People worldwide "no longer see their lives as mere outcomes of the givenness of things, but often as the ironic compromise between what they could imagine and what social life will permit" (Appadurai 1996, p. 54).
As such, they should neither be regarded as the simple outcome of applying theoretical knowledge and engineering principles to specific technological problems, nor should they be treated as mere sources of new evidence in the general pursuit of scientific understanding.
Without a more thorough study of these issues, it will prove difficult to find a solution for the most important factor in the issue of recruitment into psychiatry: Should the improvement of attitudes toward psychiatry after training be considered a mere outcome indicator of the clerkship's quality or can it be a reliable indicator of a future option for psychiatry?
Gravitation, in this line of thinking, is not a force the outcome of one object tugging on another, as described by Isaac Newton's equations but a mere consequence of geometry.
Brown wrote: "I hope that these posts go some way towards demonstrating that concern over Lomborg's credentials is not mere ideology but the outcome of serious engagement with his output, on his own terms".
She defended her decision on the grounds that only proof of fraud, noncompliance with election procedures or a natural disaster could justify accepting late returns -- not confusion over a ballot format, voter error or the "mere possibility" that the outcome of an election could be affected.
But, also citing case law, she said that when contested results involve voter error, a confusing ballot and nothing "more than a mere possibility that the outcome of the election would have been affected," no delay from the legal deadline is warranted.
Our results suggest that mere predictions of the outcome of redox reactions between magnetite and HS based on bulk thermodynamic data have to be made with caution and that other factors such as surface processes, where the reactions actually take place, have to be taken into account.
After all the high-profile successes of his footballing career, it hardly seemed likely that the outcome of a mere horse race, and a handicap at that, could mean a great deal to Michael Owen but he was wiping tears away as Brown Panther, which he bred and owns, returned to the winner's enclosure here on Thursday.
