Sentences with phrase «almost twice»

The data showed a string of monstrous, superhot blobs, each with a temperature of more than 17,000 degrees Fahrenheit — almost twice as hot as the surface of the sun.

Their rate was almost five times that of Chinese Americans (1 case per 1,000 per year) and almost twice that of Caucasians (2.4 cases per 1,000 per year).

On average this had the effect of increasing the mapping rate, with a number of samples having almost twice the mapping rate as before.

«The frequency of de novo mutations in this 10 % of the genome is almost twice that in the rest of the genome.

New in DR14 is the first public release of data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (eBOSS); the first data from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory (APO) Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE - 2), including stellar parameter estimates from an innovative data driven machine learning algorithm known as «The Cannon»; and almost twice as many data cubes from the Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO (MaNGA) survey as were in the previous release (N = 2812 in total).

And Juno's data show that it is almost twice as strong as expected in some spots.

This is almost twice the rim radius estimated from near - infrared interferometry.

This overlap is almost twice as much as expected (P < 0.0001, χ2 test).

Young - adult mice exposed to nicotine - free e-cig vapors in the womb tended to move at almost twice the pace of unexposed mice.

The racial disparity was almost twice as large as the well - documented difference between men and women.»

However, among patients who had uninformative cytogenetic or molecular features but who were MRD < 0.1 % at the end of induction I, the disease - free survival (HR, 1.86; 95 % CI, 1.18 — 2.92; P =.008) and overall survival (HR, 1.91; 95 % CI, 1.01 — 3.61; P =.046) were almost twice as high in patients who received five treatment courses compared with four courses.

Other zeolites have almost twice as much space for the nitric oxide to move around.

In melanoma patients who are also treated with the immune therapy pembrolizumab after surgery, the risk of recurrence of the disease is almost twice as small as in patients who receive a placebo.

Ozone was recorded at 160 micrograms per cubic metre, a level considered moderate - to - high on the UK's pollution index and almost twice as high as Aberdeen, which had the UK's worst ozone levels at time of writing.

Average arctic temperatures increased at almost twice the global average rate in the past 100 years.

But the IPCC report recently stated, «with atmospheric carbon dioxide levels rising almost twice as fast in the first decade of this century as they did in the last decades of the 20th century,» so I imagine usage rates are and will continue going up for some time yet.

Had there been no Green Revolution, ecologists such as Jesse Ausubel, director of Rockefeller University's Program for the Human Environment, calculate that the world would have needed to cultivate an extra area of land almost twice that of South America, taking the needed farming land from forests and grasslands.

After conducting what he described as «more rigorous» calculations, Gervasi concluded «that the total release of CO2 from producing Natuna gas and burning of the LNG manufactured from the gas would be almost twice that emitted by burning an equivalent amount of coal.»

Budget constraints mean the Tevatron will shut down this year, but fortunately the CDF team, which made the find, is already «sitting on almost twice the data that went into this analysis», says Roser.

In animal models, the scientists found almost twice the amount of modified delta - catenin in the brain after learning about new environments.

Mice that produced the extra Atoh1 had almost twice as many hair cells as did control mice, the researchers report today in Nature.

Kepler - 78b is about 20 percent larger than Earth, with a diameter of 9,200 miles, and weighs almost twice as much.

Robot - assisted laparoscopies were almost twice as likely as traditional procedures to take longer than four hours.

But among cocaine users, the rate of shrinkage was almost twice that of the non-drug-using group (about 3 milliliters per year versus 1.7 milliliters for the non-drug-users), the team reports today in Molecular Psychiatry.

The 1.2 - million - strong aboriginal community is growing at almost twice the rate of the general population, according to data collected by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.

After stroke, cognitive function declined almost twice as fast.

For example, the diabetes rate for black people is almost twice as high as for whites, and blacks have higher rates of cancer and heart disease.

The size and shape of the upper jaw fragment suggests that the creature was about 4 meters long, with some other species in the Helicoprion genus measuring almost twice that length.

The vaccinated animals lived almost twice as long, and, in one trial, had about one - fourth as many parasites as untreated mice.

Ruiz, who contributed to the report, noted that an analysis of weather records at one páramo research station showed increases in minimum temperatures were almost twice that of lower elevations, while increases in maximum temperatures jumped to nearly three times the average at lower elevations.

After stroke, cognitive function declined almost twice as fast compared to those before stroke.

Similarly, almost twice as many men reported feeling isolated from their coworkers because of political discussions (16 percent vs. 9 percent) and 18 percent said workplace hostility has increased (vs. 8 percent of women).

Within a year of Chauvet's discovery, radiocarbon dating suggested the images were between 30,000 and 32,000 years old, making them almost twice the age of the famous Lascaux cave art in south - west France (see map).

Researchers have found that female false garden mantises (Pseudomantis albofimbriata, pictured) that were fed just a quarter of what others got actually produced more pheromones than well - fed females — and attracted almost twice the number of males.

At 30 meters in length, an adult blue whale weighs about 180 metric tons — almost twice the heft of the largest dinosaur known — and consumes about 3.6 metric tons of food each day.

Almost twice as many patients with strokes in the insular cortex quit smoking compared to those with strokes in other parts of the brain — 70 percent vs. 37 percent.

The study found that women diagnosed with GDM were over 20 times more likely to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes later in life, over two and a half times more likely to develop ischemic heart disease and almost twice as likely to develop hypertension.

Over 5 weeks, the researchers discovered, seagrasses housed with bivalves grew almost twice as much as those contained alone.

HARD KNOCKS Girls had almost twice the annual rate of concussions as boys when researchers compared sports — soccer, basketball and baseball / softball — that both played.

Now it seems there will be almost twice as many extreme La Niñas as well.

The research team found that patients with faecal samples positive by the cytotoxin assay were almost twice as likely to die within 30 days as those patients with samples only positive by the alternative «gold - standard» method (16.6 % versus 9.7 %).

A Japanese company has developed a system that can generate almost twice as much energy from compressed pellets of pulverised household waste as previous systems.

Named 2000Q after the number of quantum bits, or qubits, within its processor, the machine, made by D - Wave of Burnaby, Canada, has almost twice as many qubits as its predecessor.

«They initiated almost twice as many nests as last year but their nest success was still a paltry 17 percent this year compared to 6 percent last year.

Siamogale melilutra was about the size of a wolf and weighed approximately 110 lbs., almost twice as large as the largest living otters.

«HFC 23 emitters can earn almost twice as much from the CDM credits as they can from selling refrigerant gases — by any measure a major distortion of the market,» writes Michael Wara of Stanford University, US, in the journal Nature.

«We were also surprised to note that our patients who were presenting from the community were almost twice as likely to be obese as the general population in Massachusetts (34 percent compared to 23 percent).

In 1965, mothers spent a daily average of 54 minutes on child care activities, while moms in 2012 averaged almost twice that at 104 minutes per day.

At that distance, Alpha Centauri will be almost twice as bright as it is today, but that's as interesting as it gets.

To find out about how life began, 20 per cent of those polled said they would visit a religious leader, but almost twice as many, 37 per cent, would consult a biologist.