Sentences with phrase «many small fragments»

The researchers have figured out how to cultivate new coral much faster than it would naturally grow in the wild, by planting small fragments in specialized tanks and underwater nurseries.

Yes, the earliest manuscripts we have are after His resurrection, but there were earlier writings that were not on durable material, and writings that were destroyed by the Romans and Jewish leaders, but the surviving record captures all the necessary Truths, even though the Gospels cover only a small fragment of Jesus» activities during His time on earth.

Here's a thought, being as how we all have such a little bit of time to be alive why work so hard to make that small fragment of time worse for people?

There are a number of important Greek manuscripts from the second and third century containing over half of the new testament, and there are other smaller fragments as well.

When Plato acted it was probably in the belief that his freedom to act could only affect a small fragment of the world, narrowly circumscribed in space and time; but the man of today acts in the knowledge that the choice he makes will have its repercussions through countless centuries and upon countless human beings.

It may be reduced to a small fragmented array of churches no two of which are similar.

At that point, European and Euro - American Catholics will be a small fragment of a church dominated by Filipinos, Mexicans, Brazilians, Nigerians, and Congolese.

you mean to say that when looking for the smallest fragment of human remains they never came across a single item from the controled event?

And, with the exception of the smallest fragments, no two of these manuscripts match one another.

In the sermon on the mount Jesus states that he has come to «fulfil» the law of Moses, from which no smallest fragment shall pass away until the end of the age (5:17 - 18).

At the outset we noted that the nineteen and a half centuries we have covered are only a small fragment of the course of Homo sapiens and even of what we call civilization; when viewed against cosmic time they constitute only a fraction of a second and embrace a small planet which is a mere speck in the vast universe.

It must embrace the universe, both the small fragments of it known to men and everything thus far beyond the range of human knowledge.

And the Gospel of John, unquestionably the latest of our four Gospels, was already being read in Egypt, far from its land of origin, about ninety years after Jesus» death — and a small fragment of such an Egyptian copy lies today, in the original, in the John Rylands Library in Manchester!

During the first phase, toxins are neutralised and broken down into smaller fragments.

It must also be pointed out that these statistics in no way make Emre Can a better player than Steven Gerrard, these figures are a small fragment of what makes up the DNA of a good player and Can has a very, very long way to go before he gets anywhere near Steven Gerrard.

Where our kids go to school is one small fragment of a much larger ecosystem of their life choices and values.

Don't waste your whole budget on one small fragment of time.

To minimize the allergenic properties of the protein, it is divided into small fragments so that the infant can tolerate them better.

To reduce the allergenic properties of the protein, it is divided into small fragments so that the infant can tolerate them better.

It occurred to Clark that «targeting a smaller fragment of DNA might work better» than looking for larger pieces.

«For the first time we measured small fragments from damaged proteins that leak from the joint into blood.

Over time, as much as 70 percent of bird species disappeared from the smallest fragments.

Only the most generalist species remain in the smaller fragments, she added, such as the white - eared opossum (Didelphis albiventris) or the nine - banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus), which are able to adapt to disturbed environments because they do not need such large areas to find food.

There's a good reason for the resemblance to armadillos, according to researchers who have reconstructed the family tree of these ancient beasts based on their mitochondrial genome, reconstructed from small fragments of DNA extracted from bits of a protective, bony carapace.

To achieve effective climate protection, it will be necessary to stop chopping the forests into ever smaller fragments.

The second - stage reaction strips off the fatty acids» carboxyl group (a carbon atom, two oxygen atoms, and a hydrogen atom) and breaks the remaining hydrocarbon chains into smaller fragments, yielding a light oil.

«We used to think most of the debris consists of small fragments, but this new analysis shines a new light on the scope of the debris.»

«We send DNA to be sequenced by the Joint Genome Institute, which is part of the U.S. Department of Energy, and they sequence it in lots of very small fragments.

The 30 or so bits of bone, none more than 7 centimeters long, have suffered much since they were entombed: Ice sheets have scoured Ellesmere Island several times in the past few million years, and today's freeze - thaw cycles continue to splinter fossils into ever - smaller fragments, Rybczynski says.

Only a few photos and small fragments of bones bear witness today to the original find situation.

Nonetheless, they share many of the same challenges, as stored DNA breaks down into progressively smaller fragments over time.

Previous analyses of smaller fragments of «yeti» DNA yielded controversial results.

It consists of derelict satellites, rocket bodies and parts, and small fragments produced by collisions between debris.

Andrés Cózar, researcher from the University of Cadiz, explains: «Ocean currents carry plastic objects which split into smaller and smaller fragments due to solar radiation.

The biodegradation of these small fragments then proceeds «very slowly», it notes.

The Defra report suggests that oxo - degradable fragments left outside in the United Kingdom would become small fragments over two to five years.

The United States now tracks more than 10,000 pieces of debris four inches wide or larger, but tens of millions of smaller fragments are also whizzing through space at speeds that can exceed 17,000 miles per hour, says Mark Matney of NASA's Orbital Debris Program.

«We often see them «shooting» at things on the ground of their tanks, such as leaves or small fragments of wood,» he says.

Geneticists learned how to sequence small fragments of DNA and compare the versions of those fragments from different individuals.

When you drop in a small fragment of ancient ice, it provides that seed: the water instantly organizes itself to mimic the prehistoric pattern.

Use sticky tape or duct tape to pick up smaller fragments; then, on hard surfaces, wipe down the area with a damp paper towel or a wet wipe.

The bulk of the body exploded high in the atmosphere, but many smaller fragments survived and rained down onto the snow - covered ground.

We see the project as preserving a small fragment of them before they are lost in the digital noise.»

This «through and through» path indicates that the bullet was probably not of the variety designed to expand or break into smaller fragments once inside the body, which would have caused a much severer injury.

Initially the crash left behind some 1,500 pieces of wreckage bigger than four inches in diameter, along with hundreds of thousands of smaller fragments, estimates Nicholas Johnson, chief scientist of the Orbital Debris Program Office at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

We got the same results looking at a very small fragment as we did a much larger fragment from the same meteorite.

Microplastics refer to barely visible litter in the form of small fragments, fibres and granules.

«It's degraded, broken down so you have very small fragments and few copies.

«During this step, molecules are dismantled into smaller fragments and their molecular weights are identified,» Böcker explains.

The microplastics found in the zooplankton in this study consisted of small fragments and fibers, but not the deliberately designed microbeads that may sink to the sediments in the ocean.