And even recommendations that are explained may be opaque, veiling true knowledge of a company.
Perhaps the title of the next Prickly polemic should be "The New Scholasticism: How Postmodern Theorists and University Presses Conspired to Render Knowledge Opaque, Irrelevant and Conformist".
While this is as it should be, Billett and others have pointed out that, for a student to function completely in the workplace, they need access to the "opaque or hidden" conceptual knowledge that is necessary for a flexible knowledge base [ 19].
Second, the method should be able to connect multiple knowledge domains in an opaque manner; such opacity will treat each model as a "black box" shielding the integrator from internal details.
A decision tree is employed to overcome the opaque nature of the relevance vector machine; it yields knowledge as logical statements and aids in the interpretability of the forecasting results.
Shadow wars, CIA military campaigns, and the opaque work of special operations forces go on without public knowledge or congressional approval.
To our knowledge, the signaling pathway that controls the PAC -and RRPE-binding proteins remains opaque; several signaling pathways are likely to be involved (see Chen and Powers 2006 and references therein).
The department's expenditure on "technical assistance" – funding to build knowledge and skills in recipient countries, deliver services and manage UK aid programmes – is particularly opaque, they said.
Participant random assignment was conducted using opaque envelopes and a randomly generated number sequence by a member of our research team with no prior knowledge of recruited individuals other than their age and sex.
Consequently, the extent to which blended e-learning courses enable care home staff to acquire appropriate knowledge, skills, attitudes, and confidence for the delivery of high-quality end of life care remains opaque.
To our knowledge, this study is the first to provide insights into the differential expression of prohibitin proteins in opaque chalky part collected from rice grains following heat stress season.
