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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"Darwinian Natural Selection"”.
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Genetic Algorithms, Orthogonal Arrays and Diploid Chromosomes
Based on the principles of Darwinian natural selection, genetic algorithms are a well established search and optimisation technique. They can be said to 'evolve' solutions to complex problems. However, genetic algorithms can be slow to use, as they require a lot of computer resources to function. …
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William Dean Howells and the New Science: Darwinian Evolution and the Rise of Realism
… as Howells understood it. Charles Sprague's "The Darwinian Theory," published in the Atlantic in 1866, the year Howells became assistant editor, provided the foundation for this new method, and Alfred Russel Wallace's The Malay Archipelago (1869) prompted Howells to take what he called "a new …
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The architecture of the stock market accessibility and operational framework: what can an emerging market economy learn from the ‘international standards’ and the ‘best practice’ models of the US and UK?
… that predominantly employ analogies of Darwinian natural selection. The thesis detects that market evolution and rule change as evolutionary stages in legal development would neither be predominantly described by Darwinian natural selection nor as an inexorable natural process. Three …
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Directed evolution of amino acid dehydrogenases for biocatalysis of chiral amines
By applying the principles of Darwinian natural selection in the laboratory, directed evolution has become a powerful practical approach to study enzymes and optimize them to catalyze industrially relevant transformations. In this thesis, I applied this strategy to the engineering of amino acid …