Many years ago, in an era when the phrases "boob tube," "idiot box" and "vast wasteland" went unchallenged as television descriptors among the Discerning Classes, I sat in a pool of prospective jurors on a case involving a fancy jeweler.
Progress in discerning classes of functional elements from each other, without the aid of experimental data, represents a significant goal in our ability to decode the human genome.
But the scale of Dubai's growth has begun to generate something that is still lacking in Qatar and Abu Dhabi: a large, well-heeled and discerning class of art patrons.
By simultaneously evoking and subverting core assumptions of the classical characterization of a male Roman élite, Ambrose seeks to impress a watching world, and especially a discerning class of cultural sophisticates, with the spectacle of his church's hierarchy as a new and superior officialdom, whose moral virtues surpass the attainments of their antecedents or competitors in the saeculum.
It is a startling arrival which, along with the outdoor yoga groups, rollerbladers and chic Japanese restaurants, has seen Gorky Park transformed over the past years from an overgrown dump of rickety attractions, unlicensed food stalls and criminal activity, into an al fresco leisurescape for Moscow's discerning middle-class urbanites.
Experimental real radar measurements demonstrated that it is quite feasible to discern three classes of humans (single, two and three persons) walking in a vegetation cluttered environment using proposed bicepstrum-based classification features.
Posh Indians have begun to discover the art of craft beers, as daring returnee importers, ambitious entrepreneurs and this country's answer to America's Boston Beer Company have introduced exotic wheat beers, ales and pilseners to discerning middle class drinkers.
To discern between classes A and B, we used a primer set that was based on the DNA sequence of orf5-II [9].
We discern three classes of long branch effects.
But Amnesty International, a human-rights group, says at least 50 are dead, and doctors, some of whom have since been reported arrested, put the death toll at over 200.The numbers might have mattered less had the bullets been able to discern the class of the protester.
By minimizing (4), features are selected according to excluding features that contribute least to discerning between two classes of data.
