Selection may act on morphology to produce a given stride length, or alternatively, stride length may be a "spandrel" of selection acting on limb mass distribution.
Selection may act on morphology to produce a given stride length (e.g. concentrate limb mass proximally in cursorial mammals), or alternatively, stride length may be a "spandrel" of selection acting on limb muscle mass distribution (e.g. selection for grasping hands and feet in arboreal taxa) (Gould and Lewontin, 1979).
If Hughes has taken his rapid rise in his stride it may be because, as he says: "At the CRC in my freshman year was really when I got that national exposure for the first time".
If the horse is tense when ridden and has a short stride something may be causing the horse pain.
Strides in efficiency may be good for society, though there may be scant financial motivation for the doctors themselves.
They will have a bigger stride than you may be used to, and they will most likely move very differently.
Kaneko et al. [166] suggested that the link between stride rate and economy may be associated with muscle fiber recruitment.
This apparent disparity between measures of stride variability, on the one hand, and gait speed and other features of gait, on the other, raises the possibility that stride-to-stride variability in major mood disorders may be more sensitive to certain subtle neuropsychiatric influences than measures based only on the mean value of a given parameter.
Thus, when the regulation of gait is largely intact and stride-to-stride variability is relatively small, as in the present study, changes in swing time variability may be present, while stride time variability remains largely unchanged.
Those miniscule steps may be a stride toward a new approach to chemistry on surfaces.
