Minimal genome is a construct of biochemical engineering, predicted or directly manipulated to sustain life in a rich medium with the smallest number of genes.
Experiments where the diversity of species assemblage is manipulated are sometimes used to predict the consequences of species loss from real communities.
Similarly, Douglas (2014), after suggesting that the distinction between pure and applied science should be relinquished, defines progress "in terms of the increased capacity to predict, control, manipulate, and intervene in various contexts".
Any program designed to predict, manipulate and display racial categories must operationalize them both for internal processing and for human consumption.
From a control point of view, main purpose of our mathematical model is to predict and manipulate the dynamic behaviors by analyzing available measurements.
Perhaps easily dismissed as a standard conspiracy theory, it may speak to a desire to predict and manipulate the world that biological reality does not always provide.
And a capacity to entertain higher-order thoughts about thoughts (beliefs and desires) would enable a creature to reflect on, and to alter, its own beliefs and patterns of reasoning, as well as to predict and manipulate the thoughts and behaviors of others.
The intriguing possibility of manipulating the conditions at infinity to predict what we are going to 'take' from there (consistently, certainly, with the principle of mass conservation announced in section 4.1) is a further example of the new conceptual possibilities opened up by the supertask concept.
After all, it is we who have organized ourselves into communities of the like-minded who think and vote in ways that seemed to make us easy to predict (and manipulate).
The ability to predict and manipulate the band structure of MOFs raises the possibility for application in nontraditional contexts, which we shall explore.
