Sentence examples for descent for example from inspiring English sources

Descent, for example, lasts more than eight minutes.

Those of Javanese descent, for example, support a number of gamelan (Indonesian orchestra) troupes.

The population of people of Indian descent, for example, increased by about 81percentt in both the city and across the state over the last decade.

Data showing that the Japanese had higher I.Q.s than people of European descent, for example, prompted the British psychometrician and eugenicist Richard Lynn to concoct an elaborate evolutionary explanation involving the Himalayas, really cold weather, premodern hunting practices, brain size, and specialized vowel sounds.

Updating steps α k can be fixed or computed adaptively at each step (steepest descent for example).

People of African descent, for example, had a mixture of all the different types, whereas people of European descent tended only to have mites from one group.

This result is consistent with the high prevalence of cardiovascular diseases in populations of African-descent; for example, a previous survey revealed that the risk, prevalence, and mortality rates for cardiovascular disease are higher in African Americans than in Americans of other ethnic ancestries [ 107, 108].

For what concerns correlations and descent among, for example, conciousness, self, evolution, and cosmic processes, the book leaves us with scarce general hypotheses.

Genetic markers can be used to estimate inbreeding as the realised proportion of the genome that is identical by descent (IBD), for example by calculating a genomic relationship matrix (GRM) among individuals [ 9- 11].

The descent line in Samoa, for example, consists of a group of people tracing descent in the male line from a common mythical ancestor.

It is common descent that explains, for example, the distinctive patterns of biogeography from the level of continents to that of islands.