Sentence examples for impact a selection from inspiring English sources

But the research topics might lean more towards ones with real-world impact — a selection bias perhaps for the types of faculty and students Cornell Tech draws.

3) Household size greater than 3 was associated with an increased risk of at least one secondary case in the household, though this effect was statistically significant only in the univariate analysis and could be impacted by a selection bias.

Also last month, Wurld Media's peer-to-peer service Peer Impact began offering a selection of movies and TV shows from both Time Warner and News Corp.'s Twentieth Century Fox.

We are aware that the choice of impact factor as a selection criterion may be controversial.

This is a variable that only has an impact on the selection choice but not on the demand (amount) of imports or exports.

Whilst it is acknowledged that the sampling strategy may have impacted the research through a selection bias, the researchers emphasised confidentiality to participants and, given the scarcity of published industry views in this area, were keen to use the collection of workshops as a means of interacting with industry for this research.

For example, rather than measuring the impact of selection in a single or a few generations by determining differential viability or reproduction, the cumulative effect over many generations may be observed in the analysis of DNA variation.

11 Therefore, for operational feasibility, we used an impact factor of >1 as a selection criterion.

For this reason, the most successful method to control fungal spread is the application of fungicides, which are costly and have a negative impact on the environment, favor a selection of pathogen resistance and, in severe cases, are ineffective [ 16].

Furthermore, heritabilities of these traits are generally low [ 7] and thus much data is needed to obtain sufficiently accurate estimates that have an impact on selection indices.

While conservation of protein domains was clearly observed within rice and Arabidopsis paralogous families, we did observe a major skew in types of proteins and protein domains within paralogous families versus singleton proteins, suggesting an impact of selection occurred during genome evolution and gene duplication.