According to accounts of discovery informed by evolutionary biology, the generation of new ideas is akin to random, blind variations of thought processes, which have to be inspected by the critical mind and assessed as neutral, productive, or useless (Campbell 1960; see also Hull 1988).
Ultimately, many scientists hope their discoveries will inform climate policies, like mandatory limits on emissions that many expect Congress will eventually impose.
Demonstrative reasoning is never the cause of any action by itself: it deals in ideas rather than realities, and we only find it useful in action when we have some purpose in view and intend to use its discoveries to inform our inferences about (and so enable us to manipulate) causes and effects.
Convergence of genomic data from different research venues [21], [22], [28] has the potential to drive new discoveries, to inform the pathophysiology of genetic associations and to accelerate the clinical translation of genomic applications.
A crucial distinction among the abovementioned papers, is that these two latter studies [ 21, 22] did not use structure discovery to inform structure of the network, but were rather based on published knowledge and expert opinion.
Carson would come here at low tide to observe and take samples, discoveries that informed her third book, "The Edge of the Sea".
A model is only useful, however, if the discoveries generated truly inform us about human disease and potential treatments.
She said she had phoned the police before Mr. Ratliff's discovery, and informed the police that she had a hunch her husband was involved.
Rather, the development of the side and its community of artists and enthusiasts has seen how that push for self-discovery has informed an opening up of curatorial and traditional gallery rigidity (at least this is the case for myself).
Permutation procedures and data dependent schemes (e.g. based on the false discovery rate) may inform the user on how to pick a threshold for a particular application.
