Divergent selection cannot therefore act on genetic variants in a population and consequently phenotypic plasticity is thought to minimise rather than enhance selection [ 18].
Although there is increasing interest in relation to the possible effect of the researcher on data collected, this generally leads to attempts to minimise rather than accept and embrace such effects as intrinsic.
The house is exposed enough to worry about lightning, and it is turned away from the sea wind – more concerned with minimising drafts than maximising the view.
Any woman could tell you that Spanx, or similar, are usually involved on such highly public occasions, which, in his line of work, Monsieur Bern should know minimises rather than maximises the posterior.
There are of course a number of limitations to trying to work out how heavy an extinct animal was and for dinosaurs at least, many of these can only be minimised rather than eliminated.
Charles's cautious failure to directly assault the town, putting a higher priority on minimising losses than on victory, had cost the Royalists dear; while claims for their number of dead and wounded men ranged from 1,000 to 1,500, only around 50 people inside the city were killed.
Underwear is an emotional purchase, and that extends to five-packs of practical knickers cut to minimise VPL rather than maximise sex appeal.
In many cases such internal lending has been designed more to minimise tax bills than to meet internal borrowing needs with a multinational group.
This counter-intuitive strategy of dispersion-enhanced chromatography refolding (DCR) is potentially generic for other proteins, and suggests the need for gel-filtration refolding columns and resins that achieve adequate buffer exchange yet maximise, rather than minimise, peak broadening.
In addition, online commentaries which identify problems or abnormalities rather than minimise or normalise symptoms are associated with higher rates of antibiotic prescribing [ 56].
