It is impossible to predict in advance who will benefit and who will not.
Doctors have had no way to predict in advance which patients the drug will help.
Klein devised a supercomputer simulation to predict in practically atomic detail what would happen when DeGrado's molecule collided with a bacterium's membrane.
Indeed, the cost of intervention is often too high, but that is what an economist would predict in a case of market imperfection.
Reed used his insight, based on some compelling math, to predict in the 1990s that eBay would soon outperform Yahoo even though Yahoo seemed to be as firmly entrenched at the time as Google is today.
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But emerging new gene findings indicate that the high-priced drug may be useless in nearly half of colon cancer patients--and that a simple gene test could allow doctors to predict in advance which patients are likely to benefit.
New government forecasts, due to be published in September, will predict growth in the amount of traffic by 60-90% between now and 2025.
Increases in the sense of free choice better predict increases in happiness than do increases in income, democratization, social tolerance, and lots of other stuff not on this chart.
Still, those at the Fed are nothing if not hubristic, and they'll surely try in vain to be ahead of collapsing markets despite their inability to predict them in the past.
Much more likely to predict success in pro football are the skill tests they administer.
Mr Clarkston acknowledged it was not always easy to predict success in the life sciences sector.
European leaders have warned of a difficult year ahead, as many economists predict recession in 2012.
Furthermore, while some companies will enjoy phenomenal growth, it's usually very hard for investors to predict them in advance.
Rockwool is far from the only green building company to predict growth in 2012, despite the generally depressed housing market.
The goal: a gene-based prognostic test, one that could predict years in advance which tumor will metastasize and kill you.
"Authorities Predict Increase in Migrant Flow to Kern Soon, " read the headline in the August 7 edition of the Bakersfield Californian.
Such traits often predict success in the real world better than I.
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The historical data used to predict recessions in the past are less useful if a new shock cannot be offset with fiscal and monetary policy.
Zbontar beat out mathematicians at MIT in a contest to predict the voting in the Eurovision Song Contest (a sort of European version of American Idol).
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Analyzing raw data derived from specially designed social sensing ID badges that collect quantitative data on human behavior, Waber began drawing out patterns to help predict outcomes in a variety of situations.
Standard economic models predict that in the absence of clearly defined property rights, such common resources will be overexploited, with individuals acting without regard for the effects of their actions on the overall pool.
In the same vein, consumers actually use debit cards instead of credit cards more often than economic theory would predict, in part as a way of limiting their own spending to money they actually have.
Despite the fact that jobs experts predict growth in employment opportunities in science, technology, engineering and math will grow more than 7% faster than any other sector over the next five years, the number of women pursuing STEM education and career paths.
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By understanding the color and style trend in shoes I would be able to predict what would happen in apparel fashions two years hence.
As we have seen since 2008, two years is a long, long time in politics, and no one can predict what may happen in November, 2012.
It will probably not remain the biggest economy in the world - some predict China will overtake it in three years' time.
In the study, the authors used Hirisplex to predict hair colour phenotypes in a sample drawn from three European populations.
Oftel, the telecoms regulator, says it cannot predict how demand in certain areas will change.
They predict a growth in China's cultural influence, but believe this will take time.
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