Sentence examples for hoc knowledge from inspiring English sources

Choosing these as the 'best' predictors would have required post hoc knowledge of the results.

Recently, as a satellite mission becomes complicated, it has been required to generate the schedule of satellite antenna movements automatically without relying upon operator's ad hoc knowledge.

This "top-down" methodology based on minimal information in contrast to traditional "bottom-up" approaches that require ad hoc knowledge of circuit details provides a powerful tool to accurately infer underlying details of feedback circuits that are not otherwise visible in experiments and to help guide circuit design.

Other ad hoc knowledge measures have focused on the accuracy of patients' estimates of their personal risk of breast cancer recurrence or their estimate of the survival benefit of chemotherapy [ 17- 19, 34].

The values for the annotations may be captured, for instance, from (i) ad hoc designer knowledge, (ii) a more abstract system model, and/or (iii) extensive profiling.

We also created the post-hoc factor Knowledge by assigning participants to the Explicit group when they reproduced, at least once, the complete sequence (elements and order) correctly and to the Non-explicit otherwise.

Throughout our evolutionary history, we have created ad-hoc systems of knowledge that organize environmental information and make it transmissible to the next generation.

In this consensus, participants felt that applying these recommendations too strictly is not advisable because new developments may occur based on chance findings and as long as clear statements are made about whether testing of sub-groups was a-priori or post-hoc, both advance knowledge.

That ad hoc approach creates "significant knowledge gaps" on the fate of nanoparticles, Maynard says.

This work provides admission control decision for flows in a single- and multiple-channel ad hoc network based on knowledge of both local resources at a node and the effect of admitting the new flow on neighboring nodes.

The approach a middle ground between a direct, "off the shelf" application of systems engineering tools and a "one-at-a-time" ad-hoc development—incorporates fundamental knowledge of the mechanisms and constraints intrinsic to biological systems.