Sentence examples for critical patch from inspiring English sources

Sauntering across a footbridge high above a river here, Lt. Col. Moses Samura, the commander of the battalion, surveyed in a lordly manner the critical patch of land his soldiers have never surrendered.

(See: the release of a critical patch before the scheduled patch day).

The bishop's diocese covers a critical patch of territory in the heroin trade, and in the two years he's held the post, Rangel has met repeatedly with capos from the cartels that control the region; he recently made headlines by persuading them to return electricity and running water to an entire town they had terrorized in a turf war.

As the population overcomes Allee effects with a decreasing Allee threshold, the wave speed accelerates and the critical patch size becomes smaller.

In addition, stochastic processes (Mack and Erneberg 2002) or failure to reach a spatial (Schoener and Schoener 1983) or numerical (Richter-Dyn and Goel 1972) critical patch size have been implicated in invasion failure.

The effects of the critical patch size, initial population density, ratio of diffusion to growth and genetic variation on evolutionary rescue and population dynamics are shown in Fig. 6.

This scenario can be interpreted as a critical patch-size problem, well studied in a continuous time framework, but relatively new to discrete time models.

3 means the machine has non-critical patches failing and is suffering from serious policy deviations.

This paper studies various reliability metrics for the process of migration in a metapopulation landscape network from a critical habitat patch to destination habitat patches via perfect stepping stones and imperfect (deletable) corridors.

Microsoft frequently issues updates and "critical security patches" for currently supported versions of Windows that you can get automatically or manually with the system's Windows Update feature.

Rising product recalls and critical software patches are the observable consequences, threatening not only revenue but reputation and customer satisfaction.