Whether it's physicians trying to determine how a virus works, or ecologists striving to understand how ecosystems function, science is about observing nature carefully and attempting to decipher how and why it works the way it does.
Grabbing the loot and attempting to decipher the secret sender from the scribbled return addresses.
The Imitation Game is largely set at Bletchley Park, Buckinghamshire, where Turing and his team attempted to decipher German messages to help end World War Two.
Beyond its medical relevance, NAT2 has generated considerable interest in the field of evolutionary genetics and numerous studies have attempted to decipher the relative roles of population history and natural selection in shaping genetic variation at this locus [3] [8].
Ritter et al. (2005) reviewed some of the large fault systems mentioned above (namely AvF, WF and SAF), compared their electrical properties, and proposed some Earth models that attempted to decipher the electrical information in a geological sense.
Research using mammalian models and phagocytic effector cell lines has attempted to decipher the importance of the innate immune system in host defence against mucormycosis.
Several exploratory studies have attempted to decipher how miRNAs, genes and proteins interact on a systems level, e.g. global miRNA regulation in cellular networks (Cui et al., 2006; Hsu et al., 2008; Liang and Li, 2007; Yuan et al., 2009) or combinatorial miRNA regulation in cellular pathways (Gusev et al., 2007; Xu and Wong, 2008).
Considering the significance of Braf inhibitors in melanoma treatment, several studies have attempted to decipher the mechanisms for resistance and suggested both mitogen activated protein kinase (MAP kinase) dependent and independent pathways as reasons for vemurafenib resistance [ 6].
And I've been in those libraries, struggled with those archives, attempted to decipher those murky photographs that seem to suggest both so much and so little.
The volume La expresión americana (1957) includes lectures in which Lezama attempted to decipher the essence of Latin American reality.
