So it's worthwhile teasing out a rough quantification of how "potential" a threat antinomy is.

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And he disputed Bush's quantification of how much Bush's tax cut would amount to.

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But there's precious little scientific quantification going on here to enable economists to determine how much these problems really cost.

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This technology allows not only a sensitive detection but also a precise quantification of the different microorganisms present in a given sample.

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The real problem about the growing quantification of biology is not the change in the subject but the lack of change in its practitioners.

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Nor has the alternative technique, recently introduced in England, of relying on an examiner's overall impression of a match, without any attempt at quantification.

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Uncertainty quantification, or "UQ, " is the quantitative characterization and reduction of uncertainty in computer applications through running very large suites of calculations to characterize the effects of minor differences in the systems.

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"We can go to any city in the US and do the quantification and we know it will be utterly consistent from city to city and consistent from city all the way up to national level, " he said.

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In this we see the genius of the entire book: Silver is able to appeal to those who are both mathematically and non-mathematically inclined, building a compelling story as to why both types of reader should be interested in the better quantification and understanding of the probability of the events that surround us every day.

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