Sentence examples for counterintuitive order from inspiring English sources

This device works in the case that the propagation coefficients of the two outer waveguides are identical and that the coupling coefficients are designed to act in a counterintuitive order.

Herbart's transition from psycho-statics to mechanics exhibits a counterintuitive order similar to that encountered above, in calculating the inhibition sum before calculating inhibition ratio (i.e., calculating the load before its distribution).

PAGE E3 DINING HOW TO SAVE A SPECIES? PUT IT ON A PLATE In a new book, Gary Nabhan proposes an idea that at first seems counterintuitive: in order to save certain endangered species that were once staples of American cuisines, people should eat more of them.

It may seem counterintuitive, but in order to inspire free thinking, the first step is often to set some limits.

The simulation of the survival times first, and thereafter the biomarker values, is somehow counterintuitive since the "natural" ordering suggests that time should be generated depending on the biomarker values, and not vice versa.

Self-assembly is the fundamental but counterintuitive principle that explains how ordered biomolecular complexes form spontaneously in the cell.

For one thing, it employs that wonderful and counterintuitive design principle: that sometimes, in order to build something resilient, you have to make it appear to be weak.

Logic and neuroscience might ground the modern rationale for meditation, but to meditate in order to be happy is counterintuitive.

Or, as it turned out, to start a fire in order to fight the fire a counterintuitive sort of hair-of-the-dog method of controlling wildfires.

A Mendelian randomization approach was used, in order to evaluate whether such counterintuitive association recognizes a cause-effect relationship.

Such an order is needed because it is counterintuitive: the assumption in health care is that everyone who goes into cardiac arrest would want to be revived.