"The commission was given clear principles and from that starting point we have found a solution that we think best meets Parliament's rules.
By choosing this starting point we ensure that difference in citation patterns found in our analysis will not be due to an immediacy effect, i.e., if there is a difference it is not because a paper is likely to be read and cited earlier by readers in the same geographical region than by readers in other regions.
"Three points is the starting point we wanted to have, and we have that," Klinsmann said of the win.
Another CEB client, a global logistics company, used this same map as a starting point and found that it described much of the company's own customers' buying process, despite the very different industry.
We observe that GD never finds the global optimum from any of the 100 random starting points we try.
As a starting point, this study found that customers are able to detect when scripts are in use in both kinds of interactions.
Using the Water Boiling Test as a starting point, it was found that significant reductions in test variability could be achieved through minimizing the amount of water vaporization which occurs during the test.
On the basis of a multinomial probit model, we find that preferences are indeed susceptible to starting point bias.
While a hidden Markov model (HMM) makes a natural starting point for this modeling effort, we found that the lengths of segments were not well described by geometric distributions and, as Figure 4 indicates, that the emissions of this HMM could not be effectively captured using Gaussian models.
KIERAN SETIYA: I mean, for me, a starting point that I found very simple, but in a way very helpful, was just to think about what philosophers call incommensurability, or the incommensurability of value, or the plurality of values.
