If, when "moving along" S we encounter a sequence that consists exactly of two appearances of X and one each of U, Y and Z, in any order, then the probability (over all instances of the organism in question) that Z is not last is less than 0.2.
Just as our wine naïf is actually a passionate amateur (in the classic sense of "lover"), his journey is really a sequence of encounters that gently build a case about what makes wine good.
And that seemed poignant to me, too, his waiting for his mother, our uneasy and yet companionable waiting, and for a second it occurred to me that perhaps I was travelling back to my own birth along a sequence of encounters with boys of diminishing ages.
One frequently used concept is that of 'lifecycles' — an analogy of a sequence of stages encountered by living organisms.
In comparison with other admission's interview approaches, the Medical Judgment Vignettes are most similar to the Multiple Mini-Interview (MMI) in that a sequence of structured encounters are used in much the same way Objective Structured Clinical Exams (OSCE) stations are used in the assessment of clinical performance skills [ 7, 8].
Using the transparent Daphnia hosts and fluorescently-labelled spores of the bacterium P. ramosa, we identified a sequence of infection steps: encounter between parasite and host; activation of parasite dormant spores; attachment of spores to the host; and parasite proliferation inside the host.
We print paths as a sequence of all edge labels encountered during path traversal starting from the root node and ending in the leaf node.
Still, because the game consists of a sequence of discrete, ritualized encounters between pitcher and hitter, it lends itself to statistical rankings and analysis.
When a sequence of matching word doublets is encountered, it is compared with whole terms already included in the nomenclature.
Zhu's design, in stark contrast to the stadium, is a sequence of tall buildings that look, on first encounter, rather like upright 1960s IBM computers.
