Example sentences for: episodic

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  • For the bacterial and archaeal species groups, the vast majority of these comparisons were inconclusive because the evolutionary distance between phylogenetic partitions resulted in a saturation of K s . The more closely related human-mouse-rat group did not show saturation of K s . Comparisons of K s and K a for functionally diversified mammalian protein sets did not reveal any cases with K a > K s . This is probably due to the fact that, if directional selection led to the acceleration of the amino-acid substitution rate in these proteins, it acted in an episodic manner [ 6, 7] and on a minority of residues against a constant background of purifying selection [ 8, 9].

  • assess indicators of ecosystem health related to sulfur, nitrogen, and mercury, includingcharacterization of the causes and effects of episodic exposure to air pollutants and evaluation of recovery.

  • Overall, acid deposition continues to impair the water quality of lakes and streams in the Northeast: 41 percent of lakes in the Adirondack region of New York and 15 percent of lakes in New England exhibit signs of chronic and/or episodic acidification.

  • The engagement of the departments of Defense and State was more episodic.

  • Moreover, recent findings also suggest that nitrogen is quantitatively as important or, in some areas, possibly more important than sulfur as a cause of episodic acidification because of short-term acidic pulses occurring during the most biologically sensitive time of the year, when fish reproduce.


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