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Genes or exons which have a K a /K s ≈ 1 are inferred to evolve in the absence of functional constraint; genes or exons which have a K a /K s > 1 are inferred to evolve under the influence of positive selection.
Realists regard Serbian resistance to NATO as a fact of life, an immovable constraint on American ambitions in the Balkans.
Given the rapid rate of DNA loss for unconstrained sequences in Drosophila [ 48, 49], it is difficult to understand the mere existence of spacer intervals, as well as their conservation of length, without invoking some form of functional constraint acting on these sequences.
The probability that docking solution in the population would undergo a local search was set to 0.06 and the constraint was set to a maximum of 300 iterations per search.
Thinking in terms of vector spaces naturally introduced the idea of optimal basis vectors, but with the constraint that these basis vectors belong to the original set of expression vectors.