Sentences with phrase «larger end of the scale»

As smartphone screens go, the 5.7 - inch display on the Meizu Pro 6 Plus is definitely at the larger end of the scale.

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First, by the end of 2014, following the large - scale asset purchase programs, the Federal Reserve balance sheet was funded by about $ 3.1 trillion in liabilities other than Federal Reserve notes, which were mostly in the form of reserves in excess of the amount banks were required to hold; in contrast, there were only $ 64 billion of non-Federal Reserve note liabilities in June 2007, of which only about $ 2 billion were excess reserves.

Home inspections in Oregon average $ 300 to $ 450, the lower end of the scale for smaller dwellings, the higher end for larger square footage.

The days of the large - scale manufacturing plant are coming to an end.

The three main areas where my direct advice went unheeded were the following: (1) the need for large - scale financial assistance [29] for Russia, which I deemed (and still deem) to have been essential to molding a political consensus around reforms, and to bolstering the financial situation enough to achieve a modicum of success in the fight against hyperinflation; (2) the need for strong monetary and fiscal policy to achieve a rapid end to inflation [30]; and (3) the urgency of establishing a social safety net [31], especially in health care and pensions, to ensure an adequate social and political base for societal transformation and democratization.

Our biggest worry heading into the end of Q1 2018 is that the artificial stability engineered by the Fed is going to snap again, but on a larger scale and more lasting basis than we saw in February.

the solution lies in the scaling systems of Blockchain technology, and China's largest retailer JD.com at the end of February announced the launch of a business incubator for start - UPS to attract foreign projects Blockchain.

A lot of us have done our part in small ways, but this has done little to end large - scale poverty.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

Carter notes that many in the early heyday of the new university at the end of the nineteenth century felt that science on a large scale would require socialistic government on a large scale.

For example, while we have not seen any large - scale research studies in this regard, we would predict that crimini mushrooms grown on composted materials that had previously been contaminated with residues of pesticides, heavy metals, or other unwanted substances would end up absorbing some of these contaminants into the brown button mushroom that we eat.

Large - scale pitch invasions by Premier League teams are largely a thing of the past but from time to time some fans end up on the pitch in moments of celebration.

I have a temper as well but at the end of the day when I noticed it coming out in small ways I asked myself what did it matter in a larger scale, in the bigger picture how does it matter?

They also found that some of the athletes, none of whom suffered diagnosed concussions, didn't do as well as predicted on tests of learning and memory at the end of the season, although the study did not find «large - scale, systemic differences» in the brain scan measures, which the authors found «somewhat reassuring» and consistent with the fact that millions of athletes play contact sports for many years without developing progressive neurodegenerative disorders.

The large - scale distribution of free formula could end up being very costly to both governments and families, but that is not monitored.

However, the average survey respondent placement hides the fact that the largest majority of people place themselves on the furthest eurosceptic end of a 0 to 10 scale, where 0 = European Unification has gone too far, and 10 = European Unification should go further (among those who give an opinion), as can be seen here:

At the other end of the scale two seats are showing large enough swings for the Conservatives to win the seat (North Devon and Portsmouth South, which has a chunky 9 point swing from LD to Con, presumably at least partially connected to the scandal around Mike Hancock).

Conference regrets that some of the proposed reforms have never been Liberal Democrat policy, did not feature in our manifesto or in the Coalition agreement, which instead called for an end to large - scale top - down reorganisations.

«HMRC should then commission an independent review of the end to end tax credits compliance process before any further large scale compliance exercises are carried out.

She estimates that her project, a large - scale analysis of the gene profiles of individuals, will end up costing around a million dollars — research that «could have been done in an academic lab if the resources [were] available.»

By the end of this year, hundreds of children with unexplained forms of intellectual disability and developmental delay will have had their genomes decoded as part of the first large - scale, national clinical sequencing projects.

US researchers investigated this effect towards the end of the 1990s in a large - scale experiment on forest land in the vicinity of the Brazilian town of Manaus.

«As powerful as the cycle is, it is also surprisingly susceptible to environmental changes — and humankind is imposing massive perturbations on Amazonia by both cutting down the trees and heating up the air with greenhouse gases, which reduces large - scale moisture transport and precipitation, and end up affecting even the untouched patches of the forests.»

This so - called urban health advantage is usually attributed to better access to health care and improved overall infrastructure, such as clean water, safety and education.But many of the globe's cities are already bursting and actually offer a far worse quality of life to those on the lower end of the income spectrum, whose plights can get overshadowed in large - scale statistics.

SeaWiFS data show that photosynthesizing organisms have declined in certain ocean gyres (large - scale surface current patterns), said Jim Yoder, a scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, in a NASA article commemorating the end of SeaWiFS's mission.

On the largest of scales, scientists feel they are closer than ever before to understanding how the universe began and how it will end (page 36).

But the three - drug approach has since been fast - tracked for approval, assuming a large - scale efficacy test of 10,000 people confirms positive results at the end of May.

