He praised artists for their social antennae, saying they "have an early perception of trends in our society".
First, they provide a fast and easy to compute framework for observing relationships among very large sets of evolutionarily related proteins; more importantly, when visualized they also allow the perception of trends in orthogonal information viz., function-related information mapped onto the context of sequence similarity.
As part of this study, milk producers were asked about their perception of trends in dairy development over the past decade to provide an overall picture on how things are changing and what can be expected in coming years.
But as quite a few better-informed people have pointed out, the political science literature is unambiguous on this point: what matters isn't the state of the economy, it's the perception of trend.
Forward-looking statements are based on estimates and assumptions made by RIM in light of its experience and its perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that RIM believes are appropriate in the circumstances.
Given sustained market demand, harvest trends should provide a reasonable proxy of population trends since sport hunters use intensive methods such as baits and hounds to locate these animals, and quotas on annual offtakes are either too high to limit harvests or (for black bears) reflect the management agency's perception of population trend [10].
A 'tipping index' of 132 bars and restaurants investigated perceptions of tipping trends in holiday hotspots including Barcelona, Las Vegas, Paris, Phuket and Ibiza.
The studio had begun to change internally, reflecting Microsoft's perception of wider industry trends, and after a spate of senior resignations in early 2012, Molyneux also left Lionhead later in the year.
Pastoralists' perceptions of downward trend in precipitation were not supported by the existing meteorological analysis.
But the new numbers may modify public perception of two crucial economic trends.
Higher education levels were related to an increase in the perception of disease risk (proportion trend test, P < 0.0001, N = 498, Fig. 4).
