The pattern of distribution of these stories suggest they have a common origin in the eastern Asiatic coastal region, spreading as peoples migrated west into Siberia and east to the North American continent.

It disclosed a " distinct pattern " of abuses by the contras, including: " attacks on purely civilian targets resulting in the killing of unarmed men, woman, children and the elderly ; – premeditated acts of brutality including rapes, beatings, mutilations and torture ; – and individual and mass kidnappings of civilians for the purpose of forced recruitment into the Contra forces and the creation of a hostage refugee population in Honduras ; – assaults on economic and social targets such as farms, cooperatives and on vehicles carrying volunteer coffee harvesters ; – intimidation of civilians who participate or cooperate in government or community programs such as distribution of subsidized food products, education and local self-defense militias ; – and kidnapping, intimidation, and even murder of religious leaders who support the government, including priests and clergy-trained lay pastors.

When reefs become environmentally stressed, this distribution of symbionts is related to the observed pattern of coral bleaching and recovery.

Such a pattern, again, does not seem to support human sexual aesthetics as being the sole or primary cause of this distribution.

This model is ideal for understanding income distribution but awkward for discussing the pattern of trade.

Robert Nozick's influential critique of Rawls argues that distributive justice is not a matter of the whole distribution matching an ideal pattern, but of each individual entitlement having the right kind of history.

The ideal pattern would be a circle with an even distribution of shot throughout, with a density sufficient to ensure enough pellets will intersect the target to achieve the desired result, such as a kill when hunting or a break when shooting clay targets.

In reality the pattern is closer to a Gaussian, or normal distribution, with a higher density in the center that tapers off at the edges.

PFGE analysis of the strains of E. coli isolated from members of both outbreaks revealed an indistinguishable pattern, and investigators from the Medina County Health Department and the CDC determined that the Medina County Fairgrounds water distribution system was the source of both E. coli outbreaks.

His research foci have included the evolution and fate of the European Neandertals, the role of culture in early hominid evolution, the nature and explanation of allometry, robust australopithecine evolution, the distribution and explanation of sexual dimorphism, hominid origins, the pattern and explanation of Australasian hominid evolution, the contributions and role of genetics in paleoanthropological research, and the taxonomy of the genus Homo.

This distribution pattern has isolated some species while keeping others in close contact.

It is believed to follow this pattern because most noise or jitter in a electrical circuit is caused by thermal noise, which has a Gaussian distribution.

It demonstrates that a pattern emerges to mirror that of the ocean-the tropics do not continue to get warmer because the atmosphere transports warm air poleward and cold air equatorward, the purpose of which appears to be that of heat and moisture distribution around the planet.

Similarly, a generally 1 / f distribution pattern has been observed in film shot length by researcher James E. Cutting of Cornell University, in the study of 150 popular movies released from 1935 to 2005.

The peculiar distribution pattern of the mainland boojums has led Mexican botanists to conclude that they were probably transplanted to the mainland by the indigenous Seri people, who lived in this area and still live on communal property south of this location.

The pattern of diversity in the family is very similar to the global distribution of plant diversity overall.

In many disciplines this pattern is called a Pareto distribution.

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For example, the pattern ( probability distribution ) produced by millions of photons passing through a diffraction slit can be calculated using quantum mechanics, but the exact path of each photon cannot be predicted by any known method.

Some call this type of forecasting pattern recognition, which remains a useful method of observing rainfall over data voids such as oceans with knowledge of how satellite imagery relates to precipitation rates over land, as well as the forecasting of precipitation amounts and distribution in the future.

Although Haplogroup K is common throughout western Eurasia, " the observed global pattern of distribution renders very unlikely the possibility that the four aforementioned founder lineages entered the Ashkenazi mtDNA pool via gene flow from a European host population:

In the former mechanism, distinct daughter cells are created during cytokinesis because of an uneven distribution of regulatory molecules in the parent cell ; the distinct cytoplasm that each daughter cell inherits results in a distinct pattern of differentiation for each daughter cell.

Overhead irrigation, using center-pivot or lateral-moving sprinklers, gives a much more equal and controlled distribution pattern.

The same pattern or trace in the archaeological record, for example a pottery distribution or network of urban centres, could be produced by a wide range of different simulated processes.

All that is required by the EMH is that investors ' reactions be random and follow a normal distribution pattern so that the net effect on market prices cannot be reliably exploited to make an abnormal profit, especially when considering transaction costs ( including commissions and spreads ).

There may be possible economies at any one of a number of links in your marketing and distribution chain.

In addition, the size distribution obtained from visual and radar observations of meteors may be extrapolated to the micrometeorite domain.

Also, it has been suggested that the source of all or part of the dust may not be the same as that for visual or radar meteorites ( Best, 1960 ), and the same distribution would not be expected.

The binomial probability distribution may describe the variation that occurs from one set of trials of such a binomial experiment to another.

In practice, a bidirectional reflectance distribution function ( BRDF ) may be required to characterize the scattering properties of a surface accurately, although the albedo is a very useful first approximation.

Complete solid solution alloys give single solid phase microstructure, while partial solutions give two or more phases that may or may not be homogeneous in distribution, depending on thermal ( heat treatment ) history.

Tubes may be heated transversely or longitudinally, where the former ones have the advantage of a more homogeneous temperature distribution over their length.

Applications such as ion implantation may be used to identify the distribution of dopants inside a semi-conducting material, which is increasingly critical in the correct design of modern nanometre scale electronics.

The location of the primary lesion may be suggested by the location of the abscess: infections of the middle ear result in lesions in the middle and posterior cranial fossae ; congenital heart disease with right-to-left shunts often result in abscesses in the distribution of the middle cerebral artery ; and infection of the frontal and ethmoid sinuses usually results in collection in the subdural sinuses.

It may be exhibited by favoritism in the distribution of legal permits, government grants, special tax breaks, or other forms of dirigisme

The governments may be based on heredity, religion, military power, work projects ( such as canal building ), food distribution, land ownership, agriculture, commerce, manufacturing, finance, or a combination of those.

In distribution ray tracing, at each point of intersection, multiple rays may be spawned.

A distribution may consist of one or more modules, documentation files, or programs packaged in a common archiving format, such as a gzipped tar archive or a ZIP file.

For example, if n samples are taken from a Cauchy distribution, one may calculate the sample mean as:

Other causes of contemporary deforestation may include corruption of government institutions, the inequitable distribution of wealth and power, population growth and overpopulation, and urbanization.

The shape of the distribution may also be described via indices such as skewness and kurtosis.

Characteristics of a variable's distribution may also be depicted in graphical or tabular format, including histograms and stem-and-leaf plots.

Alternatively, a single hostname may correspond to many IP addresses: this can facilitate fault tolerance and load distribution, and also allows a site to move physical locations seamlessly.

Thus differential geometry may study differentiable manifolds equipped with a connection, a metric ( which may be Riemannian, pseudo-Riemannian, or Finsler ), a special sort of distribution ( such as a CR structure ), and so on.

Nitrogen is particularly suspect in this regard, and may be causing measurable changes to the distribution and abundance of some Ericaceous species.

They may be powered by direct current ( for example a battery powered portable device or motor vehicle ), or by alternating current from a central electrical distribution grid.

It assumes that the call arrivals may be modeled by a Poisson process, but is valid for any statistical distribution of call holding times with finite mean.

But the theory refers only to aggregate wealth and says nothing about the distribution of wealth ; in fact there may be significant losers, in particular among the recently protected industries with a comparative disadvantage.