In fact, Dobzhanksy, for instance, worked quite a bit on so-called lethal chromosomes which are highly successful in one combination, and lethal in another.

Groucho's radio life was not as successful as his life on stage and in film, though historians such as Gerald Nachman and Michael Barson suggest that, in the case of the single-season Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel ( 1932 ), the failure may have been a combination of a poor time slot and the Marx Brothers ' returning to Hollywood to make another film.

Since operant conditioning is contingent on reinforcement by rewards, a child would learn that a specific combination of sounds stands for a specific thing through repeated successful associations made between the two.

This combination of nurse and midwife was very successful.

Many missiles use a combination of two or more of the above methods, to improve accuracy and the chances of a successful engagement.

The inquisitions in combination with the brutal Albigensian Crusade were very successful in eliminating opposition and contrast to the Catholic institution.

Andrianampoinimerina, grandson of King Andriambelomasina and successor to his uncle King Andrianjafy, successfully reunited the fragmented Merina kingdom through a combination of diplomacy, strategic political marriages and successful military campaigns against rival princes.

A team at the University of Cambridge reported the successful extraction of secret information from an IBM 4758, using a combination of mathematics, and special-purpose codebreaking hardware.

McMahon and Mondt were a successful combination, and within a short time, they controlled approximately 70 % of the NWA's booking, largely due to their dominance in the heavily populated Northeast region.

The Mini Cooper and Cooper " S " were sportier versions that were successful as rally cars, winning the Monte Carlo Rally four times from 1964 through to 1967, although in 1966 the Mini was disqualified after the finish, along with six other British entrants, which included the first four cars to finish, under a questionable ruling that the cars had used an illegal combination of headlamps and spotlights.

The new-look Hornets were successful, with Divac and Geiger providing the center combination, Mason averaging a double-double, Bogues back at the point, and Rice having the finest season of his career.

For three years, the opening combination of Geoff Marsh and David Boon had been successful for Australia.

The combination of C ++ and IBM and Apple's names on the project suggested that it might prove to be more successful than OpenStep.

In a successful attempt to reduce the splintering and damage to logs from falling down the steep trenches the owner of the Wengenville sawmill, Lars Anderson, used a combination of tramway, winches, winders and flying foxes to transport logs.

S. aureus is a successful pathogen due to a combination of bacterial immuno-evasive strategies.

This extremely successful venture ( billed as “ The Largest Hop Ranch in the World ”) would fall prey to a combination of market and pest factors, and fell into relative obscurity by the end of the 1890s.

By 1928 Dirac deduced his equation from the first successful unified combination of special relativity and quantum mechanics to the electron-the Dirac equation.

There are a variety of combinations that can give rise to a successful chimera mouse and — according to the goal of the experiment — an appropriate cell and embryo combination can be picked ; they are generally but not limited to diploid embryo and ES cells, diploid embryo and diploid embryo, ES cell and tetraploid embryo, diploid embryo and tetraploid embryo, ES cells and ES cells.

By a combination of artistic excellence and quiet husbandry, including a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival ( begun in April 2006 in collaboration with other theatre companies ) plus a financially successful London season at the Novello Theatre in 2006, Boyd slowly rebuilt the company's fortunes and reputation.

It was a combination of design elements that made the Nikon F successful.

The most successful attempts so far have been in the administration of combination therapy.

For general practice training, the medical practitioner then applies to enter the three-or four-year " Australasian General Practice Training Program " ( four-year for additional Fellowship in Advanced Rural General Practice ), a combination of coursework and apprenticeship type training leading to the awarding of the FRACGP ( Fellowship of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners ) or FRNZCGP ( Fellowship of the Royal New Zealand College of General Practitioners ), if successful.

The river canyon was the scene of the successful Salween Campaign in World War II, a battle fought by the Chinese against Japan in 1944 – 1945 in order to open up the blockaded Burma Road supply route from India, in combination with a second campaign to remove Japanese forces from northern Burma.

It is perhaps the combination of Enlightenment optimism and worldly realism that made Wolff so successful and popular as a teacher of future statesmen and business leaders.

