Alphas usually have to fight to maintain their position.

Alphas may have to fight individuals in their own group several times to maintain their position throughout their lifetimes, though they do not live under constant attack from challengers.

In late December 2010, Mr. Behr was appointed head writer, show runner, and executive producer for Syfy Channel's Alphas for which a pilot, written by Zak Penn and Michael Karnow and directed by Jack Bender ( The Sopranos, Lost ), had been produced.

It was intended to show fuming hatred between the " Alphas " and " Gammas ", culminating in all-out violence ; however, this was only explored in one episode.

Somehow, the Alphas never gained traction.

He appeared as Dr. Kern in the September 12, 2011 episode of the Syfy channel program Alphas entitled " Blind Spot ".

* False Discoveries in Mutual Fund Performance: Measuring Luck in Estimated Alphas Evidence that stock selection is not a viable investing strategy.

* The pilot episode of the science fiction series, Alphas, contains a locked room mystery.

However, according to DS9 episode " One Little Ship ", in the case of " Alphas " ( Jem ' Hadar bred in the Alpha Quadrant and designed specifically for combat there ), the Founders decided to dismiss this ritual.

Chi Psi Fraternity is a fraternity and secret society consisting of 30 active chapters ( known as " Alphas ") at 30 of America's finest and most respected colleges and universities.

Chi Psi has 30 chapters, which are known as Alphas, at American colleges and universities.

He stars as Dr. Lee Rosen on Syfy's series Alphas.

* Eureka, Warehouse 13 and Alphas.

Furthermore, Ogre ( Donald Gibb ) is revealed to be at the conference, scheming with Roger and the Alphas.

The Lambdas decide to beat the Alphas at their own game and throw a party at the Hotel Coral Essex.

The Lambdas, satisfied that the Alphas now cannot attack them without being expelled from the conference, accept their offer of friendship and their luxurious hotel suite at the Royal Flamingo.

He also guest starred on Alphas, CSI: Miami, and Rookie Blue.

In 2010, Wagner began a recurring role as Dr. Vanessa Calder in the SyFy channel's hit drama Warehouse 13, and played the character again in its SyFy sister show Alphas in 2011.

The star represents the aspirations of Alpha Sigma Alphas to live up to the values of the sorority.

They re-energize the robots using the Foundry essence in order to fend off the Alphas.

There are actually many professionals who use the Alphas and they are currently Paiste's most popular model of cymbals.

Rayner and Guy opposed this, cautioning the Alphas and the Guardians to avoid the dark path such actions would lead, but the Guardians ignored this, reassigning Rayner and Guy to Earth for their opposition to their decree.

The only units within the US Army to specialize in the capability and skill of the Long Range Surveillance mission are those of the Long Range Surveillance units within the US Army's Battlefield Surveillance Brigades, Special Forces Operation Detachment Alphas ( ODA ) ( also known as Special Forces A Teams that reside within the US Army's Special Forces Groups ) and the Regimental Reconnaissance Company of the US Army's 75th Ranger Regiment.

It doesn't really matter which month of the year you sow them, but they germinate best when they have a wide variation of temperature, very warm followed by cool in the same 24 hours.

The drama in the theater and the concert in the hall both have a fixed time, but the time is fixed by the director and the players, the conductor and the instrumentalists, subject, therefore, to much variation, as record collectors well know.

It examines the biological and social factors that have affected the evolution of humans and other primates, and that generate, maintain or change contemporary genetic and physiological variation.

Surveys of the SW Indian Ocean have shown phytoplankton group variation based on their location relative to the Polar Front, with diatoms dominating South of the front, and dinoflagellates and flagellates in higher populations North of the front < sup >.</ sup >

Contributions from these ethnic foods have become as common as traditional " American " fares such as hot dogs, hamburgers, beef steak, which are derived from German cuisine, ( chicken-fried steak, for example, is a variation on German schnitzel ), cherry pie, Coca-Cola, milkshakes, fried chicken ( Fried chicken is of Scottish and African influence ) and so on.

For subjectivists rationality and coherence constrain the probabilities a subject may have, but allow for substantial variation within those constraints.

Some may have a uniform slate-grey color, but others demonstrate a considerable variation of dark blues, greys and blacks, all tightly mottled .< ref name =" factsheet ">

In the 1740s, Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis made the first known suggestion in a series of essays that all organisms may have had a common ancestor, and that they had diverged through random variation and natural selection.

* Mammalian myoglobin concentrations in skeletal muscle have much variation.

The qualifying scores are determined by DPC according to the results of the preceding year's national competition, and typically do not have much variation from year to year.

Lind limited his subjects to men who " were as similar as I could have them ", that is he provided strict entry requirements to reduce extraneous variation.

Such a ladder can also be designed to have minimal sensitivity to component variation a property hard to evaluate without computer tools.

These fossils serve as a reminder that taxonomic divisions are human constructs that have been imposed in hindsight on a continuum of variation.

" Women ’ s testimony is in general light and subject to variation ; this is why it is taken more seriously than that of men " as opposed to men, upon whom " Nature seems to have conferred … the right to govern.

On the contrary, eukaryotes have the feature of exon-intron organization of protein coding genes ; the variation of repetitive DNA content in eukaryotes is also extremely high.

* Levcopoulos and Petersson describe a variation of heapsort based on a Cartesian tree that does not add an element to the heap until smaller values on both sides of it have already been included in the sorted output.

A group of studies have recently shown that genetic patterns at the EDAR locus, a region of the modern human genome that contributes to hair texture variation among most individuals of East Asian descent, support the hypothesis that ( East Asian ) straight hair likely developed in this branch of the modern human lineage subsequent to the original expression of tightly coiled natural afro-hair.

Within each style, there is considerable variation among fighters, as some fighters may have their guard higher for more head protection while others have their guard lower to provide better protection against body punches.

Many are also descended from ancestors which have previously been domesticated, a state which tends to produce a certain amount of variation from the original type.

So, while many forms of animal communication exist, they differ from human languages, in that they have a limited range of non-syntactically structured vocabulary tokens that lack cross cultural variation between groups.

Much variation exists between makers working from these archetypes, and other variants have become increasingly common.

Studies have indicated that variation in genes can play an important role in the development of mental disorders, although the reliable identification of connections between specific genes and specific categories of disorder has proven more difficult.

Studies have also indicated individual variation in temperament, such as sociability or impulsiveness.

It is for this reason that gene flow strongly acts against speciation, by recombining the gene pools of the groups, and thus, repairing the developing differences in genetic variation that would have led to full speciation and creation of daughter species.