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To really nail down a result, to rule out those rival theories, and to distinguish correlation from causation.
These are sailors who in the darkness, in the hull of the vessel, can distinguish as many as 32 different sea swells moving through the canoe at any one point in time, distinguishing local wave disturbances from the great currents that pulsate across the ocean, that can be followed with the same ease that a terrestrial explorer would follow a river to the sea.
They also remember and distinguish particular cues that signal danger and can recall important locations long after their last visit.
The ability to distinguish this importance makes elephant memory a complex and adaptable faculty beyond rote memorization.
Why distinguish between interacting in person and interacting via social media?
In a story like this, it’s impossible to distinguish the character’s good fortune from the bad.
Because when you can't distinguish between the truth and fake news, you have a very much more difficult time trying to solve some of the great issues that we face.
I'm going to distinguish between what I call front half and back half.
The other thing is that we try to distinguish between different kinds of data, because some data is extremely valuable and they will form, like, a barrier to entry in a market.
And they're mashed together with the vast informal sector that doesn't bother to distinguish between smugglers and tax evaders and those running illegal whatnot, and the ladies who trade, and who put food on the table and send their kids to university.
If CRISPR couldn't distinguish between bacterial and viral DNA, it wouldn't be a very useful defense system.
In recent years, some companies have been producing meat from plants that consumers cannot distinguish from actual animal meat, and there are now dozens of companies growing actual animal meat directly from cells.
For example, to target a small subset of immune cells responsible for an autoimmune disorder, and distinguish them from the vast majority of healthy immune cells.
And so, here are four different rhinoviruses, and you can see, even with your eye, without any fancy computer pattern-matching recognition software algorithms, that you can distinguish each one of these barcodes from each other.
Other experiments allowed him to distinguish sensory from motor nerves, establish that urine was made in the kidneys, and deduce that respiration was controlled by muscles and nerves.
This is not to say that we cannot see the good from the best ones, but the best ones are very hard to distinguish.
They learned how to distinguish different species of mosses, which, to tell you the truth, is a lot more than my undergraduate students at the Evergreen College can do.
To distinguish the kind of synapse and precisely how strong each synapse is, we’ll need even better resolution.
I hope that what you've learned is that bacteria can distinguish self from other.
MR: While image-recognition software can identify the outlines of sexual organs, blood or naked skin in images and videos, it has immense difficulties to distinguish pornographic content from holiday pictures, Adonis statues or breast-cancer screening campaigns.
It can't distinguish Romeo and Juliet dying onstage from a real knife attack.
It can't distinguish satire from propaganda or irony from hatred, and so on and so forth.
So buried in signage are these structures, that it often takes a moment to distinguish the modern specially constructed taxpayer from its neighbor: the small commercial building from an earlier century, whose upper floors have been sealed, and whose groundfloor space now functions as a taxpayer.
He said, "It's always important to distinguish between chastity and impotence."
It's very hard to distinguish the voice of a very young girl from the voice of a very young boy.
Who can't distinguish at all between voices coming from inside and outside their head.
Now, this is a people who cognitively do not distinguish the color blue from the color green because the canopy of the heavens is equated to the canopy of the forest upon which the people depend.
This tribe, the Cofan, has 17 varieties of ayahuasca, all of which they distinguish a great distance in the forest, all of which are referable to our eye as one species.
There are an awful lot of things that you'd like to distinguish among.
Anyone who doesn't distinguish those notions is going to mess up the study of happiness, and I belong to a crowd of students of well-being, who've been messing up the study of happiness for a long time in precisely this way.
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