Though this was only tested on one class, we found that even if the students had not covered the evolution portion of the curriculum, we were able to provide the key background information to allow students to participate in the program and to make plausible predictions related to the effects of mowing frequency.
3) if abiotic soil properties are important, which ones would make plausible candidates to explain the observed effects?
He reworked the screenplay with Mr. Zackham — opening up a chasm in one character's 45-year-old marriage, for example, to make plausible his willingness to take off on a globetrotting lark with a stranger.
Pearl created the Bayesian network, which used graph theory (and often, but not always, Bayesian statistics) to allow machines to make plausible hypotheses when given uncertain or fragmentary information.
Moreover, Rutledge and Mitchell (2002) and Rutledge and Warden (2000) pointed out the importance of teachers' understanding of evolutionary theory and NOS to make plausible instructional and curricular decisions with regard to teaching evolution.
Secondly, like other investigators attempting to report lifetime cost-effectiveness, we had to make plausible assumptions about the long-term HRQOL; we tested these assumptions in the sensitivity analysis and found that they had little impact on the results.
This is necessary to his enterprise: without it, he could not hope to make plausible his suggestion that the aim of morality is self-realization.
Their goal is to create a system that will provide credible information about the past performance of NGO's that will allow donors to make plausible predictions about future performances, the kind of credibility that generally accepted accounting principles are supposed to ensure for financial investors in the stock market.
Alfred Barr, who organized an exhibition on the theme at the Museum of Modern Art in 1943, applied the label to "the work of painters who by means of an exact realistic technique try to make plausible and convincing their improbable, dreamlike or fantastic visions".
"I just want to make plausible arguments for the arts".
