Sentences with phrase «of random processes in»

He suggested that evolution would not repeat itself: the role of random processes in the origin of biodiversity was too important and hence evolution was not predictable.

Precisely that question was addressed by Mann and coworkers in their response to the rejected MM comment through the use of so - called «Monte Carlo» simulations that generate an ensemble of realizations of the random process in question (see here) to determine the «null» eigenvalue spectrum that would be expected from simple red noise with the statistical attributes of the North American ITRDB data.

Not exact matches

But as Lucara has continued to process kimberlite, the igneous rock that sometimes contains diamonds, the company has been able to show a random distribution of very large stones in the mine's south lobe.

Most of what we do, especially professionally, is based on trying to maintain control: processes, guidelines, strategies... everything we plan and implement is designed to control the inherently uncontrollable and create a sense of security in a world filled with seemingly random occurrences.

Most of what we do, especially in business, is based on trying to gain control: Processes, guidelines, strategies... everything we plan and implement is designed to control the inherently uncontrollable and create a sense of security in a world filled with random occurrences.

They're there, in our heads; but an aged hippocampus, the part of the brain chiefly responsible for the processing of memories, struggles with random requests for names and facts that lack associative properties.

There was still a wide range of outcomes but this gives you a sense of how random the investment process can be in any one market.

In an evolutionary worldview, we are the result of random chance processes.

Against the prevalent journalistic opinion that the Catholic faith is compatible with evolution, the cardinal made the qualification that while «evolution in the sense of common ancestry might be true,... evolution in the neo-Darwinian sense - an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection - is not.»

Believers in such a God can not acknowledge that the world is «an unguided, unplanned process of random variation and natural selection» without contradicting their faith.

You laugh at the Supernatural, even though scientists have calculated the odds of life forming by natural processes to be estimated less than 1 chance in 10 to the 40, ooo power — But you find nothing wrong with believing that billions of years full of random mutations would result in the impossible.

The new datum in our time is the development by molecular biologists of procedures which make it possible to control this recombining process (so that it is not simply «random»), and to increase almost immeasurably the speed by which it takes place.

That antiquity for them included evolution — total or in part — of life, a process that nearly all scientists define as purposeless, unguided, random.

«Aim» implies that cosmic processes do not change at random, but can be explained in terms of teleology.

It should be called «random factors», for that is closer to being an honest description of what happens in the evolutionary process.

They claim that scientific theories that ascribe the great role to chance and random events in the evolutionary processes should be replaced, or supplemented, by theories acknowledging the thread of intelligent design in the universe.

Chance and random processes are elements of the mathematical blueprint of the universe in the same way as other aspects of theworld architecture.»

The central problem with «intelligent design» — and one which Fr Stephen Dingley pointed out when he reviewed Behe et al.'s book in the March / April 2001 edition of the Faith magazine — is that it posits, justas happily as would neo-Darwinians, that the evolutionary process is a «random» and unguided one, alongside which they then place «intelligent causes,» as if they were competitors.

Can undirected, random processes result in complex life forms or is there evidence to support the notion of a Creator?

«Evolution is any change across successive generations in the heritable characteristics of biological populations» so, what you have to say is «Evolution by an entirely random process with out supernatural intervention» and, unfortunately that doenst really say anything yet..

If, on the other hand, we define evolution in the Darwinian sense — as a process of random mutation and natural selection by which all living beings have arisen by chance from single - celled organisms over 100's of millions of years — we may not be on equally firm ground from a scientific perspective.

The choice between these possible futures is made, in a condition of chemical instability, by stochastic (nondeterministic) processes, such as random internal fluctuations of the system.

He places «unguided random processes», «the mindless material processes of Darwinistic evolution» in a category beyond those processes which can be understood as being immediately «God - guided».

Intelligent Design theorists, however, take their objection to be decisive and then advance a new explanation for the existence of complex features of organisms: There is an intelligent designer who intervenes in the process of random genetic mutation and natural selection to cause, simultaneously, a host of genetic mutations needed to produce the observed complex features of organisms.

