Sentences with phrase «for smaller subsets»

«I think that's going to take away the notion that this is for some small subset of our population,» he said.

He benefits from a medication that targets the underlying cause of the disease for a small subset of cystic fibrosis patients.»

The purpose of a standardized test is to provide us a comparable metric for a small subset of what schools are supposed to produce, and it's very valuable for that purpose.

I was part expecting and part hoping that the Transit Connect with rear windows and five seats would become a cult family vehicle for a small subset of the American population.

Instead of making popular accessories — the company draws reference to key chains and license plate brackets — Unplugged Performance aims to stay focused on producing high - end premium modifications for the smaller subset of discerning owners that might be looking for something a little more unique, and won't mind paying for it.

For a small subset of writers, self - publishing may be a good way to build a readership and maximize profits.

The divergence problem is more interesting, but only matters for a small subset of the proxies and however it is resolved it won't make much difference to the broader conclusions.

There's great news on the way for a small subset of California renters.

Verizon has a pleasant little surprise for a small subset of Google Pixel customers that received their orders with a delay.

Perhaps for a small subset of consumers it'll fit the bill, but for most it'll just be a facepalm of a wearable.

Verizon wants to apologize for shipping its Google Pixel orders late with free Daydream VR headsets for a small subset of...

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After that, smaller prizes are given out for matching some subset of the numbers.

As a result, you are asking a very small subset of the overall entrepreneurial population — both in absolute terms and size of business — for opinions.

A spokeswoman for the NYSE, Kristen Kaus, said the issue affected a small subset of clients whose trading reports in the affected symbols were being returned in an unexpected format, so the exchange suspended trading in the five securities to minimize customer impact.

[24] This estimate is a subset of the cost savings discussed in the RIA, but is an estimate of cost savings only for small entities.

I doubt that anyone has ever told you this before, but the «average» return for a category of funds — whether a large subset like diversified stock funds or a narrower one like small - company growth — tracks only the performance of the portfolios that survived all the way from the beginning of the measurement period to the end.

What's sad is that a small subset of Christians ARE hateful, and get all the press, and presume to speak for the vast majority of Christians who don't cram stuff down people's throats, and who are a lot more Christian than the loudmouths.

While beer geeks sing the praises of bigger and bolder beers and wait in line for rare releases, they represent a very small subset of the beer drinking community.

A much smaller subset choose homebirth for themselves, think it's reasonable, but don't choose to take on the burden of actually providing home birth care.

Researchers targeting a small subset of tumor markers would end up paying for extra controls they didn't need.

Over a year and a half, this small but dedicated group grew 350,000 yeast colonies, picked out and cultured 35,000 promising mutants, and, for a selected subset of those, analyzed their telomere lengths.

When a small subset dies, the pattern of activity that the olfactory processing regions in the brain receives for a specific smell doesn't change very much.

A team of researchers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin and environmental testing firm URS reports that a small subset of natural gas wells are responsible for the majority of methane emissions from two major sources — liquid unloadings and pneumatic controller equipment — at natural gas production sites.

This finding lends additional credence to the idea that a small subset of wells, drilling processes and equipment is probably responsible for a large percentage of the emissions from gas drilling.

A «fat tail» of a few leaky wells This is often referred to as the «fat tail» or «super-emitter» problem, that just a small subset of wells or pieces of equipment is responsible for the majority of the leaks from the natural gas system (ClimateWire, Feb. 14).

«There has been a tremendous effort over the past several years to block EGFR as a treatment for lung cancer, but this therapy only works in a small subset of patients.

Some of the first evidence for cancer stem cells came from studies of leukemia in the 1990s, which showed that only a small subset of the cancerous blood cells could propagate the disease in mice.

Although these have become popular with a small subset of health - conscious consumers, their higher cost and poorer performance in cooking and baking explains the reluctance of commercial cooks and food processors to substitute them for trans - fat - based vegetable shortenings and margarines.

An entire subset of small worker ants, for example, develops enlarged glands and seem to specialize in finding and treating fungus outbreaks.

It suggests that at the root of any cancer there is a small subset of cancer cells that are solely responsible for driving the growth and evolution of a patient's cancer.

Until recently, it was not common practice for ecologists to explicitly point out that only a small subset of introduced species cause problems.

The envisaged sensors might serve a wide variety of applications, e.g., for high - throughput in - line control of high - precision mechanical parts in digital factories, replacing state - of - the - art inspection of a small subset of samples by laborious distance metrology.

A draft report released last month by an NSABB working group finds that only a «small subset» of GOF studies pose serious risks, and that the United States has an effective framework for managing such work, but that tighter oversight may be needed.

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But only a small subset — 5 % — of heart patients are suitable candidates for stem cell injections, said Amit Patel of the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

«They have closed the door to the vast majority of germline applications and left it open for a very small, well - defined subset.

In considering a smaller group, the subset of physicians who apply for NIH grants, Dickler and colleagues18 reported that MDs who become investigators are less successful than MD - PhDs and PhDs in obtaining a first NIH research project grant (R01) and, if funded once, are less likely to receive a subsequent R01.

Second, the AAV preps generally used for gene editing are low titre, and are therefore able to infect only a small subset of the cells used in a given experiment.

But the researchers noticed a small subset of patients who had significant response and remained on the drug for an extended time.

Rather, each tumor contains a small subset of cells with stem cell - like capacities that are responsible for initiating and sustaining tumor growth, while the bulk of the tumor cells lacks this ability.

Researchers have discovered that a subset of human antibodies have catalytic activity against a particular antigen, breaking it down into smaller and less harmful fragments instead of trapping it for removal or destruction by other immune cells.

Cardiovascular Disease A small subset of women (n = 400; average follow - up, 57.4 months) in WHI reported conditions at baseline that would have made them eligible for HERS, ie, prior MI or revascularization procedures.

Currently, stem cell therapies are known to be effective for only a small subset of diseases, mostly diseases that involve the blood - forming system.

While accounting for only a small fraction of all prostate cancer cases, the discovery may provide important clues about how this common cancer develops and help to identify a subset of men who might benefit from additional or earlier screening.

Hits obtained in the primary screen were then retested and a small subset was assayed for dose - responsiveness.

Additionally, Complete Genomics provides aggregate information for the small variants identified across the 69 genome data set as well as a 55 genome subset that excludes any closely - related individuals.

We began thinking about the task with a museum metaphor: a relatively large number of works would be collected and stored in the basement, with a small subset of them selected for public exhibit in various galleries, by various curators, organized by grade level, core content, media type, etc..

To test for this possibility, we compared the gains made by F schools with the performance of an even smaller subset of schools whose 2002 test scores were similar but had never received an F (which we termed low - performing non-F schools).

For example, we estimated the relationships over shorter periods of time, used different subsets of international tests, and compared smaller groups of the 50 countries.

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).