Sentences with phrase «similar islands of»

New theoretical work shows that similar islands of gas enriched in heavy elements in the early universe could have held as much water vapour as we find in our galaxy today.

Similar islands of material in the early universe could have held as much water vapor as we find in our galaxy today, despite containing a thousand times less oxygen.

Not exact matches

Oxitec has conducted similar trials in Brazil, Panama, and the Cayman Islands, reducing the populations of Aedes aegypti more than 90 percent, the company previously reported.

Dr. Victoria Keener, a research fellow at the East - West Center in Honolulu, Hawaii, whose research focuses on the impact of climate change in Pacific Island communities, expressed similar sentiments.

The reception centre marked the beginning of a number of other similar initiatives in the region this year, such as helping improve search - and - rescue efforts in the waters around the island.

Also, the islands of the Caribbean, including Cuba, Haiti, Puerto Rico, and the Dominican Republic, can be considered points of concern for similar reasons.

And there is perhaps not an island in these southern seas, amongst all those won for Christ, where similar acts of heroism on the part of converts can not be recited.»

The Canary Islanders buried meat in a hole in the ground, and lighted a fire over it; and a similar practice is still sometimes found in the island of Sardinia, while among the Beduins, and in places in North and South America, the process comes even closer to that used in the South Seas.

Thank you for the dipping sauce recipe!!!! I make my own tartar sauce and then 1000 island from the tartar sauce - very similar to yours but with lots of chopped pickles cause that's how the Sasse's roll....

Similar games are played in towns throughout the British Isles — in Kirkwall, on Scotland's Orkney Island, it's called the Ba» Game and takes place each Christmas and New Year's Day; the Cornish towns of St. Ives and St. Columb come out for Hurling the Silver Ball.

Last week, Cuomo made a similar announcement on Long Island, prompting the Port Authority police union to compare the state police to ancient Rome's «Praetorian Guard,» a private police force that served at the will of the Roman emperor.

In its own budget proposal, the Democrat - led Assembly passed a plan similar to Cuomo's, though Westchester County and Long Island would be subject to the New York City schedule and future increases would be automatically tied to the rate of inflation.

He had previously traveled to the Virgin Islands as part of a similar trip.

Generally speaking, the Assembly's proposal, which allows for the cap to be overridden by a 60 percent majority of a local school district and is directed particularly at areas with crushing property taxes like Long Island and Westchester County, is similar to that of the Governor, who said today that he applauded their efforts.

In an interview, Suozzi said that the Democratic candidates embrace similar issues — taking care of veterans, making college affordable, renewable energy, protecting the Long Island Sound, and bringing money to the district.

Some of the development ideas that have been floated for the island include an extension of LaGuardia Airport just across the river, a public - private partnership similar to Roosevelt Island's Cornell Tech, and a megadeveloisland include an extension of LaGuardia Airport just across the river, a public - private partnership similar to Roosevelt Island's Cornell Tech, and a megadeveloIsland's Cornell Tech, and a megadevelopment.

As a similar example, although it was integral part of the local culture, polygamy is forbidden in Mayotte since the island had been integrated to the Republic as an overseas department.

When asked if other districts could have similar scenarios, Walcott mentioned districts in Orange County and in the Five Towns area of Long Island.

That all changed in the 1960's when television reporter Geraldo Rivera highlighted the dismal treatment of patients at a similar institution, Willowbrook, on Staten Island, and a year later Letchworth Village in Rockland County.

On their many criticisms of Mayor de Blasio, they often converge — they have both called out the mayor's record on crime with similar rhetoric; they've both criticized the mayor's handling of the city's schools and homelessness; they both believe that jails should remain on Rikers Island, though reformed and modernized.

The 12 weeks of paid leave would double the time offered in California and New Jersey and triple what's offered in Rhode Island, the only other states to implement similar benefits.

Despite his endorsement of Murray in Nassau, Giuliani has lodged attacks similar to Singas» against the Democrat running for Staten Island district attorney.

The approval of Cuomo's plan, along with a similar free tuition initiative by Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo, is the latest evidence that Democratic Party's best idea of the 2016 race continues to advance at the state level.

The last time a similar difference occurred on Long Island was in the 1994 governor's race, when Brookhaven Republican chairman John Powell came out early for state Sen. George Pataki — a move opposed by the late Senate Majority Leader Ralph Marino of Muttontown.

As County Executive, I will bring a similar style of leadership and work closely with Governor Cuomo to create an affordable Long Island with good jobs so our kids can stay here

Opponents are bolstered by defeats of similar bills in Maryland and Rhode Island this year, and recent polls have shown New Yorkers slightly less supportive of gay marriage as the issue gained more attention this year.

