Models must be used to evaluate the plausibility of scaled denitrification estimates, and point flux measurements must be used to validate model predictions.
Wisniewski and Murphy collected ratings on familiarity (participants indicated phrases they had "heard or seen before"), plausibility (on a scale of 1 to 7 with 1 being very weird and 7 being very plausible), and frequency of phrase occurrence based on number of hits from the Google Internet search engine (similar to the phrase-frequency measure used in the present study).
If we could hand it over to some superior being for consideration, it might not even rank very high on the scale of plausibility.
Yet given that seven out of ten Americans believe in angels, six out of ten believe in demons, and almost half believe in ghosts, it seems safe to assume that, on the scale of plausibility, such creatures outrank giants and unicorns.
The observed diagnostic agreement for source of infection was classified as partial (that is, matching on organ system or site) or complete (that is, matching on specific diagnostic terms), for plausibility as partial (two-point scale) or complete (four-point scale), and for causative pathogens as an approximate or exact pathogen match.
To represent and manipulate perception-based evaluations of uncertainties of facts and rules, the expert system uses an uncertainty model with qualitative scales of plausibility values and multi-set-based fuzzy algebra of strict monotonic operations.
"The plausibility of a planetary-scale 'tipping point' highlights the need to improve biological forecasting by detecting early warning signs of critical transitions on global as well as local scales, and by detecting feedbacks that promote such transitions.
We are unaware of any model with neurobiological plausibility that simultaneously reproduces scale-free size distributions and critical time-domain measures (e.g. 1/f spectra and DFA).
However, the yield of methane, the major end-product of this process, has not been sufficient for an industrial-scale promotion, let alone economical plausibility.
