This evolutionary case can be interpreted to indicate that change in the second character is contingent upon change in the first character.
Expanded adoption, however, may be contingent upon policy changes, such as modification to the risk equalization system, that increase incentives for insurers who implement programs to improve population health and consequently bend the curve on health care cost escalation.
The prophecy of the Prophet was not contingent upon changing all the traditions of his time.
Wang continued: "It was not in US interests to prolong the current state of hostility [and the US should demonstrate] it had no intention of promoting regime change … This was contingent upon a change in North Korean behaviour and an eventual North Korean pledge to the world that it would not embark on the road to nuclear weapons".
This was contingent upon a change in North Korean behavior and an eventual North Korean pledge to the world that it would not embark on the road to nuclear weapons.
A Michelin spokesman told BBC Sport the company would be "interested" in a return to F1, but said this would be contingent upon a change in the regulations.
To ask whether the valproate-induced changes were contingent upon progression from 8-cell to morula, we treated a group of 8-cell embryos for just 2 h with 1 mM VPA.
Owing to the spatially distinct selective pressures, the success of marine reserves in reducing fisheries-induced evolutionary change is contingent upon the location of the reserve.
Pai's timeline, however, is contingent upon Congressional approval of a legal change allowing the Treasury Department to hold spectrum prepayments from major carriers prior to the auction.
In the network of contingent evolution, only four character pairs showed strong evidence of contingent evolution, where the occurrence of one state change was highly contingent upon the background state of the other (Z-score >95%; Figure 4c, Additional file 1: Figure S4).
The temporal dependence indicated that some state changes in NGP elements were contingent upon the background states of other elements, suggesting a temporal order of accumulation of the changes, summarized as a form of network.
