Devised for the quick retrieval of the names of known suspects, the network can be searched for terms like "aviation" or "schools, " but not "aviation schools" -- in other words, precisely the kinds of phrases that may have made it easier for law enforcement agents to connect the dots and discern the patterns of activity leading up to Sept. 11 attacks.
Field stratigraphy, sedimentology and luminescence dating of the exposed fluvial and aeolian sequences from the southern desert margin were used to discern the pattern of southwest monsoon variability during the last 130 ka.
It put much importance on the cross sectional study of the places at some critical times to discern the pattern of past changes.
Although high-resolution scanners can discern the pattern of pores, using the water-sensitive polymer would help distinguish active, moisture-producing sweat pores from inactive ones.
For keyboards of the digital variety, the keys can be scrambled so it's not possible to discern the pattern of the key tapping -- associated a finger with the place where a particular number or letter usually is.
By tracing the clonal evolution of marked cells following genetic pulse-labelling of transgenic animals, statistical methods have been used to discern the pattern of adult stem cell fate in several actively cycling mammalian tissues.
This did not appear to challenge the recall of participants and was sufficient to discern the pattern of change to test the common prescription for how improvement should occur.
After hundreds of millions of years, neighboring single-copy regions merge to become longer, as the resistant paralog pairs are either reduced or diverge functionally, and single-copy regions are disrupted by genome rearrangements, so that it becomes difficult to discern the pattern of paralog reduction using single-copy region statistics, such as those calculated from our AU data.
Discerning the patterns and underlying causes of plant invasions is a central goal of invasion ecology.
