Sentences with phrase «number of smaller areas»

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The «microbiome,» or the collection of organisms that reside within the human body (especially the gut), has become a big new interest area for a number of major pharma companies like Merck and smaller biotechs alike.

The personal - finance website evaluated business conditions in more than 1,200 small U.S. metropolitan areas on 18 metrics, including average growth in number of small businesses and cost of living.

It's a small, but fast - growing, niche that's making inroads in a number of ways — such as providing an alternative to overseas outsourcing while offering jobs in domestic areas that often have few employment options, particularly for skilled workers or those with college degrees.

The government lending data analyzed by Reveal also showed Trident served a much smaller and whiter section of the Philadelphia area than the region's No. 2 lender, Wells Fargo, which overall took in a slightly smaller number of conventional home purchase applications.

Mr Wedgewood said the Gulf of Mexico was one of a small number of key geographic focus areas forming part of Woodside's international exploration strategy.

Using an analytics package such as Google Analytics is recommended for all but the smallest campaigns as this kind of reporting system will show where site refinements need to be made — high bounce rates and declining visitor numbers will be picked up, suggesting that on - page efforts be focused in certain areas rather than spread around the site as a whole.

We all know «small» parishes where closure has meant that significant numbers of the faithful have stopped going to Mass. «Key result area» analysis should produce a very different approach from these policies of despair.

By the 1970s it bad appeared throughout the country, especially in rural areas of the West and South — such as the Ozarks and mountain areas of the Pacific Northwest - with small numbers of Jews and nonwhites.

They are concentrated in the South, truer to the stereotype — about half of their members live in these areas — with large numbers, nearly seventy percent, living in small cities, towns, and rural areas.

This is important for a number of reasons, such as overturning the predominate idea that only a small segment of society in certain urban areas could have been involved in such literary activities, but for believers today my book helps us understand why there was such an emphasis on reading communally in the New Testament (1 Tim 4:13; Col 4:16; 1 Thess 5:27; Rev. 1:3; etc.).

If a drought wipes out 80 % of a species in an area, and the drought persists, it wouldn't be surprising if the ones that had survived had evolved into a new species within a relatively small number of generations.

The reduced number of these larvae in zone 1 may be due to the smaller area of slackwater and slow water in Yallakool Creek during the environmental watering action compared to the other zones.

1976 The first test concerning the Tetra King packaging system takes place in a small number of shops in the area of Lund, Sweden.

Good Info, Funding is always an issue when it comes to school lunches, but a number of corporations and private foundations are putting up big money for schools and small farms to implement such programs, especially in areas with high obesity rates.

As that material drifted toward Sampsons Island and accreted, the number of pairs of all species declined again, and productivity also declined as the smaller nesting areas became more vulnerable to predators and storm overwash.

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

One solution to help meet increasing demand, and go some way to solving the unique issues around isolation from services in rural areas, could be to focus on increasing the number of smaller, satellite hospitals that are strategically located around existing central hubs in rural locations.

Between 2009 and 2013, the number of businesses in the area increased by 10.3 percent, to a record of 3,049, the majority of which were minority - owned small businesses.

«Today is a step towards rebalancing our economy away from an unhealthy overreliance on a small number of industries and a few areas,» deputy prime minister Nick Clegg said.

But as Administrative Law Judge Clive Morrick noted, Morgenthau's campaign put up a limited number of posters in a small geographic area.

They tend to be seats with relatively small numbers of constituents in urban areas — that's right; they tend to be Labour seats, where the population has tended to shrink over the years as people sensibly flee areas represented by Labour MPs.

Cork City accounts for most of the smallest local election constituencies, with a number of electoral areas within the Dublin City, Dun Laoghaire - Rathdown and Galway City local authority areas also figuring on this list.

The area covered by this constituency is larger than that covered by number of the smaller European states / principalities, including Andorra, Malta and Liechenstein, and is almost as large as that covered by the state of Luxembourg.

It could have a slight impact in a small number of seats, chiefly in Havering & Bexley, but not in many areas of current Labour strength in London.

It may be a small number of fibers that remain, but this may be enough to convey signals from the motor cortical area of the brain to the spinal cord.»

