In the final pages of Hersey's "Hiroshima," he observed that many people he met there were often reticent to speak or even think about the ethics of the bomb; instead, they would offer approximations of "Shikata ga nai," a Japanese expression that he translated as "It can't be helped.
Perhaps most useful will be the "What to Pay for Service" option, which offers approximations of repair costs that are based on a given car model and zip code.
The presented method offers approximations with a reasonable bias and can be utilized for a quick and low effort characterization of autophagy by the above parameters.
Paige, one of twelve children, could only offer an approximation — and it seemed to fluctuate depending on who reported it.
A volunteer would go up and read a question about this or that Medicare, Medicaid, public schools, Russia, preëxisting medical conditions, emoluments and then another would sidle up next to the pulpit and offer an approximation of how the senator might have answered their questions.
Accordingly, the legislator should continue to remove tangible obstacles for the use of bioenergy as balancing energy (further shortening of offer periods, approximation of trading dates to the delivery date, further synchronisation of the trading dates of the bulk energy markets and of the balancing energy markets, etc).
31 32 JCR impact factors provide quantitative evidence about the position of one journal in relation to the competition and offer an approximation of the prestige of a journal.
We have shown that simple heuristics applied to Twitter data offer good approximations of local commuting patterns; approximations that outperform the current benchmark for commuter flow estimation models (the radiation model).
A suitable Taylor expansion offers an approximation of the utility function by a quasilinear function.
Movies about musicians offer musical approximations that usually satisfy in inverse proportion to a viewer's devotion to the actual music behind the story.
