Sentences with phrase «relatively small decrease»

The system is vulnerable because even a relatively small decrease in surface salinity prevents water - no matter how cold it is - from sinking.

Many people touting optimal mixtures of stock types focus on demonstrating relatively small decreases in standard deviations (the typical measure of volatility) over many years.

Not exact matches

Thus, while the electronic church may not be the cause of decreases in mainline church attendance, it does provide an attractive alternative for a relatively small group of people who find watching television an acceptable substitute for attending church.

At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.

«Future land transitions are uncertain but relatively small changes in afforestation from agriculture resulted in substantial decrease in accumulation rates,» said Coulston.

In support of this hypothesis, the redox sensitivity of the basic insulin receptor signaling activity in vivo has been confirmed in a placebo - controlled clinical study of non-diabetic obese persons in whom basic (i.e., post-absorptive) insulin receptor signaling decreased after supplementation with relatively small doses of N - acetyl cysteine (200 mg NAC t.i.d. for a total daily dose of 0.6 g for 8 weeks).27

From all of these studies, our overall conclusion is as follows: you may well benefit from the cooking of flaxseeds as a way of decreasing your cyanide - related risks, but you also may have no compelling reason to do so, since (1) the amount of CGs contained in 1 - 2 tablespoons is relatively small; (2) not all CGs will get broken down by enzymes and converted into hydrogen cyanide; and (3) if hydrogen cyanide does get created, most healthy persons will be able to detoxify it when it is present in such relatively small amounts.

Within all the loans at a given interest rate, I would apply extra payments to the smallest loans first for the psychological boost and decrease in minimum payment mentioned in Pete's answer, but this is clearly a personal (and relatively unimportant) decision.

So relatively larger cap stocks may be over-represented and relatively smaller cap stocks under - represented in these indexes, thus creating imbalances when one stock increases or decreases substantially relative to the overall market (index).

This would have the effects of decreasing the weights assigned to urban weather stations — since there are lots of them, they are relatively close together, and the areas of their Voronoi cells will be relatively small — and correspondingly increasing the weights assigned to rural weather locations.

The relative simplicity of the curve of the long - term data — a decrease in temperature from the late 19th to the early 20th centuries, followed by a relatively steady increase to present — is extremely unusual for such a small area of the globe.

Even relatively small changes in wind speed have a large effect on wind power production: if the wind speed decreases by half, power production decreases by a factor of eight.

«Contrary to conventional wisdom, our decomposition analysis shows that changes in the fuel mix of the energy sector (including those related to the shale gas boom) account for a relatively small portion of this decrease.»

The results should emerge soon, but in its evidence to the Select Committee, Scottish and Southern Electricity plc said that, while shale gas was a viable if relatively small option for the UK (compared to the US), «there is a concern that with limited capital for investment in the energy industry, significant development of policy incentives to encourage development of shale gas resources in the UK, alongside uncontrolled growth in gas - fired generation could decrease investor certainty on UK policy direction towards renewables, CCS and / or nuclear.

The actual numbers involved are relatively small, with 11 million small business employees expected to see their premiums rise, as opposed to 6 million who will benefit from a decrease.

This pattern of change in means over the decade between the 2005 study and ours appears consistent with the small, but significant, increases observed between 2007 and 2012 in the self - report subscale means for Total Difficulties, Emotional Symptoms, Peer Relationship Problems and Hyperactivity - Inattention (but a decrease in Conduct Problems) in nationally representative New Zealand samples of children aged 12 — 15 years, 28 and with a similar increase in Emotional Symptoms and decrease in Conduct Problems between 2009 and 2014 in English community samples of children aged 11 — 13 years.29 The mean PLE score in the MCS sample aligned closely with that reported previously for a relatively deprived inner - city London, UK, community sample aged 9 — 12 years19 using these same nine items, although the overall prevalence of a «Certainly True» to at least one of the nine items in the MCS (52.2 %) was lower than that obtained in the London sample (66.0 %).8