"There will be a period of time of relatively clean elections -- I emphasize relative -- and then we will find some smart people who find smart ways around it," Mr. McCain said before the bill passed in 2002.
"There will be a period of time of relatively clean elections -- I emphasize relative -- and then we will find some smart people who find smart ways around it," he said.
Earlier this month, he said he believed that the schools should do away with their recently adopted practice of adjusting student scores on standardized tests to emphasize relative performance -- a practice known as norming -- rather than simply counting how many answers a student got right or wrong.
where ρ≥0 is an optimization constant used by the scheduler to emphasize or de-emphasize relative neighborhood metric Ω j during scheduling.
The bottom panel emphasizes absolute differences, whereas the top panel emphasizes relative differences; together they provide a more complete view of the temporal pattern of interest.
Advertisement claims of pharmaceutical companies have been criticized for making exaggerated claims, emphasizing relative over absolute effect measures [ 5], omission of adverse effects, and for use of different standards for promoting drugs in resource-limited countries [ 6].
For all clustering, the measurements for each gene (as log ratios) were centered, by subtracting the mean across all samples, in order to emphasize relative expression within the experimental dataset.
Prior research suggests that patients tend to overestimate baseline recurrence, mortality rates, and the benefit of chemotherapy; while providers emphasize relative benefit of chemotherapy in terms of impact on 5 or 10 year recurrence [ 10- 12].
Mr. Hathaway also emphasized his relative youth: he was 48 years old, Mrs. Smith 74.
