Examples of heterogeneity in a Sentence

the cultural heterogeneity of its residents is a point of pride for the city

Recent Examples on the Web But according to a recent study by Behjati and his colleagues in Nature, human placentas routinely consist of a quilt of different genotypes, and this strange heterogeneity may actually play a role in protecting the fetus from genetic harm. — Quanta Magazine, "New Genomic Study of Placenta Finds Deep Links to Cancer," 8 Apr. 2021 Yet, this information can better explain the heterogeneity in firm behavior and its results in terms of, for example, acquisition. — Hec Paris Insights, Forbes, "Why Human Capital Could Make Generalists Better CEOs Than Specialists," 19 Mar. 2021 At the very least, the term disorder suggests a common causal structure, which goes against all our current knowledge on causal heterogeneity in psychiatry. — Sarah Durston, Scientific American, "We Need to Rename ADHD," 8 Mar. 2021 Despite their different priorities, the three shared a vision of India that preserved its historic heterogeneity, where secularism meant not an absence of religion from the public sphere but a benign, if sometimes mushy, affinity for all faiths. — New York Times, "India’s Leading Documentary Filmmaker Has a Warning," 1 Dec. 2020 The heterogeneity of the United States compared with smaller countries led the Trump administration to discard a uniform national policy in favor of supporting states’ efforts to develop policies tailored to their own unique circumstances. — Eric Sun, National Review, "The Mythical Red and Blue State COVID-19 Divide," 19 Nov. 2020 This uneven risk of infection—or heterogeneity—creates hot and cool spots of viral spread. — Nsikan Akpan, National Geographic, "A 'herd mentality' can’t stop the COVID-19 pandemic. Neither can a weak vaccine.," 2 Oct. 2020 Hardware heterogeneity, however, complicates software development for these computers, especially when specialized components from a variety of vendors are used in tandem. — Jim Salter, Ars Technica, "Intel, Heidelberg University team up to bring Radeon GPU support to AI," 30 Sep. 2020 But on a larger scale, heterogeneity typically lowers the herd immunity threshold. — Quanta Magazine, "The Tricky Math of Herd Immunity for COVID-19," 30 June 2020

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