Sentence examples for were artefacts of from inspiring English sources

We found that, if we removed correlated variables prior to model selection, the final models were artefacts of the variables we had selected.

Around the margins of the lake, which are raised very slightly above the surrounding flat salt plain, there has been deposited a ring of debris made up of wood and plant material, some of it burnt to charcoal, and mixed in with this were artefacts of recent human origin, such as rubber sandals.

Such outcomes were artefacts of the experimental design.

Controlling for the phylogenetic non-independence by using the method of phylogenetically independent contrasts (CAIC) verified that none of the results reported above were artefacts of treating species as independent data points.

Because we did not have individual race/ethnicity data, it was likely that at least some of these neighbourhood racial/ethnic effects were artefacts of individual racial/ethnic effects.

To test whether such fragments were artefacts of sample processing, parallel plates of cells were lysed either into a different buffer (see the Figure 2 legend) or directly on the culture dish into our modified SDS/PAGE sample buffer.

It is possible to argue in general that these results are artefacts of the US system of political appointments.

In some of the above examples, of course, the idea that these organisms are living fossils are artefacts of our bizarre taxonomic classifications and history of discovery more than a useful and robust concept.

The game's aesthetic was a result of its technological constraints as much as anything: the squat, balloon animal-like characters, the unmoving, pre-rendered sets – they are artefacts of the PlayStation's limits.

Hunter and Schmidt (1977) argued, conversely, that the diverse correlations are artefacts of data collection.

A portion of the detected changes in rats may be artefacts of strain variations.