Sentences with phrase «small barriers such»

Many low - income students may therefore be poorly informed about their college opportunities or deterred by apparently small barriers such as the paperwork required to request a waiver for application fees.

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Also, some commentators will be tempted to draw attention to what they might describe as «large 1/2 percentage point changes» when the forecasts are revised, even though any such revisions may reflect much smaller adjustments if it is the case that the forecasts have merely crossed rounding barriers.

The films are fast sealing, have good barrier properties and are ideally suited for wrapping small units, such as sweets and lollipops, at high speed.

Small towns such as Qalqiliya in the northern West Bank are literally surrounded by the concrete barrier.

These incentives and policy instruments could be financial, but they could also be lighter - touch regulatory and market mechanisms that help SMEs (unlike mechanisms such as auctions that are barriers to small players who do not have corporate back - up and who need to know the value of their product in advance if they are to raise funds).

Both of these cell layers act as a barrier to small molecules and ions that protects the organs and enables specialized functions, such as absorption in the intestine or urine secretion in the kidney.

«Our research shows that it is primarily 6 - MAM that crosses the blood - brain barrier and that heroin as such only enters the brain to a small degree.

JCU's Professor Eric Wolanski said even in very warm years with a summer el Nino event, such as 1998, there was no massive coral bleaching in the Torres Strait and only small to moderate bleaching in the northern Great Barrier Reef.

In the near term before 2040, the most cost - effective way to protect New York likely is a more modest combination of building improvements — such as raising new structures and home foundations — and smaller barrier methods to keep out water, such as small levees, the policy study finds.

The new work in Nature Communications overcame fundamental barriers in utilizing LED technology on monolayer semiconductors, allowing for such devices to be scaled from sizes smaller than the width of a human hair up to several millimeters.

High cortisol also alters tight junctions between cells such that small harmful substances may pass through the barrier.

Phytoplankton is available at such a small nano - particulate size that it quickly also penetrates the blood / brain barrier feeding the higher master glands located deep in the brain stimulating significant mental clarity.

Another option is for SEOG and the other campus - based aid programs (federal work study and Perkins loans) to be recast as an emergency aid program that colleges could use to help students with unexpected expenses such as an extra trip home to visit a sick relative, or for «completion grants» to students facing relatively small financial barriers to finish their degrees.

Other high - performing / high - poverty schools provide additional protective factors, such as restructuring into small learning communities and removing economic barriers to participation in various extracurricular activities.

Vehicle mass will be a dominant performance factor in the moving barrier test, giving bigger, heavier vehicles, such as large cars, the edge over smaller, lighter ones, such as minicars.

This is because of the low barriers to entry such as low initial deposit and small position sizes.

«With these barriers in mind, we advise those who are falling short to take simple steps, such as putting aside smaller amounts in a separate account and using automatic payments in order to get started.»

Yet, for such a small country, we lay claim a huge barrier reef!

From there we head toward the Stingray City Sandbar, a small sandbar that for most is waist deep, in order to feed, swim with, and interact with Cayman's most prized possession, the southern stingray.We will also visit two other sites, one on the barrier reef that separates Stingray City from the open water of the Caribbean, and another lovely site locally called Coral Gardens.The barrier reef is in 6 - 8 feet of water and is known for its aquatic sea life such as lobsters, crabs, and conchs.

Yet a game that has such a small barrier of entry has to sell exponentially more to be profitable.The game has to also be pulling in a sizable amount of microtransactions.

Since we were such a small team, we had to break down the traditional jobs barriers.

The electron then tunnels through the barrier and its energy level is reduced such that the probability of it tunnelling back in the other direction is so small you count on it never happening.

While there are many applications for paying people, such as Square Cash and Google's Android Pay, PayPal remains the largest payment platform on the Internet; therefore, its barrier of entry for paypal.me is smaller.

It gives an opportunity for small - scale producers to go global passing barriers such as high expenses for developing online shop and its maintaining.

NAR supports reducing the barriers that prevent owner - occupants and small investors from accessing financing, such as opening the Federal Housing Administration 203 (k) program to investors.