I think it's pretty hard to alter the assumptions and worldview with which Pakistan's top thinkers function — just as it's hard to do in the realm of US foreign policy.
Motivated by [18] we alter the assumptions in (5) in order to explore general conditions for the evolution of cooperative cross-feeding.
The results of this analysis did not change when only HCWs with exposures to single patients were considered, or when we altered the assumptions regarding which patient infected the four HCWs with exposures to two patients.
However, most did not alter the assumptions of missing data from the primary analysis.
In an appearance before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Mr. Greenspan described the short-term economic outlook as murky, and he said nothing to alter the assumption among investors and economists that the Fed would continue to cut interest rates.
In his public comments, Mr. Greenspan said nothing today to alter the assumption that the Fed would leave its main interest rate, the federal funds target rate on overnight loans among banks, at 1.75percentt at least until the fall and possibly into next year.
But the numbers did nothing to alter the assumption among investors and economists that the Fed would raise rates again at its next meeting, on May 16, in an effort to slow the economy to a pace that would reduce the risks of inflation.
Sensitivity analyses considering the impact of altering the underlying assumptions in various ways will be used to frame the estimates generated.
Cellphones are cheap, their batteries can be easily recharged with solar power and they are creating nothing short of a revolution: knitting rural communities together, sowing information, and altering the most basic assumptions about health care and finance.
In response, some argue that the principled worry cannot be established, since what counts as data is apt to change over time with the development of new techniques and instruments, and with changes in scientific background knowledge, which alter the auxiliary assumptions required to derive observable predictions (Laudan & Leplin 1991).
