"Want to play?" the boy asks, to which the robot, quite naturally, replies, "Affirmative!" Boy and robot, who looks like the Tin Man crossed with a squat red rocket ship, gambol about outside until the robot mysteriously stops functioning.
Shīʿite Muslims hold to an affirmative but quite different understanding of the institution.
Without quite answering in the affirmative, he still suggested that it marked the beginning of the end of the American Century.
The point of these studies was to determine whether CHO cells expressing PAM and a Fc-peptide substrate could be made to amidate a high percentage of the Fc-fusion peptide, for the purpose of producing biopharmaceuticals, and the answer is quite clearly in the affirmative.
DAVID EISEN Cambridge, Mass., July 11, 2012 Mr. Nevins is quite correct in providing an affirmative answer to the question: "Is selfishness at the root of America's political and economic problems?" But he has it all backward.
He argues that Rawls' principle of fair equality of opportunity implies quite practical policy limitations concerning affirmative action.
Among these, only 224, not quite half, answered in the affirmative to the PreDHA question: "During the past year, have you sought counseling or care for your mental health?" This study demonstrates that the self-reported PreDHA has low validity for identifying service members with diagnosed mental health disorders.
Quite the contrary, comprehensive studies of affirmative action and hiring by researchers like Major Coleman and Harry Holzer and David Neumark find no significant difference in work performance between employees who entered jobs via affirmative action and those who entered via traditional hiring practices.
Up to date, quite a lot of studies have reported affirmative effects of phenolics in neurodegenerative diseases depending upon their antioxidative properties [ 27].
The affirmative informal plural (vosotros) command is quite simple to form.
