that of how a fascist leader may be formed.

The hints of something as complex as a Dark Knight or Watchmen are so tantalizing palpable here that I'm frankly stunned that Theroux, who cowrote the brilliantly subversive Tropic Thunder, didn't see it... or maybe I should be angry that he wasn't allowed to go where this story is quite clearly itching to go (though that's hard to believe after we've seen that moral complexity didn't stop The Dark Knight from raking in a billion bucks worldwide).

These data provide a timely reminder that what works in the lab might not always work in the field, especially when the GM trait is intended to influence something as complex as insect behavior.

«If you look at something as complex as an eye, you might be at a loss to explain how the whole structure evolved at once,» says Plachetzki, now at the University of California, Davis.

«This is the first time anyone's used a single gene to implant something as complex as a behavioral trait into another species,» says Young.

Creatures like jellyfish have so little internal structure that they are naturally transparent, but when it comes to something as complex as a mouse embryo, it takes extra work to get the photons through.

Of course, making any reconstructions of something as complex as color from a 10 - million - year - old fossil will involve some uncertainty.

«They've unlocked a whole new mechanism for how a supergene can determine something as complex as behavior.»

«It's a very simple mechanism to explain something as complex as recognizing faces.»

Just as intelligence tests do not measure intelligence, they might argue, so personality tests can hardly measure something as complex, subtle and varied as personality.

So when something as complex as the ability to produce sex gametes is lost, it's likely never to be developed again.

«There really isn't a standard set of agreed - upon criteria to measure something as complex and subjective as creativity,» she said.

«Making someone have a seizure, giving them an electric shock, and making something as complex as depression better just seems crazy.»

At first glance, intelligent design looks like the same argument that evolution's foes have made since 1859, when Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species: Only a divine intelligence could have created something as complex as life on Earth.

Given that Labour have hardly done an inspirational job as a political party, attempting to juggle Westminster politics with something as complex as being an energy supplier would not seem to be a logical next step, and it's doubtful consumers would take Miliband's proposal seriously.

But you start off with something complex (a god) and claim that that complex being created something as complex as DNA in every known animal and plant.

Any being capable of designing something as complex as a sensory organ like an eye is surely even more complex itself; does this not require further explanation?

Why you would expect their to be a single gene for something as complex as se.xuality when their isn't a single gene for something as simple as height is beyond me.

Creation with the specific intent of producing, foreknown by the Creator in every detail, the current state of the Universe, could require something as complex as the entire history of the Universe til now to provide that foreknowledge.

My goal was to listen, learn, explore, and show that «biblical womanhood» might not be as straightforward as we'd like to think, that there does not exist in the Bible a single definition, or list of rules, for something as complex as womanhood.