The perfect balance of nature is described superbly in the Quran, which teaches that by watching, reflecting on and understanding nature, we can gain certainty of God's signs and be receptive to His message to humanity.
"If we aren't able to gain certainty on some of these items quickly, we do expect that we will need to revise our rate filings to further narrow our level of participation," Swedish said.
In discussing cosmology, astronomers were willing to put into play their three forms of gaining certainty and their mutual relations: evidence from observed phenomena, mathematical calculation, and textual authority.
Gaining certainty about the (perception of the) policy problem will allow policy-makers to draft more targeted policy intervention by anticipating the effects on immigrants' capabilities and aspirations.
"He worked from life," writes Pacheco, "making numerous studies of his model in various poses and thereby he gained certainty in his portraiture".
There is no way of knowing how many of the estimated 11 million undocumented workers would ultimately succeed in gaining citizenship, nor any certainty of what their turnout percentages would be once they gain voting rights.
A third, more speculative, potential gain comes from the "commercial certainty" of liberalisation agreements.
But few insurers, or investors, have the fortitude to accept the inevitability of such big losses in exchange for the certainty of many small gains.
For a willingness to pay of $23,000 there was almost 100% certainty of cost effectiveness for a QALY gained or for a MCID gained in functional independence.
Alternatively for this same time period, for a willingness to pay of zero dollars, there was 97% certainty of cost effectiveness for a QALY gained or for a MCID gained in functional independence.
