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tends and underestimate
FT depicts a broad trend, and an extrapolation of historical rates therefore tends to underestimate future BAU deforestation for counties at the early stages in the transition ( HFLD ), while it tends to overestimate BAU deforestation for countries at the later stages ( LFHD and LFLD ).
Mark Kantrowitz, author of Secrets to Winning a Scholarship, has explained that the average family tends to overestimate their eligibility for merit-based awards and underestimate their eligibility for need-based awards.
It is well recognized that the MDRD formula tends to underestimate GFR in patients with preserved kidney function.
The brain is confused and tends to underestimate the slope.
Equal sampling effort at species-rich and species-poor localities tends to underestimate range size at the richer localities relative to the poorer, when in fact range sizes might not differ among localities.
MNI tends to underestimate the actual number under medium fragmentation, and even more severely when bones are highly fragmented.

tends and perhaps
Since plague tends to abate in winter, some performances take place then ; Lord Strange's Men act a play called Titus — perhaps Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus — three times in January.
Another possible explanation is that as a cod grows it tends to eat more, growing even bigger and eating even more, thus encapsulating how the noblemen perhaps saw the expanding middle classes of the time.
Reduction of water density below tends to suppress the convection currents that cool the lower part of the liquid mass ; the lower density of hot water would reduce this effect, perhaps sustaining the more rapid initial cooling.
Program generation tends to focus on automating the repetition seen in the first example, when a better approach is perhaps to find a higher-order abstraction, which is multiplication in this case.
Not surprisingly, perhaps, competition in product-focused areas tends to be more intense with a tendency to drive the production end of the supply chain to become a commodity business.
In the Black and Latino communities, the word tends to be used as a synonym for weak, someone unwilling or unable to defend himself or perhaps loser.
Whereas animism tends to view life as taking the form of discrete spirits, and panpsychism tends to refer to strictly philosophical views like that of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, hylozoism refers largely to views such as those of the earliest Greek philosophers ( 6th and 5th centuries BC ), who treated the magnet as alive because of its attractive powers ( Thales ), or air as divine ( Anaximenes ), perhaps because of its apparently spontaneous power of movement, or because of its role as essential for life in animals.
Although Ireland tends to be strongly associated in the popular mind with Celtic art, the early Continental style of Hallstatt style never reached Ireland and the succeeding La Tène style reached Ireland very late, perhaps from about 300 BC, and has left relatively few remains, which are often described by art historians together with their British contemporaries as " Insular Celtic ".
In France it was known as " pâte tendre " and in England " soft-paste ", perhaps because it does not easily retain its shape in the wet state, or because it tends to slump in the kiln under high temperature, or because the body and the glaze can be easily scratched.
In his youth, he seems aware of his good looks and popularity with the girls ; perhaps because of this, he sometimes tends to seem a bit smug and self-assured.
Yet for whatever reason ( perhaps a sense of mistrust bred by centuries of persecution ), she tends to guard the secrets of her superhuman powers.
In her quest for revenge, she is quite courageous, though not as fool-hardy as Kate tends to be ; she makes up for her lack of combat strength with wit and sneakiness, perhaps more than the others.

tends and view
Callicott supports a holistic, non-anthropocentric environmental ethic which is in accordance with Leopold's view that " A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community.
It is wrong when it tends otherwise " He holds the view that an adequate environmental ethic — one that addresses actual environmental concerns — must be intrinsically holistic.
The communalist position tends to lead to the view that more recent, particularly printed broadside ballads, where we may even know the author, are a debased form of the genre.
Cognitive science tends to view the world outside the mind much as other sciences do.
Post-structuralist writing tends to connect observations and references from many, widely varying disciplines into a synthetic view of knowledge and its relationship to experience, the body, society and economy-a synthesis in which it sees itself as participating.
His seminal work is concerned with the principles of legislation and the hedonic calculus is introduced with the words “ Pleasures then, and the avoidance of pains, are the ends that the legislator has in view .” In Chapter VII Bentham says, “ The business of government is to promote the happiness of the society, by punishing and rewarding … In proportion as an act tends to disturb that happiness, in proportion as the tendency of it is pernicious, will be the demand it creates for punishment .”
One view of these trends is that a strong social consensus on political economy and a good social welfare system facilitates labor mobility and tends to make the entire economy more productive, as labor can develop skills and experience in various ways, and move from one enterprise to another with little controversy or difficulty in adapting.
Culture also tends to view women as fragile and weaker than men, stereotypes which are only heightened when a woman has a disability.
Rowan Bayne, a British psychologist who has written several studies on graphology, summarized his view of the appeal of graphology: " It's very seductive because at a very crude level someone who is neat and well behaved tends to have neat handwriting ", adding that the practice is " useless ... absolutely hopeless ".
Chavruta-style learning tends to be loud and animated, as the study partners read the Talmudic text and the commentaries aloud to each other and then analyze, question, debate, and even argue their points of view to arrive at an understanding of the text.
Contemporary scholarship, while not claiming that this view was entirely false, tends to hold that it was highly exaggerated ; Palestrina was one of many skilled composers working at the time, and the influence of the Council of Trent on musical composition was more limited than at first presumed ( the composers of the Venetian School, for example, ignored it almost entirely, and Palestrina-style composers such as Lassus, working in Munich, were also quite free to write as they pleased ).
: On the one hand, a materialist view of landscape tends to stress how it may be seen in terms of a set of resources, for example for hunter-gatherers or early farming groups.
Although both methods are still in use, current vocal pedagogical practice tends to adopt the newer more scientific view.
Modern scholarship tends to the second view.
The college's modernity tends to attract students who view Cambridge University, an especially the more traditional colleges, as elitist.
See Prisoner's Dilemma and the work of Robert Axelrod for another view of how even self-interested entities can cooperate, which tends to moderate the individualist view.
Johnny Shawnessy tends to view the events of his life through the prism of one or more of these contexts, and to draw parallels to these legends, frequently with considerable justification.
As against this, the Thai Buddhist monk, Phra Rajyanvisith, of the Dhammakaya Movement ( which does not see itself as Mahayanist but as modern Theravadin ) argues that it tends to be scholars who hold the view of absolute non-Self, rather than Buddhist meditators.
He tends to offer reasonable or scientific explanations both to situations most others view as supernatural in nature, and in opposition of propaganda dispensed by Cartman.
Similarly, color vision and the ability to perceive shape and motion vary across the field of view ; in humans the former is concentrated in the center of the visual field, while the latter tends to be much stronger in the periphery.
Humanistic psychology tends to look beyond the medical model of psychology in order to open up a nonpathologizing view of the person.
If white paper is used with the camera lucida, the superimposition of the paper with the scene tends to wash out the scene, making it difficult to view.
" She can be relied upon to keep her head in a crisis, something she tends to view as a character flaw.

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