A great teacher of literature or art is able to lead the student to ask new questions, to probe the intentions and choices of the artist, and to attempt to uncover hidden assumptions and values.
The interviews were used to explore the authenticity 21 of the observational data and to probe the intentions and rationales behind observed behaviours.
The physical size and weight of a typical PET probe is primarily a function of the side shielding that is required to block background radiation, to limit the field of view, and to collimate the head of the probe, with the intention to limit the area of the tissue contributing to the probe count rate and to provide better spatial resolution between tissues of differing radioactivity levels [ 1].
Thus, the statistical models tested were allowed to assign the coefficients (for three of the methods used in this study, see the Additional file 1) or proximity measures (for random forest, the fourth method tested in this study as shown in the Additional file 1) most appropriate for each probe, with the intention of increasing the overall accuracy of the tested models.
In addition to the plant lectins listed in Table 1, we tested human lectins as probes, with the intention of defining chondrocyte reactivity for galectins, known to be endogenous adhesion/growth-regulatory effectors on the cell surface and intracellularly [ 19].
Have you been asked questions about your gender, age or marital status that lead to probing questions about your intention to have children?
These samples were then tested in static half-cell test fixtures with the intention of probing how these types of substrates and coatings might work in a CDI flow cell.
It is because, in the runup to the summit meeting of Nato members in Warsaw this past weekend, both the Atlantic alliance and post-Soviet Russia were probing each other's intentions as rarely before, and without a reliable rulebook to constrain them.
In an unusually suspenseful piece of historical scholarship, MICHELANGELO'S FLORENCE PIETÀ (Princeton University Press, $75), the art scholar Jack Wasserman uses a persuasive mix of technology and psychology to probe Michelangelo's intentions for this sculpture, which has been maligned by many over the centuries for its distorted proportions.
Intelligence services probe into the intentions of the enemy.
Jones recalled how Liv Ullmann, who was also in the cast, looked on in astonishment as he and Pinter would probe the author's exact intention as if he were some invisible third party.
