Potomac, Maryland-based Convergent Wealth Advisors was ordered to pay the fine to settle charges that its former CEO David Zier defrauded Convergent clients who he solicited to invest in a private fund he managed outside of Convergent, named ZAM LLC.
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And their social behaviors that they evolved are also convergent.
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Convergent Wealth Advisors did not respond to requests for comment.
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It's a striking example of convergent evolution, separated by time.
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Other evidence for his thesis includes convergent evolution, which happens when
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PL: Some bots are gonna be convergent and some are gonna be divergent.
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Convergent is, there's not app, it lives in Slack or Messenger or Kik.
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If the series approaches a limit, then it is considered a convergent series.
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It's sound, it's robust, it's taken years to agree, let's stay convergent with it.
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Another possibility is convergent evolution, in which similar physical characteristics appear in unrelated species.
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Unrelated species sometimes arrive at remarkably similar anatomies through a process called convergent evolution.
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But as the 90s became the 2000s, the pair seemed to embark on convergent paths.
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Which makes the convergent evolution of a similar mythology among liberals all the more notable.
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That's how convergent evolution works—similar evolutionary pressures could lead to unrelated but similar-looking animals.
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The acquisition would create "a giant preening with its convergent technology", DT's CEO Tim Hoettges said.
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Instead of leading to convergent thinking they stimulate divergent thinking and really increase diversity of thought.
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And it's going to take a lot more research to explain this striking example of convergent evolution.
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And we saw this convergent evidence on parent ratings, clinician evaluations, and laboratory tests of children's performance.
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Happy music also appeared to make the most difference in divergent thinking but not in convergent thinking.
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For oviraptorosaurs, the beaks were "convergent evolution," when similar features evolve independently among different groups of animals.
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The researchers found that after microdosing both convergent and divergent thinking improved, but intelligence stayed the same.
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In the Netherlands the combination was about securing a strong convergent position relative to a strengthened incumbent.
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"It's just a new example of the extreme convergent evolution we find in bioluminescence," Dr. Widder said.
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Other examples of convergent evolution include wings in bats and birds, and color in penguins and killer whales.
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Convergent thinking is what's measured by IQ tests: rational thinking that typically results in a single right answer.
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It's a classic case of convergent evolution, which describes how unrelated organisms develop similar adaptations to their respective environments.
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The CFTC held Convergent responsible for Zier's activities because its compliance department monitored Zier's emails and tracked ZAM's performance.
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The so-called "convergent" offers helped core operating profits rise by 3 percent to 3.69 billion euros ($4.2 billion).
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If true, this would be an example of convergent evolution, which is when two populations independently evolve similar features.
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Convergent and divergent thinking are both thought to be important for creativity, and intelligence is important for analytical thinking.
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The lower Congo River's depths have made it a natural lab for convergent evolution, yielding fish with unexpected features.
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It's this amazing system of convergent evolution, when the same or similar traits evolve in response to similar selection pressures.
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We aren't looking at convergent evolution, but rather clones of one model for organizing the nation implemented across the world.
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Ils voudraient que morale et politique convergent, et sont sensibles aux dérives du personnel politique, à droite comme à gauche.
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It's a striking example of convergent evolution between birds and mammals, in which similar traits have independently emerged in different species.
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Convergent is a registered investment advisory firm managing the assets of roughly 200 ultra wealthy client families, according to its website.
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Strong Competitive Position: TT's pay-TV and fixed-mobile convergent service offering is built on the company's leading fixed line position.
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Call it a case of convergent evolution, wherein two companies arrived at similar looking products after approaching hardware from different angles.
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GETTING RELIGIONFaith, Culture, and Politics From the Age of Eisenhower to the Era of ObamaBy Kenneth L. Woodward447 pp. Convergent. $30.
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Lastly, groups can experience "convergent thinking," where "everyone jumps on the bandwagon" and agrees with an idea, stifling less popular suggestions.
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An expectation that convergent services are deemed by the market to be a more important offering could also create negative rating pressure.
