I wish I'd published: Catherine Fletcher's life of Alessandro de' Medici, The Black Prince of Florence (Bodley Head), deploys its considerable learning with the lightest of touches: a seductive, shimmering and significant retelling of a man whose rise to power was – even by the standards of early modern Europe – as unlikely as it was extraordinary.
What the two books do have in common is an illuminating parade of their author's considerable learning, not always worn lightly, and a refusal to stoop to the level of life writing, or cradle-to-grave biography, whose 'besetting vice' is its 'deadening march of chronological sequence'.
Explicitly teaching the process and nature of scientific research results in considerable learning gains, among science majors and nonmajors alike (Lederman, 1992, 1999; Lombrozo et al., 2008).
Reverse engineering of existing drugs has had a considerable learning effect for industries in China, India and Brazil, facilitating the adoption of new technologies and easing the transition into innovative activities.
Wheen wears his considerable learning about Marx's career with the lapidary lightness of a fine columnist, and can be as witty and quotable as his subject.
Moreover, a considerable learning effect was identified.
Feature weighting is of considerable importance in machine learning due to its effectiveness to highlight relevant components and suppress irrelevant ones.
This paper discusses the extent to which both crosslinguistic and intralingual differences may be considered as factors causing errors committed by Malay learners in the acquisition of the present perfect which has been identified as an area of considerable difficulty in the learning of English grammar.
