Sentences with phrase «such as observer»

The scientific method requires that we be able to eliminate factors such as observer bias, for example.

The RMS covers the aspects of commercial whaling regulation not related to setting catch limits, such as observer schemes and record keeping.

Although this approach may be influenced by factors such as observer experience (Atkins et al., 2009), it is based on techniques that are widely available (Muzzi et al., 2003).

Those inconsistencies may be due to factors such as observer bias in a laboratory setting and small sample sizes.

As well as producing Oscar - nominated visual effects for the movie, Thorne and the effects team also unearthed some unexpected physics, such as that an observer close to a rapidly spinning black hole would see more than a dozen images of individual stars just outside one edge of the black hole's «shadow.»

In that light, it's worth keeping in mind the realities raised by Rees when she points out that the alternatives to testing that we've tried (such as observers and classroom audits) are expensive and have an unimpressive record of success in the US.

Feedback like this led us to conclude that the particular nature of video made it fundamentally different from the other artifacts collected during observations, such as observers» notes, board snapshots, lesson plans, and student work.

Not exact matches

Some observers predict that such borrowers will be forced to tap networks of small investors who lend through mortgage brokers, as well as mortgage investment corporations — in other words, the most remote corners of Canada's shadow banking sector, which accounts for 40 % of Canada's banking space.

Over the past few years, smartphones and tablets have arisen to become mobile gaming powerhouses, leading observers to speculate on whether the death of portable systems such as the Vita is nigh.

Google has long impressed observers for its continued support of dozens of useful little web services that make no money, but Techcrunch wonders if more cuts are on the way, such as Google's Wikipedia competitor Knol and phone add - on Grand Central.

Even if such a step is seen as unlikely by most officials and observers, Pakistan's ability to shape the destiny of America's longest war is a reminder of how much leverage the country maintains at a time Trump is suspending hundreds of millions of dollars in military assistance.

Still, some keen observers of cross-border affairs, such as Maclean's Paul Wells, took the president's decision to bring up the pipeline, even though he didn't really have to, as an eerie sign.

But over time, China has also picked up on EU concerns about the framework and sought to accommodate certain EU demands, such as granting the EU observer status in the group's meetings.

Most observers of the Australian (and others») experience with financial liberalisation have concluded that: (i) ideally, good risk management practices — including hedging — would be established before full liberalisation, so as to mitigate subsequent risks to financial stability; but (ii) it was difficult to develop such practices until entities were actually exposed to some risk; and (iii) as a result, a somewhat disruptive period of learning by your own mistakes was inevitable.

This shortage is why several bond - market observers such as Jeff Gundlach and Gary Shilling expect rates to stay low.

Some observers, such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, have ranked Canada's housing market as among the world's frothiest, but Canadian economists and the Bank of Canada don't see a problem at this point.

Many observers wondered if the city were on the verge of a revolution, such as the one that had taken place in Russia in 1917.

And as Canada's leading global investment bank, we were again named Dealmaker of the Year by The Financial Post, and received other citations by notable observers — such as Euromoney, Bloomberg, and Thomson Reuters — for our leadership in virtually every area of capital markets.

Market observers frequently opine that international markets, including developing economies, are sporting more attractive equity valuations than major U.S. benchmarks, such as the S&P 500.

The casual, hourlong discussion veers from such topics as determinism and the role of the observer (get ready to reopen the catbox), why «the God particle» is an inane name for Higgs boson, and why quantum mechanics does not make faith easier, but does make pure materialism less tenable.

The important point for Schwartz here is not simply that modified thoughts and behaviors permanently altered patterns of brain activity, but that such modifications resulted from, as he calls it, «mindful attention» — conscious and purposive thoughts or actions in which the agent adopts the stance of a detached observer.

I read an interesting article today written by a quantum mechanic claiming that the new direction in such scientific studies is that we can't be sure there is an objective reality but can only hope so, because what we perceive as reality is shaped by the observer.

Rosemary Ruether and other sympathetic but critical scholars have noted this point as observers of such groups; Goldenberg, Christ and Daly have made the claim from within their movement.

Many observers have identified a deep Christian influence in America's founding documents» including such luminaries as Chesterton, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Martin Luther King Jr., and Blessed John Paul II.

If that's the case, I would be tempted to set aside the category of evil altogether, as observers such as Richard Dawkins have done.

The present theory involves the idea of reference to something else, such as a piece of apparatus, and that to something else, etc., and finally to the consciousness of some observer.

Yet some observers supported the UK's decision, with reasoning such as, «He's just being kept alive by a machine!»

Nevertheless, the question remains of why a critical observer such as Weber was able, from his early interest in the Puritan ethic, to sustain the conviction that one could make reliable statements about subjective meanings.

Since this expectation is usually unconscious, it persists long after the realities of the marriage make its unrealism obvious to a relatively objective observer such as a marriage counselor.

A great novelist and great psychological observer such as Proust still does not give us the insight into the essence of man that we find in the novels of Dostoievsky and the poetry of Blake.