In 2002 35 percent of the total area cleared of trees consisted of land swaths smaller than 0.5 square kilometer, whereas by 2010, the contribution of these small areas to the overall deforestation number increased to 80 percent.

In other words, although the total number of felled trees was reduced, the smaller areas that are still being cleared have increased in number.

But the amount of land space taken up by cities is actually relatively small compared with the number of people they shelter: satellite image composites show that urban sites cover only 2.8 per cent of the Earth's land; accordingly the UN estimates that about 3.3 billion people occupy an area less than half the size of Australia.

«Because the number breeding in urban areas has increased (though still a small percentage of the overall UK population), people do not realise that the herring gull is disappearing from our coasts,» she says.

(However, the small number of disasters declared in the Mountain West may reflect the limited population in the area.)

Most of the new cases are in the capital Freetown, but worryingly, small numbers of cases also continue to occur in many districts throughout the country, meaning that the virus is still spread over a wide area and that many control interventions are needed.

They found that of the three networks of sage - grouse priority areas — the Washington network, the Bi-State Network comprising California and Nevada, and the Central network, which is the largest and includes parts of ten states — only the priority areas of the Central network had a high degree of connectivity, and even there connectivity was dominated by a small number of large, centrally located sites.

Fielding said, «Seismologists recorded relatively less shaking with seismometers in Kathmandu and other locations, and the smaller number of landslides suggests the shaking may have been reduced in the whole area.»

But if the edges span an odd number of atomic layers, a small area about 10 nm in width is created that has the electronic conductive channels properties we were looking for,» Sessi explains.

However, when a substantial number of turbines are installed over a small area, the amount of electricity generated is no longer governed by simple multiplication, according to the researchers.

The reference is to the weapon, which, rather than aiming precisely, spreads a large number of small pellets over a large area in a random pattern.

Given the difficulty of impacting change in small stores, much of the policy focus has been on decreasing food deserts by increasing the number of supermarkets in these areas.

This is an area of great concern because we fear that the number of postdocs in physics is even smaller than the number of African American physicists with career positions within the DOE laboratories.

What's more, according to a new study, the large number of lumps discovered within a very small area hints that these fossils may be all that's left of a mysterious mass die - off of the giant creatures.

In these small areas, the number of species can be accurately controlled; however species numbers tend to be relatively low and the food webs therefore not very complex.

A large ant will traverse an area with a smaller number of steps than a small ant that will change its direction more often.

Quantification of single - fiber CSA revealed a leftward shift of the single - fiber area histogram in both EDL and TA muscles from IL - 15Rα — KO mice, indicating a greater number of smaller - sized muscle fibers (Figure 6, B and F).

Morphologically, fast muscles had a greater number of muscle fibers, smaller fiber areas, and a greater ratio of nuclei to fiber area.

(B) The single - fiber area histogram was shifted to the left, indicating a greater number of smaller - sized muscle fibers in the EDL muscles from IL - 15Ra — KO mice.

«Since our nanogaps can operate at low power, we can pack a large number of such structures into small areas, and this could allow us to run multiple experiments on the same chip,» says Oh.

Scientists looked at tumour samples and found that the drug penetrates the core of the tumour as well as the surrounding areas which contain smaller numbers of cancerous cells.

«This particular FRB is the first detected to date to contain detailed information about the cosmic web — regarded as the fabric of the Universe — but it is also unique because its travel path can be reconstructed to a precise line of sight and back to an area of space about a billion light years away that contains only a small number of possible home galaxies.»

Data national registries for rare diseases: The introduction of national registries of therapy - area specific patient data across the NHS in England would see the production of meaningful datasets, especially beneficial for rare immunological diseases where patient numbers may be very small.

This number may seem small, but from 2005 to 2010, Alaskan glacier losses made up one third of the world's ice sheet losses, despite having 20 times fewer ice - covered areas than Greenland.

And the good news is there are a number of treatment options available including camouflage using make - up and self tanning lotions; micro-tattooing may be useful for small stable areas of vitiligo such as face, lips and hands; light therapy; the transfer of a patient's own pigment cells from unaffected skin into the vitiligo - affected cells and laser treatments.