Sentences with phrase «as known quantities»

As known quantities go, it doesn't get much better than a Camry.

You may think of yourself as a known quantity, a trusted partner, a reputable firm.

Not exact matches

This is known as «dollar - cost averaging» and can reduce the risk of buying a large quantity of gold at a high price.

If the supply of that commodity is limited (e.g., no more gold to make coins can be mined), then the ability to manipulate the currency price (exchange rate) downward by varying the quantity in circulation (as occurs with quantitative easing in fiat currencies) is no longer an option.

They treat drug possession as a health issue not a criminal one and possession of small quantities is no longer a criminal offence.

You know, my God, that I can now scarcely discern in the world the lineaments of its multiplicity; for when I gaze at it I see it chiefly as a limitless reservoir in which the two contrary energies of joy and suffering are accumulating in vast quantities — and for the most part lying unused.

Rather, there are known supplies of oil, coal and other natural resources whose quantities tend to expand as their prices rise, making it more profitable to explore for new deposits.

And now we know also that prosperity as measured by the quantity of consumption has very little to do with happiness or wellbeing.

As they aren't very cheap, do you know some «hotspots» where they tend to be sold cheaper per kg (instead of buying them in small quantities in supermarkets)?

No matter what you put in it, as long as the quantity is right, it's amazing!

Traditional conveyor lubrication, known as wet lubrication, uses high quantities of water mixed with -LSB-...]

Arcia basically repeated his 2013 season, so maybe he's a known quantity, but the other two would make me nervous as a Twins fan.

The Wairarapa Times wrote: «This phenomenal skater... came to these championships as something of an unknown quantity... but [his] ability to unleash a devastating final couple of laps, no matter what the distance... was breathtaking stuff.»

Inevitably, the Open at Pebble Beach had to come down to the known quantities, as it surely had by Saturday evening, when Watson and Rogers shared the 54 - hole lead at 212, four under par.

It is not enough to measure the number of fruits and vegetables or the quantity of sodium in each dish; you also have to prepare the food well, in the school and not at some outside kitchen as so often happens when our school kitchens are no more than «warming centers.»

As many nursing moms know, the quantity of breast milk that a nursing mom produces tends to ebb and flow.

Your child knows his birthday, phone number, and address, and he may even understand that many numbers, such as his age, represent a quantity.

While I vaguely knew the other four, they were unknown quantities both as individuals and as a group.

When bilirubin is present in quantities above what the liver can excrete, it causes an orange tinge to the skin and eyes known as jaundice, which we sometimes see in newborns.

If the next feeding he doesn't nurse as well then he may need a little bit, so it's a gradual decrease of supplementation as the babies feeding better and many times that supplementation at that point if mom is using a breast pump is breast milk and so if it's formula to begin with then as her milk supply increases in volume we switch it over, Some moms are under the impression that it's the formula that treats it, no, it's the milk in general, the feeding that treats it, it's not that breast milk is better than formula, I mean, we know that breast milk is better than formula but it's not that formula is better, it's just that sometimes the quantity is the key, absolutely

In Bratton, de Blasio is turning to a known quantity, especially as he faced criticism during the general election campaign over whether he would be able to effectively keep the city safe post-Bloomberg.

As fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily availablAs fossil fuels have a finite quantity, the costs of using it tend to increase as we get to the point where it is no longer easily availablas we get to the point where it is no longer easily available.

The Orleans County Major Felony Crime Task Force has identified a group of individuals and locations in the City of Rochester, where quantities of the lethal drug fentanyl, also known as «gray death,» have been sold to many people from Orleans County, the Task Force said this afternoon.

To quantify bias, one team turned to a type of AI known as machine learning, which allows computers to analyze large quantities of data and find patterns automatically.

One of these is the uncertainty principle, which states that in the quantum world it is impossible to simultaneously know two quantities, such as a particle's location and its momentum, with complete accuracy.

Equally striking, if less well known, are the so - called squeezed quantum states: Normally, Heisenberg's uncertainty principle means that one can not measure the values of certain pairs of physical quantities, such as the position and velocity of a quantum particle, with arbitrary precision.

