The validators were assigned to teachers receiving both the lowest and highest ratings so that, as John DeStefano Jr., the New Haven mayor put it, they could "discern factors of poor performance and also great performance so that they can be shared with other teachers and replicated".
Because the index takes into account the proportion of non-reproducing helpers, group size invariably becomes a discerning factor between species with some degree of reproductive skew, as large, queen-based societies would have the highest ratio of non-reproductive to reproductive individuals.
After discerning factors related to the chronicity at the time of presentation, clinical patterns were identified based on the frequency (daily vs. intermittent), clinical course (remitted or not), and total disease duration (<3 or >3 months).
This affords the potential for EDLIPS to discern factors unique to the ED population.
The presence or absence of dialogue was one of the discerning factors between autonomous and pseudo-autonomous decision making.
There's plenty to parse in today's speech, including the president's unfortunate mashup of the clarity of basic greenhouse science (which is where the "overwhelming judgment" of scientific assessments lies) and the much tougher challenge of discerning what factors have caused recent large losses from fires, drought and storms.
Because of its overlap, discerning the role of each of these factors is a difficult task.
Four categories of factors were discerned: (a) child factors, (b) parent factors, (c) family factors, and (d) other environmental factors.
In addition, pairwise comparisons using the functional ANOVA method and a bootstrap distance based test are carried out to discern which factor levels provide different ways of degradation.
But Scottish Nationalists discern another factor.
