(1) The following methods are examined for consistency: UPGMA (unweighted pair-group method, averages), NJ (neighbor joining), MF (modified Farris), and P (parsimony).
(2) The modified Farris method, however, gives the best performance when the two aspects are considered simultaneously.
(3) By the fit criterion, the UPGMA procedure was on the average better than the Farris method but not as good as the F-M procedure.
(4) Three species of mites, Tyrophagus longior, Glyciphagus destructor, and Acarus farris have been isolated from the dust of barns of farms in Orkney.
(5) The methods of Fitch and Margoliash and of Farris for the construction of phylogenetic trees were compared.
(6) The statistical properties of three molecular tree construction methods--the unweighted pair-group arithmetic average clustering (UPG), Farris, and modified Farris methods--are examined under the neutral mutation model of evolution.
(7) Decades of allowing an assortment of dreadful incompetents such as Ernie Walker and Jim Farry to run our game have taken a heavy toll on our national team.
(8) As the five parties in the power-sharing coalition prepare for a final pre-Christmas round of discussions on Monday, Stephen Farry, a junior Alliance minister in the devolved government, said there was still a chance to secure a comprehensive deal.
(9) Using computer simulation, we studied the efficiency of this method in obtaining the correct unrooted tree in comparison with that of five other tree-making methods: the unweighted pair group method of analysis, Farris's method, Sattath and Tversky's method, Li's method, and Tateno et al.
(10) "We must keep the sound and the message of freedom and justice going," Farris said, adding that black people were still "crippled by practices and policies" steeped in racial discrimination.
(11) Stephen Farry, an Alliance minister in Northern Ireland's power-sharing executive, warned on Thursday that the protest campaign against Alliance's support for the end of a policy of flying the union flag at Belfast city hall 365 days a year was going to end in lives being lost.
(12) In this article Timothy Farries and John Atkinson consider how the contemporary complexity arose by a succession of credible alterations at the genetic level, and the selective advantages provided at each step.
(13) In some instances, the F-M and Farris methods gave a comparably good fit of the output to the input data, though in most cases the F-M procedure gave a much better fit.
(14) As Oliver Farry and Jaime Alonso point out, an eagle soars around the Estadio da Luz and lands in the stadium before Benfica home games.
(15) Farry said an attack on the home of Alliance members Christine and Michael Bower had endangered the life of their toddler.
(16) Semen volume, sperm concentration, percentage of motility, and fertility index of Farris (FI) decreased with frequent ejaculation, and these values recovered to initial levels after a 24-day abstinence period.
(17) The president was preceded by the civil rights leader's son, Martin Luther King III; his daughter, Dr Bernice King; and his sister, Christine King Farris.
(18) "Armenia gained a surprise 1-0 win over Poland last week thanks to a goal by Hamlet Mkhitaryan," writes Oliver Farry.
(19) By contrast, where it is known that each input datum is indeed either a true estimate or an underestimate of the actual distance between 2 taxonomic units, the Farris procedure appears, on theoretical grounds, to be the matrix method of choice.
(20) After a third night of violence directed at the party, Farry stated: "I can confirm that there was an attempted arson attack on my constituency office in Bangor on Wednesday evening.
Furry
Definition:
(a.) Covered with fur; dressed in fur.
(a.) Consisting of fur; as, furry spoils.
(a.) Resembling fur.
Example Sentences:
(1) Mayhew, 69, signalled his intention to play Han Solo's furry wookie sidekick once again in September.
(2) What the historians may omit to mention is the crucial role played in her rise by those furry wide-mouthed friends, the Muppets .
(3) But mice are small and furry – how much can we extrapolate these findings to humans?
(4) The practice reached its peak in the early 1970s, when Mao Zedong sent the furry black-and-white ambassadors across the globe on a diplomatic charm offensive.
(5) The book's brutal last line – "Outside the owls hunted maternal rodents and their furry brood" – has been seen by some to prefigure war.
(6) The main host of the hedgehog flea is the European hedgehog, but the flea was also found in different furry mammals, such as polecats, brown rats and foxes.
(7) All of these films had something fascinating, apart from The Beaver , which was not very good, particularly if you find Mel Gibson talking to himself in a mockney accent via a furry glove puppet hard to bear.
(8) In the conference halls and the streets around them, the summits tend to be sheer pandemonium: activists arrive smeared in green paint or sweating behind furry polar bear suits; peasant women from the Andes in traditional bowler hats sing songs to Mother Earth when their leaders are on camera; celebrities bring their own circus – Robert Redford is expected to come to Paris and Thom Yorke is a conference regular.
(9) However, it is the marmoset – furry, curious and humanlike – that triggers the most intense emotional responses, a point acknowledged by Mary (who asked not to be fully identified), the senior research technician in charge of the animals at King's, who devotes her time to the animals' welfare, right down to knitting hammocks for them to sleep in.
(10) Every hard man has a softer side and for Putin, according to the Putinspiration feed, it’s his furry friends.
(11) When a furry green puppet eventually emerges, they squeal with delight – although Twiddle the Turtle's message seems to baffle them slightly.
(12) Hundreds of furry little bodies ambled among us, looking curiously at the human interlopers.
(13) An essential aspect of the corresponding double barrier quantal model is its nonstationarity, resulting from combined application of binomial and Yule-Furry statistics.
(14) "We want to pigeonhole things and people, but it is absurd to regard me just as a furry wig-and-britches actor."
(15) She was clearly unable to resist the explanation this week from environment secretary Owen Paterson that the cull in Somerset needed to go into extra time, having failed to produce enough furry black and white scores because "the badgers moved the goalposts".
(16) She arrives at her sister’s Disneyland-themed wedding in an Ambien haze, determined to seduce Tigger; instead, she ends up grinding into the fake-furry chipmunk belly of Dale.
(17) Photograph: Clare Kendall We head for Renmin Park, in the centre of Chengdu, a great destination for people watching when you've had enough of all things furry.
(18) All those girls in the furry boots, they look like Clydesdale horses!"
(19) Should anyone question why Tom Ford, the best dressed man in London and the fashion visionary of his generation, should choose to include crystal micro-mini dresses, white furry sleeves and lace-up thigh-high boots in his catwalk collection, this is what you must say.
(20) Solo's perennial sidekick, Chewbacca, is heavily tipped to return with original actor, Peter Mayhew, in the furry wookie suit , and Disney has confirmed the new film will feature the diminutive droid R2-D2 .