In addition, searching for more than one kind of biomolecule using standard methods often requires large samples and a series of assays.

ECONOMIST: Labs on a chip

Thus, using standard methods to move from group inferences to individual ones, they calculated that the chance of any one person reoffending was in the range of 3% to 91%, similarly with a 95% confidence level.

ECONOMIST: Crime prediction

Recently she parted with her longtime manager, and she says her new management team is helping her "play catch-up" on now-standard methods for reaching fans. (About 18, 000 people "liked" the Eiffel Tower snapshot she posted on Facebook recently.) And Blue Note has been courting magazines and music blogs more attuned to indie acts and unsigned discoveries.

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When the researchers first ran the analysis using standard regression methods, the results showed that reliability was worse under PBC.

FORBES: Magazine Article

But, of course, it is by no means clear that ethics or social justice are the sort of things about which there are truths at all, much less the kind of truths accessible by impartial inquirers employing standard scientific methods.

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These channels, which have a diameter of 50 microns (about the width of a human hair) are etched using standard silicon-fabrication methods.

ECONOMIST: Monitor

While the materials and construction methods are similar to standard pylons, one point of departure is the colour - white instead of gun-metal grey.

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