"Sometimes it's because there's history and there's nothing you can do about it; sometimes it's because it's advantageous to your career; or because they've got drugs; or because they can get you a job; or because they're your wife's friends; or they've got kids – that's a new one for me".
Mimicry may be defined as a situation in which virtually identical signals, emitted by two different organisms, have in common at least one receiver that reacts in the same manner to both signals because it is advantageous to react in that manner to one of them (that of the model), although it may be disadvantageous to react thus to the counterfeit signal.
- The debt crisis, demography and migration, and the pressure from a resurgent Russia coalesce into another interpretation of solidarity corroborating commitment to integration as an ongoing process -- not membership because it is advantageous.
This, Trivers (1972) argued, creates potential for conflict between the parents because it is advantageous to minimize one's own investment while capitalizing on the benefits that arise from the investment of the partner.
The exact solution suggests that the lag phase duration depends on the initial level of bottleneck enzyme P 0. The smaller P 0, the longer the lag phase because it is advantageous to spend time to produce P 0 in order to increase the subsequent rate of biomass production (more precisely, lag duration depends on P 0 logarithmically: τ ~ ln(1/P 0 )).
Many women athletes are trying to actually become quite lean, because, in endurance sports, it's advantageous to be lighter.
These people have discovered that, because of family benefit, it is advantageous to have children".
"Sometimes it's advantageous because you fit in a niche," he said, "but you also get to be relegated there.
Although this process seems more complicated than the Dow process, it is advantageous because it produces two valuable industrial products: phenol and acetone.
This study demonstrates that calibration to PIA is one method, and that it is advantageous because PIA is the best method of deriving mean pore size from thin section.
