Sentence examples for variation rather than a from inspiring English sources

The chapter aims to present a constructive guide to key issues of phenotypic variation, rather than a comprehensive review of a vast field.

A full hierarchical perspective suggests a continuum of variation rather than a countable number of objects.

The temperature dependence of k t showed a nonlinear variation rather than a linear relationship, regardless of the SCM addition.

The admission that there may be some mental states (as Freud has shown) that are not within the sight of our "mental eye" as such, is a mere variation, rather than a major deviation, Ryle points out, from the basic framework of the Official Doctrine.

Time-lapse analysis of spontaneously contracting beating areas revealed inter-clonal variation rather than a disease-specific phenotype.

Sometimes differential DNA methylation is defined by differences in variation, rather than a shift in the mean (Jaffe et al. 2012a).

In an analysis for the liberal Center for Economic and Policy Research, Ben Zipperer and John Schmitt wrote that "the increase is small and may well reflect statistical variation rather than an actual increase".

In general, the low heritability of life history traits, such as fecundity, appears to arise from a greater residual variation rather than an absolute reduction in the additive genetic variance.

Unlike fixed effect models, random effect model estimators implicitly account for the fact that the observed outcomes for smaller hospitals can take on extreme values because of natural variation rather than an underlying extreme effect.

More generally, the high association of gene expression at the early developmental stage (e.g. juvenile leaf) with a target trait at a later development stage (e.g. in seeds) is due to allelic, cis-acting variation rather than being a read-out of a transcription network, as hypothesized previously for the association in maize hybrids of transcript abundance variation in leaves with grain yield.

The Measurement Error model enables us to estimate the linear relation between two variables when both are random, and so we aim to estimate their joint variation rather than assigning a direction of prediction from an 'explanatory' variable to a 'response'response