Think of Adam and Eve like an imaginary number, like the square root of minus one: you can never see any concrete proof that it exists, but if you include it in your equations, you can calculate all manner of things that couldn't be imagined without it. ...
Characteristically skeptical of the idea that living things would faithfully follow mathematical formulas, [Robert Harper] seized upon factors in corn which seemed to blend in the hybrid—rather than be represented by plus or minus signs, and put several seasons into throwing doubt upon the concept ...
Secondly, regarding alternative ordering effects, studies should include alternative-specific constants (ASCs) for all alternatives (minus one), including but not limited to any status quo/opt-out alternative. If the ASC is not included in the model, any alternative ordering effects would be ...
S. (1999). Variation in offspring investment within and among populations of Gammarus minus Say (Crustacea: Amphipoda) in ten mid-Appalachian springs (USA). Archiv für Hydrobiologie 146, 257–283. 237. Glazier, D. S. (2000). Freshwater spring: Research link 2000 webpage (http://jcsites....
The geological formations of the globe already noted are catalogued thus: The Primary, or lower one, consists of rocks, bones of mired mules, gas-pipes, miners' tools, antique statues minus the nose, Spanish doubloons and ancestors. The Secondary is largely made up of red worms and moles...
That’s one of the proper functions of deans and presidents, and pity the poor university in which a large proportion of both the faculty and the administration are second-raters; it is doomed to diverge to minus infinity. — Paul R. Halmos In I Want to be a Mathematician: an Automath...
If the interaction term was significant, we plotted the results of the simple slope predictions from minus two standard deviation to plus two standard deviation on the predictors and the moderator (Fig. 1, Fig. 2). Table 4. Linear slopes for predicting safety voice with two predictors and a...
Running time was considered as main outcome and was calculated as the subject’s running time recorded during each running phase minus the duration of all recovery bouts. Total running distance (TRD) was also assessed to describe running performance and was measured as the subject’s total distanc...
I saw—as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor’s Show—a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go. ...
There was a loudspeaker that reported on the time left before the blast: “T-minus ten minutes”—something like that. The last few seconds were counted off one by one. We had all turned away. At zero there was the flash. I counted and then turned around. The first thing I saw was...