To read Julius's review, one would think that the entire Jewish people had joined Disraeli and Herzl in "normalizing" themselves, as Herzl put it, and reducing Judaism to a mere artifact of ethnic striving.
It's true that summer vacation is a mere artifact of the days when farming played a bigger role in our economy, but by now it's a precious artifact, with an accretion of sweet associations and a sense of possibility all its own.
The scholars tell us that this concept, as we frame it, is an invention — which is not to say a mere artifact — of Shakespeare's own time, when the old sense of a soul, with an angel and a devil totting up the score on either shoulder, began giving way to the sense, more modern, of the self-made self — the self that does its own accounting, or tries to.
This paper shows the reasons why the data in question have no relation to the ionic activity coefficients, which remain unknown, and are a mere artifact of the method adopted.
This pattern is exhibited, though more noisily, by each of the M reconstructed Wigner functions: if it were a mere artifact of the reconstruction, its visibility would not increase by averaging over one hundred independent reconstructions.
Yaqūb argues that it is a mere "artifact" of the revision semantics, naively presented, that there are revision sequences in which the sentence ¬Tα ≡ ¬Tβ is stably true, since the two liars are independent.
Recent research suggests discontinuities may be mere artifacts of certain research design choices.
It is an argument that the privileged states of motion should not be mere artifacts of our choice of coordinates, i.e. that they should be coordinate-independent.
Previous positive findings were replicated in limited cross-sections of the data, but the overall analyses confirmed these findings to be mere artifacts of restricted comparison conditions.
They're mere artifacts of corporate marketing.
Identification of CGs in the mouse and fruit fly genomes further emphasizes that CGs are not mere artifacts of the transcription process, but that they likely have well-defined roles in either gene regulation or protein complexity or both.
