Sentence examples for nested patterns from inspiring English sources

Most pleasing to the eye are rules generating nested patterns like those of a crystal or a snowflake, or the markings on a seashell, the branching of a leaf, the spiral of a pine cone.

Superimposed on these non-random, ecologically nested patterns is the expansive footprint of human activity – the overwhelming driver of ACD patterns in Panama.

It is far from clear how coevolved selection pressures contribute to the emergence of highly nested patterns of interaction, given the omnipresence of asymmetry of mutual dependencies (and, presumably, asymmetry of phenotypic selection intensities; Jordano 1987; Bascompte et al. 2006).

Recent research has shown that nested patterns increase robustness to the loss of species and interactions and favor increased diversity in comparison with randomly assembled mutualistic communities (Bascompte et al. 2003; Burgos et al. 2007; Bastolla et al. 2009).

The result is that, for the most part, the phylogenetic trees (or cladograms) of biological evolutionary systems show the relationships of well-defined lineages and classification of organisms reflects the nested patterns of relationships among major lineages and sublineages.

Occurrence patterns of butterflies (Rhopalocera) were analysed in relation to locality characteristics, and nested patterns were evaluated, based on a survey of 100 semi-natural pastures in the county of Östergötland, southeastern Sweden.

That will allow them to work out how galaxies are clustered in space, how those clusters are grouped into superclusters, and how the superclusters themselves are clustered.Cosmologists believe that this nested pattern of clustering was established when the universe was far younger and smaller than it is now—so small that the antecedents of today's superclusters were no larger than a modern atom.

Out of 45 analysed species, 73% exhibited a significantly nested pattern, and species regarded to be sedentary had generally a more nested pattern.

The analysis revealed a nested pattern in the effect of species attributes.

We propose an extension of Interaction Nets which facilitates nested pattern matching on interaction rules.

The solid rectangle indicates well differentiated adenocarcinoma (c scale bar 250 μm), and the dotted rectangle indicates an area of proliferation of round-shaped carcinoma cells with hyperchromatic nuclei and scant cytoplasm in a nested pattern, indicative of small cell NEC (d scale bar 250 μm) Fig. 4 Histological findings of Barrett's esophagus.