Sentence examples for patchy condition from inspiring English sources

In the patchy condition, we observed an ownership convention — the avatar who arrives first is more likely to win — but in the uniform condition, where costly fights are rare, the ownership convention is absent.

The SCA boat had also won the inshore race in Abu Dhabi, leading from start to finish, and, with three-time Olympian Carolijn Brouwer at the helm, it edged everyone at the start again but then had to wriggle though some patchy conditions to regain the lead from the Spanish winner of the leg from Sanya, China, Mapfre, skippered by the returning Iker Martinez.

The World in 2012 reckons times will be tough for the airlines but optimistically predicts a rise in spending by both tourists and business travellers, arguing that "wanderlust will prove immune to patchy economic conditions".

Our results, in mixed broad leaved forests growing on patchy slope conditions, indicate that low-density lidar data can be used to develop a forest AGB model from plot-level lidar height measurements in the study area with acceptable accuracies.

Genetic studies have shown that only a few individuals that spawn contribute to reproductive success, most likely because of patchy favourable conditions during spawning [33].

Selectivity, on the other hand, is a measure of forage intake under patchy, heterogeneous conditions where alternative forages are not equally available or uniformly distributed [ 5].

In patchy heterogeneous conditions, the increase in average performance by Plant types 3 and 4 when grown as monocultures as opposed to in isolation highlights an increased ability to exploit available resources.

Although Plant types 1 and 2 demonstrate a slight reduction in performance when grown in mixed competition in patchy heterogeneous conditions (Fig.  5) compared with when grown as a monoculture (Fig.  4), this reduction is less than the increase in performance experienced by type 3 (as mentioned, type 4 sees little change in performance).

Under those conditions, the patchy painting on that wall seems like a fascinating innovation for its time, something that was entirely new in 1793.

In seabirds, trip duration may be prolonged due to unpredictable weather conditions and patchy prey distribution [27], [28] (but see [12]).

Reeve has alopecia areata, a condition that causes patchy hair loss, and in February he had his head shaved.