We were not looking at trees or boxcars, as we normally did, naming, counting, categorizing.
A model to all stargazers, old and new, Vermeer's scientist reaches beyond the globe at hand into the mysterious continuum of time and space, charting, measuring, counting, categorizing, naming, recording.
In Figure 1, CD4 counts categorized according to clinical categories (i.e. > 500, 200-500, < 200 cells/mm) provide clear evidence that, as expected, greater immunosuppression was associated with an increased likelihood of developing TB (P < 0.001).
Fig. 2 Cumulative incidence curves of ICU-acquired infection a according to baseline lymphocyte count categorized in 4 classes; cumulative incidence curve of ICU-acquired infection (b) and incidence curve of death (c) according to the increase from baseline of the lymphocyte count at day 3 (increase in lymphocyte count was considered significant if greater than 0.2 × 103 cells/µL).
Other covariates adjusted for in multivariate analyses included baseline demographics, cumulative follow-up time, CD4+ T cell count categorized as < or ≥200 cells/mm3, and HIV-1 RNA level categorized as ≤ or >5 log10 (100,000) copies/mL.
Four years ago, Stride ran a study that counted and categorized every incident of cheating during the 2010 World Cup.
In the late 19th century, census takers struggled with how to count and categorize the rapidly growing United States population.
Herman Hollerith's punched-card tabulating machines, first used in the 1890 census, made it possible to efficiently count and categorize America's surging population at the end of the 19th century.
Later, we counted and categorized insects to order level using a stereomicroscope and identification keys (Köhler 2014).
With 6.5 million lines of code, the massive program is used by the U.S. Census Bureau to count and categorize population, by the Agriculture Department to develop crop forecasts and by the long distance phone companies to figure out how much to charge for each call.
From the collected images, 16,300 capsids from 165 infected cells were counted and categorized according to number and location, cytoplasmic or nuclear.
