Sentence examples for by a given individual from inspiring English sources

Even this formulation is not completely rigorous because the utilities or satisfaction obtained by a given individual from a given bundle of goods will vary over time as his tastes change.

We developed a model selection paradigm, based on regular expressions, that allowed us to reconstruct the specific decision strategies and cognitive heuristics adopted by a given individual in our task.

As the probability of hearing songs produced by a given individual decreases with the emitter-receiver distance, birds are likely to be unfamiliar with their distant neighbours' songs, or a lot less familiar than with their adjacent neighbours' songs.

Because the probability of fruit consumption by a given individual lizard would vary depending on the plant's location, we used the density values of each lizard-individual displacement kernel at the plant's location as surrogate of visitation probability and weighted the plant recruitment kernels provided by each lizard using this probability before combining them.

Two of the programs were the second ones to be initiated by a given individual: of these, one closed after the "champion" left, but the other remains active.

The underlying assumption of our study was that repeated third-party interventions by a given individual toward a particular dyad might indicate attempts to manipulate the formation and/or maintenance of the bond between individuals in this dyad.

Finally, survival rate was recorded for F1s and F2s by recording whether a given individual survived until the end of the study (12 weeks) (Table 1).

This quantitative relationship between a reservoir of new neurons and memory capability – revealed by linking, for a given individual, the levels of memory performances, and the levels of neurogenesis – reinforces the contention that neurogenesis participates in learning and memory.

For example, a mutant gene might be 'covered' by a CNV in a given individual, so that the expected clinical phenotype would be masked by the presence of an additional wild-type copy in cis to the gene in question.

The CPR number encodes, amongst other things, date of birth and gender, and is the means by which information on a given individual can be merged unambiguously from multiple data sources.

To respond to a complex phenomenon only by pointing to signs of increased religiosity in a given individual, or by targeting a community or a specific religious profile, is unlikely to work.