«I would remind you that a lot of people tried to suggest that Mitt Romney was a different kind of Republican, yet when the time came he bent over backwards to achieve the support of conservative Republicans, and I think Lhota did a similar thing when he met with the Tea Party of Staten Island,» de Blasio said.

(WBEN) Now that state officials have announced plans to get rid of the toll barriers and go all electronic at the Grand Island Bridges, the push is on to have a similar «drive now, pay later» system at the Lackawanna and Williamsville barriers, and the effort just might get a boost from a template that funded startup of Buffalo's Canalside.

Similar research since has found what may be the genetic signatures of Norwegian Viking Age mice in modern populations on the Azores, an island chain more than 900 miles west of Portugal.

A mass of marine debris discovered in a giant sinkhole in the Hawaiian islands provides evidence that at least one mammoth tsunami, larger than any in Hawaii's recorded history, has struck the islands, and that a similar disaster could happen again, new research finds.

Baffin Island sparked interest among geologists 10 years ago, when researchers discovered it had levels of helium isotopes similar to those in meteorites thought to be among the oldest in the solar system.

«The frog was originally confused with the Siberut Island Frog, which is a species that occurs on Siberut Island off the western coast of Sumatra, Indonesia, due to their similar appearance in color - pattern,» Chan said.

Kiribati took Fiji up on a similar offer, buying 8 square miles of land on one of Fiji's islands.

Organizer Fred Wells, curator of aquatic biology at the Western Australian Museum in Perth, got the idea for the strike force from Sydney's Australian Museum, which did a similar inventory on Queensland's Lizard Island in 1975.

This firm placement of Gastornis as an herbivore suggests that the community structure of Paleocene Europe was different from that found in North America at the time, and may in fact have been quite similar to the later systems seen on islands, such as Madagascar, where large flightless birds filled many different niches.

Similar cycles have been recently witnessed on the nearby volcanic island of Montserrat.

In doing so, he found that the creature's traits were surprisingly similar to those of modern flightless birds such as rails and grebes that frequently dwell on islands.

Meanwhile, a team at the Kernfysisch Versneller Institute in the Netherlands advocates building a similar antineutrino detector below the Caribbean island of Curaçao.

Diamond acknowledges that many other factors are involved in the long history of this island but that the comparative method, he writes, consists of comparing — preferably quantitatively and aided by statistical analyses — different systems that are similar in many respects but that differ with respect to the factors whose influence one wishes to study.

It is even conceivable that this primeval bird genus might, in a similar fashion, have diversified into several specialized forms on the islands of the Solnhofener Archipelago.

As Darwin later confessed: «I never dreamed that islands, about fifty or sixty miles apart, and most of them in sight of each other, formed of precisely the same rocks, placed under a quite similar climate, rising to a nearly equal height, would have been differently tenanted.»

Before oxygenation, continents were composed of rocks rich in magnesium and low in silica — similar to what can be found today in places like Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Suspecting that Andromeda, a nearby giant spiral galaxy similar to the Milky Way, might sport a similar stream, researchers led by Rodrigo Ibata of the Strasbourg Observatory in France used the Isaac Newton Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands, to find out.

Surtsey is an island that began forming during a similar kind of explosive, marine eruption off the coast of Iceland in 1963.

«This could help explain why the snails are so widespread,» says biologist Shinichiro Wada of Tohoku University, who found that snails at one end of Hahajima Island are as genetically similar to those from the opposite corner as to their neighbors.

As a result of that success, similar projects are being considered from Caribbean islands to Madagascar.

This location was chosen because it is one of the most Mars - like locales on the face of the Earth: the island is completely uninhabited and unvegetated; it receives almost no precipitation, and is thus nearly as dry as Mars; temperature extremes approach those of Mars; the impact crater where the station is located is similar to many such craters on Mars.

But even after Irma completes its reign of terror, another hurricane (Jose) is picking up speed in the Atlantic, and there are fears that it will track a similar path to Irma, devastating already heavily damaged island nations.

As Hawaiian crows are only distantly related to New Caledonian crows but evolved in similar remote tropical - island environments, the authors suggest that convergent evolution of tool - related adaptations may have taken place.

In a similar manner, the induction of hematopoietic (cluster 20, day 3.5 +4 = E7.5) and cardiovascular - specific (cluster 12, 3.5 +5 = E8.5) genes follows the chronological order of the appearance of blood islands and the formation of the heart tube during embryonic development [50], [51].