It was hard to know how to take notes, and it almost didn't make sense to do so, because the modesty of his manner implied that any given comment was only pertinent to the case of the particular sentence under discussion.
Second, China's danwei system only applies to cities/towns but not villages; thus, previous research on organization-based stratification in China is only pertinent to urban society.
Even more, the questionnaire is only pertinent when the investigator has chosen and defined a research model based on the standardization of the information through mathematical-statistical language.
Neutral findings (indicated with a 'O' in the tables) are ones wherein the evidence is either not statistically significant, or it is only pertinent to testing a meta-principal, like the consistency of an argument or of a spatial property.
Intuitively, if nodes are separable among different topics, and each node v is only pertinent to one topic i, the marginal influence of v would not change much whether it is for a mixed item or the pure topic i.
Thus, microbes were only pertinent to infections which impacted on fertility or successful gestation.
While this may appear to be an objective method of validation, it is only pertinent to those patients who come to surgery or biopsy, and may be subject to sampling error.
Unfortunately the show often loses its focus as approaches the present, adding recent works by some of the older artists and several more by younger ones — including a few from New York and Europe — that are only tangentially pertinent.
A final, related point pertains to Epstein's [ 51, 52] observation that performance-based assessments are only predictive of traits, if the pertinent behavior is measured in multiple tasks for which scores are combined.
Therefore, cancer studies that are only conducted in ambient (21%) O2 may miss pertinent biological observations.
