"But if I told you the first letter was 'T' you would probably take many more guesses to get it right - that's a measure of uncertainty". Using the symbols, or characters, from the stones, Prof Lee and his colleagues measured this feature of so-called "character to character uncertainty".
James Wilson's starting point was "a melancholy reflection": "while wealth and capital have been rapidly increasing" and science and art "working the most surprising miracles", all classes of people were marked "by characters of uncertainty and insecurity".
Precision seems important ("1959"; "a quarter, a half, or occasionally three-quarters"), but the novelist's certainty does not preclude a tactful hesitancy about her characters ("The uncertainty probably kept her awake").
The galumphing rock score in which a song can suddenly change character without warning reflects the character's uncertainty about who he is.
The sources and characters of uncertainties in engineering modeling for risk and reliability analyses are discussed.
(Although the colorful chaos of the squat does make being broke and underemployed look charming.) What he has is an elliptical narrative that makes a perfect vehicle for two characters whose uncertainties, confusions and fractured romances — there are plenty of beds, unmade and otherwise — are similarly oblique.
To consider the seasonal character and uncertainty of reservoir inflow, a composite optimization model was presented in [9].
These three probabilities sum up to 1, thus simultaneously taking phylogenetic and character mapping uncertainty into account.
(Participant 17, PHA) Challenges identified to using SMS include: limited screen space and character length, uncertainty whether a phone number is personal rather than organizational/professional, and tracking replies coming in via SMS.
Stochastic lattice dynamical systems (SLDSs) arise in a variety of applications where the spatial structure has a discrete character, and uncertainties or random influences are taken into account.
