Sentences with phrase «result of the decay»

In humans and all other animals, such nerves become exposed only as a result of decay or gum disease.

The bacteria that collects around your dog's gums is the result of decaying food, and it can cause infection and gingivitis in his mouth, which results in a very bad breath.

Not exact matches

The process is fairly simple: Extract the cell's DNA, measure its carbon - 14 levels with a tool called a mass spectrometer, and check the result against tables of carbon - 14 decay in the period since 1963.

In the absence of additional restrictions, aligning a hedge with the estimated market return / risk profile resulted in persistent option time - decay, as illustrated by the red line, making put option hedges costly instead of beneficial.

Ocean water is indeed a complex solution of mineral salts and of decayed biologic matter that results from the teeming life in the seas.

When the fabric of a society begins to decay, the resulting problems tend to multiply at an alarming rate.

We would have to ask whether a professor who got a larger raise in this way would truly be better off in the resulting context of decaying community.

If the production rate of C - 14 in the atmosphere was less in the past, dates given using the carbon - 14 method would incorrectly assume that more had decayed out of a specimen than what actually occurred, and would result in faulty data.

The rise in narcotics addiction in recent years, particularly among young people, is in large measure a result of the prevalent decay of purpose, the loss of stable values, and the feelings of personal estrangement, loneliness, hopelessness, and meaninglessness which characterize the present age.

Through His incarnation and by His infinite wisdom and foreknowledge, God slows the death and decay down, and rescues those who are perishing in sin and destruction, but frequently, due the nature of sin, the consequences of abused freedom, and the misuse of power, God can not stop the natural results of rebellion.

If enough people were to choose this route, America could follow the path of Weimar Germany and other nations and civilizations before it which declined as a result of inner decay and loss of will.

Thus there emerges the paradoxical result that the revival of religion has been accompanied by a decay in ethical consciousness.

It is a result of fruit trees, seaweed, vegetation and decaying and pressurizing to form complex substances rich in essential minerals, amino acids, electrolytes and other beneficial compounds.

Going by the results of the experiment described above, it would seem that one might be better off from the standpoint of tooth decay to eat a diet containing refined sugar and flour than to eat one that is high in whole grains.

Tooth decay, malocclusion (improper meeting of the upper and lower teeth), and distortion of the facial muscles may also directly result from sucking on bottles.

Dr. Karen Sokal - Gutierrez, who is engaged in international programs to reduce sugar - induced tooth decay among children, sends the results of her Google search for «US Military give children candy.»

And according to the American Dental Association, breastfeeding may result in straighter teeth and reduce the risk of bottle tooth decay.

If left untreated, the decay can result in a toothache, early loss of the tooth and worse, cause gum infections.

We have a hundred children a day going in to hospital as a result of tooth decay, that is going up year by year; so the policy at the moment isn't working.

If tobacco growers are using fertilizer on their plants, it obviously works, even though it is made from uranium - rich phosphate rock and results in polonium 210 — a decay product of uranium — being inhaled with cigarette smoke.

The RIBF results suggest that structure effects, which are commonly neglected in the evaluation of neutron - emission probabilities in calculations of global beta - decay properties for astrophysical simulations, are much more important than generally assumed, in particular in the region «south - east» of 132Sn, where nuclei are very neutron - rich.

«About 20 percent of the helium is coming from the moon itself, most likely as the result from the decay of radioactive thorium and uranium, also found in lunar rocks,» said Benna.

Reburning spent rods in an SFR also reduces their radioactive decay time; the resulting waste would have to be sequestered for only a few hundred years instead of several thousand.

Argon - 40 results from the decay of naturally occurring radioactive potassium - 40, found in the rocks of all the terrestrial planets as a leftover from their formation.

First results from CUORE: a search for lepton number violation via 0νββ decay of 130Te.

If the neutrino is its own antiparticle, a neutrino - free version of this decay might also occur: In a rarity atop a rarity, the antineutrino emitted in one of the two simultaneous beta decays might be reabsorbed by the other, resulting in no escaping antineutrinos.

