Words problematic

These would usually be termed "ideological, but I find this word problematic for the following reasons it implies a separate domain of practice that, as I have already made clear, does not represent the situation in the land of the four riverbanks in the discourse of anthropological archaeology in the Near East it is too closely associated with the idea that ideology is controlled by an elite that manipulate it for their own materialist purposes. 

Where the waves and currents weaken, resuspended sediment settles back down to the seafloor. Given the small particle sizes of the suspended material (mostly 3 to 10 pm), redeposition can take many years. The resulting redistribution of sediments creates patches of clay, mud, and exposed rock on the continental margins. In other words, resuspension from waves and currents can cause some sediments to become reUct deposits. Hard bottoms can serve as good habitats for some members of the benthos as they promote the formation of coral reefs. For paleoceanographers, relict deposits are problematic because they represent gaps, or imconformities, in the sedimentary record. 

To allow for exceptions, exchange absolutes for less restrictive words and phrases. A single word such as many or most can change a problematic, implausible absolute into a plausible, provable statement. Here are some of those... 

In addition to the word data, other scientific plurals are often problematic for novice writers. Table 4.3 includes a list of confusing singular and plural word forms. 

In other words, in contrast to the lodestone, whose physical constancy can be verified by a simple experiment, what is constant about the stone of alchemy is its very ineffability. So, to continue in the spirit of Marxian equations if magnetism is to the lodestone as abstract human labor is to the commodity, then ineffable secrecy is the equivalent of (magnetism and) abstract human labor. In essence, then, Marx s literary style helps to both clarify and problematize the intrinsic property of alchemy, especially in its relation to real production in the real world. 

It is usual whenever biologic samples are obtained in medical practice or in any health encounter for results to be expressed in relation to normal. In fact, a relationship to normal is the question almost every subject asks first when presented with such information. For biomonitoring results, it is a generally meaningless question— normal for human-made chemicals or chemicals that did not enter the environment except for human activity, is actually zero. Despite that, many laboratories report results, such as blood lead concentrations, in just this way—a practice likely to result in confusion. For example, it is not rare to see reports of blood concentrations that contain the phrase normal for industrial workers. In truth, such concentrations may be common in industrial workers, or even typical, but hardly normal in the usual meaning of that word in relation to health. Such comparisons are especially problematic for biomarkers whose relationship to health and environmental sources is less well studied. The discussion below touches briefly on the scientific issues raised by such implicit or explicit comparisons of results with reference ranges. 

There are two categories of words that are most problematic confused words (homonyms that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings) and misused words (pairs so often used incorrectly the errors sound acceptable to most people). Read through the lists of some of the most frequently tested words, noting any you re not sure of. 

As described previously, the De Levie model is useful to describe the electrochemical ac (or dc) behavior of a porous electrode. This TLM describes the porous electrode as an interpenetrated network of RC elements, whose contribution depends on the frequency of the ac signal. In other words, the capacitance and the resistance of the EDLC change with the frequency. However, it is difficult to get from these equations the change of the capacitance with the frequency useful to characterize an EDLC electrode. This is why other approaches have been developed and focused more onto the EDLC problematic, with the aim to quantify the change of the porous electrode capacitance (or the EDLC device capacitance) with the frequency of the ac signal. 

The most problematic words are the noun man and the pronouns he and his , but there are usually several satisfactory gender-neutral alternatives for these words. Choose an alternative carefully and keep it consistent with the context. 

Chaotic time series have been obtained from a wide variety of experimental systems. Figures 16 and 17 show examples of the irregular time series found in various cases. It is somewhat problematic to assign the term chaotic to these reported time series because it was rarely investigated whether the time series were deterministically chaotic in the strict sense of the word. Therefore, when we use the expression chaotic, we are well aware that there is, in many cases, no proof for chaos in the oscillation patterns. The few reports wherein a thorough analysis has been performed (64,104) do though show the existence of deterministically chaotic oscillations. It would be beyond the scope of this review to describe the methods... 

After reading the introductory paragraph, the reader knows the essay will discuss the reserve facility s problematic hours, staff, and space. In other words, the thesis statement defines the main purpose of your essay, and the essay map indicates the route you will take to accomplish that purpose. 

The concept of "hypothesis" comes to mind Ideally, a working hypothesis has built within it a potential for modification, even continuous modification. Beliefs, on the other hand, tend to be problematic precisely because they are usually fixed and resistant to self-correction. An hypothesis assumes that we don t know, but are trying to learn. A belief insists on the comforting illusions of certitude. In other words, to be able to stay profitably engaged with the Mystery, "The Adept must be ready for the utter destruction of his point of view on any subject, and even that of his innate conception of the forms and laws of thought."6... 

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