Sentence examples for a program analogous to from inspiring English sources

The S.B.A., in a program analogous to that carried out in the housing market by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, provides partial guarantees (up to eighty five per cent) on loans issued by commercial banks to small businesses, as long as these loans conform to S.B.A. standards.

As cancer cells reactivate a program analogous to that active in early development, it is not surprising that this fundamental control is also engaged.

McFadden, the state senator from Baltimore, had a broader idea: A federal program analogous to the post-WWII Marshall Plan to help get poor urban areas across America back on their feet.

Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick is one such story; a scholarship from A Better Chance, a private school choice program analogous to the METCO public school model, took him from the south side of Chicago to an elite prep school education at Milton Academy.

In 72 (65.5%), no home monitor was used, but 17 among them participated in a special home support program (so-called weighing scale program) analogous to the CONI program in the UK [ 21].

These explosive experiments investigated the composition of the Lunar mantle during the Apollo Program, analogous to the exploration geophysics practice of mineral prospecting with chemical explosives in "deep seismic sounding" reflection seismology.

Administration policy would also force the region, including poor countries like Vietnam, Malaysia and Peru, to transform laws so as to provide special expansive monopoly protections for pharmaceuticals, while placing serious limits on countries' programs analogous to Medicare and Medicaid.

An increased use of oil and coal (purposeful program) leads to carbon emissions, which lead to global warming (aimless quasi-program, analogous to hypertension, atherosclerosis and hyper-coagulation), which contribute to other factors that generate a particularly powerful storm, which can be damaging, if it strikes a vital location such as New Orleans (or the brain, in the case of stroke).

A form of description very common in biology, but less extensively analyzed by philosophers, has it that the genes contain a program, in a sense analogous to that in computer science (Jacob 1982, Moss 1992, Sterelny 2001, Marcus 2004).

Coverage peaks were identified as maximal scoring segments using a modified dynamic programming algorithm, analogous to pairwise local alignments [ 12]. Background noise was estimated as the mean coverage of the intergenic regions (ranging from 1.10 to 3.25 depending on the sequencing run) and was subtracted from the raw coverage values.

CEO Paul Singh said in a phone interview today that the concept of reactive programming is analogous to a spreadsheet.