This combination was more successful: by issue 92, the guaranteed circulation was 120, 000 copies and by issue 269, it had grown to 200, 000: by then the name had reverted and the front page was mainly photographs.

The scientific debunking of the spirit world has been in a way too successful and too thorough.

This last publication was so successful that it was translated into German and published in the famous German scientific journal Physikalische Zeitschrift.

With the rise of the scientific method and the emphasis on a " plain " style of speaking and writing, even formal oratory has become less polished and ornate than in the Classical period, though politicians today can still make or break their careers on the basis of a successful ( or unsuccessful ) speech.

Human knowledge and mastery over nature advances when James Watt builds a successful prototype of a steam engine, and a scientific expedition continues as Captain James Cook claims the South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands in the south Atlantic Ocean for Britain.

Philip Kitcher in his " Science, Truth, and Democracy " argues that scientific studies that attempt to show one segment of the population as being less intelligent, successful or emotionally backward compared to others have a political feedback effect which further excludes such groups from access to science.

This is a unique use of a scientific thought experiment, in that it was never carried out, but led to a successful theory, proven by other empirical means.

: Nor did he stop here-his searching experiments inspired him with the hope of transmitting messages across rivers and seas without the aid of wires, and he so far perfected his invention as to transmit currents across several small pieces of water-the last occasion on which he publicly experimented with this invention being in Portsmouth, about two years ago, when he was highly successful and the results afforded great satisfaction to the scientific gentlemen who assisted.

This was used for a number of successful scientific experiments and ionospheric exploration campaigns over the years.

The Science Honors Research experience provides CWU undergraduate students an unparalleled opportunity to prepare for graduate school and successful scientific careers

The mission was partially successful, in that much of the primary objective of flight testing the equipment was accomplished ; however, little scientific data was returned.

The JPL mission designers planned multiple launches in each block, to maximize the engineering experience and scientific value of the mission and to assure at least one successful flight.

According to the Committee, successful candidates must be U. S. citizens or permanent residents who are applying for U. S. citizenship, who have done work of significantly outstanding merit or that has had a major impact on scientific thought in their field.

Following the highly successful Moon landing, including initial scientific exploration, MSFC had a major role in Post-Apollo activities ; this included Skylab, the United States ' first space station.

John William Draper, an American physician, chemist and scientific experimenter, managed to make the first successful photograph of the moon a year later on March 23, 1840, taking a 20-minute-long daguerreotype image using a 5-inch ( 13 cm ) reflecting telescope.

Reports of apparently successful tests were met with much skepticism from the scientific community.

The successful rocket launch forces a national self-appraisal that questions American education, scientific, technical and industrial strength.

The museum has been established by his family, colleagues and students in order to value his 60 years of scientific, educational and cultural activities, and to set an example for young generation of Iran, students in particular, of a hard-working contemporary scientist, who despite his difficult childhood led a successful life and contributed greatly towards his country's progress by establishing many scientific, industrial, cultural and research centers in Iran among which one can name Tehran University, the first modern university in the country.

His Défense du système de guerre moderne, a reply to his many critics ( Neuchâtel, 1779 ) is a reasoned and scientific defence of the Prussian method of tactics, which formed the basis of his work when in 1775 he began to co-operate with the count de St Germain in a series of much-needed and successful reforms in the French army.

Information on successful new agricultural techniques, scientific discoveries, inventions, prices and information of surpluses and shortages were spread faster and over much wider territories by the wide availability of cheap ( compared to hand copied ) books, magazines and newspapers.

She attributes her successful balancing of a scientific career and caring for her family to organization and focus.

What recommends the scientific method of inquiry above all others is that it is deliberately designed to arrive, eventually, at the ultimately most secure beliefs, upon which the most successful practices can eventually be based.

Not all similar expeditions had been so successful, and in particular the easy relations between the scientific gentlemen and the naval officers was a testament to the sure leadership of George Nares.

Lendl's success in the game was due in large part to his highly meticulous and intensive training and physical conditioning regime, his scientific approach to preparing for and playing the game, and a strong desire to put in whatever it took to be successful.

This was the first human cell line to prove successful in vitro, which was a scientific achievement with profound future benefit to medical research.