As an emeritus professor from the University of Oklahoma who has never been a serious football fan, I am constrained to question the focus of Joe Drape's analysis of the Bowl Championship Series game between No. 1 Oklahoma and No. 2 Florida State ("No. 1 Sooners and Seminoles Will Face Off in Title Game," Dec. 4).
But Taguba's narrowly focussed mission constrained the questions he could ask.
The strengths of our study include the large sample size (1,796 comments), that comments were posted in real-time so data reflect how people felt at the time that they read about a news event rather than recollecting their perceptions and emotions, and that comments capture whatever the commenters felt was important to mention rather than being constrained by questions posed by researchers.
Within social oral epidemiology, the almost exclusive use of regression approaches constrains the questions asked, our hypotheses and the interpretations we develop.
In others - like the crucial question of constraining Iran's capacity to move swiftly towards a nuclear bomb - the various parties are still far apart.
Is the Supreme Court's review constrained to the question for which it grants certiorari?
The distress due to chronic hunger, lack of health care and widespread displacement of the people, who constitute one sixth of mankind, cannot be constrained only by questions of national identity.
However, the response to certain questions constrains the value of six different subgroups.
4 The current state of mental healthcare in resource constrained countries raises questions not only about the adequacy and distribution of resources for treating and preventing disorders, but also about the efficiency with which the resources are used.
It is notable that Graham has severe difficulty in producing answers constrained by test questions, yet does appear to be able to talk more freely when not required to produce such specific turns; compare direct attempts to answer test questions in lines 08 and 16 with turns in lines 18, 20, and 22.
