Randomly Placed Gaps on Redeal

Some people getting beaten randomly.

This form of biological dispersal can occur randomly over millions of years.

Following is a roundup of some of the responses randomly picked from the blogosphere.

launched a surprise campaign, seemingly randomly handing out small gifts to travelers en route to their destination.

Of the 709 randomly selected Palestinians who were surveyed, 30 said that they hope the new Hamas government tackles corruption.

When researchers tested Prozac on depressed patients, they divided their subjects randomly into control and experimental groups, and conducted many trials.

The burden of creating integrated communities has been placed on a randomly assembled group comprising some of the least connected members of society.

The patients were randomly allocated to an acupuncture group receiving acupuncture treatment plus routine treatment or a control group receiving routine treatment alone.

This scientific research is carried out every 28 days by teams of volunteers at randomly selected study sites along the United States coastline.

Good fortune and bad fortune alternate randomly, and the poorest people are particularly vulnerable when misfortune like a hurricane in a fishing village strikes.

Of course, one cannot at reasonable cost prevent all possible damage from calamities, which strike randomly and in locations that cannot always be predicted.

She witnessed the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi movement and saw roving Nazi gangs randomly beating Jewish men and women in the streets of Vienna.

To represent this reproduction, randomly select a marble from the original jar and deposit a new marble with the same color as its parent into a new jar.

Another blog, Coptic File, wrote about the incident A shooting gun was used from inside a car (green Fiat), to randomly kill eight people and many others were wounded.

Early in embryonic development in females, one of the two X chromosomes is randomly and permanently inactivated in nearly all somatic cells (cells other than egg and sperm cells).

During this journey, Al Halabi asked people, whom he met randomly, to define themselves at the moment of their meeting and to write this definition on individual papers used for invoicing.

So, to measure happiness defined in that way, one would have to sample moments of people s existence randomly, and try to find out whether they are experiencing positive or negative mental states.

Redressing this imbalance requires a focus on key infrastructure. Of course, one cannot at reasonable cost prevent all possible damage from calamities, which strike randomly and in locations that cannot always be predicted.

I am lucky to have a Syrian passport. You see, if it weren t for this passport, random selection wouldn t have chosen me, randomly and coincidentally, for investigation in all airports I ve ever been through.

A randomized controlled trial (or randomized control trial RCT) is a type of scientific (often medical) experiment, where the people being studied are randomly allocated one or other of the different treatments under study.

We took 1,300 randomly selected undergraduates, we had them nominate their friends, and we followed both the random students and their friends daily in time to see whether or not they had the flu epidemic.

So if you imagine a very, very big universe, an infinitely big universe, with randomly bumping into each other particles, there will occasionally be small fluctuations in the lower entropy states, and then they relax back.

This was first demonstrated in the 1960 s, when Guatemalan researchers gave children in two randomly selected villages a nutritious porridge each day, and a much less nutritious fruit drink to children in two other villages.

Another chance encounter is when I went to a place I just was with some friends, and we drove randomly to a different place, and we ended up in this non tourist location, a beautiful village, pristine.

We could randomly divide them into two groups, and then we could have one group that is a non intervention control group to compare to, which we can t do with, say, breast cancer, because everyone gets treated.

There is a hint, though, in a brief mention in the middle of the story of a father looking over his wounded sons in a hospital and declaring that, Now Americans are shooting randomly at anything that moves.

But this year an unexpected incident happened in Naga Hammady, in Upper Egypt, where an unknown criminal opened his fire randomly on people there after they finished their prayers and were on their way back to their homes.

HyperCard was the first program to introduce the public to hyperlinks, where you could randomly hook to any kind of picture, or piece of text, or data across a file system, and we had no way of explaining it.

(c) Structured group shall mean a group that is not randomly formed for the immediate commission of an offence and that does not need to have formally defined roles for its members, continuity of its membership or a developed structure

There's Indian Chinese food, Korean Chinese food, Japanese Chinese food, where they take the bao, the little buns, and they make them into pizza versions, and they take and they like, totally randomly they'll take Chinese noodle dishes, and they'll just Ramen ize them.

Most statements of the problem, notably the one in Parade Magazine , do not match the rules of the actual game show (Krauss and Wang, 2003 9), and do not fully specify the host's behavior or that the car's location is randomly selected (Granberg and Brown, 1995 712).

The Special Rapporteur is concerned about ongoing reports of the self sufficiency policy for the military, which continues to result in Government forces confiscating land, livestock, fish catches and harvested crops from the civilian population and randomly shooting the cattle of civilians for their own consumption.

There is, once again, virtually no mention of the catastrophe for civilians etched against that desert sky. There is a hint, though, in a brief mention in the middle of the story of a father looking over his wounded sons in a hospital and declaring that, Now Americans are shooting randomly at anything that moves.

And one of the things that we should do is just make a grid of the globe and randomly go and inspect all the places that the grid intersects, just to see what's on life. And if we did that with our little Martian probe, which we have not done on Earth, we would begin to see some incredible species.

Tacticity is particularly significant in vinyl polymers of the type H2C CH(R) where each repeating unit with a substituent R on one side of the polymer backbone is followed by the next repeating unit with the substituent on the same side as the previous one, the other side as the previous one or positioned randomly with respect to the previous one.

So I took the great big 1895 Montgomery Ward's catalog and I randomly went through it. And I took a page not quite a random page I took a page that was actually more difficult than others because lots of the pages are filled with things that are still being made. But I took this page and I said, how many of these things are still being made?

In fact, what Skinner discovered is that, if you put a pigeon in a box like this, and he has to press one of these two keys, and he tries to figure out what the pattern is, and you give him a little reward in the hopper box there if you just randomly assign rewards such that there is no pattern, they will figure out any kind of pattern.