There is cosmic time, the time of the world that unfolds as a sequence of uniform, qualitatively undifferentiated moments in which all change occurs, but in which any present is defined simply in relation to what comes before and after; these times come before this "now," those after.
Roughening is defined simply in terms of the variances of hydropathic 〈 ψW〉 sliding window chain profiles, where the window length W can be tuned to optimize resolution of interprotein (e.g., different species or mutational) differences.
However, the analysis of facial asymmetry is based on certain features which may be defined simply only in images with high resolution and focus.
Augustus' position as princeps cannot be defined simply.
Because of the moderate sample size of the current study, cyst progression was defined simply as an increase in score, and thus included both those who had an increase in score and incident cysts.
In the present study food availability was defined simply as having that food item in the home at the time of questionnaire completion, whereas the previous study included items on how easy/difficult it was to buy fresh produce in the local area; which may not reflect the domestic situation (Campbell et al. 2006).
Importantly, because fruiting bodies can contain a mixture of different genotypes, this is expected to lead to selection for exploitative social "cheaters," which in D. discoideum have historically been defined simply as those strains that are overrepresented in the spore population of chimeric fruiting bodies [ 12, 15 20].
With his power derived from our obsession with computers and the Internet (a relatively new obsession when American Gods was first published), his entire existence seems to ignore the fact that technology which, in reality, is defined simply as "tools invented to improve a way of doing something"—is as old as civilization itself.
In physics, energy is defined simply as the capacity to do work.