The quantities of certain chemicals with known roles in insect learning (octopamine), aversive conditioning (dopamine) and aggression (serotonin) were all reduced by the procedure, suggesting that as with their mammalian counterparts, duress in bees causes sustained, system - wide changes in brain state — a possible analogue of mood.

This curiously intractable riddle is known as the continuum hypothesis, and it concerns that most enigmatic quantity, infinity.

In research funded by Sparks charity, Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity and Cancer Research UK, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed a test for blood and cerebrospinal fluid samples that looks for a specific panel of four pieces of short genetic code known as microRNAs, which are found in greater quantities in malignant germ cell tumours.

Because this quantity is known as a polynomial, mathematicians call the problem a polynomial time, or class P, problem.

Before the 2004 study, known as EIFEX, the European Iron Fertilization Experiment, scientists had conducted 11 experiments at sea to explore how trace quantities of iron may encourage the growth of algae.

In observations obtained at the William Herschel Telescope in the Canary Islands, the University of Warwick astronomers detected a large quantity of hydrogen and oxygen in the atmosphere of a white dwarf (known as SDSS J1242 +5226).

Water quantity is also known as the flow frequency effect; channel size and conditions (morphology) is referred to as the channel capacity.

Sometimes known as tau, or the symbol τ, the quantity is equal to a circle's circumference divided by its radius, not its diameter.

Maria T. Brandl and her colleagues focused on protozoa known as Tetrahymena after finding copious quantities of these renowned bacteria eaters in water from a California field — an environment in which pathogens, such as Salmonella, might be shed by livestock.

Those shifts most likely stem from the copious quantities of carbon dioxide spewed by fossil fuel — fired power plants that are changing the climate and, thus, the tiny plants known as phytoplankton that serve as the base of the oceanic food chain.

It is a measurement of a quantity known as pseudorapidity — «basically a posh way of counting charged particles», says Evans.

Kilpatrick et al. show how these observations can be explained by an explosion known as a kilonova, which produces large quantities of heavy elements in nuclear reactions.

Koo, of U. Penn's School of Dental Medicine, has spent 15 years studying how microbes construct the biofilms, also known as plaque, that have plagued teeth since H. sapiens invented agriculture, bringing large quantities of starch into the diet.

In a first - of - its - kind effort to illuminate the biochemical impact of trauma, researchers at NYU Langone Medical Center have discovered a connection between the quantity of cannabinoid receptors in the human brain, known as CB1 receptors, and post-traumatic stress disorder, the chronic, disabling condition that can plague trauma victims with flashbacks, nightmares and emotional instability.

Their provisional (and constantly updated) ranking of nearly 35,000 researchers relies on queries made through Google Scholar to normalize the popular metric known as the h - index (a scientist with an h - index of 20 has published at least 20 papers with at least 20 citations each, so the measure takes into account quantity and popularity of research).

Known as Major Immediate - Early Promoter (MIEP), this genetic code kick - starts viral replication by generating IE2, a protein that can be extremely toxic in large quantities.

We define three dynamical regimes in terms of the dynamical quantities known as the Rossby deformation radius (the ratio of buoyancy to rotation) and the Rhines length (the maximum extent of turbulent structures).

Using this type of NMR, which is based on a technique known as dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP), scientists can gain much more insight into protein structure and function than they can with current NMR technology, which requires large quantities of purified proteins, isolated from their usual environment.

testosterone Although known as a male sex hormone, females make this reproductive hormone as well (generally in smaller quantities).

Despite the name, the bulk aisle is just as handy for buying small portions of something new you want to try out as it is to buy large quantities of stuff you know you'll use a lot, which can save lots of money and space in your pantry.

When you restrict your caloric intake for longer periods or when you start skipping your breakfast, the enzyme known as lipase start metabolizing your fat in great quantities.

A reason doctors have been hesitant to recommend weight training to pregnant women is because they produce large quantities of a hormone known as relaxin, which helps make connective tissue get more lax to ensure that the body is prepared for childbirth.

Acetaldehyde is a well - known carcinogen and is responsible for «hangover» symptoms such as nausea, headache, fatigue, and liver damage — definitely not something you want floating around in your body in large quantities.

And, as we all know, sugar — especially in the quantity it's used in so many frozen drinks — is pretty dangerous stuff.