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But sometimes, totally different species that face similar pressures end up independently evolving the same features, a process known as convergent evolution.
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I eventually grew tired of tending to Pandora's algorithm; my stations became stale and heavily convergent on a cluster of overplayed favorites.
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On one hand, there's "convergent thinking," which is the ability to come up with one correct solution and relates to problem-solving.
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Strong Fixed-Line Position TT's pay-TV and fixed-mobile convergent service offering is built on the company's leading fixed-line position.
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Riemann argued that if a complex number is used as the argument for the zeta function, this results in a convergent series.
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It was one of those futuristic, convergent moments of tech on tech on tech that's totally worthy of parody on HBO's Silicon Valley.
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This week on Technotopia I talk to Rob Anderson, founder of Convergent Media Group and a former founding team member at MTV Russia.
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Call it convergent evolution if you will — as a matter of fact, something similar occurred with Lenovo Smart Clock and standard Facebook Portal.
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In simple terms, the karrkaratul is a rare example of truly convergent evolution—combining helpful adaptations from both placental moles and distantly-related marsupials.
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Illustration: Andrey AtuchinIchthyosaurs and dolphins are the archetypal examples of convergent evolution in action, in which two completely unrelated species acquire near identical characteristics.
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What's less clear is how these marvels will work in tandem with one another; the convergent effects of technology are often hard to predict.
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Previously owned by City National Bank, Convergent was sold to Pathstone Federal Street earlier this year, according to a press release on Pathstone's website.
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This is a great example of convergent evolution at work, when animals in different habitats stumble upon the same solution independent of one another.
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The competitive threat from Enel's Open Fiber project underlines the importance of TI's investments, which should improve TI's convergent and triple-play service offering.
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An iconic three-foot-tall flightless bird with a close resemblance to a penguin, it was one of the greatest examples of convergent evolution.
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But the S.D.F. gives America and Russia an opportunity to act on convergent aims, and suggests at least the tentative outlines of a lasting peace.
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These lady beetles, which are likely a species called "convergent lady beetles," are beneficial critters, emphasized Kring, as they gobble up and control insect populations.
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The cornerstone of a "non-value-based" partnership founded on convergent interests will inevitably have to coexist with "value-based plurilateralism" among the like-minded.
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The result is a stunning reminder that convergent evolution—when organisms independently evolve similar traits—is not only a geographical phenomenon, but a temporal one.
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Other studies have indicated that psychedelics might make you more creative, but it was intriguing that both convergent and divergent thinking improved, Prochazkova tells me.
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Amazon Echo is an example of a convergent platform, there will be bots that live on Echo but many will have apps you can download.
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Adding a "rich movie-star version" of her former co-worker could, she realized, make for a more complex arrangement of non-convergent world views.
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EBITDA -13 % YOY * 19 THOUSAND NEW LOVE CABLE CUSTOMERS JOINED ORANGE BELGIUM'S CONVERGENT CUSTOMER BASE IN Q1 OF 2018 * Q1 ADJUSTED EBITDA EUR 60.6 MILLION VERSUS EUR 68.5 MILLION YEAR AGO * CONVERGENT MOBILE CUSTOMER BASE INCREASED BY 30 THOUSAND TO 186 THOUSAND IN Q1 OF 2018 * ORGANIC CASH FLOW AMOUNTED TO 19.9 MILLION EUROS IN Q1 OF 2018 Source text for Eikon: Further company coverage: (Gdynia Newsroom)
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Prince would "drink a little red wine – no beers," says James Lundstrom, a convergent at the St. Louis Park Kingdom Hall congregation, where the singer belonged.
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CONVERGENT evolution—the arrival, independently, by different species at the same answer to a question posed by nature—is a topic of great interest to biologists.
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In a remarkable case of convergent evolution, ichthyosaurs came to resemble dolphins and whales: They breathed air, gave birth to young, and were probably warm-blooded.
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Given Bannon's apparent issues with donors, Kwok and Bannon's convergent views of the PRC, and their love of the spotlight, this could be an interesting partnership.
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It could also invest in it to build a convergent player able to offer bundled packages of mobile and fixed line phone, internet and television services.
