Sentence examples for edge of a tree from inspiring English sources

I remember walking through Central Park some years ago on a relatively warm winter day and seeing a raccoon fast asleep with its beautiful tail wrapped around its body, at the edge of a tree cavity.

By and large, the master plan of looking for big answers fell by the wayside almost immediately, as I settled into enjoying the simpler delights of the trip: A florescent blue butterfly on an orchid, a friendly afternoon chat about cannibalism, an evening lying at the edge of a tree house, a crazy lizard hunt.

"The army has given me a chance to support myself," says Modest, 14. Perched on the edge of a tree stump, clutching his Kalashnikov, Modest is less excited about the demobilization ceremony than Ahmed.

LAST Tuesday around noon, a familiar scene played out in front of a low, yellow brick building on Farmers Boulevard in St. Albans, Queens, at the eastern edge of a tree-lined stretch of modest one- and two-family homes.

The parameters θ and α can vary across the edges of a tree if the model includes different selective regimes.

In their standard implementation traitgrams connects the trait values between nodes by a straight line to draw the edges of a tree [ 39, 40], consistently with the expected anagenetic trait evolution under a constant rate BM model.

In previous approaches [ 8, 11- 13], the parsimony criterion on a network has been defined as the sum total of the substitution costs on the edges of a tree (a subgraph of the network) that minimizes the parsimony score of the site.

In other words, to obtain an estimate of a relative evolution rate of a gene within a 10% error, it is necessary to analyze distance data from 20 to 25 optimally spaced pairs of genomes or from edges of a tree containing 12 14 leaves.

If an edge of a phylogenetic tree is deleted, the tree decomposes into two connected components.

In an SPR operation, any edge of a binary tree T (i. e. a tree in which all non-leaf vertices have degree three) is cut, thereby giving two subtrees T' and T".

In an area that was already at the edge of a particular tree's natural climatic range, the warming and drying of recent years may have created conditions that can no longer support a forest.