The 50th anniversary is prompting a fair amount of useful reflection on poverty reduction efforts since the book's publication, notably at a conference being held at Demos today.
And there is no question that National Geographic's strong promotion of this scholarly achievement, at an April 6 news conference, in an April 9 television documentary and in two books, has stirred some useful reflection about the evolution of early Christianity and the paradoxes of Jesus' willing death on the cross, as well as about one aspect of Christianity's anti-Jewish imagery.
But if you push past the frustration, "Ex Machina" brings to the fore the idea that technology is as imperfect as its creators, and its mirror can provide a useful reflection.
There is one key difference between hopeless rumination - the kind of thought that awakens you at 2 am and keeps going until you finally drift off again at 4 am - and useful reflection.
However, in this case I think the range of comments is a useful reflection of the responses of readers and are likely to be helpful in revision.
Without a planned, methodical approach to professional development, it may be difficult for midwives to undertake useful reflection on their practice within an agreed skill framework.
A good external validity in a sense of an adequate reflection of reality (is it correct?) does not necessarily mean a good (external) utility in a sense of a useful reflection of reality (what is it good for?
The value t d depends on many factors, including shape changes between the two pulses, errors in the LDV outputs due to the weak useful reflection and the existence of on-chip spurious reflections, and limitations in the algorithms used for retrieving Δ t.
This might be a trivial result given the absence of monocytes, but can be argued that it is a useful reflection of the in vivo defect and how its magnitude compares with established molecular causes of mycobacterial susceptibility, such as IFNγ receptor mutations (Fischer, 2007).
