Those studies that seek to assign a measure of 'appropriateness' usually do so after clinical treatment and with the benefit of a clinical diagnosis, and almost universally from the healthcare provider's perspective.
We now seek to assign a P-value to the gene set statistic T. The distribution of T is unknown, because the correlation of expression scores between probes is unknown, so a resampling method must be used to assign the P-value.
One such instrument is Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, or REDD, a program that seeks to assign a financial value to standing forests and to pay local communities, via the sale of carbon credits, for their contribution to the world's ecological well-being.
In general, assembly line balancing seeks to assign a number of tasks to workstations considering precedence (priority) relations so that a product is ready in a given cycle time and efficiency is maximized (Malakooti 1991,1994; Mc Mullen and Tarasewich2003; Capacho and Pastor2008; Fathi et al.2011; Roy and Khan2010,2011a,2011b).
In our habitual efforts to name things or people, to claim a capitalized letter, we seek to assign certain narratives and psychologies for ourselves in order to find more patterns so we can quell the ambiguities and unknowns in our forsaken heads.
It is in those areas that the West can certainly begin a dialogue with China that includes political reform and human rights, and builds a common language for such discussions that does not seek to assign blame to either side.
Mr. Klein and Mr. Sharpton's statement argued that federal policy should continue to hold schools accountable for raising the achievement of poor African-American and Latino youths, which is a focus of the federal law, but should also seek to assign more effective teachers to the nation's neediest classrooms.
Mr. McCall said the commission would not seek to assign blame for the string of police shootings but rather would make recommendations to address underlying causes for tension and fill what the comptroller considers a vacuum of leadership on the issue from City Hall.
An interesting implementation of this approach is found in the SOAR and MSOAR algorithms [ 7, 8], which seek to assign orthology by minimizing the recombination distance between two genomes.
The EQ-5D VAS also seeks to assign individuals a single index value representing health status.
Men in buoyant insulated jumpsuits laid barriers over the boulders and sand along the Coney Island peninsula yesterday as federal investigators sought to assign responsibility for an oil spill in New York Bay.
