This acts as a sort of stock room when a species is plagued by the perils of natural selection.

It is in the sterilisation of failure, and not in the selection of successes for breeding, that the possibility of an improvement of the human stock lies ".

Studbook selection is the use of external evaluation-critiquing conformation and movement-of potential breeding stock to cull out unsuitable breeding horses and direct the evolution towards a particular goal.

By creating an index fund that mirrors the whole market the inefficiencies of stock selection are avoided.

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

While traditional backtesting was done by hand, this was usually only performed on human-selected stocks, and was thus prone to prior knowledge in stock selection.

The selection of healthy, disease-free planting stock is essential and transplanting trees from the forest should be avoided.

The selection of a film stock was one of the first decisions made in preparing a typical 20th century film production.

By " breeding the best to the best ," employing a certain degree of inbreeding, considerable culling, and selection for " superior " qualities, one could develop a bloodline superior in certain respects to the original base stock.

Rice started his senior season as a projected mid-first-round selection, but his stock rose to the point where he was selected # 4 overall in the 1989 NBA Draft due to his record-breaking performance in the NCAA Tournament.

There are various convenience stores including Unit 4 and Fair Price Food And News, both of which stock newspapers, magazines and a selection of drinks and snacks.

" Through extensive research they also found that " contrary to widespread perception, Waterstones, like Ottakar's, operates a book-buying system which mixes central and local input on stock selection.

As the purpose of conformation shows is to assist breeders in the selection of breeding stock by rewarding with championships the dogs which, through external observation only, are the best representatives of the breed, major faults or an excess of minor faults would prevent a dog from completing a championship and being bred.

* Conformation shows: Originally devised for the selection of breeding stock, conformation showing has evolved into a sport requiring specific training for both the dog and handler, as well as precise grooming requirements ( depending on the breed being shown.

In addition to Loompanics ' massive annual catalog of its entire stock, Loompanics regularly mailed its customers a thinner quarterly supplement featuring a selection of books interspersed with articles about government propaganda and conspiracies, and / or underground resistance.

In an appendix to the book, he elaborated on how artificial selection — the elimination of trees of poor timber quality from the breeding stock — could be used to improve timber quality, and even create new varieties of trees.

" Through extensive research they also found that " contrary to widespread perception, Waterstone's, like Ottakar's, operates a book-buying system which mixes central and local input on stock selection.

The modern Oldenburg is managed by the Association of Breeders of the Oldenburger Horse, which enacts strict selection of breeding stock to ensure that each generation is better than the last.

It consists of two principal parts, the first half is devoted to the selection of breed stock and the breeding of horses and cattle.

The Royal Arcade shop now features many more exclusive stock items, including innovative products like locally produced Colman's Mustard soaps, foot soaks and bath salts ; a range of gift boxes ; mugs and signs depicting old advertising posters ; a larger selection of mustard pots ; locally produced chutneys, pickles, dressings and oils ; and a wide range of Colman's mustards.

As well as holding academic stock for students, there is a great selection of novels, non fiction and talking books available for all ages.

The provision of investment management services includes elements of financial statement analysis, asset selection, stock selection, plan implementation and ongoing monitoring of investments.

Tesco Lotus stores stock groceries ( western and local products ) as well as a selection of stationery, school supplies, clothing, shoes, electrical equipment and many other non-food products at very competitive prices that the small 7-Eleven, Family Mart and similar small stores cannot match.

The objective of a warehouse management system is to provide a set of computerized procedures to handle the receipt of stock and returns into a warehouse facility, model and manage the logical representation of the physical storage facilities ( e. g. racking etc.

After the stock have been yarded they may then require drafting prior to branding, shearing or whatever procedures are required or have been planned.

Previously known as Jefferson Arms, Kodiak has given this 11-shot hammerless job an exceptionally fine stock design, and the 260 is the first autoloader to handle

Cross ownership is a method of reinforcing business relationships by owning stock in the companies with which a given company does business.

On 18 August, Fiji Islands Revenue and Customs Authority chief executive Tevita Banuve said that importers would be given two weeks to clear their kava stock from the wharf.

Payment in the form of the acquiring company's stock, issued to the shareholders of the acquired company at a given ratio proportional to the valuation of the latter.

The stock of capital goods, such as factories and machines, is not taken as given.

As the end of the war drew near, we were given to understand that we were still considered the owners of the Opel stock ; and we were also given to understand that as the owners, we might be obliged to assume responsibility for the property.

Immediately following graduation, Tracy joined a new stock company based in White Plains, New York where he was given periphery roles.

In 1991 BAe acquired a 30 % interest in Hutchison Telecommunications through a stock swap deal, where Hutchison was given a controlling stake of 65 % in BAe ’ s wholly owned subsidiary-Microtel Communications Ltd.

By this time, Oxford also had a London warehouse for bible stock in Paternoster Row, and in 1880 its manager Henry Frowde was given the formal title of Publisher to the University.

The SEC was given the power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading.

The SEC was given the power to license and regulate stock exchanges, the companies whose securities traded on them, and the brokers and dealers who conducted the trading.

Indeed, given the efficient market hypothesis, which implies that a thorough analysis of stock data is irrational, most rational shareholders are, by definition, not investors, but speculators.

A batsman may easily be deceived by the ball, particularly given that the action is quite similar to the stock delivery.

Gate-array ASICs are always a compromise as mapping a given design onto what a manufacturer held as a stock wafer never gives 100 % utilization.

This latter approach is commonly used for corporate elections involving a large number of points on a given ballot, where the voter is given one set of points for each votable share of stock he has in the company.

When individuals are looking to breed animals, they look for certain valuable traits in purebred stock for a certain purpose, or may intend to use some type of crossbreeding to produce a new type of stock with different, and, it is presumed, superior abilities in a given area of endeavor.

Suppose a stock price follows a Geometric Brownian motion given by the stochastic differential equation dS = S ( σdB + μ dt ).

Thus given no arbitrage opportunities, the above relationship ( put-call parity ) holds, and for any three prices of the call, put, bond and stock one can compute the implied price of the fourth.

In Great Britain, types of rolling stock were given code names, often of animals.

Orion's stock price was driven to perhaps unjustified heights, given the studio's high rate of long-term debt, which had reached 64 percent of capitalization.

In attempt to " extol the fun of the stock market ," players would sign up online and be given a set amount of " IMX dollars " in order to buy stocks in artists, albums, videos, and TV offerings, which could be traded and sold short or for profit online.

For example, if one is given a stock certificate but it turns out to be the wrong certificate ( intended for someone else ), he is an unintentional bailee, he has made no intentional act to become a bailee.