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Discover LudwigThe phrase "able to discern between" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the ability to recognize or differentiate between two or more things.
Example: "She is able to discern between genuine and fake emotions, which makes her an excellent counselor."
Alternatives: "capable of distinguishing between" or "able to differentiate between".
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Likewise, asteroid thriller Deep Impact now reigns supreme over the bigger-budgeted Armageddon in the minds of all those able to discern between poignant drama and schmaltzy toss.
We also found that, particularly among liberals, individuals higher in cognitive reflection were better able to discern between low- and high-quality sources.
In patients with a high APACHE IV score, MPO was able to discern between survivors and non-survivors.
"Once we gain visibility into the behavior of the user, we are able to discern between normal behavior and an anomalous behavior that looks like it's coming from an automated tool," he said.
As to the claim that APIs do not provide enough granularity for securely transferring data, the fear is the APIs will not be able to discern between an ER doctor requiring diagnostic data about a patient from a bot trying to access patient data for fraudulent means.
Currently, validated measures for body awareness are not able to discern between (a) anxiety-related hypervigilance toward pain and other physical sensations with catastrophizing interpretation bias and (b) a non-judgmental, meditative, 'mindful' awareness of these sensations.
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They're probably the kids of the professor down the street.' " "You have to be able to discern differences between people," she said, criticizing the practice of racial profiling.
On the one hand we performed an image analysis to estimate the nuclear packing density by direct counting of the cell nuclei either by manual counting or using the "watershed" algorithm of ImageJ, which was able to discern even between individual nuclei that lay in very close proximity or even partially overlapped (Figure 1A E).
The high frequency of episodes of LOC associated with a blast prevented us from being able to discern differences between episodes of LOC associated with explosions and episodes of LOC not associated with explosions.
Analysis of simulated genomic variants with a high proportion of base substitutions indicates that LPS9 is able to discern relationships between genomic variants with up to 40% of nucleotide substitution.
"This drug has been studied in 9,000 patients, in depressed and nondepressed healthy people, and we have not been able to discern any signal between duloxetine and suicide or suicidal ideation," Mr. Smith said.
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