J. Michael Murphy, EdD, of the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) Department of Psychiatry, senior author of the JAACAP paper, notes that this is the first study to document the positive impact of a large - scale pediatric mental health intervention using validated mental health measures and real - world benchmarks like end - of - the - year promotion and school attendance.

«It is telling that even in modern large - scale societies the status comparisons most consequential for psychosocial stress are typically among individuals who are in close geographic proximity or who occupy the same social network rather than between individuals at opposite ends of the socioeconomic spectrum.

To this end, we are developing a new multi-scale live imaging approach to characterize nuclear organization dynamics at the single cell level based on the simultaneous characterization of both the local dynamics of RNA polymerases and transcription factors and the large scale behavior of chromatin.

Shell states that tar sands are less damaging that coal: Well since when was coal and oil used to the same ends unless they are talking about widespread adaption of CTL technology which could happen in some countries with large scale coal rserves I guess but even I doubt that CTL projects will scale to 3 — 5 mbpd which is the projected output of Albertas oil sands come 2030.

To this end, we design new multi-scale quantitative methods that can resolve the local dynamics of soluble proteins, dissect the architecture of cellular structures, and characterize the mechanical properties and dynamics at large scales.

Furthermore, since the end of the 19th century, we find an increasing variance in multidecadal hydroclimatic winter and spring, and this coincides with an increase in the multidecadal North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) variability, suggesting a significant influence of large - scale atmospheric circulation patterns.

Without using any magic tricks, researchers found that people with larger signatures tended toward the high end of the «social dominance» scale, as determined by their agreement with statements like «I certainly have self - confidence.»

Examples of science projects enabled by the data in the High - Latitude Survey include: mapping the formation of cosmic structure in the first billion years after the Big Bang via the detection and characterization of over 10,000 galaxies at z > 8; finding over 2,000 QSOs at z > 7; quantifying the distribution of dark matter on intermediate and large scales through lensing in clusters and in the field; identifying the most extreme star - forming galaxies and shock - dominated systems at 1 < z < 2; carrying out a complete census of star - forming galaxies and the faint end of the QSO luminosity function at z ~ 2, including their contribution to the ionizing radiation; and determining the kinematics of stellar streams in the Local Group through proper motions.

To this end, his work often relies on anthropology and human history as much as it does on genome sequencing and computation, in order to decipher the subtle genetic signatures that appear when species undergo major events such as population bottlenecks, large - scale migration or dispersal events, or the development of resistance to disease.

While this method is on the gentler end of the scale, is it likely that I am knocking out a large chunk of benefit by preparing it as such?

At the other end of the spectrum, this 7.1 presentation flexes its muscles and provides a wonderful wallop for the larger scale musical performances.

The Force alignment structure may be systemically unsalvageable, and with little end - game content currently available for those characters who have reached level 50, one wonders whether BioWare will be able to hold on to the more serious gamers and guilds who yearn for a variety of large - scale challenges.

By Scott Mendelson HollywoodNews.com: Yes, this looks pretty entertaining, it's well - cast, and yes there are moments that suggest a pretty large scale, but at the end of the day, it still looks like an Alien - type horror film.

This time out, things are essentially all on a larger scale, with director David Twohy trying to create a kind of space opera; somewhat inevitably, critical backlash was large and it ended up not seeming such a good idea after all.

Emmerich has had several attempts at world - ending destruction, and although each of the aforementioned films was impressive in its time, 2012 sets a new standard for large - scale disaster porn.

The same financial report also lists the launch of «large - scale online titles developed by Western studios starting from the fiscal year ending [March 2015].»

The first, by George A. Romero, his wife and assistant director Chris Romero (née Forrest) and Tom Savini, reveals that almost all the cast were friends, family or local Pittsburgh volunteers (even the mall was owned by personal friends of Romero), that the original script had a far bleaker ending (everybody dies) which was changed during the shoot because the film was «too much fun» for it, and that the fourth film, should it ever get made, is a larger - scale affair set in a down - town area, with lots of action sequences and an overarching theme of «ignoring the problem».

Coward and Lean ended up codirecting the large - scale project — an impressive undertaking, especially considering that neither of them had directed for the big screen before (this would be Coward's only such credit).

From their first youthful introduction, to their ambiguous ending in Before Sunset, to their tumultuous disarray of emotions in Before Midnight, these characters, their essence and the basic fabric of their beings, attract me, entrance me even, because they play out like real people on a larger than life scale.

In the few instances where the game's technical issues aren't getting in the way, the large - scale battles can still be quite satisfying, pitting you and a few allies against roaming hordes of bad guys just waiting to meet the sharp end of whatever weapons you're packing.

He attempts to capture the large - scale dilemma they faced by the many overhead shots that look straight down into a never - ending crevice and the close up shots of the rickety ladders and ropes that are used.

By the early AD 1900s, there was a large and flourishing Jewish community in Londonâ $ ™ s East End following large scale immigration form Russia in the last two decades of the 19th century.

This study evaluated the effectiveness of a low - cost and large - scale summer reading intervention that provided comprehension lessons at the end of the school year and stimulated home - based summer reading routines with narrative and informational books.