title: in the service of
date: 2019-01-24 09:26:39
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in the service of
- Its mission is the conservation and provision of plant genetic resources in the service of world food production and sustainable use of wild habitats (Hulden et al, 1998). (Amato et al., 2009)
- Embracing the preservationist critique of human hubris in manipulating the natural world, the esthetic appreciation of wild nature, the traditional commitment to wise use and stewardship of resources, and the value of science in the service of conservation, this cohort of conservationists sought to define a more robust synthesis to guide conservation action. (Church, Bottjer, 2013)
- It evolved its special characteristics in the service of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, who almost daily faced serious challenges from their physical, biological, and social environments. (Church, Bottjer, 2013)
- Thus, aesthetic sensibilities are imbedded deep in the human mind, having evolved in the service of choice of mates, habitats, and foods. (Church, Bottjer, 2013)
- Conservation itself is a political activity in the service of living nature. (Church, Bottjer, 2013)
- The problem is one in which a large part of the audience must be in the habit of instructing their students or assistants, and with which, indeed, many junior clerks in the service of Government must be expected to deal competently. (Fisher et al., 1935)
- Farming has always depended upon human-induced modifications of the natural world, and heterosis, meaning eto alteri in Greek, is a prime example of technology in the service of agriculture. (Duvick, 1999)
- The development of inbreeding and outbreeding methods in exploiting the poorlyunderstood phenomenon of heterosis serves as an excellent historical example of a pragmatic merger between science and technology in the service of agriculture and humankind. (Duvick, 1999)
- Rather, our motivation has been to illustrate (by empirical examples) how various genetic perspectives can sometimes mesh with those of other biological disciplines in the service of conservation concerns. (Avise, Hamrick, 1996)
- Among these will be a further integration of the new classes of genetic information with the concepts and data of population biology, demography, quantitative genetics, natural-history study, ethology, ecology, phylogenetics and systematics, all in the service of conservation efforts. (Avise, Hamrick, 1996)
- Remember as we go along not to miss the ecological forest for the statistical trees; all of these complexities are in the service of answering ecological questions, and the most important thing is to keep your common sense about you and your focus on the biological questions you set out to answer. (Bolker, 2008)
- For the longer term, early choices of mating design and overall population structure were typically crucial to laying the foundations for future genetic changes in the service of effective domestication. (Burdon, Libby, Brown, 2017)
- It has waxed and waned in influence over the centuries, now waxing again in the service of computer-age applications. (Efron, Hastie, 2016)
- 1900 Karl Pearson's chi-square paper was a bold step into the new century, applying a new mathematical tool, matrix theory, in the service of statistical methodology. (Efron, Hastie, 2016)
- In the mid-nineteenth century, the term "lungs of the city" was cited repeatedly in the service of arguments to develop public parks, whether in Berlin, Paris or New York City. (Fenning, 2014)
- 'Scientific forestry' was employed from the 1850s on with the objective of ensuring the supply of timber in the service of imperial economy,6 and the imperial Forest Department was established in 1864. (Fenning, 2014)
- During his lifetime, he was regularly called upon to develop instruments of war in the service of his country. (Krantz, 2017)
- Muller, the founder of mutation genetics and a Nobel Prize winner, in experiments on Drosophila melanogaster, demonstrated that mutations can be artificially induced and "may prove of increasing practical use in plant and animal improvement, in the service of man" (L榘妌ig 2005). (Tuberosa, Graner, Frison, 2014)