The basis for these performance comparisons is a simulated data example described in Section 5.1: the advantage of considering a simulation-based example is that we can be explicit about the signal components we wish to recover and can therefore quantify signal recovery performance.
Majors and non-majors alike benefit from a solid understanding of the nature and process of science, and all the more so if the example is based on biology that impacts them personally.
Part of the case, for example, is based on a California law that requires dealers to guarantee the authenticity of the sports memorabilia they sell.
Handwriting analysis, for example, is based on the premise that, by the time people become adults, their writing has acquired peculiarities that may be used to identify them.
The hypothesis that inflammation underlies the origins of several diseases, for example, is based on the assumption that the normal process has gone awry because of environmental signals, resulting in sustained activation of intracellular signaling networks that results in pathophysiologies.
Fiber optics, for example, is based on an idea that even Renaissance fountain designers knew light can be "trapped" temporarily in a droplet of water or glass if it enters at the proper angle.
The strategy adopted by the PAM-SLIM algorithm, for example, is based on the assumption that each level of the Slim-tree indirectly divides the data space into a number of clusters equal to the number of elements stored at each level.
The following example is based on a procedure that a local sequencing service, Edinburgh Genomics, had adopted as part of their quality control (later extended as described in [ 20]).
Linear extrapolation for cancer, for example, is based on a stochastic assumption: that the potential for critical damage to DNA is a matter of chance, and that this probability depends only on dose in a linear relationship, so that a doubling of dose results in a directly proportional increase in the chance of critical DNA damage (Dourson & Haber, 2010; US EPA, 1976; US EPA, 1986a; US EPA, 2005).
Vlambeer, for example, is a tiny studio based in Utrecht that created the wildly successful Ridiculous Fishing (and had a hell of a time with being cloned in doing so).
The Grace Notes, for example, is an all-female group based in Greenwich that performs almost exclusively for charity.
