Sentence examples for rank drift from inspiring English sources

Specifically, the plots represent the differences between the questionnaire scores for the synchronous and asynchronous conditions, plotted against the differences in the rank drift between synchronous and asynchronous.

In Figure 3A and B we show scatter plots of the rank drift against two of the questionnaire scores indicating ownership, "located" and "own" respectively (Tables 1 and 2).

Rank smells drifted everywhere: in the boat's single bathroom, in the kitchen, especially down in the hold.

Hewitt, on the way back from a lay-off for toe surgery that has caused his world ranking to drift to 205th, will take his place in the main draw at Wimbledon alongside Ward as one of the event's wildcards.

In this case, the time evolution of the probability density distribution of ranks (P k,t)) is described by a Fokker-Planck equation (FPE), frac{partial}{partial t}P k,t)=-frac{partial}{partial k} bigl[ A k P bigr] + frac{partial^{2}}{partial k^{2}} bigl[ B k P bigr], (10) where (A k)) and (B k)) are rank-dependent drift and diffusion coefficients, respectively.

John J. Sweeney, the president of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., gave an unusual do-or-die warning at a meeting of labor leaders here, telling them that unless unions did far more to increase their ranks, organized labor could drift into irrelevance.

A10 Dire Warning From Labor Boss John J. Sweeney, the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s president, gave an unusual do-or-die warning to labor leaders at a meeting in Los Angeles, telling them that unless unions did far more to increase their ranks, organized labor could drift into irrelevance.

These simulations confirm the previously untested prediction [12] that colonization-competition trade-offs with stochastic colonization will exhibit zero-sum ecological drift and produce rank abundance curves that resemble neutral drift.

Many studies have inferred selection (and ruled against drift) using signed rank tests (e.g., [17], [52]), but these tests are inconclusive in that failure to reject the null hypothesis could indicate the influence of either genetic drift or opposing selection pressures across different islands.

When conservative Democrats seemed as if they might drift into Republican ranks, Dr. Dean set up a series of meetings with them, dispassionately explaining his decision to sign the civil unions bill.

Temporal variance of disturbance had no effect on species rank-abundance distributions resulting from neutral drift, either under constant or variable rates of immigration (Figure S2).