Mr. Achebe's fourth novel, "A Man of the People," published in early 1966, had predicted this course of events with such accuracy that the military government in Lagos decided he must have been a conspirator in the first coup, an accusation he denied.
Seldon was a "psychohistorian" — a scientist with such a precise understanding of the mechanics of society that he could predict the course of events thousands of years into the future and save mankind from centuries of barbarism.
Indeed, the concept of the plural society is more relevant than ever for understanding and even predicting the course of events in the region, and especially in Myanmar or Burma, as it was when Furnivall lived and worked there.Furnivall was a Fabian socialist who arrived as an administrator in 1902 and married a local Burmese.
ICPs are multidisciplinary plans that predict the course of events in the treatment of patients with similar problems.
A cost-effectiveness analysis using a discrete event simulation that predicts a person's course if they are treated with dronedarone compared with the predicted course with alternative treatment pathways was included as part of the regulatory submission to the British National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence NICEE).
Like scientists, people tend to predict and control the course of events in their environment using their personal cognitive constructs (Kelly [1955]; Jankowicz [2001]).
Under no intervention, the simulation uses values for the exposure that are predicted from the model and then predicts the risk under the natural course of events.
It is the defiance of augury, or omen, that is most interesting in the preceding passage, the refusal of any ability on our part to predict the future, to foresee the course of events.
It is, of course, difficult to predict course -- and treatment response is often trial and error.
"It will change the course of events, but exactly how is hard to predict".
