Sentences with phrase «by counting the number»

What makes this method particularly useful is the fact that you will have a very clear picture about its effectiveness just by counting the number of leaflets returned.

These sorts of clocks keep time by counting the number of oscillations in the alternating current they receive, which also powers them; in other words, the number of times the flow of electricity changes directions every second.

But the measure of these interests is not to be taken by counting the number of such special courses.

By counting the number cups you have been eating until today, you can easily lower the amount of food being consumed from tomorrow onwards, thereby accomplishing your weight loss goal.

By counting the number of times per day that your baby nurses and dividing 25 ounces by that number, you will get a general sense of how much your baby should eat in a feeding.

To assess actual consumption, trained field researchers were assigned to every school to record how much of the apple was wasted by counting the number of slices thrown away by each student.

The team made the observations using LRO's LEND instrument, which detects hydrogen by counting the number of subatomic particles called neutrons flying off the lunar surface.

By counting the number of these mutations they could tell which of the clones were newer and which were older, building a family tree of cloned trees.

By counting the number of molecules that evaporated, they could calculate the energy of each cluster before it was zapped.

Their responses were then correlated with a measure of pain tolerance by counting the number of paperclips that they could retrieve from ice - cold water.

After an egg is laid, researchers can tell how much sperm the female has left by counting the number of sperm caught between the egg membrane and the shell.

Previous investigations of habitation levels have been done by counting the number of homes with lights on at night, for example.

«Autophagy is most commonly monitored by counting the number of APs, which really only provides a snapshot of the process — similar to how counting the number of garbage trucks on the street doesn't tell you how much garbage is actually being recycled at the plant.

The researchers measured toxicity using a biological assay, by counting the number of dead Daphnia — tiny crustaceans — in water containing the different ladybird toxins.

In the newly published study, Mount Sinai researchers from The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute report that by counting the numbers of one type of immune cell activated by exposure to a food, a simple, safe blood test can accurately predict the severity of each person's allergic reaction to it.

By counting the number of argon atoms that were produced, the physicists could calculate the flux of neutrinos coming from the sun.

Total apnea - hypopnea index (AHI)-- which measures severity of sleep apnea by counting the number of pauses in breathing during sleep — for all patients significantly decreased an average of 35 events per hour after the device was planted, which corresponds to an average reduction of 84 percent.

In this science project you can measure the productivity of some of your favorite fruit by counting the number of seeds they produce.

The power was then calculated by counting the number of times p ≤ 0.05 and dividing by the number of model fits.

We then measured the population of CSCs by FACS after 72 hours as well as their mammosphere - forming ability by counting the number of spheres after 10 days.

The frequency of gravitational lensing, which can be measured by counting the number of gravitationally lensed quasars within a given quasar catalog, allows one to infer the expansion speed of the universe, because the accelerated expansion increases the distance to each quasar and therefore enhances the chance of gravitational lensing (Figure 2).

By counting the number of those feeding events and comparing them with weather records, biologists might also learn whether feeding increases when it's rainy or hot.

The plasmid coverage was calculated by counting the number of reads aligned at each base.

By counting the number of enterocytes along the a / p axis, bands of GFP expression were approximately mapped to subregions (Figure 1F — G, dashed lines) in each particular cell type (Figure 1 — figure supplement 2).

The effectiveness rate is calculated by counting the number of women out of 100 who experience an unintended pregnancy during the first year of typical use.

The method is akin to estimating the share of Hawaiians who surf by counting the number of surfers nationwide, no matter their proximity to a beach, the height of the waves, or the warmth of the water.

They can do that by counting the number of pages for a specific letter and multiplying the number of listings on a page by the number of pages.

I read that there was a way to avoid doing an alignment when replacing tie rod ends by counting the number of exposed threads and making sure the same number of threads are exposed on the new one.

He entertained himself by counting the number of mosquitos he could kill with his bound hands.

Rather than checking the sexes they were placed back by counting the number of dogs — for example, she asked «did this pen contain two or three dogs?»

