The title, it turns out, refers to a conundrum Chomsky poses in his 1957 book Syntactic Structures: how transforming a complex sentence ("The man who is tall is happy") into a question is an operation of instinctive and non-logical grammar.
What is required is a long-term process of transforming a complex sociotechnical system [[6],[7]] in which the goal is to set the course of change so that tomorrow's energy supply works, its consumption of resources, and its impact on the environment are limited to a sustainable level, and, in the process, efficiency and social acceptance are safeguarded.
Animal play in general, Griffiths has written, often toys with transforming a complex human into a wholly service-oriented beast.
It has taken less than three months for the television seesaw to transform a complex political event into this pablum, which is all too typical of how television recycles its own excesses.
The main purpose of developing a WQI is to transform a complex set of water quality data into lucid and exploitable information by which a layman can know the status of the water source (Akoteyon et al. 2011; Balan et al. 2012).
To create a high-content proteomics platform for biomarker discovery, we developed a novel assay (Figure 7) which transforms a complex proteomic sample (e.g., plasma, serum, conditioned media, cell lysates, etc).
Principal coordinate analyses transforms a complex multidimensional space to another orthogonal set of axes, such that the first principal coordinate reflects the largest portion of the structural variance in the data set, the second one the next largest, and so on.
This way, the relation classification approach transforms a complex multi-classification task into a binary classification one.
Artists Simon and Donna Beckma spent three years transforming a dilapidated complex of five farmhouses (or "cortijada"), set in the heart of the little-explored Sierra de María-Los Vélez National Park, into a gorgeous eco guest house.
Scolari cut through the mess, focusing on the galvanising effects of that fond, paternal relationship with his star player and transforming a horribly complex challenge into one that looks through these narrowed sights so much more easily grasped.
Richard L. Fisher, one of the developers, said, "The finalists did not attempt to present actual finished designs for the site, but rather their conceptual thinking, and solely their conceptual thinking, for transforming a heavily industrial complex into a thriving humanistic community blending a cityscape with the river's edge".
