Sentence examples for serves to fix from inspiring English sources

Enforced inbreeding serves to fix and maintain successful strains; outbreeding provides evolutionary diversity that may facilitate habitat or range expansion or may serve to provide flexibility for environmental changes.

Suppose that the process of human conception is indeterministic, so that conditioning upon all of the causes only serves to fix a certain probability for conception.

The fundamental assumption that ties enforcing rights and obligations to institutional practice serves to fix the subject matter of inquiry by setting the interpretative problem.

DNA methylation in this model is not a cause, but a consequence of repression and serves to fix the repressed state of the chromatin.

DNA immobilization serves to fix DNA in place, which is important to ensure that i) the linear order of DNA fragments from each DNA molecule is preserved; ii) the digested molecules can be imaged easily; and iii) the fragments generated after restriction digestion do not desorb and get lost before imaging.

The weight of the edge detector energy parameter needs to be set to the highest value, as it will serve to fix permanently the position of the nodes that reach the edges of objects of interest.

In a very different vein, King (2014) has suggested that, while speakers' intentions serve to fix the reference of impure indexicals in context, they do so only to the extent that the speaker's intended referent could be recovered by a suitably idealized listener in the relevant context.

So far, these updates have primarily served to fix bugs, tweak the UI, and reintroduce things that were inexplicably absent after the jump from Xbox 360 to Xbox One — things like external HDD support, automatic account sign-in, and alerts when your friends sign in.

Works such as those of Abbé Barthélemy, Voyage du Jeune Anacharsis (1788), served to fix definitively the image that Europe had of the Aegean.

These parameters serve to fix the relative importance of each variable and determine the qualitative relation between input and output.

Additionally, dispersion of the new estimated data around a y = x line (R) served to fix a cutoff that can discriminate, with a single 9-point curve experiment, whether whole bisulfitome amplification and subsequent qMAMBA can produce accurate methylation results.