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Se Jin Song, a biologist at the University of California San Diego and the study's lead author, had previously studied the convergent evolution of gut bacteria.
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Mr. Oosterman, also 37, is the executive vice president of Convergent Energy and Power, a developer and operator of energy storage systems based in New York.
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Dr. Boothby said that trehalose sugar and TDPs were an example of convergent evolution, where nature has found two different ways to protect organisms from desiccation.
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This would be an example of convergent evolution, which is when two unrelated organisms independently develop similar features because of the evolutionary pressures of their environments.
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We believe an effective alternative network could strengthen retail convergent competition from Vodafone and others, as well as the more obvious threat to TI's existing wholesale revenues.
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This is likely an example of convergent evolution—vertebrates and cephalopods branched off long ago, yet they both developed the same way to create complex nervous systems.
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By looking at specifics in the genetic changes of parrots and humans, researchers in the future may develop a better understanding of the powers of convergent evolution.
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Its hostile currents and depths of more than 700 feet are an incredible natural laboratory for studying convergent evolution, or how diverse species develop similar environmental adaptations.
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Fastweb also agreed to lease Tiscali's 3.5 Ghz spectrum to deploy an innovative convergent network in major Italian cities, the two companies said in a joint statement.
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Archaeopteryx was dubbed a "convergently bird-like non-avialan theropod," which means a non-avian feathered dinosaur that acquired bird-like characteristics through the processes of convergent evolution.
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He is a founding faculty of the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, which is dedicated to fast-tracking detection and cures for diseases through quantitative sciences.
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They also tested convergent thinking, which measures whether someone can come up with the best, well-established or correct answer to a problem when the answer already exists.
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In fact, most experts agree that many of the features in early green algae could have evolved independently more than once in a phenomenon known as convergent evolution.
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The appearance of similar characteristics in creatures that are not closely related, like the wings of birds, bats and the extinct flying reptiles called pterosaurs, is called convergent evolution.
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The blue coral snake's venom does practically the same thing, and scientists say it's a good example of convergent evolution (where a similar trait emerges independently in different species).
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There are well-respected scientists who predict that life will be extremely similar and be humanoid, and they base that on the idea of convergent evolution, but I disagree.
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"The apparent convergent evolution in placentals and Somalian blind cavefish is really interesting, and I think there's exciting potential for future studies to expand on these results," Grossnickle told Gizmodo.
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Getting there will require improved curricula, broader training and a set of specific skills required by the emerging quantum industry: the convergent combination of quantum mechanics, electronics, engineering and coding.
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But, whatever the particulars, the discovery Mr Smithwick and Dr Vinther have made is a nice example of convergent evolution, showing that what works today worked in the Cretaceous, too.
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The pressures of evolution to adapt to certain environments and certain prey availabilities results in convergent evolution, meaning that a certain body shape and function will be optimal to survive.
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DERIVATION SUMMARY VODZiggo's ratings are underpinned by a solid operating profile, strengthened by the prospect of a strong convergent position following formation of the JV and an improved operating environment.
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"Given that convergent and divergent thinking are commonly unrelated and affected by different factors, we were surprised by finding the same positive impact on both kinds of thinking," she says.
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It takes convergent efforts from government agencies, dedicated national and community-based groups and all of us in the philanthropic community who support them to address this increasingly complex problem.
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That gives biologists a tool with which to explore the phenomenon of convergent evolution, in which unrelated lines with similar ways of life evolve similar adaptations that help them to thrive.
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UPC has established triple-play businesses in each of its markets and is providing convergent services with mobile based on mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) agreements in Switzerland, Austria nd Hungary.
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" Such a union would give greater investment protection and soothe the nerves of markets, investors and consumers, Letta said, adding that it was possible to have a "more convergent European banking system.
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"It will create a leading convergent operator for both consumers and enterprises in Norway which can compete in the market with a lot of attractive and new products and services," Dennelind said.
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This looks like a classic case of convergent evolution, but no one has been able to prove the point by demonstrating a benefit derived from it that is connected directly with brood parasitism.
