Sentences with phrase «fraction of them consumed»

They found that only a tiny fraction of them consumed enough carbohydrates before the race — and those that did ran an average of 13 % faster.

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I am comforted that baby is exposed to only a fraction of alcohol that mother consumes, but the research on motor development and sleep patterns is certainly alarming for me!

The fraction of crude oil consumed in the U.S. that was imported went from 35 % immediately before the 1973 oil crisis, peaked at 60 % in 2005, and then returned to 35 % by 2013 [7] thanks to increased domestic production [8] from the shale oil boom.

Apply this transaction across every purchase of goods now made in China, across every American purchaser, and you see we would be consuming a fraction of what we currently do.

The human species, therefore, whilst comprising only half of 1 per cent of the global animal biomass, consumes a significant fraction of everything the Earth produces.

By looking at the plant's total annual utility use and the fraction of yearly operations needed to print a single issue of DISCOVER, David Hakenewerth, a manager at Quebecor's Jonesboro facility, determined that producing one month's edition of the magazine consumes 63,364 kilowatt - hours of electricity and 1,704 therms of natural gas.

«The biocrusts are a big buffet and we find in our study that they each use different fractions of dissolved organic carbon, so it takes a community to consume a buffet,» Northen said.

In the same way, the biocrusts are a big buffet and we find in our study that they each use different fractions of DOC, so it takes a community to consume a buffet.»

Black holes are monsters that supposedly consume everything that comes close to them, yet the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way has been known to eat up only a tiny fraction of the gas and dust blowing in from massive young stars nearby.

Prisons and hotels in the US have begun to wash their laundry with a machine that reduces shrinkage and energy costs, consumes a fraction of the usual amount of water and uses no detergent.

«While hydraulic fracturing consumes only a small fraction of the water used in other extraction methods, our analysis highlights the fact that it can still pose serious risks to local water supplies, especially in drought - prone regions such as the Barnett formation in Texas, where exploration and development is rapidly intensifying,» Kondash said.

Most of this is consumed within the subcontinent itself, but the fraction that is exported still results in $ 10.7 million USD per year.

It consumes you, and I made only a fraction of the changes I'd hoped to make.

This as - of - yet untapped level on consumer — the person who wishes he read more books or was more up - to - date on current events, but simply doesn't have enough time to devote to this type of reading — is becoming a bigger focus among digital publishing platforms; last week, Rooster announced the March 11th launch of its «snippet» reading subscription that lets users consume serialized books at a fraction of the cost of full - size ebook subscriptions, again, optimized for smartphone reading.

However that is a tiny fraction of the water we actually consume because it takes 250 - 650 gallons of water to grow a pound of rice, 130 gallons to grow a pound of wheat, 65 gallons to grow a pound of potatoes, 3,000 gallons to make a quarter - pound burger (assuming the cow is grain fed) and 500 - 1,000 gallons to create a quart of milk, a pound of sugar can take 400 gallons of water to grow and a pound of coffee tips the scales at 2,650 gallons of water!

Not only are our airplane flights very quiet in comparison to all helicopter tours, but our touring airplanes use only a fraction of the fuel that a typical helicopter consumes, therefore making our tour much more eco-friendly than any helicopter flights.

However, those countries are fairly small and consume a fraction of what the most resource - hungry countries consume.

The idea that you could ever replace the rate of utilization of energy from fossil fuels, which has been estimated as consuming 400 years worth of photosynthesis per year, with a fraction of the annual photosynthetic harvest that does not impinge on food production is part of today's magical thinking, along with reducing deficits by cutting taxes while continuing to increase spending.

But even more to the point, 250 gigatonnes CO2 is an extremely significant fraction of the total remaining 2 °C emissions budget, which (since about 330 gigatonnes of this 1000 gigatonne budget was already consumed between 2000 and 2009) is only 670 gigatonnes.

The estimation procedure used to develop these numbers was as follows: Because data could not be found on other countries / regions, US data (EIA, 2002) on electricity use as a fraction of total energy use by industry and on the fraction of electricity use consumed by motor driven systems was taken as representative of global patterns.

According to one reference, in the normal atmosphere, all of the O3 is destroyed by UV photolysis every few minutes, leading to the formation of free O atoms, and all of the O atoms are immediately consumed in reactions with O2 to reform O3 in a fraction of a second.

According to the Department of Energy, in 2001 the world consumed at an average rate of more than 13 trillion watts (13 terawatts, TW), just a fraction of the 120,000 TW of energy available that falls to Earth - free.

If you have a real need for a powerful PC, you can either take steps to make sure it'll boot fast and turn it off when you're not using it or get a PC which has a standby mode in which it consumes a small fraction of its regular wattage.

What I mean is that with airship you can travel to your destination consuming a fraction of the fuel required by a jet aircraft of the same payload capacity but at a slower airspeed.

Rather than rely on miners to verify transactions, any average user running a Raspberry Pi can now be able to open a channel and enable transfer of funds for a fraction of the previous cost while also consuming little energy.