Examples of patchwork

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The genetic structure of host plant adaptation in a spatial patchwork : demographic variability among reciprocally transplanted pea aphid clones.
Their most striking feature is the overlapping patchwork of homologies that occur between the different t haplotypes.
The genetic structure of host plant adaptation in a spatial patchwork - demographic variability among reciprocally transplanted pea aphid clones.
An attempt to measure the patchwork pattern observed among alleles at major histocompatibility complex loci.
The upper surface of such a patchwork is consequently extremely irregular.
Not surprisingly, the tests for subjecthood and objecthood yield something resembling a patchwork quilt in most languages.
Despite this, patchwork motifs of sites with high linkage disequilibrium are observed.
The picture that results is a patchwork, in terms of ethnic land control, where land rights are quite secure.
Given this patchwork, non-citizens may feel it is best to avoid all such activities and delay participation until citizenship.
The resulting patchwork of findings remains to be integrated.
Such articles and poems are balanced by the many other messages contained in the patchwork of a periodical.
The book resembles a patchwork quilt of quotations - in places, this makes it look more like a popular anthology than a single author volume.
By the mid-1990s it was clear that the regulatory patchwork needed to be streamlined in terms of sectoral regulators and their relationship with competition authorities.
Considering its theme, therefore, it is unfortunate that the scope of the study excludes a multitude of voices, denying itself the status of a truly inclusive patchwork.
Political instability, and even civil war, do not interfere with such forms of sovereignty, partly due to the patchwork of private security offered to enclaves (p. 207).
Although this format might be anticipated to lead to a patchwork of chapters, the net result is that most of the important aspects of insomnia are covered.
If this were to be done, the remaining active factories could be left with supplies from an incoherent patchwork of plantations lacking logistical sense, with anarchic or over-lengthy field-tofactory routes.
The resulting experience for the reader is a kind of patchwork in which considerable insight is gained from some chapters while the evidence from others remains tantalizingly thin.
You have to consider it as a whole and not as a patchwork of concessions to meet successive and alternate panics and clamours.
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