Sentences with phrase «mass as a percent»

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When emotional intelligence (EQ) first appeared to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

In a stock market reaction that has become familiar after mass shootings, shares of Smith & Wesson and rival Sturm Ruger & Co spiked as much as 11 percent on Monday.

When the concept of emotional intelligence was introduced to the masses, it served as the missing link in a peculiar finding: people with average IQs outperform those with the highest IQs 70 percent of the time.

As a result, the coastal ice caps and glaciers lose their melting ice as run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of GreenlanAs a result, the coastal ice caps and glaciers lose their melting ice as run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of Greenlanas run off 65 percent faster than they can recapture it — contributing to a loss of ice equivalent to roughly 14 percent of the total mass of Greenland.

By a solid 64 - 21 percent, New York City registered voters prefer a millionaires» tax instead of a form of congestion pricing as the best way to raise money for mass transit, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released today.

That 10 percent could screw up all kinds of estimates, from how dark energy changes over the universe's history to how fast the universe is currently expanding, to the calculations of the masses of ethereal particles known as neutrinos.

Using high - tech computerized technology such as mass spectrometry and older standard biochemical processes, the researchers determined that the tiny winged macho - men transfer 13 percent of their total body weight through their spermatophore complex during the mating process.

They also reported that microbes may account for as much as 90 percent of the mass of all ocean life.

In other words, if you're a bodybuilder with only 7 percent fat but a lot of muscle, your BMI will be high, perhaps the same as that of someone who is obese with lower muscle mass.

As two neutron stars twirl together and rip each other apart, they should expel neutron - rich atomic nuclei, forming a shroud of matter totaling a few percent of a solar mass.

For example, because rickshaws have less mass and smaller engines, their CO2 emissions are about one third those of private cars, the latter of which consequently contribute as much as 90 percent of India's total urban road passenger transport emissions.

In August a group of European astronomers nominated another, fainter Pleiades object, Teide 1, as a more solid brown - dwarf candidate, with just 7 percent of the sun's mass.

The review found that 19.3 percent of the patients diagnosed with a depressive disorder reported lower back pain, as did 16.75 percent of patients diagnosed as obese (a body mass index, or BMI, > 30kg / m ²), 16.53 percent of the patients diagnosed with nicotine dependence, and 14.66 percent with reported alcohol abuse.

Obesity is a major public health problem in the United States, as an estimated 35 percent of Americans are obese and have a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or more.

That's as much as could be squeezed into our skulls, even with the evolutionary innovation of a large forehead and with the neocortex taking about 80 percent of the available mass.

The large mass of Sputnik Planitia would have had a 50 percent chance of either facing Charon directly or turning as far away from the moon as possible.

«The fact that this event is twice as far as the previous two gives us a longer baseline to test the dispersion relation, and as a result we now have a limit on the mass of the graviton that is 30 percent tighter than the one we previously set.

Würth Solar in Germany has mass - produced such cells that can convert as much as 13 percent of sunlight, according to Lawrence Kazmerski, director of the DoE's National Center for Photovoltaics in Golden, Colo..

The average body mass index (BMI) of the men with childhood ADHD was 30.1, and 41.4 percent were obese whereas those without the condition as kids reported an average BMI of 27.6 and an obesity rate of 21.6 percent.

It comes from the spinning space - time around the black hole and in fact it is not very well known, but that energy is there for the taking — up to 29 percent of the so - called rest mass energy of a spinning black hole is extractable — an d original conjecture, which is not, as I say [said], yet established fact, but certainly taken much more seriously than it was at that time — 10 or 15 percent of the rest mass energy of the black hole, about half of the spin energy, is in practice according to our conjecture, is in fact, the power source for these relativistically moving jets.

Fusion is more efficient than fission, but even if we enclose the sun in a perfect Dyson sphere, we'll still never convert more than about 0.08 percent of the sun's mass to energy we can use, because once the sun has consumed about a tenth of its hydrogen fuel, it will end its lifetime as a normal star, expand into a red giant, and begin to die.

As days shorten in the fall, males lose approximately 30 percent of their body mass, their fur moults and their testes decrease significantly in size.

When recaptured seven weeks later, the bear had lost 22 percent of her body mass, as well as her cub.

These factors were a low albumin level (less than 3 grams per deciliter, or g / dL), weight loss greater than 10 percent of body weight six months before the operation, and obesity, defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 kilograms per square meter or higher.

Because the ship does not need to lug around as much propellant, its total launch mass drops by 40 to 60 percent.

Eighty percent of its stellar mass has formed in just the past few million years, marking this as an exceptionally young galaxy, producing copious amounts of ionizing radiation.

The liver is unique among organs in its ability to fully regenerate from as little as 25 percent of its original mass.

