I have an idea, an outline, and Alan has an idea of what he's going to do.
The way we assess the growth rate in each environment implicitly assumes monostability by denying the system a history (see Materials and Methods), which is an extreme case of the idea outlined earlier: changes to the environment are infinitely rare, and bistability can evolve only because it never gets a chance to do any harm.
The idea, outlined in a 2004 paper in Conservation Biology, is that bats with broad, rounded wings tend to cover less territory than their sharper-winged cousins and so are more vulnerable to habitat fragmentation.
As with the gift box idea outlined above, line a box with greaseproof paper and arrange neatly inside.
The idea, outlined in Science last week, is exciting, audacious and also controversial.
The government's original idea, outlined by Mr Fabius last August, was to distribute the fruits of a healthy economy by lowering income-tax rates across the board.
However, unlike the straightforward dominance idea outlined above, 'outranked dominance' gives more influence to some criteria than others.
Moynihan had originally submitted an idea to the outline writers, who in turn worked with him and rewrote it to produce the final episode.
I get an idea, do an outline (mysteries require one, unless you want to wander, myopically wasting time amid fingerprint powder and red herrings) and hammer through the whole outline with pauses only to read the day before's writing to "get into the flow" of the narrative.
Jointly, these ideas outline a new research agenda designed to encourage progress beyond the measurement and operationalization phase.
It is an idea the general outlined in a 14-page paper he gave Mr. Obama during a meeting at the White House a year ago, but to which, the general tells people, he has never received a response.
