Sentences with phrase «relatively small number of individuals»

Two frequently cited reports (3,4) provide limited guidance because: (1) longevity data are presented as combined mean age at death for a relatively small number of individuals of more than 50 breeds of different body size and life expectancy; and (2) ovarian status is reported as «intact» or «spayed», rather than as number of years of lifetime ovary exposure.

The percentage of fixed differences in nature may be even lower given the relatively small number of individuals used in our study.

I have problems with Franklin because he groups all people who are Muslim with the actions of a relatively small number of individuals who were Muslim and terrorists.

While concentrating on a relatively small number of individual films, the author of Flesh and Excess steers clear of any auteurist snobbery, and brings to the subject a joyfully amorphous critical stance, deftly avoiding the canonising practices of much film criticism.

Not exact matches

Crowdfunding generally refers to a financing method in which money is raised through soliciting relatively small individual investments or contributions from a large number of people.

Bob Holmes writes that a small downward shift in the mean IQ of a population will cause a relatively large drop in the number of high IQ individuals (23 August, p 30).

A much larger number of haplogroup H subjects, as well as large cohorts of individuals with other haplogroups, will be necessary to analyze to dissect out other possible correlations or to determine whether or not any of the correlations we detected with a relatively small population are spurious.

The teacher in classroom 2 made up for the relatively small number of books for very beginning readers — a problem all teachers in the study faced — by creating many charts and individual little books.

Although these individual probabilities are rare, the payoffs are so high that a relatively small number of successes can boost a small - cap portfolio's returns.

Perhaps the Russian Blue's unique personality and demand for individual attention have played a part in keeping the number of Russian Blue breeders relatively small.

Precise mapping of major loci responsible for trait variation has been accomplished with relatively small numbers of dogs as compared to the large numbers of individuals required for trait identification in genetically diverse human populations.

However, relatively few have held their recognition with a very small number remembered as being great (Chrono Trigger, FF6, etc) and instead people gravitate towards series instead of individual games.

Business evaluations and assessments, however, occur in only a small percentage of divorce cases due to the relatively limited number of business owners compared to the significantly larger number of employed individuals.

The situation is different for the relatively small number of corporate in - house counsel that also provide legal services to individuals or entities other than their employer.