(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.
Parry
Definition:
(v. t.) To ward off; to stop, or to turn aside; as, to parry a thrust, a blow, or anything that means or threatens harm.
(v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.
(v. i.) To ward off, evade, or turn aside something, as a blow, argument, etc.
(n.) A warding off of a thrust or blow, as in sword and bayonet exercises or in boxing; hence, figuratively, a defensive movement in debate or other intellectual encounter.
Example Sentences:
(1) A man wearing a badge that says "property team" quietly parries some of her points, but chooses not to engage with others.
(2) Now another deep cross is thrown into the box and Guzan leaps to claim it, but can only parry it down and pick up the second ball.
(3) Previous studies indicated that tsS38 was capable of synthesizing low to moderate levels of viral DNA at the nonpermissive temperature (C. T. Chu, D. S. Parris, R. A. F. Dixon, F. E. Farber, and P. A. Schaffer, Virology 98:168-181, 1979); thus, it was not clear whether the UL8 gene product is essential for viral DNA synthesis.
(4) Liverpool were restricted to shots from the edge of the area throughout the opening half, mainly from Alberto who went close with one curling effort and had fierce drive parried by the goalkeeper Mark Oxley.
(5) And almost on cue, just after a minute, City nearly concede, a ball whipped in from the right by Tiote, Cisse meeting it with a low swivel on the penalty spot, Hart parrying well.
(6) Referring to the retention of three elected members on the board, the IoD's corporate governance adviser, Oliver Parry, said: "Without an entirely independently appointed board, there remain concerns about how much independent oversight the board will be able to exercise."
(7) The non-English parts of the UK are represented by Sir Emyr Jones Parry, the former British ambassador to the United Nations and Foreign Office mandarin who chaired the All Wales convention on the Welsh assembly's lawmaking powers, Professor Charlie Jeffery, of Edinburgh University's academy of government, and Professor Yvonne Galligan, of Queen's University Belfast.
(8) On BBC2, The Best of Top Gear drew 1.9 million viewers and an 8% share from 8pm, while a new series of Bruce Parry's Tribe debuted with 1.5 million viewers and 6% at 9pm.
(9) Gekas saw a shot saved by Navas but the goalkeeper could only parry and Papastathopoulos pounced.
(10) In rapidly growing, highly glycolytic hepatoma cells as much as 65% of the total cell hexokinase is bound to the outer mitochondrial membrane [Parry, D.M., & Pedersen, P.L.
(11) Ins(1,3,4)P3 was dephosphorylated to two InsP2 (inositol bisphosphate) isomers, one of which is Ins(3,4)P2 [Shears, Parry, Tang, Irvine, Michell & Kirk (1987) Biochem.
(12) Bronwyn Bishop, the speaker of the house, and Stephen Parry, the president of the Senate, approved the immediate changes “in light of the increased threat environment”.
(13) Our two cases are evidence in support of a close relationship between saber injury-like scleroderma and the Parry-Romberg syndrome.
(14) Professor Martin Parry, acting director of Rothamsted Research, said: "We are delighted to be in position to carry out the field trial and to further assess the potential of these GM plants to contribute, as one of many solutions, to the important environmental sustainability issue of providing omega-3 fish oils."
(15) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
(16) So the short answer is the Senate president Stephen Parry can only recall the Senate early for a 3 May budget with an absolute majority.
(17) Photograph: Mike Bowers for The Guardian The government had its first win: Parry easily secured the job of the new president, with 63 votes, while Ludlam mustered support from only 10 senators.
(18) Parry Romberg syndrome is a rare disorder characterised by progressive hemifacial atrophy that is usually unilateral, involving the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and subsequently the muscle, cartilage and bone.
(19) But the keeper showed splendid reflexes to parry it.
(20) Kevin Doyle was allowed to find space inside the area to head Duff's corner goalwards and Londak's parry was more of a pat, which failed miserably to get the ball out of the danger zone.