Sentence examples for attrition except from inspiring English sources

Afterward, most of the copies accumulate stochastic mutations and are lost over time by attrition, except for a minority of copies that can become exapted and can be identified as DNA segments conserved across species (Margulies et al. 2003; Siepel et al. 2005; Pace et al. 2008).

None of these variables were significant predictors of attrition pattern except across school differences.

And in a big concession to local anxieties, the company has pledged not to reduce the work force except through attrition for the next several years.

The estimated bpred was then the same as when attrition rate was 50%, except for the second situation where liability of dropping out was dependent on baseline predictor and baseline health to the same degree (both bdrops = .30), but not on follow-up health.

VW is faced with a huge cost-cutting exercise, while the power of IG Metall prevents it from lay-offs, except by natural attrition.

A 24-month trial provides most power, except when patient attrition exceeds 15 16%/year, in which case a 12-month trial is optimal.

Most of the Republicans have no answer for what to do with those 12 million, except to argue for "attrition through enforcement," the hard-liners' strategy of making immigrants' lives miserable and waiting for them to leave.

Experiments with a range on initial particle shapes formed by the method showed the same behaviour except when the extent of attrition was assessed at the largest sieve cut size.

The estimated regression coefficients between baseline predictor and follow-up health were identical for the 30% attrition rate and the 50% attrition rate, except in the situation with the heaviest dependency between liability of dropping out and the study variables (the bottom line in Table  1).

19 This assessment was essentially qualitative, except in the case of attrition rates where we predefined a quantitative criterion: a cut-off of 15% both for overall attrition rate and for differences between treatment groups (unless otherwise foreseen by the authors).

Given the sequential solving of the puzzles, we can quantify the attrition rate, which is about 75% for all puzzles except Puzzle 1.