If weakness were the only effect of the mutant allele, so it conveyed only disadvantages, natural selection would weed out this version of the gene until it became extinct from the population.

If, in an unsharp image, a patch of light corresponds to an object point, the center of gravity of the patch may be regarded as the image point, this being the point where the plane receiving the image, e. g., a focusing screen, intersects the ray passing through the middle of the stop.

If a vulnerability is disclosed before the security patch released by the vendor, a zero-day attack is possible.

If more suction is now applied, the small patch of membrane in the electrode tip can be displaced, leaving the electrode sealed to the rest of the cell.

If it is sitting lower in the water, so that the white on the flanks is reduced to a patch on the rear flank ( thus resembling the pattern of the Black-throated Loon ), that patch tends to be less clearly defined than the comparative patch on the Black-throated.

If you blow up an icosahedron by moving the faces away from the origin the right amount, without changing the orientation or size of the faces, and do the same to its dual dodecahedron, and patch the square holes in the result, you get a rhombicosidodecahedron.

If accepted, the authors or maintainers will include the patch in their software, either immediately or in a future release.

If rejected, the person who submitted the patch will have to maintain his or her own distribution of the author's software.

If the left front wheel of a 4WD vehicle slips on an icy patch of road, for instance, the slipping wheel spin faster than the other wheels due to the lower traction at that wheel.

If the charge areas were positive, a widely extending patch is seen on the plate, consisting of a dense nucleus, from which branches radiate in all directions.

If the file is not identical to the version the diff was generated against, the patch will not be able to be applied cleanly.

If persistent intracranial hypotension is the result of a lumbar puncture, a " blood patch " may be applied to seal the site of CSF leakage.

If M admits local holomorphic coordinates for J around every point then these patch together to form a holomorphic atlas for M giving it a complex structure, which moreover induces J. J is then said to be ' integrable '.

If the clonidine patch is used to treat nicotine withdrawal symptoms, dosages that deliver 0. 1 – 0. 2 mg daily are used.

If a side-slip velocity u is introduced, the contact patch will be deformed.

If the party being called was in another exchange, the operator would use a patch cord to connect to another exchange where an operator elsewhere would finish the connection.

If the patch ruptures, the recording is then in whole-cell mode, with antibiotic contaminating the inside of the cell.

If its direction is orthogonal to that surface patch, the magnitude is the area of an infinitesimal patch of surface.

If these faces are aligned with a congruent patch of faces on the icosidodecahedron, then the hexagonal face will lie in the plane midway between two opposing triangular faces of the icosidodecahedron.

If we assume a 10 m diameter ideal ground-based telescope and an unresolved star: every second, over a patch the size of the seeing-enlarged image of the star, 35 photons arrive from the star and 3500 from air-glow.

If the circumstances are faced frankly it is not reasonable to expect this to be true.

If his dancers are sometimes made to look as if they might be creatures from Mars, this is consistent with his intention of placing them in the orbit of another world, a world in which they are freed of their pedestrian identities.

If a work is divided into several large segments, a last-minute drawing of random numbers may determine the order of the segments for any particular performance.

If they avoid the use of the pungent, outlawed four-letter word it is because it is taboo ; ;

If Wilhelm Reich is the Moses who has led them out of the Egypt of sexual slavery, Dylan Thomas is the poet who offers them the Dionysian dialectic of justification for their indulgence in liquor, marijuana, sex, and jazz.

If he is the child of nothingness, if he is the predestined victim of an age of atomic wars, then he will consult only his own organic needs and go beyond good and evil.

If it is an honest feeling, then why should she not yield to it??

If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work -- Allen Ginsberg's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency -- that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

If he is good, he may not be legal ; ;

If the man on the sidewalk is surprised at this question, it has served as an exclamation.

If the existent form is to be retained new factors that reinforce it must be introduced into the situation.

If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

If he is a traditionalist, he is an eclectic traditionalist.

If our sincerity is granted, and it is granted, the discrepancy can only be explained by the fact that we have come to believe hearsay and legend about ourselves in preference to an understanding gained by earnest self-examination.

If to be innocent is to be helpless, then I had been -- as are we all -- helpless at the start.

If the IMF has a southward component, this not only pushes the magnetopause boundary closer to Earth ( at times to about half its usual distance ), but it also produces an injection of plasma from the tail, much more vigorous than the one associated with substorms.

If a male and female like each other's song, they will find the other gibbon and do a short mating dance followed by a vigorous mating ritual that lasts three days, and they will mate about five hundred times in this time period.

Franquin's style rests in opposite corners of the aesthetic spectrum from Hergé: If the pictures of Tintin ’ s creator were characterized by the use of ligne claire, flat colors and a certain staticism, Franquin ’ s graphic approach progressively evolved towards a multi-color aesthetics, chiaroscuro and a vigorous sense of movement.

Together with Pym, Holles drew up the Grand Remonstrance, and made a vigorous speech in its support on 22 November 1641, in which he argued for the right of one House to make a declaration, and asserted: " If kings are misled by their counsellors we may, we must tell them of it.

… If it had no other distinction it would still have that of impressive, immeasurable achievement … a supreme embodiment of vigorous effort .”

If Dawson's interpretations were not profoundly penetrating, they were not shallow either ; and in his chosen field of English concert pieces of the vigorous, manly, outdoors kind, he remains unequalled.

If the pen does dry out, a few vigorous shakes usually get the fluid to flow again.

Wayne Barrett of the Village Voice wrote: " If real estate titan Mort Zuckerman gets into the senate race against Kirsten Gillibrand, we'll finally have a vigorous debate about the big-ticket issues troubling Americans.

If the action simply peters out, once again, and ends with a so-called diplomatic success, the belief which is already widely held there that the Monarchy is no longer capable of vigorous action will be dangerously strengthened.