Sentences with phrase «per area unit»

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Traditional rustic shade has a larger carbon footprint than commercial polyculture because yields are lower per unit area, and all the contributing factors are allocated to less product.

In fact, many multiple cropping systems, such as those developed by smallholders and subsistence farmers, even show higher yields in terms of total harvest per unit area.

McLaughlin, Orland Park's mayor, has said that this was the key issue in the land dispute and that he wanted the area to be developed within Orland Park's residential planning guidelines, which call for 2.5 to 4 units per acre.

The deceased, according to a Senior Resident at the Korle Bu Reconstruction, Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit, Dr. Nyigba Edem suffered a 100 per cent total body surface area burn, which means every part of the skin was badly affected.

However the prime minister's performance and innovation unit has previously rejected this proposal saying that «numerical access criteria could well undermine the government's policy rather than strengthen it», and pointing out that «it would be possible for the Post Office to close down two - thirds of its rural outlets whilst still ensuring that 99 per cent of people in rural areas lived within three miles of a post office».

Under that proposal, a total of 112 units would be permanently affordable to people making 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI) of $ 62,150 per year for a family of three.

Their revised plan features a shorter building, and also reduces the income cap on affordable units from 80 percent of the Area Median Income (AMI)-- or $ 62,150 per year for a family of three — to 40 percent of AMI, or $ 31,080 for a family of three.

The Prime Minister said that proposals by ten local councils in Greater Manchester to introduce the minimum pricing per unit of alcohol in their area would be looked at «very sympathetically».

A Giant Galactic Ghost Intrigued by faint blurs on old photographic plates of the Virgo galaxy cluster, a nearby region teeming with galaxies, Oregon's Bothun and colleagues wondered if the apparitions might be smallish galaxies with «low surface brightness» — astronomer - speak for emitting less light per unit area than typical galaxies.

Many scientists care more about intensity — the power per unit area — than the total number of petawatts.

The researchers found between four and 28 viable cells per passport photo — size unit of area — similar to those in clean rooms at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, and the Kennedy Space Center in Florida where spacecraft are assembled.

«Comparing results with other global estuaries, the discharge per unit area of the Sydney Harbour provides a predictor of emissions for estuaries from a similar geomorphic class,» he said.

These electrodes must have a high surface area per unit weight, high electrical conductivity and capacitance and be physically robust so they do not degrade during operation in liquid or hostile environments.

Based on measurements of 45,000 individual plants from 3,680 species, and using high - tech statistical mapping protocols, the team created global maps of plant traits including leaf nitrogen concentration, leaf phosphorus concentration, and specific leaf area (a measure of area displayed to intercept light per unit investment in leaf biomass).

«We found that although timber has greater landscape impacts overall, cannabis causes far greater changes in key metrics on a per - unit - area basis,» said Butsic.

One of the major problems with biofuels that algae could solve is space, since algae can yield as much as 100 times more fuel per unit area than other so - called «second generation» biofuel crops (e.g. non-food crops or non-food waste parts of food crops).

On a per - unit - area basis, the cannabis grows resulted in 1.5 times more forest loss and 2.5 times greater fragmentation of the landscape, breaking up large, contiguous forest into smaller patches and reducing wildlife habitat.

Their approach uses per - unit - area analysis of landscape change.

We see great cultural diversity and large numbers of cultures per unit area in regions of the world in which the environment is really rich.

From computer models, he found that counter-rotating vertical turbines could be arranged in such a way that a vertical wind farm has a higher power output per unit of area than a horizontal farm, upward of 10 times the energy density.

However, as farming practices and technologies continue to be refined, more food can be produced per unit of land — meaning less area is needed for agriculture and more land can be «spared» for natural habitats.

A few SRI scientists started searching for a motion - generating material that resembled natural muscle in terms of force, stroke (linear displacement) and strain (displacement per unit length or area).

Though it is not a perfect food, maize could feed more people per unit area than anything else that was available, and populations increased as much as fifteen-fold.

They can generate about six times more force per unit area than mammalian skeletal muscle can, and are also incredibly lightweight; a 2.6 - gram muscle can lift a 3 - kilogram object, which is the equivalent of a mallard duck lifting a car.