Whether it was inevitable that life and intelligence would eventually occur somewhere in the universe, given the nature of matter and sufficient time to allow random processes to explore all the possibilities, and whether intelligent life may also have occurred elsewhere in the universe, are questions which scientists have long argued and sought to ascertain.

The strict certification process includes periodic gluten testing of the manufacturing facility, regular plant inspections by a GFCO contracted auditor and random product testing in the marketplace.

In response to the growing evidence for widespread mislabelling, the EU Health Commissioner Tonio Borg has now urged all EU member states to implement random DNA testing of processed beef products, for a three - month period beginning March 1.

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Out of the number, 6,000 Ghanaians were successfully selected in the computerised random selection process.

It must be noted that not all the number of people successfully selected in the computerised random selection process qualify to enter the US.

Jochem Marotzke and Piers M. Forster have now explained the warming pause in terms of random fluctuations arising from chaotic processes in the climate system.

They found that they could, in theory, retrieve 99 percent of the encoded information even if 15 percent of the DNA region swapped bases at random — a process that could take several thousand years.

These are in part the result of varying regional ancestral contributions, but also of a random process of genetic drift.

Looking at random parts of the sky with Hubble, astronomers have found what appears to be the most distant protocluster ever seen: five galaxies in the process of growth, forming a cosmic collection that may grow into a massive cluster.

Gene moonlighting can occur merely through changes in expression, which may result from as little as a single mutation; it does not require the meandering process of random alteration and selection implied by the duplication and neofunctionalization model.

The Association of Professional Flight Attendants gripes that random boarding creates «complete chaos» in the cabins, but American Airlines, which adopted the approach for international coach passengers in May, reports that it trims 3 to 4 minutes from the usual 20 - to 25 - minute process.

It could also find use in stock market predictions and complex scientific simulations of random processes, such as biological interactions or nuclear reactions.

Researchers from the Mechanobiology Institute, Singapore (MBI) at the National University of Singapore, report that endocytosis, which was previously thought to be a random process, actually occurs in a coordinated manner through collective dynamics.

For proteins in the cytosol, the liquid inside the cell, these random molecular processes include differences in the break - down of proteins, or random partitioning into the two cells that form during cell division.

But these individuals can have a range of phenotypes, i.e. look and behave differently, due to random processes in the cells that influence how the genetic instructions are used.

Because of that, many different components are present in minute quantities, which inevitably leads to random variations in cellular processes which are also called «noise» by chemists.

Using neutral theory, species become common or rare as a consequence of random processes: chance variation in who a predator happens to eat, or whose dispersing offspring happen to land on a vacant bit of real estate on the seafloor.

Chemists from Radboud University Nijmegen, Eindhoven and Paris now show for the first time that random variations or «noise» in cellular processes come to exist because of an interplay between the rate of the reaction and its environment.

Scientists believe that the ability to behave in a way that appears random arises from some of the most highly developed cognitive processes in humans, and may be connected to abilities such as human creativity.

This indicates that the evolution of closely related species through changes in the genetic material is a random process in which several paths may lead to the same outcome.

Three basic mechanisms have been proposed over the years to explain the formation of specific neural circuitry: (1) an elaborate predetermined program encoded genetically in each neuron that unfolds according to rigid and unmodifiable rules, (2) a random process of trial and error in which growing nerve fibers that make the right connections are consolidated and those that fail are reabsorbed and (3) a general program of circuit formation that is brought to completion by an interplay between genetic and extrinsic factors.

In fact, we find the model range is an excellent predictor of observed trends and their uncertainty due to random chaotic processes in the atmosphere and ocean.&raquIn fact, we find the model range is an excellent predictor of observed trends and their uncertainty due to random chaotic processes in the atmosphere and ocean.&raquin the atmosphere and ocean.»

The idea that a six - hour delay in the start of the month - long, mostly random process of making antibodies could make any meaningful difference to the outcome doesn't make much sense to me.

And in view of PTEN's critical role as a tumor suppressor, it's also important that the process we uncovered is a controlled one, not random as was previously believed.»

And, these genes are not random or trivial; they often have huge implications for disease and are involved in critical processes, like determining which proteins a microbe produces or changing a strain of bacteria from being safe to harmful.