What Ms. Usuki's computer simulations had to develop was what the company calls an acoustic port, a tunnel to carry air molecules from the driver to the panel, but specifically shaped to avoid distorting the sound.
Yet if we do take Chinese Philosophy as having metaphysics, we must strive to avoid distorting it to fit into European terms.
First, stocks with insufficient liquidity are excluded to avoid distorting the results (e.g., Chan and Fong 2000; Lo and Coggins 2006).
As the interviews were conducted in French, we decided not to translate respondents' statements verbatim but to report the contents of their replies in the analysis in order to avoid distorting their statements.
Hence, there is no single conception of good argument or argumentation to be discovered behind the core fallacies, and any attempt to force them all into a single framework, must take efforts to avoid distorting the character originally attributed to each of them.
Interpreting Hume in these terms not only goes a long way to filling what looks to be a large gap in his naturalistic program, it also avoids distorting his own wider ethical commitments by imposing a narrower, rationalistic conception of moral capacity into his naturalistic framework.
Tufte notes that, "graphical displays should show the data, induce the viewer to think about the substance rather than about methodology, graphic design, the technology of graphic production, or something else, avoid distorting what the data have to say and encourage the eye to compare different pieces of data" (p. 13) (Mulrow, 2002).
Calibrated zero baselines were used (instead of pre-stimulus baseline corrections) to avoid distorting the map topographies [ 38, 39].
Calibrated zero baselines were used (instead of prestimulus- baseline corrections) to avoid distorting the map topographies [ 43, 44].
*Because randomisation preceded attendance and consent, formal testing of differences between groups provides check that this procedure, designed to avoid distorting normal practice, has not introduced bias.
Given that the amplicon sequencing reads are single ended and sequencing depth is extremely high, we do not discard duplicate reads to avoid distorting the RC disproportionately (Zhou et al., 2014).
