Let us assume for a moment that a comprehensive machine-understandable standard were available for the design and aggregate level results of clinical trials.
The use of clearly understandable, standardized forms (with standard measurement units) would reduce the inaccuracies and improve the reliability of data collection and reporting.
Parents ignorance is understandable; the standard Free Application for Federal Student Aid (Fafsa) form, used to determine eligibility for federal grants and subsidized loans, hasnt asked about homes since 1992.
It is understandable that the standard deviation of individual genes is lower, because in the consecutive method we use in each sample elements coming from different populations with small but finite differences in population means.
However, these examples were unusual, and draw attention to what Blommaert calls "creativity within constraints" (ref. 56, p 107), a local form of creativity which is situated in what he calls "the borderline zone of existing hegemonies…it becomes creative because it is measurable against normative hegemonic standards, because it creates understandable contrasts to such standards" (p 106).
Not our usual standard, but understandable.
There is just a double standard, perhaps understandable in light of our values, that we hold the Israelis and the United States to a higher standard than we hold our enemies.
We are describing in this paper, a method that allows a robot or team of robots to navigate in large urban areas for which an existing map in a standard human understandable fashion is available.
To a certain extent it's understandable, because your own standard of living is generally pretty invisible to you.
But he noted that this effort was partially fuelled by a "genuine and understandable desire" to improve standards for children from an ethnic minority group that had long been poorly served by education in the city.
It is therefore understandable that the new standards for critically ill children that were published in 2010 aim to consider all disciplines involved in the full patient journey from district general hospitals to paediatric intensive care units.
