Disruptive selection, also called diversifying selection, describes changes in population genetics in which extreme values for a trait are favored over intermediate values.

Disruptive selection: A third possibility is that the organisms with traits at the extremes of the population distribution actually have a reproductive advantage over those nearer the mean.

Details of Marguerite Durand can be found in the English language in American Professor Mary Louise Roberts ' 2002 book, Disruptive Acts: The New Woman in Fin-de-Siècle France.

Disruptive physical contact ( a personal foul ) is penalized, and a free throw is usually awarded to an offensive player if he is fouled while shooting the ball.

* Disruptive innovation is Clayton Christensen's theory of industry disruption by new technology or products.

): P2P Computing: The Evolution of a Disruptive Technology, Idea Group Inc, Hershey.

* Ramesh Subramanian and Brian Goodman ( eds ), Peer-to-Peer Computing: Evolution of a Disruptive Technology, ISBN 1-59140-429-0, Idea Group Inc., Hershey, PA, USA, 2005.

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* Disruptive Solutions Process, U. S. Air National Guard disruptive improvement and procurements

* Parasomnias: Disruptive sleep-related events involving inappropriate actions during sleep ; sleep walking and night-terrors are examples.

The External Leadership of Self-Managing Teams: Intervening in the Context of Novel and Disruptive Events.

The Dickey Betts Band, including Warren Haynes, was also formed during this time and released the album Pattern Disruptive in 1988.

The period saw a generational change in weapons and equipment on issue to ADGs ; jungle green uniforms were replaced by the Disruptive Pattern Combat Uniform ( DPCU ), the L1A1 Self-Loading Rifle ( SLR ), M16 and F1 Sub-Machine Gun were replaced by the F88 Austeyr assault rifle and Vietnam-era radios were replaced with the Raven series of VHF and HF sets.

He now runs his own company, Disruptive Innovations.

The agenda featured more than 100 speakers and nearly 50 sessions on topics ranging from cloud to mobility and virtualization, to address the event's theme — New Business Solutions: Embracing Disruptive Technologies & Changing Delivery Models.

Linspire sponsored development of Nvu, a stand-alone version of Mozilla Composer which incorporates Cascading Style Sheets support and other improvements from software company Disruptive Innovations.

* Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act ( TADA ) is passed by parliament.

The act replaced the Prevention of Terrorism Ordinance ( POTO ) of 2001 and the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act ( TADA ) ( 1985 – 95 ), and was supported by the governing National Democratic Alliance.

Disruptive technological advances have been few in the Honorverse for most of the 500 years leading up to the series ; as the series opens, that technological stagnation has led to a similar stagnation in both military strategy and tactics.

* Disruptive behaviour.

In Citizens for Democracy through its President v. State of Assam and Others, 1995 KHC 486: 1995 ( 2 ) KLT SN 74: 1995 ( 3 ) SCC 743: 1995 SCC ( Cri ) 600: AIR 1996 SC 2193, the court entertained a letter from Shri Kuldip Nayar ( a journalist, in his capacity as President of Citizens for Democracy ) to a judge of the court alleging human-rights violations of Terrorist and Disruptive Activities ( Prevention ) Act ( TADA ) detainees ; it was treated as a petition under Article 32 of the Constitution of India.

Following the introduction of the Combat Soldier 95 ( CS95 ) clothing system of Disruptive Pattern Material ( DPM ) this is worn for most day-to-day business replacing the old ' working ' uniform of green Lightweight Trousers and Shirt / Jersey, albeit that these are still used as ' Barrack Dress ' by some office based personnel.

Disruptive sexual selection for plumage coloration in a passerine bird.

Disruptive social changes and Sadat's relative tolerance toward political parties contributed to the rapid growth of Islamic groups in the 1970s.

People sometimes mistakenly fail to help when they intended to, or their helping may not be noticed, which may cause unintended conflicts.

This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

However, in general, the books only feature mental battles when there is some reason for mind-to-mind contact ( for example, Trump contact ) and magic or Trump is involved in all three of the above conflicts, so it is not clear whether Zelazny intended his characters to have such a power ; the combination of Brand's " living trump " powers and his high Psyche ( as presented in the roleplaying game ) would have guaranteed him victory over Corwin.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

Regarding conflicts in the student-teacher relationship, the potential for exploitation created by the subordinate position of the student and the tensions that exist when a student surpasses or resists a teacher are explored.

Comparative law would be applicable to private international law when developing an approach to interpretation in a conflicts analysis.

" Interviewed for the same broadcast, Mullen said the policy would continue to be implemented until the law was repealed, and that his advice was to " move in a measured way ... At a time when we're fighting two conflicts there is a great deal of pressure on our forces and their families.

McLean had a series of conflicts with Saturday Night Live writer Andy Breckman, starting when Breckman opened for McLean on tour in 1980.

Other philosophers, such as Thomas Hobbes and David Gauthier, have argued that the conflicts which arise when people each pursue their own ends can be resolved for the best of each individual only if they all voluntarily forgo some of their aims — that is, one's self-interest is often best pursued by allowing others to pursue their self-interest as well so that liberty is equal among individuals.

There have been several conflicts in the past between the director and the studio, sometimes leading to the use of the " Alan Smithee " credit signifying when a director no longer wants to be associated with the final release.

Religious conflicts therefore resumed under Louis XIII when Richelieu forced Protestants to disarm their army and fortresses.

When in charge of government, both CDU and SPD have tended to favor improved relations with Central and Eastern Europe, even when this conflicts with the interests of the displaced people.

" Stirner does not recommend that the individual try to eliminate the state but simply that they disregard the state when it conflicts with one's autonomous choices and go along with it when doing so is conducive to one's interests.

While Lübeck and the Hanseatic League prevailed in conflicts in 1435 and 1512, Lübeck lost when it became involved in the Count's Feud, a civil war that raged in Denmark from 1534 to 1536.

This conflict raised the important question of what happens when an Act of Congress conflicts with the Constitution.

Usually known as the Epistola ad Mellitum, it conflicts with the letter sent to Æthelberht, which the historian R. A. Markus sees as a turning point in missionary history, when forcible conversion gave way to persuasion.

Thus Mizrahi and Sephardi Jews may choose to follow the opinion of the Ben Ish Chai when it conflicts with the Shulchan Aruch.

The term, however, can be misleading when it refers to resolution of conflicts between competing systems rather than " conflict " itself.

Burundi and Rwanda dispute sections of border on the Akanyaru / Kanyaru and the Kagera / Nyabarongo rivers, which have changed course since the 1960s, when the boundary was delimited ; cross-border conflicts among Tutsi, Hutu, other ethnic groups, associated political rebels, armed gangs, and various government forces persist in the Great Lakes region.

However, additional legal conflicts stalled both projects until August, 2008, when Nishizaki announced plans for the release of his film on December 12, 2009.

Research on perceptions of science among the American public conclude that most religious groups see no general epistemological conflict with science and they have no differences with nonreligious groups in the propensity of seeking out scientific knowledge, although there may be epistemic or moral conflicts when scientists make counterclaims to religious tenets.

The salient characteristics of Gombrowicz ’ s writing include incisive descriptions of characters ' psychological entanglement with others, an acute awareness of conflicts that arise when traditional cultural values clash with contemporary values, and an exasperated yet comedic sense of the absurd.

Pipeline conflicts occur when an instruction in one stage of the pipeline depends on the result of another instruction ahead of it in the pipeline but not yet completed.

The schedule of events differs from the men's decathlon, with the field events switched between day one and day two ; this is to avoid scheduling conflicts when men's and women's decathlon competitions take place simultaneously.