Sensing they were onto something big, Fischbach and Jenkins scoured the literature and found more reports of radioactive decay enigmatically slowing down and speeding up, results so contrary to expectation that they, too, had largely been tossed into the dust bin of odd results and equipment error.

Four experiments have recently published results showing no hint of the process, known as neutrinoless double beta decay (SN: 7/6/02, p. 10).

This fraction is in favour of protons, because the higher mass of the neutron results in a spontaneous decay of neutrons to protons with a half - life of about 15 minutes.

The team described the results in a recently published paper titled «Selective deuteration illuminates the importance of tunneling in the unimolecular decay of Criegee intermediates to hydroxyl radical products.»

The ATLAS team also announced new results from analysing the Higgs boson's rate of decay into pairs of photons.

Announced earlier today at an Italian ski resort, they follow up on one of the most intriguing aspects of the earlier results — an inconsistency in how the new boson decays into photons.

Instead, physicists look for the shower of lighter particles and photons that result from the decay of Higgs bosons of various masses.

Now Yann Mambrini of the University of Paris - Sud in Orsay, France, and colleagues point out that the new Higgs results suggest that the particle isn't decaying into dark matter (arxiv.org/abs/1112.3299).

The resulting proton beam would then be fired at a carbon and copper target to generate particles called pions, some of which decay into antineutrinos.

Go for a morning jog over hilly terrain and the very landscape is likely to be the result of tectonic plate movements, powered deep under our feet in great part by radioactive decays like that of the humble americium writ large.

Bland reasoned that heat from radioactive decay would melt the ice, and the resulting body would be an enormous dollop of mud.

«The results of the school programme are impressive with a reduction of 41 % in new lesions of tooth decay.»

Kosuke Morita, leader of the RIKEN team, says that his team's new result — a single decay — overcomes these shortcomings.

Running these data through a computer model, they found that they could get the experimental results and model output to agree only when they included two charmonium pentaquarks in the lambda - b decay process — one having a mass of 4.45 gigaelectronvolts (GeV) and the other a mass of 4.38 GeV.

The precursors of acid rain formation result from both natural sources, such as volcanoes and decaying vegetation, and human - made sources, primarily emissions of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxide resulting from fossil fuel combustion.

Through the lens, you could view flashes of light resulting from the collision of alpha particles against the screen during ore decay.

Now it seems that disconnect may be the result of neutrons occasionally decaying into particles of dark matter, the stuff that is thought to make up most of the unseen mass of the universe.

As a result, measuring the decay is extremely important for the researchers in order to explain the short lifespan of the Higgs particle.

According to Nico, the results provided specific information that theoretical physicists are already using to further develop QED to provide more detailed descriptions of neutron beta decay.

Passing on half of the cost of the levy to consumers leading to an increase in the price of high and mid-sugar drinks of up to 20 % was estimated to reduce the number of adults and children with obesity by 81600, result in 10800 fewer cases of diabetes and 149,000 fewer decaying teeth per year.

The results with decaying fish, he adds, «can be applied to the interpretation of soft - bodied fossils in general, and particularly to determining their true place in the tree of life.»

Experiments that measure the rate of antineutrino production from the decay of uranium and plutonium isotopes have so far produced results roughly consistent with this theory.

The authors estimate that a reduction of 30 % in the sugar content of all high - sugar drinks — a step already implemented by some manufacturers — and a 15 % reduction in mid-sugar drinks could result in 144000 fewer adults and children with obesity, 19,000 fewer cases of type 2 diabetes per year, and 269,000 fewer teeth suffering from decay annually.

Early childhood caries, a highly aggressive and painful form of tooth decay that frequently occurs in preschool children, especially from backgrounds of poverty, may result from a nefarious partnership between a bacterium and a fungus, according to a paper published ahead of print in the journal Infection and Immunity.