Sentences with phrase «about relative sizes»

Because people didn't notice that the room was changing size, they made wildly inaccurate judgments about the relative sizes of the boxes, the team reports 21 February in Current Biology.

Learn about relative sizes (big, bigger, biggest or small, smaller, smallest), shapes, colors, and patterns.

Four months ago, Kim and Trump traded bellicose rhetoric about the relative size of their nuclear buttons.

But the impact of including 16 and 17 year olds in the electorate is also about the relative size of the group.

(None of which says anything about the relative size or importance of these two sites, or how Amazon could easily deliver more profit to my bank account even at the higher royalty rate by virtue of its scale and prominence.)

For something like biology we have more like hundreds of thousands, if not millions (just think about the relative size of biology departments at your local universities, then think about the size of the private industry and companies such as Roche, Amgen, pfizer).

But, your little algebra says nothing about the relative size of C and A-B!

Not exact matches

«The relative size of the charge vs. expectations and limited disclosure related to potential off - balance sheet liabilities once again raise a question about the credibility of the current guidance and capital structure framework.»

The envisioned Trump tax cut is about the same size relative to the economy as the 1981 Reagan tax cut.

It'll put about the same amount of money into all of the companies in the index, regardless of their relative size.

The vitamin A activity of cis isomers of β - carotene was not included in the determination of portion sizes because of uncertainty about the bioavailability of cis - β - carotene relative to all - trans - β - carotene.

For about $ 360 a week, her daughter gets her own room with a queen - size bed, a crib for the baby and a pullout couch for relatives.

When they analyzed the MRI data, the researchers found that the physically fit children tended to have bigger hippocampal volume - about 12 percent bigger relative to total brain size - than their out - of - shape peers.

It has notifications about your baby's development, info on size relative to a piece of food, an endless supply of tips and an online community of moms.

I fail to see how blathering on about the SIZE of NY's education «pie» relative to other states» negates the fact that «you» lost a lawsuit over the DISTRIBUTION of OUR pie within NYS... and now have defaulted on a court approved repayment plan.

If you're worried about actually being able to carry your nail gun around, be sure to look at the size relative to something in your house so you can be sure that it will fit comfortably in your hands while working.

All subjects were questioned about their ideal size, their preference for being non-obese (relative to other conditions, such as being an alcoholic or blind), and how much stigma they associated with a person's being overweight or obese.

Deaths from war have also been on a steady slide relative to the size of the population: War killed about 2 percent of people in the 17th century, but only 0.7 percent in the 20th century.

The device they built is about the size of a fingernail; because the area is small relative to the length of the edges, more heat is lost through inevitable dissipation.

The find also adds to the tantalizing clues about how these moose - sized, presumably shaggy progenitors fit into the camel family tree — a lineage that today boasts only two species of true camels but includes plenty of South American relatives such as llamas, alpacas, guanacos, and vicuñas.

The rest of the monitored space debris ranges in size from the size of a softball, to massive rocket bodies, all orbiting uncontrolled at relative speeds averaging about 22,300 mph in low - Earth orbit, where the majority of the objects reside.

«To know more about the relative importance of these strategies in this species, we need studies with larger sample sizes.»

But, relative to body size, primates have much larger brains than any other animals, and we humans, not surprisingly, have the biggest brains of all — about six times larger than you would expect for a mammal of our size.

She used eastern box turtles, Terrapene carolina — a species that comes in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors — to make links between the rich variation in modern specimens and their fossil relatives from as far back as the Pleistocene, from about 2.6 million to about 11,700 years ago.

The postage stamp — sized fossil of a close relative of the earliest spiders provides new insight about how today's web - spinners evolved.

In all species, lash length was about one - third eye width, suggesting lashes had evolved to be a particular size relative to the eye.

The actual sizes of these orbits on the sky are very small (about one billionth the area covered by an «x»), but the orbit sizes shown in the animation are accurate relative to each other.

During observing, a computer - controlled system of sensors and actuators adjusts the position of each segment - relative to its neighbors - to an accuracy of four nanometers, about the size of a few molecules, or about 1/25, 000 the diameter of a human hair.

Pluto has a moon Charon that is so large relative to it size that it is often called a double planet, as Charon is about half Pluto's diameter while Earth's Moon is only one - quarter of Earth's diameter.

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Nowhere is this more disturbing than when Dusty improvises a fairy tale to the kids about the «real king» and the «step - king» in a way that paints Brad in a negative light, including the relative sizes of the men's «swords».

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In his research on the relative degree to which different instructional approaches influence learning, John Hattie (2009) demonstrated that an effect size of.40 was about equal to one year of growth for a year of schooling.1 Ideally, teachers produce more than a year's growth each year for their students.

Save Patch is an educational video game designed to promote student understanding of two foundational ideas about fractions and rational number addition: (a) the size of a rational number is relative to how one whole unit is defined; and (b) only identical units can be added to create a single numerical sum.

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In the top three quintiles of firm size (accounting for about 94 % of total market capitalization), EM is a highly significant measure of relative value, while B / M is not.

In the top three size quintiles, accounting for about 94 % of total market value, EM is a highly significant measure of relative value, whereas BE / ME is insignificant and size is only weakly significant.

But among those purchasing homes of $ 350,000 or more, about half put down at least 20 per cent (not only reducing their relative mortgage size, but also avoiding mortgage insurance premiums).

This difference in relative size was given as a prime example about how margin debt is not a problem for the U.S.. However, the relative size of margin debt in the past has not been a «safety net» that investors should rely on.

Others point out that because interest rates are so low, the debt service payment on the national debt (about $ 250 billion) relative to the size of the economy is less than it was throughout most of the past three decades — 1.6 percent of American output vs. 3 percent or more during the four administrations prior to Obama.

It scales us, marks our relative size in the universe, and reveals what we care about most.

(which was about the relative importance of issues, not their actual size)

Btw, one could similarly use Bayesian analyses to determine, given BEST and HADSST, what is the likelihood of various global trends; indeed, one needs only know BEST and the relative size of the part of the globe BEST covers, to give definitive answers about global temperatures using Bayes (improved considerably if one has meaningful information about land - sea temperature relationships).

Comparing monthly data of GISTEMP & MLO CO2 - rise, relative to their linear trends, GISTEMP has a wobble and noise about a third the size of that within the MLO CO2 - rise data.

Geico had fewer complaints about auto insurance to state regulators than the industry median in 2017 relative to its size, according to the latest data from the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

Has far more than the median number of customer complaints, relative to its size, about auto insurance

The Hartford had fewer than the median number of complaints about auto, home and life insurance to state regulators in 2017 relative to its size, according to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners.

In both cases, the histogram densities for each origin sum to «1.0», and the dataset does not provide any absolute metrics about the population size of individual origins, or relative population size differences across origins.