Sentences with phrase «produce about»

A substantial difference is that pigeons have higher SOD levels and produce about half as many free radicals as rats do.

The brain uses oxygen to produce about 90 percent of its ATP and uses anaerobic glycolysis for the other 10 percent.2 Cells known as astrocytes perform most of the anaerobic glycolysis.

Women produce about one tenth of the amount of testosterone as men do so a sudden surge of additional testosterone can be significant.

We produce about 8 percent of our water needs through biochemical processes in the body — the remaining 92 percent must be consumed through foods and beverages.

«Potatoes can be an excellent part of a healthy diet, but are not a healthy single source diet,» said Barry Swanson, regents professor and interim director of the School of Food Science at Washington State University and University of Idaho, a guy who traverses the two states that produce about half of North America's potatoes.

The human body can also produce about 1 gram of it per day (32).

An average adult human will produce about one gram of creatine a day.

This recipe will produce about 2 liters of juice — which you can sip throughout the day.

Researchers have shown that in two to three weeks, thanks to increased Lutenizing Hormone, your body starts to produce about 50 % more testosterone that before.

A Prehistory of Wine No one knows who first made wine or domesticated wild grapes, but vintners today produce about 6.6 billion gallons of wine every year.

Your body needs vitamin K to build strong bones and to produce about a third of the proteins essential for proper blood coagulation, says the Harvard School of Public Health.

Believe it or not, gut bacteria produce about 95 % of our body's serotonin, a neurotransmitter that helps regulate mood, appetite, digestion, sleep, memory, and sexual desire and function.

Goats produce about 2 % of the global milk supply; people who consume goat's milk cite a lower incidence of allergies and digestive complaints.

Our bodies naturally produce about 75 % of the cholesterol we need, and the rest comes from our diet.

Over a week, that will produce about a pound of weight loss,» says Holly Wyatt, MD, a clinical researcher at the Center for Human Nutrition in Denver.

Soak up some sweat (your feet produce about 1 cup of perspiration a day) with Earth Therapeutics Portable Clean + Cool Foot Wipes ($ 5.99 for 15 sheets), made with antibacterial tea tree oil and cooling mint.

Just to give you an example, the explosion of a star with more than eight times the mass of the Sun is thought to produce about a Moon's mass - worth of gold.

Algae produce about half of the oxygen in the atmosphere.

That, in turn, has led to an increase of Japan's plutonium stockpile to an amount that could produce about 6,000 nuclear warheads.

Power plants built in 2012 alone will produce about 19 billion tons of CO2 over their lifetime, typically about 40 years.

MOXIE will attempt to produce about 20 grams of oxygen per hour for around 50 hours, probably using the reverse water - gas shift reaction (CO2 + H2 - > CO + H20) and then electrolysis of the resulting water to produce oxygen.

He initially performed both neutronics — the study of neutrons that emerge from plasmas — and plasma control calculations for the design of the Burning Plasma Experiment (BPX), a fusion facility that was targeted to produce about 100 - 500 megawatts of fusion power, which at a minimum would equal the heating power but was hoped to exceed it.

There are about 4500 wind turbines on the UK mainland, which together have the capacity to produce about 7.5 gigawatts of electricity, enough to power about 4.3 million homes.

But he said the United States has the potential to produce about 1 billion gallons of camelina oil a year in areas as diverse as Georgia and New Mexico.

JBS, Marfrig, and Minerva currently «monitor deforestation on the farms that produce about half of the cattle that are slaughtered in Brazil,» Gibbs says.

«A rupture from Richmond to Gilroy would produce about a 7.3 magnitude quake, but it would be even greater if the rupture extended south to Hollister, where the Calaveras Fault meets the San Andreas Fault,» Chaussard said.

Especially vulnerable are the Philippines and Indonesia, which between them produce about 80 per cent of the world's exports of coconut oil.

California's energy woes have again focused attention on our reliance on fossil fuels, which produce about 85 percent of the energy consumed in the United States.

The institute's star attraction is its pulsed - power generator, the Angara -5-1, which, for a tiny fraction of a second, can produce about 100 times as much power as all the power stations in Britain could manage together.

Farmers in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Colorado, Kansas and the panhandle of Texas produce about one - sixth of the world's grain, and water for these crops comes from the High Plains Aquifer — often known as the Ogallala Aquifer — the single greatest source of groundwater in North America.

The two Southeast Asian countries produce about 85 percent of the world's palm oil.

We have introduced two genes that allow soybeans to produce about 20 per cent of their oil as an omega - 3 fatty acid.

It could produce about 1,570 billion kilowatts of additional electricity annually if used to harvest CO2 from power plants, industry and residences.

The telescope is expected to produce about 30 terabytes of data per night and advanced data - mining techniques will need to be developed to find objects of interest in the stream of images.

Bee - assisted pollination helps produce about 30 percent of our food, but bees have fallen on hard times, posing a serious threat to food security.

«Now, after 30 years of fairly steady decline, we produce about five million barrels a day,» whereas we consume 20 million barrels daily.

«You probably have to produce about a billion Higgs particles to reliably identify one,» MIT theorist Frank Wilczek warned me.

Its efforts are being threatened by poor regulation, political corruption and significant inertia, particularly among the smallholding farmers, who produce about 40 % of the palm oil consumed worldwide.

Biorefineries produce about 15 billion gallons of ethanol a year.

The r - process is thought to produce about half of the elements heavier than iron.

At northern latitudes in the summertime, light - skinned people produce about 1,000 international units (IUs) of vitamin D per minute, but those with darker skin synthesize it more slowly, says Adit Ginde, an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine.

Ford Motor Co. announced this year it is looking to make the body of its popular F - 150 light - duty truck largely out of aluminum, which would reduce the truck's weight by about 700 pounds and produce about 10 percent in fuel savings.

Dossey's company, which will produce about 25,000 pounds of cricket powder this year, has received research grants for several projects related to using insects as food, including how it can alleviate childhood malnutrition.

Each month's issue of DISCOVER in this process, transportation included, releases the equivalent of 170 tons of CO2, whereas recycled magazines — only a small portion of the total — produce about 6 tons.

«We produce about 6000 Elsevier articles per year.

In a study, researchers, who report their findings in the current issue of Forests, found that an Ailanthus tree that lives around 40 years can produce approximately 10 million seeds during its lifetime, while Ailanthus trees that live over a 100 years can produce about 52 million seeds.

Lunz, for instance, says his fields produce about 175 bushels per acre, 25 more than a decade ago, while using 25 to 30 percent less fuel.

You get one filter included with this one but, get this, it can produce about 78 gallons of water.

The 130 - pound draw weight and 300 FPS velocity produce about 85 FPKE.

Compared to two competing plant sources, soybeans and jatropha, lipidcane would produce about 15 and 13 times as much jet fuel per unit of land, respectively.