In homotypic cooperation that involves genetic relatives, positive assortment can be realized through 'kin discrimination', which is based on the active recognition and preferential treatment of more closely related individuals over distantly related ones (Sachs et al., 2004).
Relative preference for within-group mixing was estimated by [% of potential partners in group X] / [(% of potential partners in group X) + α(1 – % of potential partners in group X ], where α (the assortment variable) ranged from 0.4 for relatively assortive mixing (base-case value) to –0.4 for relatively disassortive mixing.
Because I had no brothers or sisters, my closest relatives were adults, an assortment of unmarried uncles and slow-moving aunts who were bound together by gossip and status.
In a picture of a family dinner, a serious-looking little girl at the far end of the table — that would be the future Ms. LoLo — gazes somberly at the assortment of relatives and platters of food.
In March the 100-year-old sugar maples shadowing the Shearer Hill Farm are hung with metal sap buckets, which are collected by Mr. Pusey and an assortment of relatives and visiting friends who come from all over the Eastern Seaboard to, in effect, work for maple syrup.
Glimpses of Ms. Johnson's past are visible above her dresser in the form of black and white photos, some faded with age, of an assortment of relatives — her paternal great-grandparents from Germany, her paternal grandfather from Sweden, her maternal grandmother from Ecuador.
A Childhood of Characters Richard Pryor, the only child of Leroy Pryor and Gertrude Thomas Pryor, was born in Peoria, Ill., on Dec. 1, 1940, and raised in a household where, as he wrote, "I lived among an assortment of relatives, neighbors, whores and winos -- the people who inspired a lifetime of comedic material".
Amid the initial shock and chaos, it is Lively who deftly takes control of "How It All Began," using the aftereffects of this casual nastiness — which sends Charlotte to her daughter's house while she recuperates, disrupting many of the characters' routines — to trace the relationships among an assortment of relatives, employers, students and illicit lovers.
At $15, the cold assortment was a relative bargain and included virtually all the cold dishes on the menu: lovely sautéed leeks; stuffed grape leaves; two eggplant dishes: baba gannouj and smoky eggplant salad; first-rate hummus; and tabbouleh.
However, the likelihood that an airborne-transmissible variant evolves upon zoonotic infection or co-infection with zoonotic and seasonal IAVs remains poorly understood, as does the relative importance of accumulating mutations versus re-assortment in this process.
