Sentences with phrase «percent by bats»

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One study, reported in the June 2013 issue of Neuroimage, found that exclusive breast feeding improved brain development in children «almost right off the bat» by increasing myelin content in the brain by an order of 20 - 30 percent compared to strictly formula - fed babies.

As a result, the number of splintered bats plunged by 30 percent in 2009 and continued a steady descent last season.

Fans attending the 2011 World Series should be relatively safe from impalement, owing to some sharp scientific sleuthing that has reduced the number of pulverized bats in the league by 50 percent and shed light on one of baseball's strangest mysteries.

«It hits when the population is at its smallest, and by the end of winter nearly 100 percent of the bats in a cave can be infected, which helps explain why it has such large impacts,» said Kate Langwig, a graduate student at UC Santa Cruz and first author of the paper.

More than 94 percent of flowering tropical plants and 75 percent of the world's leading food crops require pollination by animals such as bees, bats and hummingbirds.

Four bat species have been hit especially hard by the disease, with some regional populations declining by more than 90 percent.

By enabling just a 4 percent increase in bat speed, steroids may turn hundreds of a season's long outs into home runs.

As a result, bat deaths were reduced by 44 to 93 percent, with less than 1 percent annual power loss.

The lesson here, is that by negotiating you could appear confident and also increase your salary up to ten percent right off the bat.

«Macaques and gibbons are known to disappear completely from forests which have been converted to rubber, and our review shows that numbers of bird, bat and beetle species can decline by up to 75 percent.»

Experiments at a site in Indiana in 2012 showed that feathering turbines when winds were slow reduced bat deaths by 30 percent on average.

Washington, D.C., — The U.S. wind energy industry announced, on the eve of National Wildlife Day, a best management practice establishing a new voluntary operating protocol, which is expected to reduce impacts to bats from operating wind turbines by as much as 30 percent.

«Scientists at the University of Calgary have found a way to reduce bat deaths from wind turbines by up to 60 percent without significantly reducing the energy generated from the wind farm.

If companies could capture even the gas leaked in Gas STAR's current estimates, it would be worth $ 2.1 billion a year at today's prices and would cut the nation's emissions by more than 2 percent right off the bat.