For smaller weights, up to 20 percent of their body mass, the Nepalis were as efficient as the African women: Both walked as if unburdened.

A super-Earth as small as two to three Earth - masses was ruled out with a statistical significance exceeding 99 percent.

With a mass and size approximately one - third that of the Sun, and an abundance of heavy elements less than 10 percent solar, Kapteyn's Star was, as most red dwarfs, historically seen as a poor candidate for hosting any planets and habitable environments.

With less than 20 percent of Sol's mass, Proxima is so small that it can transport core heat to its surface only through convection, unlike larger red dwarf stars like Gliese 752 A — also known as Wolf 1055 A or Van Biesbroeck's Star (more).

The star has a mass around 82 + / -3 percent of Sol's (Bouchy et al, 2005), 0.753 + / - 0.025 percent of its diameter (Winn et al, 2006; Masana et al, 2006; and Bouchy et al, 2005), and a visual luminosity as low as 26.4 percent of Sol's.

Astronomers studied 30 stars, with masses between 80 and 140 percent as massive as the Sun, exhibiting rotational periods between four and 23 days.

Baryons are particles of normal or «ordinary» matter (e.g., such as protons and neutrons) that make up more than 99.9 percent of the mass of atoms found in the cosmos.

As the energy output of the helium fusion process per unit mass is only about a tenth the energy output of the hydrogen process, this stage will only last for about 10 percent of a star's total active lifetime.

The star has recently been estimated to have as high as 85 percent Sol's mass (Tinney et al, 2011; and Kovacs and Foy, 1978), and it may have around 92 to 96 percent of its diameter (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived using the power law formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980) and about 78 percent of its bolometric luminosity (NASA Star and Exoplanet Database, derived using the exponential formula of Kenneth R. Lang, 1980).

The present interstellar gas contains elements heavier than helium at a level of about 2 percent by mass, while the globular clusters contain as little as 0.02 percent of the same elements.

Because ancient astronomers believed that Sirius was red in color as late as 2,000 years ago, some investigators wonder if the system may have a third stellar component, Sirius C, with about five percent of Sol's mass that implies a spectral type M5 - 9 in a six - year elliptical orbit around Sirius A (Benest and Duvent, 1995).

This star may have around the same mass as Sol, 87 to 89 percent of its diameter (Johnson and Wright, 1983, page 683; and Hill et al, 1989), and as little as 54 percent of its luminosity.

«While we saw the galaxy as it was 13 billion years ago, it had already built more than 15 percent of the mass of our own Milky Way today,» said Pascal Oesch of the Yale University, the lead author of the study.

Similarly, the terms Neptunes and hot Neptunes refer to planets less than about 10 percent of Jupiter's mass, and the term super-Earths refers to those planets that may well be rocky bodies only a few times as massive as Earth.

The star has about 63 percent of Sol's mass, as much as the same diameter, and about 25 percent of its luminosity.

As a main sequence dwarf with sub-Solar luminosity, the star may have a mass around 86 percent of Sol's based on an interpolation table (NASA Stars and Exoplanet Database; and Gray et al, 2003).

Kepler 62 is a K - 2 dwarf star that is smaller, cooler, only a fifth as bright as our Sun, Sol, while Kepler 69 is a Sun - like G - type dwarf with perhaps 93 percent of its mass and 80 percent of its brightness.

They discovered a planet at least 80 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 3.8 million miles from the star HD46375, 109 light - years away in the constellation Monoceros, and a planet 70 percent the mass of Saturn orbiting 32.5 million miles around the star 79 Ceti (also known as HD16141), located 117 light - years away in the constellation Cetus.

«As you get older, you lose lean muscle mass — as much as 15 percent per decade if you're not active,» says Vonda Wright, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and the author of Fitness After 4As you get older, you lose lean muscle mass — as much as 15 percent per decade if you're not active,» says Vonda Wright, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and the author of Fitness After 4as much as 15 percent per decade if you're not active,» says Vonda Wright, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and the author of Fitness After 4as 15 percent per decade if you're not active,» says Vonda Wright, MD, an orthopedic surgeon and the author of Fitness After 40.

Activating brown adipose tissue — which may amount to as much as 30 to 40 percent of total body mass in some people — can make the battle of the bulge considerably easier.

Those who ate the least amount of protein gained the least amount of weight, but they also lost muscle mass and stored more than 90 percent of extra calories as fat.

Age: According to Dr. Sacheck, metabolic rate decreases as you age because muscle mass declines by five to 10 percent each decade after the age of 30.

After adjusting for body mass index (BMI — an estimate of body fat based on height and weight) and lifestyle factors such as diet and smoking, the researchers found that black women who worked night shifts for 10 or more years still had a 23 percent increased risk of developing diabetes.