Sentences with phrase «impact of a larger body»

There are still meteorites flying around, destroying smaller objects on the map and they could herald the imminent impact of a larger body of metal or stone.

Not exact matches

A pulling away on the left by large segments of the evangelical world would likely result in a merging of those segments with a conservative Protestant mainstream in a way that would have a major impact on the shape and internal politics of a number of church bodies.

A conceivable cause of the extinction of the dinosaurs is the impact of some large extraterrestrial body upon earth.

In that scenario the impact of a large extraterrestrial body, that greatest of all improbabilities, may have been the sine qua non of the development of the primates and hence our existence.

In this scenario the impact of the large extra-terrestrial body, that greatest of all improbabilities, may have been the sine qua non of the development of the primates, hence of our existence.

We believe that our drama is having an impact on the larger body of the whole Christian community, especially churches whose members include parents, relatives and friends of PWAs.

A growing body of evidence from NBO research worldwide suggests that large scale implementation could have a significant impact on postpartum depression, parenting stress, and a range of other factors that have potential to derail healthy development.

Fortunately, a large body of literature exists that describes the long - term effects of sexual abuse on many other domains of functioning that may impact breastfeeding.

Commenting on the publication of the 26th Report of the School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK, said «We welcome the Report of the independent pay Review Body in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

Such is the harrowing testimony of one of the closest eyewitnesses to what scientists call the Tunguska event, the largest impact of a cosmic body to occur on the earth during modern human history.

The loss of skeletal muscle, which is the largest insulin - sensitive organ, impacts the body's ability to regulate blood sugar and respond to insulin over time.

Loss of large bodied terrestrial and aquatic fauna may have had a huge impact on systems and suggests many trophic cascades that formerly arose fromtop predators have vanished.

Smith et al. show that biased loss of large - bodied mammal species from ecosystems is a signature of human impacts that has been following hominin migrations since the Pleistocene.

The skin is the largest organ of the human body, protecting us from dehydration and external impacts.

Most bodies in the solar system are pockmarked from rock impacts, and the rest of Pluto's surface has craters large and small, so Sputnik Planitia shouldn't have been spared.

«It is challenging to lose weight, but if women commit to losing 10 percent of their body weight and sustain that over time, it can have a large impact on overall risk factors associated with heart disease and diabetes,» said Cynthia A. Thomson, Ph.D., R.D., co-author and Professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Director of the University of Arizona Canyon Ranch Center for Prevention & Health Promotion in Tucson.

This period was apparently associated with increased meteoric impacts (around 100 times more frequent than today) associated with the break - up in the Main Asteroid Belt of the L - chondrite parent body — the largest documented asteroid breakup event over the past few billion years.

Residual droplets would eventually cool to form chondrules, which in turn attached to larger bodies — some of which would eventually impact Earth, to be preserved as meteorites.

For example, a large impact would create an enormous disk of debris, and while this would feed the creation of more massive moons, smaller bodies would likely be unable to coalesce.

Observation and modeling studies of large - body impact structures on Venus, Earth, the Moon, and Mars.

«[P] sychological distress... has a large, detrimental impact on the wear and tear of a person's body, resulting in accelerated biological aging,» one of the study's authors explained in a news release.

For instance, training your legs with zeal can have a drastic impact on the rest of your body, not just because they add proportion to your physique but also because these large muscles can greatly govern how many calories you're able to burn at rest.

«Training your legs with zeal can have a drastic impact on the rest of your body, not just because they add proportion to your physique but also because these large muscles can greatly govern how many calories you're able to burn at rest.»

Like many papers about gluten, that article focused on Celiac disease and ignored the large body of papers studying the impact of that protein on our brain.

«This is a really, really great way to work the entire body in a low - impact way and to pretty much touch on every single muscle group, especially a lot of those little muscle groups that tend to get forgotten when we focus on the larger muscle groups,» says Daily Burn 365 trainer Becca Pace.

The rubric reflects both a scholar's larger body of work and their impact on the public discourse last year.

