One of these approaches, Extended NegEx (ENegEx), extends the rule-based NegEx algorithm to cover alter-association assertions; the other, Statistical Assertion Classifier (StAC), presents a machine learning solution to assertion classification.
Kahneman and Knetsch contend that it seems "highly implausible that this minor procedural change would significantly alter results" (p. 61), but do not test this assertion.
Nerve pain, depression, incontinence, chronic urinary tract infections and impotence are daily realities, which the film cuts together with C-SPAN footage of the deliberations on the House and Senate floors, where congressmen and senators echo the president's assertions without altering sentences or choosing different metaphors.
Our data support the assertion that, in a healthy population, deep, soft-tissue massage does not alter passive mechanical characteristics of the calf muscle complex.
But it also meant the candidates made their assertions mostly without being challenged, and it was far harder to tread new ground or alter the trajectory of the race.
The decision – which will alter books aimed at eight- and nine-year-old Arab pupils – will be seen as a blunt assertion by Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud-led government of Israel's historical narrative over the Palestinian one.
Sacha Baron Cohen's alter ego has plenty of experience with US politicians, having interviewed Newt Gingrich, Ralph Nader and Pat Buchanan (from whom he secured the surprising assertion that "at one time [Saddam] was using BLTs on the Kurds").
Yet Ullmann made a startling assertion: "People assume that I was the muse for Ingmar's female characters, and that Max and Erland Max von Sydow and Erland Josephsonson, Bergman's chief leading men — "were his alter egos.
As if to bolster this assertion, his commentary is quite funny at times -- he does a dead-on Irish brogue in imitation of Bob Geldof, who plays "Pink, Mr. Waterss's alter ego.
A day after Mr. Romney's assertion that the president had admitted to failing to change Washington, Mr. Obama tried to turn the tables, saying his presidency had always been about mobilizing outside voices to alter the country's direction.
And the balancing of opposites, the rhythm of assertion and counter-assertion, the sudden questioning turns, all of it seems irresistibly like Florio's Montaigne, notably in the springy, self-surprised beat: How often do we pester our spirits with anger or sadness by such shadows and entangle ourselves into fantastical passions which alter both our mind and body?