This will require system innovations — to further reduce the use of resources such as water and minerals, to increase production per unit area, and to obtain the high - quality, healthy products that consumers want.

The idea is that having more body volume per unit area of skin helps animals stay warm when in cold places.

Now, Thomas Hales of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, has shown that a hexagonal honeycomb has walls with the shortest total length, per unit area, of any design that divides a plane into equal - sized cells.

This easily constructed electrode, surprisingly, had an average output of the circuit of 2.24 A m - 2 (amps per unit area), compared to 0.94 A m - 2 with the felt anode.

Soon enough, we'll have to find new ways to increase food production per unit area to keep up with an ever expanding population.

Possible mechanisms include (iv) fertilization of phytoplankton growth in the Southern Ocean by increased deposition of iron - containing dust from the atmosphere after being carried by winds from colder, drier continental areas, and a subsequent redistribution of limiting nutrients; (v) an increase in the whole ocean nutrient content (e.g., through input of material exposed on shelves or nitrogen fixation); and (vi) an increase in the ratio between carbon and other nutrients assimilated in organic material, resulting in a higher carbon export per unit of limiting nutrient exported.

The coastal ecosystems of mangroves, seagrass meadows and tidal marshes mitigate climate change by sequestering carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and oceans at significantly higher rates, per unit area, than terrestrial forests (Figure 1).

Linear trends (1955 — 2003) of change in ocean heat content per unit surface area (W m — 2) for the 0 to 700 m layer, based on the work of Levitus et al. (2005a).

All of these estimates are per unit area of Earth surface.

The solar constant is the amount of power that the Sun deposits per unit area that is directly exposed to sunlight.

Our analysis infers areas where there's more genetic difference than you'd expect per unit of geographic distance, and other areas where there's less.

In general, smaller materials and ones with rougher or more convoluted surfaces have a greater exterior surface area — per unit mass — than larger items or ones with smoother exteriors.

The small size means a very large surface area of silver per unit volume of silver.

Rather, in such cases, force production is greater per unit cross-sectional area.

Greater bodyweight, lower body fat percentage, greater type IIA muscle fiber proportion, and greater force producing ability per unit muscle cross-sectional area are all associated with superior Olympic weightlifting ability among Olympic weightlifters.

If the cross-sectional area of a muscle is proportional to the square of muscle thickness, then we can get a measure of strength per unit cross-section by taking the ratio of leg press 1RM to the square of rectus femoris thickness.

This rapid deceleration causes a large and fast strain (change in relative length) to occur in the adductor muscles as well as a very high stress (force per unit area).

Most studies have reported that the number of capillaries per unit muscle cross-sectional area does not change with strength training (Lüthi et al. 1986; Tesch et al. 1990; Hather et al. 1991; McCall et al. 1996), although the number of capillaries per muscle fiber might increase slightly (Hather et al. 1991; McCall et al. 1996) or remain constant (Campos et al. 2002).

Nevertheless, it is important to note that measuring PCSA allows a better estimate of muscle fiber specific tension in vivo than ACSA, as changes in pennation angle obscure the underlying force per unit area within the muscle (Morse et al. 2008).

Numbers of species per unit area is fundamentally the most essential measurement.

Over that time period, per - unit prices have plummeted in many areas, including appliances, telecommunications, electronics, computers, televisions, and audio - visual devices.

Rather than addressing one or two content areas per unit, as is common in the elementary grades, Bridges Pre-K offers young learners opportunities each month to:

While most lenders require a minimum reserve of $ 250 per unit per year for capital expenses and many owners reserve up to 400, according to actual expense budgets Mike tracked for properties in the Seattle area actual capital expenses have been averaging $ 750 a year for the last dozen years and the trend is definitely up:

Cats like to have plenty of space to prowl, sleep, and climb, so we looked at the median number of rooms per housing unit for each of the major metropolitan areas we reviewed.

Let's say that a rental unit in your area that has the same safety & convenience as your house costs $ 1600 per month to rent, and your mortgage is $ 2400.

For other areas, very inexpensive ultrasonic solar cat deterrents are available starting at $ 10 per unit.