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In light of this turbulent environment, the new director should focus on the following: The world is becoming more fluid in its capabilities, identities and actions, while its domains are becoming increasingly convergent.
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"This will provide one stop convergent support services for empowering rural women with opportunities for skill development, employment, digital literacy, health and nutrition," said Jaitley, talking of the centers called "Mahila Shakti Kendra".
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It is a classic example of convergent evolution, in which two organisms that are not closely related develop similar features because of the environment they adapted to and the ecological role they played.
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He said it was one of the most apparent cases of convergent evolution, where two unrelated organisms evolve to look or function alike because of the similar niches they fill in their environments.
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This is a great example of convergent evolution, where nature has found a way to do the same thing...but through two very different means—one using a sugar and the other a protein.
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The progress of the JV, uncertainties over the timing of synergies and ultimate upside from convergent opportunities, as well as how leverage policy will unfold, provide some latitude in how we view forecast metrics.
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The 17 authors "are all on this escalator away from the idea that engagement is functional and that things were generally heading in a convergent direction despite setbacks," Mr. Schell said in an interview.
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Moreover, termites were originally called "white ants" by Europeans, and the name stuck on account of their remarkable similarity to ants, a consequence of convergent evolution (though ants and termites are only very distantly related).
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"It will create a leading convergent operator for both consumers and enterprises in Norway which can compete in the market with a lot of attractive and new products and services," Dennelind said in a statement.
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Their study details a striking example of convergent evolution, which is when two species have similar traits even though their shared ancestor didn't have that trait—when the species diverged, it evolved in them separately.
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But the new features are the same in many cases, an instance of what biologists call convergent evolution, making it very hard to assign each group to its right place on the dinosaur family tree.
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More paradoxically, even though we are conditioned to read the convergent diagonals of the painting's setting as indicating deep space, we are not exclusively pulled into a fictive distance by the rippling slashes in the sand.
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These dialectics — these convergent borders of the "I" and the "we," the Modern and the pre-Modern, the European and the indo-American — reverberate throughout Cortázar's work, and they remain the beating heart of his oeuvre.
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The competitive dynamics in the Dutch market, in our view, is likely be driven by Tele2 pricing strategy with its recently launched its own mobile network and how KPN reacts with its convergent product offering over fibre.
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Paving the way to faster and more efficient small aircraft The Maxwell, which is named after 19th century Scottish physicist Jams Clerk Maxwell, will be built by the Scalable Convergent Electric Propulsion Technology Operations Research (Sceptor) project.
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And the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience will soon be blazing a trail to new life-saving cures — a task that would be impossible without the patents that drive nearly all investment in biotech research.
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Those so-called "divergent" polymers sound like this:In contrast, this is the more typical sound of "convergent" polymers:Put them together, and they sound like this:Granted, it sounds less like a musical tone, and more like sandpaper on wood.
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O'Brien said the structure was an example of "convergent evolution" in which disparate organisms independently evolve similar features, like the wings of birds, bats and the extinct flying reptiles called pterosaurs, to adapt to similar environments or ecological niches.
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In particular, an issue not previously addressed is how often such changes arise from similar mutations in the two convergent lines, and how often they have different genetic causes that happen to have similar effects on the organisms' forms and functions.
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At a market level service revenues continue to decline at low to mid-single-digit rates, the market yet to benefit from a more balanced competitive environment given what Fitch views as the convergent potential of the incumbent, KPN, and VODZiggo.
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These plastics are continuously swept up into rotating currents into what scientists call convergent or accumulation zones where they settle into gyres or "garbage patches" and wreak havoc on ecosystems in every ocean in the world — sometimes in multiple places.
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In a sign of what can be called convergent development, its plot bears an initial resemblance to the set-up for "24: Legacy," the revival that Fox will launch following the year's most-watched annual event, the Super Bowl, on February 5.
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Marine biologists are familiar with salps and their remarkable marine propulsion systems, but previous research into these animals focused solely on the amount of thrust each individual was able to produce, while ignoring the convergent effects of multiple, asynchronous pulses along the chain.
