Sentences with phrase «number of peers»

A large number of peer reviewed articles demonstrated the rapid bacteria killing ability of copper.

The mothers were also provided with the telephone number of a peer support group that they could call to ask questions and request help.

If you place just a little extra emphasis on the details and work a little harder to impress, you'll leave vast numbers of your peers behind.

His profound influence in his field is demonstrated by his steady production of research papers referenced by large numbers of his peers.

The list will take the total number of peers in the House of Lords above 750 - the highest number since hereditary peers left the House a decade ago.

It's gratifying to see that some doctors have the courage to break ranks with the vast number of their peers who simply parrot unproven hypotheses.

But the difficulty is that if the Lords» composition has to be adjusted to reflect the outcome of the previous election, the simplest way to achieve this is always to expand the total number of peers.

By far the highest number of peer - to - peer users are in Asia, followed by Europe.

«I'm very surprised that the Labour party is playing this game by agreeing to make a small number of peers because it legitimises the actions of the Tories.»

Attention: Bitcoin payments may take a while to complete until the required number of peers have approved the transaction.

A growing number of peer - to - peer file - sharing sites — among them the notorious The Pirate Bay — is starting to accept bitcoin donations from their...

He said: «I'm very surprised that the Labour party is playing this game by agreeing to make a small number of peers because it legitimises the actions of the Tories.»

The government on Wednesday set out areas of agreement between it and the joint committee: a mainly elected chamber, elected members voted on a system of single transferable vote, staggered elections with one third coming up for renewal at a time, peers to serve 15 - year terms, current peers to leave in stages, a reduced number of peers, and powers to expel peers.

Through this technique of looking at many genes on a single genome for variations, a smattering of birds from across the breeding range can reveal the approximate number of their peers.

Iran, for instance, has increased its yearly number of peer - reviewed science publications from 736 in 1996 to 13,238 in 2008.

Funding Circle is one of the rising number of peer - to - peer (P2P) lending sites available on the Internet.

A significant number of my peers were of the «old school» and called me, derisively, a «Quaternary Urbanite» due to my rantings regarding tree spirits and the EEEEeeevil oil companies.

Responses are shown as a percentage of the number of respondents (N) in each subgroup, segregated according to self - reported number of peer - reviewed publications.

Among the findings, the author affirms that one of the determinant factors for the child behavior is the gender, for the data show boys to have a higher tendency for antisocial behavior than girls do, data also show children that present a greater number of peers show more prosocial behaviors.

They rank the top law firms in three categories: top 10 peer - review rated, which ranks the firms with the highest number of peer - review - rated lawyers; top 10 by activity, which ranks firms in different subject areas by he total number of federal cases during the past two years or total number of transactions; and top 10 by visibility, which ranks firms according to the number of times it has been searched during the past month.

For instance MOGO is an online lender, there's Borrowell, there's an increasing number of peer - to - peer lenders that take exactly that approach that you say, look we've got some capital here, we understand that we can provide a service in a market that is not, doesn't have a lot of diversity.

Attention: Bitcoin payments may take a while to complete until the required number of peers have approved the transaction.

But only recently has one particular carotenoid jumped to the forefront in terms of its status as a «super nutrient,» becoming the focus of a large and growing number of peer - reviewed scientific publications.

His profound influence in his field is demonstrated by his steady production of research papers referenced by a large number of his peers.

Electoral Reform Society research suggests that the total number of peers could rise to as many as 2,000 after the next general election.

This is because as a learner you are able to express your own opinion and your perspective and have a more enriching and meaningful learning experience when interacting with small number of peers.

The country also receives a «B» on scientific articles, measured as the number of peer - reviewed scientific articles produced in natural sciences and engineering per million population.

A number of peer - to - peer lending platforms including Funding Circle, Lending Club, RateSetter, and Zopa have launched since then, creating a robust peer - to - peer lending marketplace.

At the age of 20, both players have shown themselves to be ahead of a number of their peers in that age group, establishing themselves as regulars for club and country already.

Yes, it's natural, yes, we have physiological and evolutionary adaptations to make it easier on us, but we lack so much of the social support that once existed in the days of villages and clans that enabled nursing moms A) to be familiar with what breastfeeding was like before they had their babies, and B) ask any number of peers and role models to physically help them out.

A frequent lecturer to the lay and medical communities on injury prevention, Dr. Janda has also testified before Congress, contributed to or been the lead author of a number of peer - reviewed medical journal articles, and the subject of numerous magazine and newspaper articles.

Keep the number of a peer counselor or lactation consultant handy.

We can't retire those Lib Dem Peers so the only way to create proportionality is to increase the number of Peers from other parties.

A number of peers are letting properties to MPs, as are former MPs who are letting their second homes in London to party colleagues.

A number of peers belonging to the All Party Parliamentary Humanist Group (APPHG) gave a robust defence of the rights of those who do not hold to any religious beliefs during a debate in the House of Lords last night.

But the number of peers is edging towards 900.

Lord Fowler said there was a «very broad consensus» in parliament for the number of peers to be slashed.

«It can not be right that the north - west has almost the same population as London but only a small fraction of London's number of peers.

In May 2011, Clegg revealed plans to make the House of Lords a mainly elected chamber, limiting the number of peers to 300, 80 % of whom would be elected with a third of that 80 % being elected every 5 years by single transferable vote.

There are no hard and fast rules about how the number of peers each party has is determined, but the convention has been that membership of the House of Lords reflects that of the Commons.

He will take the number of peers — none of them elected — to around 900.

Proposals announced today to reduce the number of peers sitting in the House of Lords will in fact increase the voting power of the Church of England bishops, Humanists UK has observed

The debate, called by Lord Harrison, and in which a number of peers declared their interest as «Happy Humanists», took place on the eve of the BBC Trust's deliberations on whether to allow non-religious contributors to the Today programme's Thought for the Day.

The move, which is expected to create at least 80 new life peers with allegiance to political parties — most of them Conservative, Liberal Democrat and Labour — is an embarrassment to all three party leaders, who had pledged in their manifestos to cut the number of peers.