Sentence examples for lines of inference from inspiring English sources

Whether these fossils are monoplacophorans or gastropods is debatable based on several lines of inference, and there remains some controversy as to what are and what are not monoplacophorans in the fossil record (see Signor 1985; Runnegar 1996).

Nonetheless, this paradigm and associated distributional shifts gain support from several lines of inference, including the success of ecological niche models in predicting geographical distributions, most notably in reciprocal comparisons between the Last Glacial Maximum (based on fossils) and the present [ 21, 22].

We could not use a similar line of inference in this study because the insulin and glucose spikes both occurred in <5 min (Figs. 1 and 2).

The problem of deciding what was implied by a text, or "reading between the lines" is the problem of inference.

Because, the term Superphylum has taxonomic significance, this status should not be accorded readily unless different lines of evidences support the inference.

Ultimately, DREAM and similar initiatives may demystify this important but opaque area of systems biology research so that the greater biological research community can have confidence in this work and build new experimental lines of research upon the inferences of algorithms.

This Minimalist background is perceived through four diagonal black lines of rigging that relate by inference to part of a blue and white sail that looms at the right.

Anatomical similarities and differences between various organisms living today and between them and organisms in the fossil record, enable the reconstruction of evolutionary history and the inference of lines of evolutionary descent.

In his article, "Lines of Demarcation: Causation, Design-Based Inference and Historical Research" Kocher and co-author Nuno P. Monteiro of Yale University argue against the grain of current methodological trends in political science that valid causal inferences in observational quantitative analysis depend on historical research.

Through intensive off-line simulations, expert systems are provided with a set of inference rules.

The constructionist theory of inference generation suggests that readers generate a variety of on-line and off-line inferences, while the minimalist hypothesis proposes that readers draw a limited number of inferences during text comprehension.