Sentences with phrase «than random at»

Not exact matches

This prompted her to find colors that suggested garden spaces, rather than pick random paint swatches at the hardware store.

If the odds are this great for a protein, how high does this «raise the bar» when DNA and RNA are factored in (and remember that there is more to the cell than just these three), for a cell to arise at random?

Just shooting some questions at random without understanding God's plan is futile and does not serve any purpose other than branding you as being ignorant.

However, the «laws» of physics, the interrelatedness of being within matter that lies at the heart of all natural science, beg the question: Why is the universe ordered as a unity (rather than being random)?

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.

There is hardly any more sense of «context» to be had in reading through chapter 11 than in merely selecting sentences at random from the entire section.

On purely moral issues, judges are no more competent or trustworthy, as Justice Scalia observed in Cruzan, the Missouri «right to die» case, than «nine people picked at random from the Kansas City telephone directory.»

Rather than assuming God, accepting scripture and deducing therefrom, science asked questions — not necessarily at random — and sought evidence.

Making nut butters at home is really rewarding, because they taste so much better than store bought ones, are usually cheaper, and you can enjoy the cleanest nut butter ever with just the nut (and optionally coconut sugar and sea salt) as the only ingredient, instead of a bunch of chemicals and random ingredients that aren't necessary.

I'm notoriously bad at making nice food when I'm going to uni and always end up spending $ 15 on random snacks because I convince myself it's cheaper than just buying a sandwich.

But the thing about staycations is, they allow you to really live, and put responsibility aside when other things come up — things like invitations for patio drinks at 2pm / 4pm / 8 pm on a beautiful summer day, a sporadic trip to the park to sit and read a good book, sleeping in way later than necessary, random backyard / living room yoga, or quick little road trips to visit friends that you just don't see often enough.

There is wonderful wine in all price ranges, and because the people in a wine shop have tried it all, asking them what they like in a certain price range is a safer bet than just picking one at random.

The problem isn't teams not wanting free looks at dumpster vets, but rather the vets putting themselves in positions to succeed, rather than being random lottery tickets for the team.

So we will need to start somewhere to find the fault, rather than being random and jumping in at the middle, why not start at the top?

Because these numbers are picked at random, there is no skill or handicapping involved, but certain numbers are more valuable than others.

Rather than assigning the shirt numbers in order, he would dish them out at random to try and confuse the opposition.

Since the BW mom is attempting to maintain a schedule, she will notice irregularities in her baby's eating pattern sooner than the mom who is feeding at random times.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

So I say bring it on, come from all four corners of the Earth and lets together build a better society, an inclusive society, a free society where we don't suffer apoplexy at the sight of a burka or niqab, where the colour of your skin means nothing more than a reminder of the accidental random allocation of your birthplace on this planet.We all need to learn a lot more about the history of this nation and some of the very very cruel things that it has done in the name of Empire, and before (and is still doing in the name of Capitalism thinly veiled as national security).

If you don't want to be bombarding Congress with random emails (they get more than enough as it is), try posting a petition or some other alert that doesn't immediately send a message to a target — people will feel like they've done something, you'll get new names, and you won't be bothering that legislative staffer whose just a bit hacked off at being pestered by your messages.

Cuomo has been somewhat more inclined to veto legislation that would impose new limits or requirements on agencies he oversees than to block a bill chosen at random.

Actually it may have been better to use a pic of the official state tree, flower, dog or cat rather than some random shot that someone decided to take out of their personal collection and see it spashed all over at the cost of the state.

It must be something far more comprehensive than Ed Balls's five - point plan for jobs, which is not a long - term plan at all but a random package of short - term measures.

More than 600 people submitted their names for admission and 150 were given tickets after their names were selected at random, according to CNY Central, according to the station.

The researchers sampled all identifiable pneumatic controller devices at each well site, a more comprehensive approach than the random sampling previously conducted.

In many situations, simply choosing what you recognise will work better than choosing at random.

(Roughly, the more bison there are, the greater their genetic diversity and the longer it will take to find the common ancestor of two animals chosen at random — just as one would expect residents of a small English village to be more closely related than two people picked at random from the world population.)

The regular variation in isotope ratios suggests that rather than wandering at random from site to site, Diprotodon made the same round trip each year, following seasonal shifts in vegetation and rainfall.

