For at least a decade, officials in Bell arbitrarily required some businesses to make payments to the city totaling tens of thousands of dollars annually, in at least one case threatening a business owner with closure if he failed to comply, according to interviews and records reviewed by The Times.
I draw the line, maybe arbitrarily, in requiring by law that churches must marry people.
The reason that TBSS was chosen over other methods for analyzing group differences, such as a VBM-style approach [29], is because it has been shown to be able to resolve the alignment issues of FA images from multiple subjects and does not require arbitrarily chosen smoothing kernels for valid statistics [57], [58].
The conformation space network describes the significant free energy minima and their dynamic connectivity without requiring arbitrarily chosen reaction coordinates.
For a quantitative evaluation of the COFs, we arbitrarily chose the required outlet gas purity to be <0.05 mol % CO2.
The only reserve I have is that the method requires arbitrarily defined parameters, namely r, s and K.
The ROC curve plots the true viable rate against the false viable rate thus allowing comparison of different models and methods without requiring arbitrarily choosing this parameter a priori [ 40].
In Theis et al. (2010) the ideas of pknotsRG (Reeder and Giegerich, 2004) are extended to predict (aside from unknotted structures and H-type pseudoknots) RNA structures that exhibit kissing hairpin motifs in an arbitrarily nested fashion, requiring O (n 4 ) time and O (n 2 ) space.
After the Supreme Court said that the Department of Transportation had arbitrarily rescinded a standard to require air bags or belt systems that automatically wrap around the driver and outermost front seat passenger, Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Hanford Dole devised a strategy that includes an escape hatch for the industry.
stMRPP is a nonparametric approach that does not depend on arbitrarily assigned origins and not require any estimation or modeling of spatial correlation compared to traditional multiple response permutation procedures (MRPP).
