The Foreign Office was not impressed with any of this, although as the FO didn't have an in-house scientific adviser until 2009, it had relatively little power in decisions that were easily characterised as outside its realm of expertise.
Lead chromate was easily characterised by micro-Raman spectroscopy in a zone of the sample without the gold layer.
Effective modelling of multivariate extremes will improve the specification of design conditions for systems whose response cannot be easily characterised in terms of one variable.
On a CT study post-chemotherapy, the solid portions of the mass are easier to define than on MRI and the extent of calcification, which increases after treatment and which can be important for the surgeon to appreciate before surgery, is more easily characterised.
A chilling conclusion is that Whitman and some of his successors may be too easily characterised as crazed when their actions were not motivated by madness but cruelty.
Respondents who chose to visit GPs other than their regular GP were not easily characterised in this study and individual circumstances may lead to this behaviour.
A run of poor form is not so easily characterised, but the bigger picture does not need to be alarming for both managers.
As those last lines suggest, Ana's nightmarish vision is not so easily characterised as nightmare alone.
For organisms with well characterised reference genomes, such as Arabidopsis, this requirement is easily met, while organisms lacking a well characterized reference sequence present numerous challenges.
