Sentence examples for deviance from this from inspiring English sources

The principle of population might therefore be regarded as functioning axiomatically, defining a set of initial conditions from which any deviance from this ideal state demands explanation.

In this established system in Washington, DC, as well as in American universities and corporations, it is seemingly impossible to understand any other option for the world; in fact this world view of the United States being "responsible" for the rest of the world is taken as a praiseworthy virtue and any deviance from this view is considered naïve, ignorant or silly.

It follows that the deviance from this density is: (20) where and is the maximum likelihood estimate of τ j.

Branch lengths of rRNA and protein-coding genes are generally positively correlated, positive deviances from this correlation being most prominent for CO genes, ATP genes, CYTB and ND6 (Fig. 7), with only slight deviances in other genes/clusters.

In this paper, the concept of discordancy from the statistical discipline of outlier analysis is used to signal deviance from the norm.

These specifications are normally expressed as a target or "center"; deviance from the center is permitted within a specified range.

His 1966 follow-up, "July Rain," a quasi-documentary portrayal of Moscow youth, was similarly criticized for its bleakness and deviance from the party line.

She holds master's degrees in the sociology of deviance from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in social sciences from the University of Chicago.

But NBC commentators seem so wedded to script -- and prepackaged gauzy biographies -- that they act as if any deviance from the party-hearty line will somehow appear unpatriotic.

The tragic worst-case scenario is found in Boys Don't Cry, the story of trans murder victim Brandon Teena, in which the combination of deviance from the norm and inability to disappear into the crowd spells doom.

They went to villages in trouble and got the villagers to help them identify who among them had the best-nourished children — who among them had demonstrated what Jerry Sternin termed a "positive deviance" from the norm.