Stream ordering of a drainage network represents a measure of the extent of stream branching within a watershed.
In fractal landscapes, such as stream networks, patterns of genetic structure can be coincident with patterns or complexity of stream branching, likely resulting in elevated variance around neutral FST (i.e., false-positive outliers; Fourcade et al. 2013).
However, Rothman's group found that there is a special angle — 72 degrees — for which the paths are straight, reasoning that this is the angle at which streams branch.
In it, Giles describes all power "spiritual and secular" as rooted in the papacy, likening its structure to a papal river from which smaller, secular streams branch out.
Interest in self-examination mushroomed as varied psychotherapeutic streams branched forth from the original impulse and entered the culture through film, through theatre, through literature and magazines, highbrow and pop, releasing an unprecedented frankness about sexuality and its flip side, repression.
At other times, she sat out back on an island deck, under the scrub oak and beside a stream that branches off a creek that branches off the River of Lost Souls.
The EPA was careful to note that its decision protects two streams, Pigeonroost Branch and Oldhouse Branch.
The larger scales of most basic topographic map series permit the naming of quite minor hilltops, ridges, streams, and branches, for which designations can be obtained locally.
Though if it is, the mind boggles at how much TV shows will start to cost if Netflix regularly has to make them with multiple different narrative streams and branches.
