Sentence examples for potential descent from inspiring English sources
This fact makes pointed sense of the static, dogmatic forms that we associate with Byzantine culture: they stood against an always potential descent into fragmenting chaos.
In the potential descent graph, we define the maternal node m1 to be the source of the chain if the parent of person v1 in the pedigree is a female and define the paternal node p1 as the source, if the parent of person v1 is a male.
A chain of length l in a pedigree translates to a set of 2 l edges in the potential descent graph of the pedigree connecting the maternal and paternal nodes of person v i to the paternal node of person v i +1 when v i is a male, and connecting them to the maternal node of v i +1 when v i is a female.
A descent graph D = (V″, E″) of a potential descent graph (V′, E′) is a subgraph of (V′, E′) such that V″ = V′ and for every pair of edges {(m i, p j ), (p i, p j )} in E′ exactly one is in E″ and for every pair of edges {(m i, m j ), (p i, m j )} in E′ exactly one is in E″.
Furthermore, as ClonalFrame does not look for potential sources of descent for each stretch of transferred DNA, it tends to underestimate the number of recombination events that have taken place even between closely related strains (Didelot and Falush 2007).
The dramatic potential of his own descent was not lost on Mr. MacIntyre, who managed to weave the story of his final days into a tale of intrigue.
This season, a White House directive that flags all federal employees of Middle Eastern descent as potential traitors has been presented as a gross overreaction, and a White House official who favors police-state tactics has come off as scheming and ignoble.
Whole-genome phylogeny has the potential to discern vertical descent even in the case of widespread horizontal transfer.
The aim of the study was to examine the potential of identity-by-descent genomic selection (IBD-GS) in genomic selection for a binary, sib-evaluated trait, using different strategies of selective genotyping.
He tells with delight the story of a Texas consulting firm that once told a political client that it had discovered thousands of potential voters of French-Canadian descent in New York City.
Experts such as Tancred Borenius, "a flamboyant Finn of part-Italian descent", would gauge potential sales with their well-trained "eye", while "The Flying Squad" would scour the obituaries for news of a death that would set them speeding across the country to secure for their salerooms the contents of one of the grand country houses.
