Below a certain length, those amplicons are hard to discern from true positive ones.
For instance, the mouse gene expression signature was able to discern out all 246 HCC tumors from one dataset and 78 of 81 HCCs from another, resulting in over 96% sensitivity.
But you will be no closer to discerning what drives the modern youth from one store to the next; what differentiates one's frayed cargo shorts from another's; or why one of them, Abercrombie, is facing a consumer revolt, while others are paradoxically upbeat.
These synthetic humans – almost impossible to discern from the real thing – have escaped from one of the "off-world" colonies and returned to Earth.
From what one can discern from the web announcement, it looks like a bigger, flat iPhone, and though I am second to none in loving my iPhone I wouldn't call owning a larger one necessarily revolutionary.
'You can take it as a threat.' " (Must we?) Corn and Schulman noted that O'Reilly had said that he'd been, in the early eighties, "in a war zone in Argentina, in the Falklands," by which he meant, as one could discern from reading O'Reilly's own memoir, that he was in Buenos Aires after the Argentinians had surrendered, covering the riots.
This assumption is of particular importance in the interval from 6 months before diagnosis to diagnosis, as one cannot discern from the data the pattern of C-peptide decline within that period.
In quality improvement work, many initiatives small or large often happen simultaneously, and it can be hard to discern one from the other.
However, anecdotes are unreliable for accurately discerning trends, whether from self selected groups or from one's own circle of friends.
And for the public who queue in droves for the presentations, it's a chance to witness the aspects of a live fashion show one can't discern from film or photographs.
