0 present participle of temper
2 to heat and then cool a metal in order to make it hard:
tempered steel
But still, the subjects of the law found ways of resisting and tempering their sentences, as the other essays show.
There are, however, technical difficulties with using simulated tempering schemes, particularly with regard to setting up the modified densities and their pseudopriors.
The simulated tempering sampler always started in the hottest distribution (n l 1).
In the simulated tempering sampler, has a discrete distribution where the number of the distances between classes (values of is) have to be defined empirically.
It was assumed that higher-quality pastes would tend to have smaller and less tempering and show better control of firing.
The use of the simulated tempering sampler is not new in genetics.
Simplification of that process will allow widespread use of methods using simulated tempering schemes in practice.
For many women, breast cancer has been present for some years, potentially tempering their anxiety.