Sentence examples for form preferential from inspiring English sources

But this study, published in the American Journal of Primatology, is one of the first to show that primates form preferential bonds between relations of the same sex before they have even left the group.

Recharge calculations (chloride mass balance and water-table fluctuation methods), salinity, stable isotope, tritium and radiocarbon data show that volcanoes and the youngest basalts, although volumetrically minor, form preferential recharge areas for all the basalts (up to ∼30 mm/year), and also recharge the deep lead sediments through volcanic necks that penetrate the aquitard.

Adult male chacma baboons (Papio hamadryas ursinus) form preferential associations, or friendships, with particular lactating females.

In particular, in the direction of the six corners of the platelets (i.e., [11̅0] and the other five equivalent directions) straight Cu atomic columns can form preferential avenues for the inflow/outflow of cations (see also the sketches in Figure 6) with a small perturbation of the anion sublattice.

Those structures weakened surface rocks and facilitated their erosion, thus forming preferential channels for surface water flows.

Trapping and exchange of water occurred repeatedly during successive infiltration and drainage cycles, implying a (hysteretic) memory effect of the previously formed preferential flow paths.

Significant secondary intergranular pores have formed in analcite-cemented reservoirs from selective dissolution of analcite in the mesodiagenetic stage; the analcite dissolution formed preferential flow paths in the reservoirs, which promoted feldspar dissolution; and dissolution of such minerals led to the present reservoirs with medium porosity and low permeability.

While there are no duplications in this model and edges are not preferentially attached to high-degree nodes, there is still a form of preferential attachment because older nodes have had more opportunities of obtaining edges, and also have a higher probability of connecting to nodes with more edges [ 43].

A referendum on introducing a form of preferential voting to Britain was defeated in 2011.

The cold rings form at preferential sites and in most cases drift southwestward into the Western Pacific Ocean.

Mr. Torricelli was one of 15 people offered a chance to buy the stock, but his aides said it did not constitute any form of preferential treatment.