Sentences with phrase «counted number of adult»

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The result: a multiyear, multinational, ongoing research project known as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, or GEM, which counts (in effect) the number of working - age adults who are engaged in acts of company creation.

The Bible provided an exact figure of the number of adult male Jews who left Egypt, and while traveling in the desert the Jews were commanded by God on more than one occasion to count the population of the various tribes.

The number of pitches thrown by major league pitchers is closely monitored to protect against injury, but monitoring pitch count is even more important in younger players because growing bones and joints are more susceptible to injury than in adults.

They counted the numbers of APs and ALs in different body tissues — intestine, muscle, pharynx (i.e., the animal's foregut), and neurons — at different time points during the adult life of C. elegans, and used chemical blockers to learn more about the dynamics of the process.

While praising the models» sophistication and the paper's illumination of the link between climate and nesting, Tucker says he is not convinced that baby - turtle survival is more important in determining nest counts than the number of adult females in good breeding condition.

Also, many of the colonies where counts do exist were last counted several decades ago (Table 1), while other counts rely on estimates from late in the breeding season (i.e. after an unknown number of eggs and chicks had already been lost and adults may have already departed from the colony)[16].

The adult reviews the miscues with the child, using the audiotape or discussion and counts the number of words the child read correctly.

According to a number of academic and bureaucratic (e.g., the Census Bureau) definitions, families do not need to include children (couples count); they do not need to include more than one adult and they do not need to include two people in a sexual relationship (single - parent families count); when they do include two adults, those adults do not need to be married (cohabiting couples count) and they do not need to include a man and a woman (same - sex couples count).