Sentence examples for arbitrary marker from inspiring English sources

But, as Youngner points out, the five-minute waiting period (it ranges from two minutes in some protocols to ten minutes in others) is really just a decent interval, a more or less arbitrary marker of the passage from life to death, whose significance is far more symbolic than scientific.

At an arbitrary marker m, use L (an n × K matrix) to denote the loading matrix and L⋅ j to denote its jth column.

That is the real measure of the immune response and not whether some arbitrary marker that hasn't been tested for its antimicrobial activity on the injected microbe is modulated.

To avoid over-fitting of an arbitrary marker threshold to the data, median values were calculated over the combined series of untreated patients and cohort 1 of the tamoxifen-treated patients, and used to define high (that is, above the median) and low (that is, below the median) expression groups.

The inherent limitations of arbitrary marker systems in transferability and reproducibility between populations, species and laboratories, however, have meant that, as in the vast majority of plant species, more robust, sequence-characterized marker systems such as microsatellites have gained greater favour in genetic analyses in recent years.

We feel the second shame immediately after because manhood (and its arbitrary markers) is something we're not supposed to be worried about any more – certainly not the more base aspects of it, like violence.

In the present work 30 mungbean landraces of the Odisha State of India representing four different geographical regions (populations) along with some Indian genotypes were used for elucidation of genetic diversity and population structure analysis using 52 SCoT (gene-targeted) and 45 RAPD (arbitrary) markers.

Any more than having children or going to college or losing your virginity or working outside the home or any of the other arbitrary markers of so-called "real" womanhood are.

Assuming tetrasomic inheritance due to the segregation ratios observed in the progeny, they mapped 403 markers, which were variously sequence-characterized RFLP, SSR and SNP (cleaved-amplified polymorphic site) markers (65%) and arbitrary AFLP markers (35%) to seven consensus linkage groups for each parent spanning 632 cM and 616 cM for the female and male parents, respectively.

We also set arbitrary personal markers to delineate time.

Perhaps we will ultimately develop the tools to create lives that are more sustainable, and less obsessed with hitting arbitrary cultural markers.