The French introduced the concept of the judge's conviction intime (inner, deep-seated conviction) in contrast to rules of formal evidence that prescribed exactly when the evidence amounted to proof.
This is in contrast to rule-based smart technology, which dominated artificial intelligence in its early decades (cf. Anderson [1993]).
This is in contrast to rules that specify fixed settings for the instruments (e.g., the k% rule for money supply growth proposed by Friedman), and thus, these rules represent a more discretionary approach to the design and exercise of fiscal policy.
In contrast to rule-based methods that use handcrafted rules and patterns machine learning approaches are aimed at "learning" predictive models that can be used to automatically detect the occurrence of NEs in the text.
These guidelines require only a non-contrast CT to rule out potential haemorrhage patients as well as clinical guidelines to exclude patients with fluctuating symptoms or thrombolysis contraindications such as raised INR (international normalized ratio).
By contrast, Xunzi seems to rule out the existence of natural predispositions with moral content when he claims that the sage kings generated ritual principles and precepts of moral duty.
However, it may not be practical to perform CT or a contrast enema preoperatively to rule out Amyand's hernia in all pediatric patients with symptoms of an incarcerated hernia, and physical examinations should be enough to prompt emergency operations in those patients.
A computerized tomogram (CT) angiogram of the chest and abdomen with intravenous contrast was done to rule out aortic dissection.
Echocardiography and, if necessary, CT scanning with intravenous contrast were performed to rule out left heart failure or pulmonary thromboembolism.
Because of the mid tracheal collapse observed during bronchoscopy, a cine-CT with contrast was done to rule out vascular ring with compression of the trachea.
Contrast CT-scan, performed to rule out an organic cause for the gastric outlet obstruction, showed a significantly distended stomach with thickened wall and abnormal configuration, and a single air-fluid level.
