Sentences with phrase «scale number remained»

The team also raised urban and forest lizards from the Mayagüez region in the lab and found that differences in limb length and scale number remained, suggesting a genetic basis to the urban lizards» abilities.

Not exact matches

While the president's report does not propose any quick fixes for growth, it suggests that large - scale investment in infrastructure improvements, regulations that ensure the internet remains open to all, and protections for the increasing number of workers who wind up as contractors in the gig economy will be essential.

After scaling up that number by calculating whale catches, food sources, and other factors, Whitehead arrived at a count of about 360,000 remaining sperm whales — a fifth of previous estimates.

While many of us remain oblivious to the scale of our collective daily consumption and waste, a growing number of artists are finding ways to call attention to this problem.

In cores from numerous ocean basins, they found that while the numbers of sharks remained steady before and after the extinction event, the ratio of ray - finned fish teeth to shark teeth and scales gradually rose, first doubling then becoming eight times more abundant 24 million years after the extinction event.

«The outlook for the rest of the year also remains bleak, with a number of projects cancelled or postponed in Latin America, while in the rest of the world traditional large scale projects in Turkey and India also look unlikely to see activity during 2016».

Getting published on a large scale, by a publisher, should and probably will always remain number one.

«And it remains one of the most significant contemporary art events in the calendar, not just because of the scale of the event itself but because of the increasing number of people who come form all over the world, whether that is professionals, critics, curators, other artists, dealers and collectors as well as the international visitors over the following six months.»

For the entire Northern Hemisphere, there is evidence of an increase in both storm frequency and intensity during the cold season since 1950,1 with storm tracks having shifted slightly towards the poles.2, 3 Extremely heavy snowstorms increased in number during the last century in northern and eastern parts of the United States, but have been less frequent since 2000.11,15 Total seasonal snowfall has generally decreased in southern and some western areas, 16 increased in the northern Great Plains and Great Lakes region, 16,17 and not changed in other areas, such as the Sierra Nevada, although snow is melting earlier in the year and more precipitation is falling as rain versus snow.18 Very snowy winters have generally been decreasing in frequency in most regions over the last 10 to 20 years, although the Northeast has been seeing a normal number of such winters.19 Heavier - than - normal snowfalls recently observed in the Midwest and Northeast U.S. in some years, with little snow in other years, are consistent with indications of increased blocking (a large scale pressure pattern with little or no movement) of the wintertime circulation of the Northern Hemisphere.5 However, conclusions about trends in blocking have been found to depend on the method of analysis, 6 so the assessment and attribution of trends in blocking remains an active research area.

Our other data products (EISN: daily estimated sunspot number, 12 - month forecasts) have been adapted to match the scale of the main sunspot time series, but the file names and formats remain unchanged.

But a single time scale just doesn't express the multi-compartment transfer rates — a fifth to a third of the CO2 remains in the atmosphere after even a 40 - year half - life of ocean equilibration (which quite frankly agrees with my numbers — I get about a back of the envelope number of ~ 37 years half - life, depending on the saturation limits), and the rest will be around for quite a while.

[11] While the economic practicality of large - scale negative - emissions programs remain undemonstrated, some of the possibilities are easily imaginable — for example, we could plant great numbers of trees [12]-- and a wide range of published scenarios do consider the large - scale removal of CO2 from the atmosphere in the second half of the century.

The new work performed large scale sequencing on a number of samples from colonies that have collapsed, plus a few that have remained healthy.

Uncertainty remained even after SegWit2x [the scaling proposal based on the New York Agreement, and backed by a number of Bitcoin companies and mining pools] was released.

This factor loading was selected because the number of items remained high, and a brief, concise scale was desired.

With millennials and Gen Z numbering 150 + million and the baby boomers remaining in their homes longer, the younger generations are meeting a housing shortage, an opportunity for homebuilders willing to scale product to their preferences — smaller and more energy - efficient homes, townhouses, condos, and «affordable» starter homes.