Sentence examples for spurious use from inspiring English sources

This is partly the result of Hitchcock's mechanical and spurious use of the new close-up style of camera work, which is evidently aimed at fetishists who like to study pores.

Writer Caitlin Moran added: "Think it's time someone turned Richard Dawkins off and then on again", while Channel 4 News Economics Editor Faisal Islam questioned Prof Dawkins' "spurious use of data".

Those numbers, argue people who believe in a sexed up Japan, have been blown out of proportion by the spurious use of statistics on dating, marriage, and childbirth to prop up the notion of endemic abstinence.

In particular, the authors model the optical alignment score under the null hypothesis that the alignment is spurious using multiple linear regression on the number of query map fragments N, the map length L, and their product NL.

In light of the results obtained here we have re-assessed the methods used in the earlier study and found that Xist signal was often attributable to contaminating somatic cells which, under the conditions used, showed a spurious staining using the TG1 antibody (data not shown).

It would "lead to 136,000 deaths" – a spurious exactitude used to convey plausibility – and "could infect up to 10 million Britons".

Blasphemy is a capital crime in Pakistan, and rights activists say the allegations are usually spurious and used to settle personal vendettas or to score political points.

In addition, specificity is ensured by statistically separating the true alignments from spurious matches using phred quality values.

Thus, it cannot be claimed that this complex fossil is no different from the corresponding structure in modern animals and, therefore, shows that evolutionary change has not occurred, another spurious argument used by some "creationists".

The emphasis in the present study is on the prediction of flame extinction and the prevention of spurious reignition using a fast chemistry, mixing-controlled combustion model applicable to realistic fire scenarios of engineering interest.

First, we want to compare the performance in identification of spurious PPI using our method with that of MDS-method.