A radiologist trained in the technique explained that he would be applying increasing amounts of pressure to her disks, and that Trisha should try to discern whether the pain she felt during the procedure was "familiar," or "different" from her current symptoms.
Assuming that the trial produced promising findings, subsequent trials could then relax the artificial conditions imposed by the efficacy trial to try to discern whether and how alarms might be applied cost-effectively in packages of measures to reduce violence in healthcare settings.
Fitch peered at the camera's viewfinder screen, trying to discern whether the girl's eye movements indicated that she understood the grammar.
In each one, scientists are combing through petabytes of data, trying to discern whether certain genes or groups of neurons cause something or simply correlate with it.
Collins said he and the pitching coach, Dan Warthen, are still trying to discern whether Wheeler has control issues or is simply trying to be too fine with his pitches, especially after falling behind in the count.
Scientists are trying to discern whether an underwater cannon can protect valuable fish in the Great Lakes from the round goby, a predator that lurks near spawning beds and gobbles up the eggs of lake trout and whitefish.
There is some interesting academic research into all this — economists looking at dating-site data and trying to discern whether people care less about racial differences, or socioeconomic differences, or political differences, than they do out in the "real" world.
State Senator Wendy Davis of Fort Worth is talking to potential supporters and donors, measuring her odds in a statewide contest, trying to discern whether she might be able to win a race for governor and what that would require in terms of dollars and political troops.
Mr Welteke's words will carry less weight, but will be watched no less closely.Small wonder, then, that analysts are already trying to discern whether this self-styled Sponti (spontaneous person) is a dove or a hawk on inflation and interest rates.
In Broward County, officials moved slowly through some 1,800 ballots, trying to discern whether voters who did not make a clear ballot-card punch had intended to vote for one of the presidential contenders, while Republican demonstrators spilled off of buses to stand outside chanting anti-Gore slogans.
While the baseball commissioner tried to discern whether this call was a practical joke, the civil servant on the line informed him that his league was in violation of 86 counts of the state child labor laws, carrying a fine of up to $655,000.
