(n.) A territorial subdivision of Attica (also of modern Greece), corresponding to a township.
(n.) An undifferentiated aggregate of cells or plastids.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mass selection and random mating occurred within each deme.
(2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Rendering of David L Deming’s Superman statue for Cleveland.
(3) The population in the chicken coop contains a relatively stable nucleus which may be organized in demes with an excess of females over males and limited territorial mobility.
(4) The B's may possess special adaptive properties under ecologically marginal conditions, since in a number of more 'central' demes they occur at much lowere frequencies (7-9%).
(5) The intensity of interdeme selection is reduced by random local extinction and colonization, and when these processes are rapid (with no selective diffusion) the expected fixation rate of spontaneous mutations with a heterozygote disadvantage approaches that in a single isolated deme.
(6) Much has been written about quality guru W. Edward Deming's quality improvement ideas.
(7) Deming (1982b) and others have espoused total system reform to achieve quality improvement--not merely altering the current system, but radically changing it.
(8) The joint evolution of major genes under viability selection and a modifier locus that controls recombination between the major genes, mutation at the major gene, or migration between two demes is studied.
(9) Levels of genetic variability, as indicated by a mean of 1.25 alleles per locus, a mean expected heterozygosity of 0.023, and a proportion of 0.25 of the loci being polymorphic, indicated limited genetic heterogeneity within and among demes.
(10) These demes represent one of the least genetically divergent, reproductively isolated sympatric pair of vertebrate populations that have been identified.
(11) It is shown that, if the migration matrix is symmetric and irreducible, the average number of sites that differ in two alleles chosen from the same deme depends only on an effective size of the whole population and not on either the elements of the migration matrix or the size of each deme separately.
(12) Prevalence of root caries was 23.8% in Deming and 7.3% in Lordsburg; mean number of lesions was 0.69 in Deming and 0.08 in Lordsburg (p less than 0.0001).
(13) The study was conducted among lifelong female residents in Lordsburg (3.5 ppm fluoride) and Deming (0.7 ppm fluoride), NM.
(14) (II) Treatment with the compounds with an unsaturateddelta1,2-furobenzofuranring system, such as AcO-stg, demethyl-diacetyl-stg (deMe-diAc-stg), and aflatoxin B1, resulted in nucleolar segregation and fragmentation of primary culture cells.
(15) The frequencies of mutant alleles at five loci were calculated for a sample of cats from the deme of Tampa, Florida.
(16) pipiens in Egypt was not differentiated into genetically isolated demes but, rather, seemed to consist of a single panmictic population.
(17) There are significant differences in growth rates between fish in the two demes, but no further morphological differentiation h-s been detected.--In light of these findings, the genetic distance between these populations is surprisingly small (Nei's I = 0.975).
(18) The data from comparison studies performed on five methods were analysed both by Deming's regression analysis, with calculation of the correlation coefficient, and by the difference plot.
(19) The present models show that interdeme selection during the spread of a mutation depends more on the capacity of the mutant to invade and become established in other demes than on selective diffusion, unless there is rapid local extinction and colonization.
(20) The average number of sites that differ in alleles drawn from the same and from different demes can provide some information about the degree of population subdivision, as is illustrated by using the data of Kreitman and Aquadé (1986, Proc.
Township
Definition:
(n.) The district or territory of a town.
(n.) In surveys of the public land of the United States, a division of territory six miles square, containing 36 sections.
(n.) In Canada, one of the subdivisions of a county.
Example Sentences:
(1) A community health survey of 923 residents aged 30 years or more was performed in Putai Township of Taiwan.
(2) Free Tibet said the men had objected to the arrest of a Tibetan called Thubwang for his part in a protest in Tagkhar township on 25 January, in which local residents marched to the government offices and pulled down a Chinese flag.
(3) Innovative techniques were used to help the field workers to understand and apply the concept of randomization to the streets and houses of their Township.
(4) Starting in Latin America, Asia and Africa, working with developers whose customers live in the favelas and shanty towns and townships, Mozilla aims to foment revolution which, if it succeeds, will filter back to the west.
(5) My work entailed travelling throughout the country, living now in African townships, then in country villages and again in cities.
(6) The strategic locations are: Stratford, in east London, which is seen as an emerging Olympic city and centrepiece of the country's bid for the 2012 Olympics; Greenwich and Woolwich, involving new and rebuilt communities near the floundering millennium dome site; Barking, where work has already begun on a new township; Thurrock in Essex, involving a new urban development corporation with sweeping planning powers, and North Kent Thameside, between Dartford and Gravesend, which embraces Ebbsfleet.
(7) To determine the impact of the political violence on health and health services, selected routinely available information was analyzed, a community survey was conducted of 1,540 randomly selected households in high, medium, and low impact areas (defined using police and community reports), and a survey of 162 nurses (75 per cent response rate) working in clinic and maternity services in Cape Town's townships was undertaken.
(8) During the 1st year, MCH workers sought pregnant mothers and brought them to the township center for antenatal care early in their pregnancies.
(9) It dismays Kirk that Warp moved to London but he's still in touch with them and their releases, effusing particularly about DJ Mujava and "Township Funk".
(10) A total of 3519 and 3739 individuals were examined in each township.
(11) Aedes aegypti is found to be highly prevalent both in rural and urban areas of almost every major town and townships below 900 meters.
(12) Originally planned as a community of 200,000, the population now numbers around one million, half of whom live in informal housing, making it one of the biggest and fastest growing townships in the country.
(13) For village A, there was more than a twofold association both with residence in the township for 55 years or more and with living in a particular area within the village.
(14) Primary health workers made more mistakes in diagnosis (66.67%) and treatment (78.18%) compared with those made by township doctors and county doctors.
(15) A study was undertaken to ascertain the vaccination coverage of children aged 12-23 months living in Khayelitsha, a peri-urban township outside Cape Town, and to identify factors associated with measles vaccination coverage.
(16) There was a smaller group of black spectators from a nearby township, determined to show they could now stand where they pleased.
(17) The central question always legitimately asked of a country grappling to forge its post-apartheid future and deal with entrenched poverty, particularly in the black townships, is whether South Africa should really be spending £800m in public money hosting a football tournament.
(18) A three-year study has been conducted for prevention of infectious hepatitis with supplementation of table salt fortified with 15 ppm anhydrous sodium selenite to the general population of 20,847 persons in a township M.Z.
(19) "The government did not fund the empower shack, though they helped us speed up the approval process," said Andy Bolnick, founder of iKhayalami , the NGO that built the shack in Khayelitsha township.
(20) It's probably just a fire in one of the townships.” Following Torino, Seoul and Helsinki, Cape Town is the fourth city to be awarded the title of World Design Capital, an accolade bestowed by the Montreal-based International Council for Societies of Industrial Design , which charges a hefty fee to honour a different city with its logo each year.