Meanwhile, Picus and Odden ignore a large body of literature that shows little impact on advantaged students and smaller impacts on disadvantaged ones, to say nothing of the empirical reality that the 56 percent of students currently attending schools that have full - day kindergarten do not surpass the remaining 44 percent attending schools without full - day kindergarten by anything like a 0.77 margin.

This despite a large and compelling body of research indicating that the impact of school library programs on student success is derived from the teacher - librarian.

«This brief is intended to serve as a tangible resource for practitioners seeking to ensure that their efforts — are based in research and targeted in ways that will produce the most positive outcomes for students — particularly given limited program resources,» said IHEP President Michelle Asha Cooper, Ph.D. «With the prevalence and positive impact of mentoring generating a large body of social science research, IHEP and NCAN believe it's important to make meaningfully contributions to the existing conversation about mentoring to help support students along the high school - to - college continuum, and ultimately improve student outcomes and completion rates.»

A large body of research shows that teacher experience has a positive impact on student learning, especially after a teacher gets through the steep learning curve of the first three years.

While the organizations that oppose charters have long - standing bases of power, the charter movement's largest body of support, its parents, remain largely unorganized and often uninformed about its potential impact.

The chassis copes with gentle, rolling tarmac well, allowing the body to float over less severe imperfections to deliver a decent level of comfort, but you're never too far from a harsher impact due to the larger alloys and low - profile tyres.

It artfully blends the styling of small, sporty BMWs with the sheer presence of previous large BMWs, whose stodgy bodies have tended to blunt the impact of superb machinery and excellent performance.

The structure of the new Sportage is significantly stronger, thanks in large part to the extensive use of ultra-high tensile steel (UHTS) to improve joint stiffness and introduce more effective impact load paths throughout the body.

The large body surfaces are painted in cool «pure white», while «malibu blue» is used as a contrasting color for the impact surfaces of the bumpers, the door mirror housings and the seam that runs parallel to the side windows.

A large body of research exists on the impact of disease on our quality of life, and now studies into how disease impacts our pets» quality of life are being published too.

While there isn't a large body of research on the specific impact of certain minerals and herbal products on cat diabetes, several are thought to have a positive impact.

Laing frequently works in series, creating thematic bodies of work that are large in scale and scope and accumulatively form an ongoing narrative of events that have impacted cultural consciousness.

In his first solo exhibition of the year Clemens seemed ready to make an impact with a large body of new work.

A much larger body of law, he said, is focused on development — on managing resource extraction, for instance (think oil and gas leases)-- but is not crafted from the ground up with broader consideration for social and environmental impacts.

More specifically, we (a) examined whether non-significant results were omitted disproportionately in the climate change literature, (b) if there were particular trends of unexpected and abrupt changes in the number of published studies and reported effects in relation to IPCC 2007 and Climategate, (c) whether effects presented in the abstracts were significantly larger than those reported in the main body of reports, and (d) how findings from these first three tests related to the impact factor of journals.

However, our meta - analysis did find multiple lines of evidence of biases within our sample of articles, which were perpetuated in journals of all impact factors and related largely to how science is communicated: The large, statistically significant effects were typically showcased in abstracts and summary paragraphs, whereas the lesser effects, especially those that were not statistically significant, were often buried in the main body of reports.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

The Great Lakes are the world's largest group of freshwater bodies, hosting a large number of species within their waters and on their shores, but also sustaining life over large areas of North - America thanks to their tributaries» impact on land ecosystems.

Although the body of literature on the role of ECE in improved learning outcomes is large, relatively few studies have explored the impact of community based Early Childhood programs on school readiness in Zambia.

There has emerged a large body of literature describing and explaining the impact of environmental violence on the developing brain (see Glaser11 for review).

In fact, since both your mind and body impact the quality of your life, the two are connected and should be considered parts of a larger picture.

There is now a large body of research which shows that experience of family violence can have negative effects on children, including impacts to their physical and mental health.

I recommend the Attorney - General closely monitor the impact of the amalgamations on the operation of the relevant NTRBs, and ensure that FaHCSIA is providing the direction, assistance and resources they need to transition to larger bodies.