Nosek has been at the forefront of efforts to clean up his field — he and more than 175 collaborators are repeating a random sample of the hundreds of studies published in 2008 in three major psychology journals — and he and Ratliff are both part of Project Implicit, a long - running collaboration that also provides free software for running behavioral experiments with standardized methods.

A place where everyone shows up in their own cars at exactly 7:30 a.m. will have a very different culture than one where people are car - pooling in at 9:00 a.m., or one where there's a random stream of cars between 7:00 and 11:00 a.m.

We have seen how a healthy 70 - year - old has accumulated more than 1,000 mutations in each stem cell in the muscle, and that these mutations are not random but there are certain regions that are better protected,» explains Maria Eriksson, Professor at the Department of Biosciences and Nutrition at Karolinska Institutet.

Both groups of participants assigned at random to varenicline achieved significantly higher abstinence rates at 12 weeks than those assigned to placebo, nicotine patch or bupropion.

Later research showed that the magnetic field has reversed more than 20 times during the past 5 million years, seemingly at random.

Here we arrive at the second major weakness of online dating: the available evidence suggests that the mathematical algorithms at matching sites are negligibly better than matching people at random (within basic demographic constraints, such as age, gender, and education).

«We have found that the resulting nano networks possess exceptional ability to transport charges, up to 100 million times higher than previously measured carbon nanotube random networks produced by conventional methods,» says Dr David Barbero, leader of the project and assistant professor at the Department of Physics at Umeå University.

When they spread a strain of E. coli that could not digest lactose onto an agar plate whose only food source was lactose, they found that the bacteria developed the mutation required to digest the sugar at a far faster rate than expected if that mutation occurred at random.

Passengers have more chance of winning the National Lottery jackpot than being allocated middle seats at random on a Ryanair flight, according to new Oxford University analysis.

Researchers used median rate ratio to suggest that between two «identical» patients treated at two random practices, one patient was 63 percent more likely to be prescribed aspirin inappropriately than a similar patients due to the practice where they receive care.

A recent study found that an electric car charged by utilities at night in the regional grid that stretches across Ohio, Delaware, Pennsylvania and Virginia creates more greenhouse gas pollution than if owners plugged in their vehicles at random times throughout the daytime, when the utility fuel mixes are more varied.

To better understand how age impacts random behavior, Nicolas Gauvrit and colleagues at the Algorithmic Nature Group, LABORES for the Natural and Digital Sciences, Paris, assessed more than 3,400 people aged 4 to 91 years old.

«We looked at the probability that increases of this magnitude could be random, and in each case it was less than one percent,» said Philip Dennison, an associate professor of geography at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City and lead author of the paper.

That's approximately three times higher than what you see at any other random gene in the human genome, Tishkoff says.

Although Tom put more balls into his bag than Harry put into his bag, each of them calculated that if he picked four balls out of his bag simultaneously at random there was a 1 in X chance that all four would be coloured.

Still, participants were able to answer correctly more frequently than would be expected if they had guessed at random — and their confidence level was higher when they were right.

All contrasts were limited to the brain locations within the supplementary motor area and the parahippocampal gyrus, as defined in the Harvard — Oxford Cortical Structural Atlas (available in FSL software), and a threshold was established, with gaussian random - fields theory, at a cluster - level z value of more than 2.3 (corrected P < 0.05).

When females get to choose one male over another (or vice versa, depending on the sexual politics of the species), there's a better genetic outcome for the species than when sex just happens at random.

Based on the proportions of SNP variants in the human population as estimated from a population - level mitochondrial database (mtDB)[50], the probability of sharing all 6 SNPs in common between VP42 and LNCaP by random chance alone is estimated at less than 0.00146 %.

That being said, «People who look identical almost certainly share more DNA than two random strangers who don't look alike,» says geneticist Arthur Beaudet, M.D., a professor in the molecular and human genetics department at the Baylor College of Medicine.

In a random sample of more than 1,350 people, Felder found that 75 percent had at least one family member who gets on their nerves.

Sometimes going on an adrenaline - fueled adventure in the middle of the night with random strangers you met at an event makes you feel alive and gives you more vitality than the energy you rebuild from an extra night of sleep.