Sentence examples for conspicuous patterns from inspiring English sources

Originally only the brightest stars and most conspicuous patterns were given names, probably based on the actual appearance of the configurations.

But his work thus far suggests that birds will avoid conspicuous patterns when they are bigger and more contrasting, whereas shape doesn't seem to matter.

We observed four conspicuous patterns: (1) Adult cockles harboured a two times higher species richness (2003: 6.1 ± 0.7 species/host; 2004: 7.1 ± 0.7) than juveniles (2003: 2.9 ± 0.8; 2004: 3.4 ± 0.8) and total parasite community composition significantly differed between age groups.

The contingentist may reply that, even though the counterfactual robustness of the laws is grounded in a convention, that convention may not be arbitrary, but may have its rationale in certain features of the laws that make them, in some sense, objectively important (Sidelle 2002), e.g., the fact that they relate to particularly pervasive and conspicuous patterns in the history of the world.

Applying the Kullback-Leibler measure helps to assess the state of the read data in more depth; a 'smooth' set of divergence values implies a homogenous read set, while any conspicuous patterns in the divergences identify biases and can help to direct further chemical and computational analysis.

They found that some targets with highly conspicuous patterns, such as bands and zigzags, were more difficult to capture than uniformly coloured, luminance matched conspicuous stimuli [ 17].

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld that ruling, following its conspicuous pattern of denying this kind of appeal much more readily than the nearby federal circuits where states still execute offenders.

An example is when a conspicuous pattern, such as the black and yellow coloration of many wasps and bees, advertises to a predator that an animal is unpalatable or poses special dangers.

As the photographs above show, the two birds (cuckoo on the left, sparrowhawk on the right) are similar in size, shape and plumage, and both have a conspicuous pattern of bars on their breasts a pattern found on many species of hawk, but not on the cuckoo's relatives.

The conspicuous pattern, as seen in the dust counters of the Cosmic Dust Analyser (CDA), clearly repeats on three consecutive revolutions of the spacecraft.

Males also purportedly show a more conspicuous pattern of transverse streaks on their dorsal side.