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Convergent evolution (when similar traits, like the wings of birds, bats and insects, appear independently in separate evolutionary branches) allows cognitive capacities to pop up at the most unexpected places, such as face recognition in paper wasps or deceptive tactics in cephalopods.
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While the United States and China enjoy growing volumes of trade, investment and travel, an increasingly impermeable membrane is simultaneously now being interposed between decision makers that deprives the two countries of critical tools in being able to develop a more convergent future.
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In NOURISHED: A Memoir of Food, Faith, and Enduring Love (With Recipes) (Convergent, $26), Lia Huber, a food writer and recipe developer, leaves the "meat-and-potatoes" safety of her Midwestern upbringing and sets out on a quixotic path of self-discovery.
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The presentation covers the latest issues affecting the sector, how public ad-tech and mar-tech companies are performing, mergers-and-acquisitions activity, venture-capital funding, and the most significant industry trends: programmatic, mobile, content 2.0, convergent video, and ad-tech and mar-tech convergence.
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They are thus, as Conrad Labandeira of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, and his colleagues describe in the Proceedings of the Royal Society, examples of convergent evolution: the emergence in unrelated groups of similar bodies, to permit the pursuit of similar ways of life.
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He did, however, say that London clearly stated it only wants a very limited free trade agreement with the EU in the future and does not want to legally commit to a level-playing field or convergent state aid rules to ensure fair competition.
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The ECB's statement reiterated that rates will stay at the current level or lower until the central bank has seen the inflation outlook "robustly converge" to a level close to but below 22022% and that underlying inflation has remained consistently convergent with that level.
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The evolution of non-avian dinosaurs during the Cenozoic would have been constrained by the same continental movements that gave us the endemic faunas of Australia and Madagascar, so there would likely have been convergent evolution of dinosaur groups like with placental mammals and Australian marsupials.
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KEY RATING DRIVERS Domestic Operations on Stable Footing Investments in broadband networks and focus on convergent products are leading to improved operational metrics with Orange's market shares of broadband lines and mobile service revenue stabilising, by our estimates, at around 41% and 42% respectively at end-1Q16.
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This is a notable example of "convergent evolution," where species that arise independently at great distances from each other end up looking and behaving similarly by responding to similar challenges in their environments, the researchers said in their study, which was published Monday in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
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We are pooling brain power from the new USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience, which enables us to unite the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center; the USC Viterbi School of Engineering; and the USC Jimmy Iovine and Andre Young Academy.
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Ours is a reactionary right-wing government as well, and the convergent commitments of the GOP base and a staunchly pro-Israel Democratic establishment form a bulwark against any major shift away from the status quo support for the Israeli state and its policies of apartheid in all but name.
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He and his team report that the neck mechanisms seen in their extinct turtle and in modern-day cryptodires is an example of convergent evolution, meaning that both P. oberndorferi and present-day cryptodires evolved the ability independently of each other because of the evolutionary advantages that it offered them in their environments.
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While all nations and networks must have their respected place in any globally inclusive arrangement, in the end the key pillars of such an order, in which the management of convergent interests is bound by commonly agreed rules, must be the United States and China—the world's two largest economies, which also represent highly distinct civilizational spheres.
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Regardless of the wonders and hazards we already face as we create the IoT and all its associated applications, 2017 will be another significant year for the increasingly convergent technologies that are becoming more ingrained in what it is to be human in the modern era — and more personal and integral parts of our daily lives.
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Riemann's hypothesis is about values used in the zeta function, which produces either a convergent or divergent series of numbers depending on the value of s—known as the function's argument—in the following sequence: Riemann's insight was that the zeta function could also be extended to complex numbers, which are a combination of imaginary and real numbers.
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Nature, in other words, in a stunning example of parallel or convergent evolution, found an entirely other and far earlier path to complex cognition: an alien intelligence that not only links directly back to minds we've long believed to be forever lost to us, like the dinosaurs', but that can also be wounded, under duress, in the same ways our minds can.
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