Sentences with phrase «only small amounts of material»

The most effective teachers presented only small amounts of material at a time.

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Unluckily, because of loose regulations, a mattress that advertises itself as being organic may only contain a small amount of natural material.

This, she says, means that it might prove possible to seed nuclear waste, or a spill of radioactive material, with barium to encourage the algae to grab the strontium — easy to do, she says, because «it would only be a small amount» of barium.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

«With thermoelectric materials, once you have the temperature differential, you only need a comparatively small amount of material to produce the electricity,» Delaire said.

Instead it rejects about 99 percent of this super hot material, only letting a small amount in.

We have developed a modified version of the ice - COLD - PCR assay called Enhanced - ice - COLD - PCR for KRAS, BRAF and NRAS mutation detection and identification, which allows the enrichment of the most frequent mutations and requires only a small amount of starting material (frozen, FFPE or plasma) permitting the sensitive detection and multiplexed sequence identification of mutations within three hours.

We have seen piezoelectric transistors incorporated into synthetic skins making them sensitive enough to read fingerprints, other approaches that use multipurpose sensors to detect temperature and humidity in addition to pressure, and others that use pressure - sensitive materials made from inorganic semiconductors to only use a small amounts of power.

According to the American Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, small animals who consume a slight amount of tree material usually only have minor gastrointestinal upset.

Further, because GM had already served and filed its responding materials, it would only be entitled to a small amount of security for costs from the time of perfecting the appeal.