Sentence examples for selective knowledge from inspiring English sources

He had a good knowledge of the theatre (he wrote a number of plays, and his first wife, Mary Blair, was in the Provincetown Players, Eugene O'Neill's company); he had a selective knowledge of art, a very selective knowledge of classical music, and virtually no knowledge of the movies.

They chose an amazing collection of watches and left a number of uninteresting ones, which suggests a selective knowledge".

Although the questionnaire was not an all-inclusive one and not an ideal way of knowledge assessment with numerous limitations as detailed above in the "Discussion", significant selective knowledge deficit was identified on typical dose levels and estimated risks of cancer induction of several important imaging examinations.

It combines genome-wide transcriptional studies from the Affymetrix GeneChip platform for obesity-induced T2DM, selective previous knowledge as well as gene lists derived from the biomedical literature.

Obviously, this represents only a selective and knowledge-oriented design of social systems, not including other systems (such as the legal system).

Organisation and institutions, both of which entail selective connections, aid knowledge, and knowledge consists of conjectured connections, open to refutation.

He studies many works of Anselm's (while most theologians of his time were very selective in their knowledge of this author), and makes acquaintance with works by Augustine, such as Confessions and Soliloquia, that were quite unusual readings for an academic theologian.

Our optimism is qualified by the need for a continued examination of the assumptions that support the embodiment thesis and that an open collaboration with neuroscientists may help the field converge on a shared model of an embodied cognitive architecture, its selective grounding of knowledge, and its responsiveness to change.

The relatively selective sparing of knowledge of musical compositions shown by B.R. is consistent with previous evidence in semantic dementia (Hailstone et al., 2009).

To our knowledge, selective SYK inhibitors, such as PRT062607 (Portola/Biogen Idec), have shown encouraging preclinical data [ 19] but their potential efficacy in RA patients has not been evaluated.

Our study indicates that when developing genetically modified crops, a judicious selection of insertion sites, based on knowledge of selective (dis)advantages of the surrounding crop genome under field conditions, could diminish transgene persistence.