We measure our lives by reference to points of passage: a birth, a move, a new school, a graduation, a romance, a wedding, a job, a promotion, an illness, a passing, another birth.
To suggest that susceptibility or protection can be determined by reference to the point estimate departs from accepted conventions of inference.
Analytes were quantified by reference to 8-point calibration curves and machine performance was verified using three quality control (QC) samples for each analyte.
Ensuring that the principles that regulate our shared political life can be justified to each citizen by reference to this common point of view—showing these principles can be the subject of public reason is how we can know that the terms that regulate our political institutions are fair, and therefore just.
Let me begin by illustrating this point by reference to logico-semantic relations in clause complexes that realize "local" rhetorical complexes.
Diderot makes a similar point by reference to theater, which is less a place for amusement than a microcosm of society and therefore a laboratory for civil passions.
The confession illustrates this point briefly by reference to the modern problems of racism, war, poverty, and the breakdown of personal relations.
Floating point variables are, then, managed by software emulation when the application is compiled, but passing floating point parameters by reference to functions are not supported; we need this feature to compute matrix operations.
However, it is difficult to elaborate this description if one considers only the traditional sources, as Horky points out by reference to Hippasus, who is usually regarded as the first μαθηματικός.
This paper presents a distance measurement method based on pixel number variation of CCD images by referencing to two arbitrarily designated points in the image frames.
And then there is "indigenous data in the heads of people and in culture", in the words of Mr Stewart: for example, directions might be best given by reference not to points of the compass or the names of roads, as in Western cities, but to local landmarks.