There was, nonetheless, a preoccupation with a few symbolic sins that must strike the modern observer as nearly pathological, and we will see in the next chapter how such preoccupations could lead to aggression against others.

After all these personality structures are not like physical structures, such as a heart or lung, upon which you can get observers to agree.

Galileo divided all attributes into two groups: «primary qualities» of mass and extension, which he believed to be properties of objects themselves, and all other «secondary qualities» such as color and hotness, which he believed to be merely subjective sensations in the observer's mind.

My general beliefs about how anger expresses itself in me and my degree of confidence in the veracity of these observers will introduce complex questions of consistency and coherence that will interact with such direct memories as I can elicit.

As Southern Baptists prepare to install their first black president, observers disagree on how much clout Fred Luter will have in a denomination closely identified with high - profile figures such as the newly reprimanded Richard LanAs Southern Baptists prepare to install their first black president, observers disagree on how much clout Fred Luter will have in a denomination closely identified with high - profile figures such as the newly reprimanded Richard Lanas the newly reprimanded Richard Land.

Thus, once again, but on very opposite grounds, the Johannine claim that «the light that enlightens every man has come into the world» might be adjudged a delusion — exposed as such by the myriad of spiritually enlightened observers who testify to having seen nothing in terms of light emanating from Christianity to warrant such a claim.

The Pleiades is a cluster of stars; Orion on the other hand, is a constellation — not a cluster — of stars, and as such only appear to be in relation with each other, from the point of view of earthbound observers.

When John presents most of the male disciples as passive observers of Jesus» deeds, the women are portrayed as active respondents to Jesus» words and deeds.49 They did virtuous deeds such as hosting dinner, serving at the table, overseeing the feast, and anointing Jesus» feet — all challenging works that no other persons took initiative to do.

Obviously, such a turned - off observer does not have to waste any of his time on Earth as a corrupter.

Under our ECOSOC status, we are entitled to be observers at UN conferences, to lobby national delegates and, on occasion, to run NGO «Parallel Events» (i.e. workshops or panel discussions) during some annual UN conferences such as its session of the Commission on the Status of Women which is held in New York each year in March.

This meaningfulness to the observer is at the root of all descriptions of an object, including adjectives such as objective, publicly compelling, predictable, etc..

Moreover, an attentive inspection of Minkowski's space - time diagram discloses that while there is no «world - wide Now - instant,» there is such a thing as «absolute future» — not only for my own Here - Now, but for every other conceivable observer, i.e., for all observers located anywhere in the Elsewhere region.

So, by that, compounded with problems such as Heisenberg's principle of uncertainty, the observer's effect, and the like — the modern day human lacks sufficient qualification to ascertain a good part of their knowledge as being absolute.

Recently, one such observer curiously described the Hobby Lobby decision as a win for the Green family, but a loss for religious liberty.

One observer labelled such treatment «as gross a case of cruelty as it is possible to conceive».

Yet even against such opposition, U.S. tennis officialdom had been genuinely worried that Ecuador — «a nice little country with perhaps 500 players,» as veteran tennis observer Bud Collins put it — would eliminate the American team, representing a nation of five million players.

«I have no ambitions to try and squat 500 pounds like some guys you see,» McIlroy said in the video, as if to thwart such tongue - wagging and, maybe, without explicitly throwing anyone under the bus, deflect any comparisons observers might make between him and Woods.

My experience with the Newcastle football team in Oklahoma leads me to believe that, as long as impact sensors are strictly used for the limited purpose of providing real - time impact data to qualified sideline personnel, not to diagnose concussions, not as the sole determining factor in making remove - from - play decisions, and not to replace the necessity for observers on the sports sideline trained in recognizing the signs of concussion and in conducting a sideline screening for concussion using one or more sideline assessment tests for concussion (e.g. SCAT3, balance, King - Devick, Maddocks questions, SAC)(preferably by a certified athletic trainer and / or team physician), and long as data on the number, force, and direction of impacts is only made available for use by coaches and athletic trainers in a position to use such information to adjust an athlete's blocking or tackling tec hnique (and not for indiscriminate use by those, such as parents, who are not in a position to make intelligent use of the data), they represent a valuable addition to a program's concussion toolbox and as a tool to minimize repetitive head impacts.

To the keen observer, a stroll through Heritage Park will reveal such treasures as a strain of wheat dating back over 10,000 years, heritage potatoes, purple carrots, striped beans and other heirloom vegetables and flowers that are no longer easily accessible.

Newborns should be nursed whenever they show signs of hunger, such as increased alertness or activity, mouthing, or rooting.85 Crying is a late indicator of hunger.86 Newborns should be nursed approximately 8 to 12 times every 24 hours until satiety, usually 10 to 15 minutes on each breast.87, 88 In the early weeks after birth, nondemanding babies should be aroused to feed if 4 hours have elapsed since the last nursing.89, 90 Appropriate initiation of breastfeeding is facilitated by continuous rooming - in.91 Formal evaluation of breastfeeding performance should be undertaken by trained observers and fully documented in the record during the first 24 to 48 hours after delivery and again at the early follow - up visit, which should occur 48 to 72 hours after discharge.