As discussed for long- and short-range potential variations, one main question is to separate different contributions that may lead to potential variations (see Eq. 2).
One question echoes Fox's multimillionaire-groom scandal: "Have you ever had a restraining order issued against you?" Other questions try to separate the players from the prudes: "Have you ever been to a nude beach?
"The first question we ask is, 'How much are you personally contributing to a cause?' " This question is devised to separate meaningful philanthropic gestures from publicity stunts by stars who want to improve their images.
Amy Cushing-Savvi, a social worker at Mount Sinai Medical Center, which runs the largest program, said a frequent topic at staff meetings was, "What's 9/11 and what isn't?" — in other words, the exquisitely vexing question of how to separate the effects of 9/11 from the traumas of everyday life.
In order to answer the group-level-related aspect of the research question, we needed to separate program- and individual-level effects.
Since sepsis likely increases acute mortality compared with other conditions, studies to address this question would have to separate acute from post-acute mortality, adjust for confounding variables, and identify appropriate control populations.
However, there is question of how to separate the pure sinusoid from noise in both cases (free and forced oscillations) and the effects of this separation on algorithm accuracy should be considered.
It sounds like a trick question, like trying to separate the chicken from the egg.
It is common for surveys to include "filter" questions, which help to separate those who are familiar with an issue from those who are not.
This questions the need to separate "pure" Przewalski's horses (e.g., the Munich line) from "non-pure" Przewalski's horses (i.e. with known domestic horse contributions) because even the former lineage likely experienced some, perhaps more ancient, admixture with domestic horses.
