Sentence examples for an alternative tactic from inspiring English sources

Research in raspberries at Cornell AgriTech over the last four years has shown promise as an alternative tactic to reduce the impact of SWD on berries.

The question arises whether an alternative tactic — an advance directive declining all life-sustaining intervention once a certain point of debilitation is reached — might be preferable as a device to avert a prolonged, unwanted limbo.

If an expected level of sales fails to materialise, no rebate is due; the retailer's profits will have been falsely inflated.In Britain, several big chains have an alternative tactic to squeeze money from suppliers.

Some redback males have been observed using an alternative tactic that also ensures more of their genetic material is passed on.

By comparing dolphins that use sponges to those that do not, we examined whether the behaviour is advantageous, making the "best of a bad situation" (i.e., when subordinate or less-competitive individuals reduce competition by adopting an alternative tactic at some fitness cost) [15], or has no apparent benefit over other tactics.

The age-body size relationship of amphibians is well established [27], [28], [29], [30], and a negative relationship between sperm viability and male body size has been reported for the quacking frog C. georgiana, which may be a function of age or an alternative tactic of differential investment in spermatozoa by smaller-sized males [31].

The outcomes of customary spanking were neither better nor worse than for any alternative tactic, except for one study in which spanking reduced drug abuse more than nonphysical punishment[ 22].

Once an alternative reproductive tactic invades a population, either a mixed evolutionary stable strategy or a conditional strategy in which the alternative reproductive tactic is physiologically or environmentally determined maintains the polymorphism [ 5].

Field, J. Intraspecific parasitism as an alternative reproductive tactic in nest-building wasps and bees.

For example, nest site availability [ 10], an individual's age [ 11], or body size [ 12, 13] may affect the probability of adopting an alternative mating tactic.

Invasion success of the transgene into a natural population was determined with both the proportion of sneakers (P) and their mating success (q) when sneaking was an alternative mating tactic in the transgenic genotype (Fig. 1C).