Sentence examples for if not distinct from inspiring English sources

Thus, we might expect that those populations now restricted to isolated relict pockets of moist habitat in the dry west would show deep divergence [for example – 44 46], and represent distinct, evolutionarily significant units [47], if not distinct species.

These authors described at minimum a sharp interface between, if not distinct separation of, the chordomatous and BNCT tissues, leading one group of authors to acknowledge that they could not rule out the possibility that the rare chordoma had arisen coincidentally with the more common BNCT [ 12].

The paradoxes of his disgraceful genius are illuminated by placing next to each other events that were distinct if not discrete in terms of mere chronology.

In this paper, we show that the generic form of the cumulative distribution function (CDF) of the SCN given in [30] is still valid if the eigenvalues are not distinct.

Even if the CFOs are not distinct, the columns of the channel matrix can be viewed as having been drawn independently from an absolutely continuous distribution, and thus the channel matrix has full rank with probability one [15].

For example, if B-ALL subpopulations are not distinct with regard to their leukemogenicity, why do they differ immunophenotypically? Do immunophenotypically defined subpopulations differ in other properties, for example chemoresistance?

Shapiro remarks: "If [functional kinds] share many causally relevant properties, then they are not distinct realizations … If they have no or only few causally relevant properties in common, then there are no or just a few laws that are true of both of them" (2000, p. 649).

The condition of Proposition 1 does not hold if the conditional and marginal parameters ψ j  and ψ ~ j are not distinct (i.e. if their joint parameter space is not the product of their separate parameter spaces), and in particular if the combined dimension of ψ j and ψ ~ j is greater than that of θ.

(ii) CCP may fail if events A and B are not distinct, in the sense articulated by Lewis (1986a).

William of Ockham, for instance, held that if the form of corporeity were not distinct from the intellective soul and were not essentially present in the human being both during his life and after the intellective soul departs at death, then once a saint had died it would be false to say that the body that remains is the body that saint ever had.

What the company does offer, however, is a nice, if not entirely distinct laptop.