Because the segments of DNA constituting the balanced polymorphism are held in the population by selection much longer than expected based on random drift, these segments have a higher effective population size (owing to lower variation in offspring numbers than random) and tend to accumulate mutational variation at nearby neutral sites.
This is problematic because the segments of the body differ with respect to several variables that can affect thermoregulation.
Dealing with the body in this manner is problematic because the segments of the body differ with respect to several variables that can affect thermoregulation.
Even more to the point, it is the poor who virtually always benefit the most from environmental regulation because they are the segment of the population invariably most exposed to pollution.
We believe that the numbers in Figure 2 figure supplement 2 are positive because this interaction between the segment of the salt solution is not included in the present model.
(It is reminiscent of Jonathan Edwards' view that we are justly punished for Adam's sin in the Garden of Eden because God has decreed that the segment of Adam's life including the sin is a segment of our own lives also).
The other constant, of course, is that about half don't even show up to vote, not necessarily because of cynicism or alienation from the political process but because "that segment of the public simply doesn't care much about the outcome".
In 1970 that shape was a pyramid because the largest segment of the global population was the youngest (0-5 years old, comprising 14% of the total), followed by the next-youngest (6-10, with 13%), and so on in regular increments until, above 85 years, there were so few people that the shape vanished into a point (see left-hand chart).
Trump!" Children are especially excited because the next segment of the Donald Trump Show is billed to include helicopter rides of kids.
A few weeks ago, Chanel opened a fine-jewelry shop on Madison Avenue because that segment of the business was doing well, Arie L. Kopelman, the president of Chanel Inc., said.
