The experiment was somewhat akin to taking the volunteers back in time and across the continent and having them breathe Utah air for four or five days, Dr. Devlin said.
The outdoor equivalent to the light intensities used in our experiment would be akin to shade illuminated by an entire, clear blue sky at midday.
Otherwise, the procedure was identical to experiment 1. Akin to the analysis of the modeling data, we define each period during a trial in which exactly one button was pressed as dominance period for the respective percept, and other periods as transition periods.
"It may, in fact," he said, "constitute an uncontrollable experiment with an outcome akin to that faced by the Sorcerer's Apprentice".
After Mao's Cultural Revolution, which many in China view as a disastrous experiment in mass democracy akin to the Jacobin terror that roiled France, most Chinese became too alienated from politics, Mr. Gan argues.
In spite of its empirical basis, Zabarella's natural philosophy is not concerned with anything akin to experiment.
Suppressed B. tectorum, akin to Experiment 1, had very high shoot to root mass ratios.
Computer simulations are thus more akin to experiments than to theory, which is why they are sometimes referred to as "in silico experiments".
For one thing, the New York City case has gained attention thanks in part to the sheer volume of programmes launched by the city's new Centre for Economic Opportunity (31 to be exact) and also to the somewhat provocative nature of some of the programmes themselves, many of which are more akin to experiments.
From the evidence of Greek-inspired astronomical works that later turned up in India, it has been conjectured that Greek astronomers before Ptolemy may have experimented with nonuniform motion something akin to the equant but nothing remains of a finished project before Ptolemy.
