Is Anonymity an Artifact in Ethnographic Research? (在人种学研究中,匿名信是伪造的吗?
I feel that some data might be the result of an artifact. 我觉得有些数据可能是捏造的。
This system has the advantage of suppressing The coherent artifact noise. 这种系统具有抑制相干噪声的优点。
artifact
[ noun ] a man-made object taken as a whole <noun.tops>
Artifact \Ar"ti*fact\, n. [L. ars, artis, art + facere, factum, to make.] 1. (Arch[ae]ol.) A product of human workmanship; -- applied esp. to the simpler products of aboriginal art as distinguished from natural objects.
Syn: artefact. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
2. Any product of human workmanship; -- applied both to objects made for practical purposes as well as works of art. It is contrasted to {natural object}, i.e. anything produced by natural forces without the intervention of man.
Syn: artefact. [PJC]
3. (Biol.) A structure or appearance in protoplasm due to death, method of preparation of specimens, or the use of reagents, and not present during life.
Syn: artefact. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
4. (Technology) an object, oservation, phenomenon, or result arising from hidden or unexpected causes extraneous to the subject of a study, and therefore spurious and having potential to lead one to an erroneous conclusion, or to invalidate the study. In experimental science, artifacts may arise due to inadvertant contamination of equipment, faulty experimental design or faulty analysis, or unexpected effects of agencies not known to affect the system under study.
Syn: artefact. [PJC]
In New York, he met with museum officials and formally requested that the Cree artifact be returned.
Such an accounting artifact is probably not a good measure of real corporate efficiency; takeovers can change balance sheets and stock prices move based on future potential rather than past history.
The back of one artifact, a statue of a Japanese warrior-god brandishing a spear, opens to reveal an ivory and gold crucifix. Other statues have false bottoms, with crosses and icons inside.
Soviet-style communism was a totalitarian artifact imposed upon cultural and national substructures with anemic or non-existent democratic traditions.
Mr. Phillips felt that the best way to tap an uncertain market was to prepare a scholarly catalog that would give each artifact its proper historical importance.
The crystal ball has been the central artifact on exhibit in the museum rotunda.
So what could have been more appropriate for MOCA's opening than this arty artifact, rendered into English by the arty Paul Schmidt and directed by the arty Mr. Sellars?
It reads as if it were a cultural artifact unearthed along with "The Whole Earth Catalog" and albums by the Steve Miller Band.
"Every painting, every artifact suffered some water or smoke damage," Sefcik said.
"But in fact the average has always been a dynamic index, not a static artifact.
That's an artifact, and customers know that," Shirley Young, GM's vice president for consumer market development, said in a recent interview.