McGurl's claim is simple: given that most of the fiction that Americans write and read is processed through the higher-education system, we ought to pay some attention to the way the system affects the outcome.
Applications should be simple, given the target group's lack of education and skills.
The implication was simple: Given the bounty of scientific and statistical evidence now in hand, insurance companies can't afford to dither over whether climate change is real -- and really, neither can anyone else.
The question we ask is simple: given the proximity in subject area between a citing publication (paper or patent) and cited publication, what is the impact of the citing publication?
The validation of SNP candidates is simple given our encoding method.
The sequences were aligned based on the translated amino acid sequences with Se-Al v2.0, alignments were simple given the high degree of sequence conservation within paralog groups.
While the statistics of such reports may be simple, given the studies may be solely descriptive, it is essential that the investigators understand the quality and validity of the data that are being used.
The premise is simple: given a set of J parents, generate and phenotype offspring from all J × J reciprocal crosses and from these data estimate genetic parameters that characterize how the parental genomes and sex influence phenotypic variation.
The addiction is simple; giving up is complicated.
The answer is simple: give them something worth staying for.
