Almost the opposite, actually: Morris and her students, by helping to defend the Guantánamo detainees, are helping the country figure out how to deal with terrorists, both actual and alleged--and the Hamdan decision validates that effort.
Moreover, ensembles typically improve the prediction accuracy obtained from a single classifier by a factor that validates the effort and cost associated with learning multiple models.
If these students do show up as degree recipients in a couple of years, it will validate the efforts that several national agencies have made to foster minority participation in grad school, Hrabowski says.
A number of studies have validated the effort and accuracy model of strategy selection [22, 23].
Even if it opens the way for direct talks, which would be a benefit, it validates Iran's claim that efforts to shut down Natanz are illegitimate.
History validates the effort.
And consumers in a sometimes snobbish segment are validating the effort, whether or not it's an imitation.
Reassurance, since the complexity lens validates real efforts that did not seem to reach the desired goal; encouragement, because non-linear dynamics always hold the potential for transformation.
These results "validate the efforts of Florida teachers and the focus the state has put on academic achievement in a state that is as diverse as this," Tony Bennett, the newly appointed commissioner of the Florida Department of Education, said in a telephone interview.
To Jones, victories on his courses by Mickelson and other golf A-listers validate the efforts.
The tapes also validate the efforts of the protesters, said Catherine (Saalfield) Gund, a member of DIVA (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television), a group affiliated with Act Up.
