Numbers Games

Unless established monitoring practices are conducted by plant personnel or the OSHA compliance officer, the results are of limited value in determining compliance with a standard, and what is more important, protecting the worker s health. The conduct of air monitoring by untrained, or poorly trained, persons relegates the program to a "numbers game" which serves no useful purpose. 

Karina B, Bassler X, Bassler BE, LuxS quorum sensing more than just a numbers game. Curr. Opin. Microbiol. 2003 6 191-197. 

D. Betteridge, Analytical chemistry the numbers game, Chem. Brit. 16 (1980) 646. 

Mai ls So would purified T gs from a naive animal and have the same effect I imagine if you give enough it would work. This is how the original type of Fiona Powrie experiments were done. It may be a numbers game, or it may be that it is the number of activated T egs is important. If you had enough activated cells from a naive source this could have the same effect. 

Next, I cannot fail to stress the importance and the potential errors involved in the pathologic evaluation. In the present political climate a carcinogen may be identified or obscured because there is a statistically significant difference in one or more tumor types in treated animals as compared to control animals. The process, thus, may amount to a numbers game rather than a reliance upon the biomedical judgment which is required. Particularly important is knowledge of the spontaneous diseases in laboratory animals, a specialty field in itself. 

Help many people. Menschdom is a numbers game you should help many people, so you do not hide your generosity under a bushel. (Of course, not even a mensch can help everyone. Trying to do so would mean failing to help anyone). 

Interview—this is a numbers game. The more interviews, the better your chances. 

In approaching the question of converting a component to plastics, the prime consideration usually involves The numbers game i.e., do the planned production numbers justify the up-front tooling costs The answer will determine the choice not only of the material, but also of the conversion method. 

Perhaps the most confusing aspect of plastics to the non-specialist is the profusion of raw material forms and processes involved. These are classified and reviewed in this chapter, together with the all-important questions of economics and The numbers game . Polymers can themselves be classified in a number of ways ... 

Awareness of the numbers game is crucially important to a designer of plastics components. The most important aspects are (1) the total numbers required, (2) the up-front costs which have to be spread over the total production volume, and (3) the rate of production which the chosen process can achieve. Table 2.5 gives a very simplified basic comparison of initial costs and production rates for the most relevant processes. 

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