(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.
Larry
Definition:
(n.) Same as Lorry, or Lorrie.
Example Sentences:
(1) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
(2) Koons provoked a bigger stir with the news that he would be showing with gallery owner David Zwirner next year in an apparent defection from Zwirner's arch-rival Larry Gagosian, the world's most powerful art dealer.
(3) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Columnist Jonathan Freedland and economics editor Larry Elliott discuss the late-night deal that the Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has agreed to When it comes to the now-abandoned Thessaloniki Programme, the radical manifesto on which Alexis Tsipras came to power, there is always talk of implementing it “from below”: that is, demanding so many workers’ rights inside the industries designated for privatisation that it becomes impossible; or implementing the minimum wage through wildcat strikes.
(4) Behaving like the oldest kid on the block is just one of the things that Larry Clark's detractors hold against him.
(5) It confirms that Fifa, through its internal bodies, is conducting a one-sided, unfair and biased investigation against Michel Platini, repeatedly violating his right to defend himself.” The Fifa appeals committee, chaired by the Bermudan Larry Mussenden, said the appeals had been rejected in full and the decision of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, chaired by the German judge Hans Joachim-Eckert, confirmed in its entirety.
(6) Citing the noted study by Larry Young into voles, which went some way to proving their monogamy was a function of the way in which the hormone oxytocin was transmitted in the brain, Faulkes believes something similar will likely be revealed in the naked mole rats.
(7) Rahm may still win but it’s going to be much more of a free-for-all at that point.” Larry Bennett, a political scientist at DePaul University in Chicago, said many of Chicago’s problems, such as systemic population loss and crime, went back decades and were never solved by his predecessor, Richard M Daley, who was mayor for six terms.
(8) In Inside Job, the name that keeps cropping up is Larry Summers , a friend of President Bill Clinton and more recently Barack Obama.
(9) But it’s already been cut to €1,000, and if the lenders’ proposals are accepted, it’ll go down to €800.” Tsipras of Athens – a gripping drama entering its final act | Larry Elliott Read more Like many middle-class southern Europeans, however, Koutouraki owns “some houses” and, while rents too have fallen drastically, the extra income she gets allows her to maintain a certain quality of life.
(10) ( see 10.56am ) Osborne's strategy has failed - Larry Elliott.
(11) Larry Page, Google's chief executive, believes self-driving cars have enormous economic and health implications: they should cut the number of road deaths, either through drivers' attention wandering, or through driving too close to other cars and being unable to react.
(12) Another book, Unequal Democracy , by American political scientist Larry Bartels, goes a step further and shows how policy choices are shaped when the system is dominated by the partisan ideology of the wealthiest.
(13) Not just for herself, but for another under-used comedian from the show, Larry David , who had teamed up with standup comedian Jerry Seinfeld .
(14) Eckert’s statement said any rule breaches by the bidding countries were “of very limited scope”, adding: “In particular, the effects of these occurrences on the bidding process as a whole were far from reaching any threshold that would require returning to the bidding process, let alone reopening it.” A Fifa statement said: “The Fifa appeal committee, chaired by Larry Mussenden, has concluded that the appeal lodged by the chairman of the investigatory chamber, Michael J Garcia, against the statement of the chairman of the adjudicatory chamber of the independent ethics committee, Hans-Joachim Eckert, is not admissible.
(15) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(16) Follow the right people At the time of writing, Murdoch follows only four people: @jack (Twitter's executive chairman, Jack Dorsey); @markpinc (co-founder of Zynga, which makes social games such as FarmVille); @plaid_page (an account apparently run for Google's Larry Page); and @Lord_Sugar (the artist formerly known as S'ralan).
(17) It can't hurt, either, that he's kept the faith with a group of friends who, in some cases, go back to his Super 8 days: Cloverfield director Reeves, cinematographer Larry Fong, production partner Bryan Burk.
(18) SJ Closs Edinburgh He is the Daffy Duck of politics – confident and self-satisfied, leading to calamity; then he pops up again, unabashed • As a fellow economist I fully endorse Larry Elliott’s demolition of Tory party assertions that all is well for the UK’s growing economy, and that Britain is paying its way ( The Tories’ ticking economic timebomb , 20 April).
(19) Larry Elliott was there, and reports that George Osborne was in pretty good spirits (so if tomorrow's GDP reading is bad then he's hiding it well).
(20) Sanders, who missed out on taking the Democratic nomination from Hillary Clinton, has recorded a brief but heartfelt campaign video aimed at voters in Witney, Oxfordshire, that talks up the attributes of his brother, Larry.