In the case of the Harlem massacre, though, weeks have now passed, and facts have accumulated, and a few modest observations may be made.
A modest scientific observation about a few drowning polar bears has enmeshed a government wildlife biologist in an investigation into whether he is guilty of scientific misconduct.
Although correlation coefficients are modest, the observations are highly significant.
Although the strengths of these associations were modest, our observations highlight the hypothesis that dietary factors may modulate these biomarkers, which may be potential mediators related to risk of diabetes and CVD.
The degree of protein repression by miRNAs can be modest, despite the observation that single microRNAs can suppress the translation of hundreds of proteins (Baek et al. 2008; Selbach et al. 2008).
Even if the number of genomes is admittedly modest, a first observation is that free-living unicellular organisms generally show narrower compositional distributions with only minor additional components (S. cerevisiae and A. gossypii, the latter showing, however, a slightly wider compositional range; 52%-55% GC).
Wideman has always been a powerful writer, but he has sometimes allowed the murkiness of his fictional imagination to get the best of him; here his goals may be more modest, but his observations are often on target.
Perhaps the biggest whopper that he utters in his interview is his all-too-modest, self-serving observation "I'm modern because I make the difficult seem easy, and so I can communicate with the whole world".
Limitations include the comparison of results across different primate species, as well as modest numbers of observations.
As in the current study, the average reduction in kidney function in the Chicago study was modest and the observations among calcium stone formers were similar to ours.
