Optional protocol measurements included liver weight, paired adrenal weight, and paired kidney weight; laboratories were permitted to perform other measurements on a voluntary, information-gathering basis.
In the end, Gill flew drones over the field on a weekly basis, gathering spectral data that Walsh could use to measure the barley's photosynthetic activity and assess soil moisture.
Words, and the relative value we assign to them, are at the heart of this piece in The Atlantic, by Adrienne LaFrance, about a man named Paul Moran, who lived near John Updike for many years and went through the author's trash on a regular basis, gathering memorabilia.
Carefully designed reliable equipment that can be used in several tasks would provide a good basis for gathering basic, factual, and replicable results.
Clearly, some quantitative material can provide important background information, but on their own they cannot furnish the basis for gathering sufficient information about the dependent variable.
The billions of tweets that Twitter is gathering up could certainly be the basis for a vast, searchable archive.
They offered circular logic: If the preliminary investigation pointed to an accident, what legal basis was there for gathering evidence for a murder case?
The continental shelf scale of the POST project required a more efficient and cost effective way of gathering data on a more regular basis.
Horse Heaven, in short, is written on the purest Marxist principles, and its author wants us to know the economic basis which underlies the slowly gathering action.
That initial research now enables Aclima to scale up with Google's Street View cars in the hopes of gathering even more data on a global basis.
At its heart -- and at Thomas' heart -- is the belief that gathering together for a shared meal "is the basis of civilization".