By counting the number of scales left behind at various levels of the sediment cores, the researchers determined how much sunlight reached the bottom of the pond in a given year, allowing them to estimate the pond's water depth, clarity and chemistry over time.

The data curves were obtained by binning the local anomalies divided by local standard deviation into intervals of 0.05 (i.e., by counting the number of grid boxes having a ratio within each successive 0.05 interval).

As we've noted, one of the most common ways firms determine the success of their websites is by counting the number of visitors.

One way to start demonstrating the proactive value of legal departments is by counting the number of times when help desk - type services cause employees to change course to avoid a legal pitfall, and the number of times the department initiates proactive legal risk management activities on its own.

USDAW appealed to the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT), arguing that by counting the number of redundancies at each establishment, rather than the workforce overall, UK law does not comply with the Directive.

Comment by JM — February 15, 2009 # 50 Tell others how many cows there are by counting the number of hoofs and dividing by four.

If you live in one of these jurisdictions, you can figure your time by counting the number of nights your child spends with you each year, based on the custody terms of your decree.

Nine subscales are formed by counting the number of items scoring 2 or 3 and dividing by the number of items for each scale, resulting in scales from 0 to 1.

We construct a measure of multiple problems by counting the number of negative outcomes each child has.

Not exact matches

The sheriff's department was still counting the exact number of arrested, Keller said, and planned to release a statement explaining the use of pepper spray by law enforcement.

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

Moore, whose campaign filed a last - minute «election fraud» complaint on Thursday just before the results were certified just after 2 p.m. EST, claimed that widespread voter fraud had contributed to his more than 20,000 vote loss to Jones, a number that was not significantly altered by the inclusion of military and provisional ballots that were later counted.

This number is calculated using the share counting rules described in Sections 5 (a) and 5 (b) of the 2014 Plan and includes the number of shares available for new award grants under the 2014 Plan out of the 385 million shares authorized by shareholders upon adoption of the 2014 Plan; the number of shares available for new award grants under the 2003 Employee Stock Plan (the «2003 Plan») on the date that shareholders approved the 2014 Plan; the number of shares subject to outstanding stock options under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015; and two times the number of shares subject to outstanding RSUs under the 2003 Plan and 2014 Plan as of November 17, 2015 (all adjusted for the 7 - for - 1 stock split).

A shocking number of American households — nearly half, by the Federal Reserve's last count — don't have enough savings to cover an unexpected $ 400 expense.

This measure, which is less widely used, adds up all of the incomes of the people surveyed and divides that figure by the number of people counted.

What's more, the number of active North American oil rigs fell by two in the week ended June 30, from 758 to 756 rigs, the first such contraction since January, according to the Baker Hughes Rig Count.

As long as PS Fund (along with any of its Related Persons) does not otherwise engage in (or has not otherwise engaged in) conduct that would otherwise result in its becoming an Acquiring Person by becoming the Beneficial Owner of 10 % or more of the shares of Common Stock then outstanding, PS Fund's solicitation and receipt of one or more revocable proxies from the Company's stockholders to be counted toward the number of shares of the outstanding Common Stock needed to cause a special meeting of stockholders to be called pursuant to and in accordance with the Bylaws, which proxies are given to PS Fund in response to a public solicitation of proxies made pursuant to, and in accordance with, Section 14 (a) of the Exchnage Act by means of a solicitation statement filed with the Commission on Schedule 15A, should not, of itself, cause PS Fund to become an Acquiring Person.

After a reporter remarked that by their count the plan only seems to create 3,000 direct jobs, the premier further shrugged off the importance of measurable targets, saying «I don't think it's responsible to try to come up with phony numbers.»

So when you've written your article, take the total word count, divide it by 100 and make sure your article contains about that number of images.

By my count, the parties have now nominated the following number of candidates out of 87 constituencies in the next election: Alberta Party 11/87, Liberal 20/87, New Democratic Party 49/87, Progressive Conservative 39/87, Wildrose 53/87.