Sentences with phrase «relatively little increases»

This is their sensitivity Achilles Heel: relatively little increases in melt can expand the ablation zone appreciably given the low surface slopes and low accumulation rates.

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So as you can see, a newborn baby drinks very little at each feeding in the beginning, but the amount tends to increase relatively quickly.

At the same time, there is relatively little long - term information about the frequency of weather conditions that increase avalanche and landslide risks, Prokop says.

But in species in which larger males evolved, tooth size increased relatively little.

Tamburini thinks that the bandwidth available to mobile phones and laptop computers could be increased by a factor of nine almost immediately, and at relatively little extra cost, by carefully positioning four antennas inside the devices.

«Relatively little is known about the state of Antarctic sea ice before continuous satellite records began in the 1970s, making it hard to understand if [the increase] is a trend.»

Many people in online forums and discussion boards claim that they have seen a noticeable increase in energy levels from taking Moringa, though I found relatively little science to back this up and «energy levels» are one of the most difficult factors to measure objectively.

And then if you increase carbs, you can still get some of the benefits by having that first 20 hours of your meals relatively lower carb, higher fat, moderate protein and those last four hours you pop up a little bit and so you can still get some of those benefits.

They stated: «Despite an increasing interest in food allergy and the conviction of innumerable patients with joint disease that certain foods exacerbate their symptoms, relatively little scientific attention has been paid to this relationship.

While the average age of teachers changed relatively little during this period, the percentage over age 55 increased from 9 to 16 percent.

There is relatively little point in increasing the weight of the barrier beyond this because a significant proportion of the noise passes over the top, or round the ends, of the barrier.

What started as a legislative attempt to raise money for Missouri's public schools by increasing the tax on cigarettes has developed into a political donnybrook that may ultimately yield relatively little for the schools.

Fortunately, Vitamin K deficiencies are relatively rare in bunnies who consume healthy, balanced diets, but if you have reason to believe that their intake is a little low, bok choy can be a healthy, tasty way to increase their intake.

Veterinarians are at an increased risk of suicide, and relatively little is known regarding the risk for suicide and other negative mental health outcomes in veterinary assistants, technologists, and technicians.

Still relatively new, (in my fifth year at working) my prices are a little lower then I would like but increasing every year.

However, increase of solar insolation in the high latitudes did not warm the tropics and so GAT rose relatively little.

The life cycle of nuclear power results in relatively little global warming pollution, but building a new fleet of plants could increase threats to public safety and national security.

In the hothouse conditions of the mid-Cretaceous (80 - 100 My), tropical temperatures are thought to have increased relatively little (there is dispute about how much), while polar temperatures increased by a huge amount (maybe 20 °C).

«We're seeing increasing temperatures and relatively little change in average precipitation, but an increase in the variability and the occurrence of both wet and dry extremes,» said Daniel Swain, an atmospheric scientist at Stanford's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences and the lead author of a new paper published in Science Advances.

For example, relatively small increases in sea temperature (as little as 1 — 2 °C) can cause mass coral bleaching and mortality across hundreds of square kilometers of coral reef (high confidence).

Several recent studies show little to no economic potential to increase biopower in the U.S. over the next two decades because of its relatively high costs compared with other renewable energy and low carbon technologies (EIA 2015, EPA 2015, NREL 2015, UCS 2014, UCS 2015).

Together with the fact that the population of Armagh when compared with other Irish and UK cities has increased relatively little since the late 18th and early 19th centuries (population 1816: 7,000; 1911: 7,600; 1991: 14,265), its rural environment has ensured that the observatory suffers from little or no urban micro-climatic effects (see Coughlin and Butler (1998)-RRB-.

We find that an increase in poleward heat transport by the tropical ocean results in a warming of the extra-tropics, relatively little change in the tropical temperatures, moistening of the subtropical dry zones, and partial but incomplete compensation of the planetary - scale energy transport by the atmosphere.

In a paper in Nature this week, scientists present palaeo - oceanographic evidence that deep convection of surface waters in the North Atlantic — the engine that keeps the AMOC in constant motion — began to decline as early as around 1850, probably owing to increased freshwater influx from Arctic ice that had melted at the end of a relatively cold period called the Little Ice Age (D. J. R. Thornalley et al..

Of course there is uncertainty in the trends (both from fitting the OLS line, + / -0.6 ºC, and structurally, since RSS has slightly different numbers), and there is no expectation that TLT and surface air temperature should have identical trends (overall, TLT should be increasing a little faster than SAT — but this is also subject to noise over relatively short periods).

For example, the CBA's Reaching Equal Justice report stated that «Canada is plagued by a paucity of access to justice research» [3], and noted that «we still know relatively little about what works to increase access to justice and how and why it does.»

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.