Sentence examples for define fitness from inspiring English sources

All these clinical features should be considered to define fitness and discriminate patients fit or unfit for specific drugs (Table 1).

Items 1A and 1B (Table 3) asked students to define fitness, and used the context of a plant or an animal.

Although students were able to correctly define fitness as being a measure of reproductive potential, they appeared to have difficulty thinking of fitness as a relative property that varies as a function of multiple environmental variables.

Opponents of the theory of natural selection have long claimed that the theory is so treated by its proponents as to define fitness in terms of rates of reproduction, thus condemning the principle of the survival of the fittest to triviality: the claim that those organisms with higher rates of reproduction leave more offspring is an empty, unfalsifiable tautology bereft of explanatory power.

In this paper we devise a fitness proxy applicable to the haploid sexual and diploid sexual case, in the style of Metz and Gyllenberg [Metz, J.A.J., Gyllenberg, M., 2001. How should we define fitness in structured metapopulation models? Including an application to the calculation of ES dispersal strategies. Proc. R. Soc. Lond.

Three phenotypic profiles were used to define fitness pleiotropy.

(Exactly how it defines fitness will not be addressed here).

Our proposed approach intends to achieve the objectives of minimizing both execution time and cost based on the defined fitness function.

So, our objective is to minimize the defined fitness function which is proportional to the schedule length and the energy variance.

In order to obtain the optimal controller parameters, cuckoo search (CS) and particle swarm optimization (PSO) meta-heuristic search methods which utilize a fractional order model of the CPA and a specifically defined fitness function, are used.

They also show that a general version of the same equation has been independently derived by mathematical biologists, and they argue that so defined, fitness has a substantial role to play in biology, especially the field of "adaptive dynamics".