There is a lower denominator that comes out with a crowd and a comic has to be careful he doesn't pander to it; in the last eight years the easiest gag has been along the lines of "Bush is stupid".
Let me come back to John Taylor's appalling op-ed from a year ago, alleging a huge expansion of government that anyone who knows anything about the federal budget knows just didn't happen — it was all a lower denominator because of the slump, plus unemployment insurance and food stamps.
I think it is a mistake for House leadership to wait for the Senate to do whatever they are going to do, because that is going to be a much lower denominator than what we are going to do.
Thus, a high Lm corresponds to more severe emphysema as there will be fewer alveolar septae for the grid lines to intercept, and thus a lower denominator.
The patients with the higher percentage of Δ16 HER2 mRNA also had the lower level of wild-type HER2 mRNA, and this lower level might have resulted in a lower denominator and hence the higher percentages of Δ16 HER2 mRNA.
Further increases in the ratio due to a lower denominator, i.e., the concentration of lipid-free apoAI, should stimulate assembly of the larger species even more at the expense of the smaller variety.
The deletion/censoring of early discharge patients lowers the number of patients at risk (the denominator in the calculation) in the cohort not reaching nutritional target and, as a result, for a similar or lower numerical mortality, the proportion (altered by the lower denominator) of patients dying in that cohort seems higher (see illustration in Figure 1).
Our criterion for a strong correlation, 0.7 or more, exceeded that of previous studies with individual patient data (0.5) because the use of mean change scores is likely to increase correlation coefficients by lowering denominators of the correlation coefficients.
The argument could be made that, to reach a billion people with a music video, one may have to cater to the lower common denominators and a more simple universal message.
While Robinson said she understood a compromise had to be reached by the United Nations, "they went for a lower common denominator to say the least".
