They have not been 'validated', but there is no gold standard quality measure for natural environments against which to compare.
The latter may be partly ascribed to the absence of a solid immunity status in late cross-fostered piglets [ 17], which are moved in an environment with pathogens against which they do not have adequate protection.
Writers often use their own environments as background against which they place their stories, like silhouettes before a screen.
This chapter aims to introduce the various facets of the well test-planning environment that form the background against which detailed planning for the well test takes place.
In other words, the environment is not a passive backdrop against which offenses simply occur, but rather influences what happens during criminal events.
The class adopted the theoretical underpinnings outlined above with a focus on the conjecture that the built environment is not simply a background against which human actions take place, but reflects and shapes human assumptions, beliefs, feelings and behaviours.
Gymnasts for the national team were trained in the emotionally abusive environment of Karolyi Ranch in Texas, against which Nassar could pose as a kindly, sympathetic figure.
What gets him riled is his sense that Washington is captive to a binary, us-against-them environment in which bankers are cast as villains.
As accentuated by the bright lighting of Howell Binkley, this pristine environment symbolizes the dominance of the white culture against which the play's characters try to assert themselves.
