Sentences with phrase «small fraction of»

Though they occupy a small fraction of Earth's surface, freshwater wetlands are the largest natural source of methane going into the atmosphere.

For the small fraction of what we spent at war in Iraq, we could support institutions so that fragile states don't collapse in the first place, and invest in emerging economies that become markets for our goods.»

It seems likely that many of the satisfied one - in - four are studying in graduate schools, a recent addition to the Swedish university system, which caters for only a small fraction of postgraduates.

While the cause remains largely unknown, only a small fraction of childhood leukemia is believed to involve an inherited genetic predisposition.

So say some researchers, who note that a small fraction of overweight people have normal blood sugar levels and blood pressure, and are thus «healthy obese.»

Right now the SNAP - Ed nutrition program is available in every state and reaches more than 6 million people, but this is only a small fraction of the 50 million or more citizens who are struggling to eat healthfully on a budget.

Although they make up a small fraction of the Ozarks» biomass, lichens hold a disproportionate number of its nutrients.

Politically, it may be essential to hand out a small fraction of credits to pivotal interest groups.

In 2013, India's National Vector Borne Diseases Control Program reported that the country had experienced an annual average of 20,474 dengue cases and 132 dengue - related deaths since 2007, but infectious disease experts believe those official numbers likely reflect only a small fraction of actual cases.

(Later, the number of registered liquidators rose to 600,000, although only a small fraction of these were exposed to high levels of radiation, the report noted.)

Many federal agencies have so far spent a small fraction of allocated funds — in the DOE's case, only about 6 percent.

A small fraction of these, in turn, could have been Earth - like, meaning they met such criteria as harboring water and existing within a habitable distance from their suns.

A small fraction of 1 percent of all criminal defendants are acquitted by reason of insanity.

It holds only a small fraction of recoverable phosphate, and not all facilities create struvite.

The DNA is pervasively transcribed into RNA, but only a very small fraction of the RNA has the instructions (or codes) for making proteins.

Only a small fraction of the publication costs of a print journalsome estimate as little as 10 percentcovers the editorial and peer review process.

That makes sense, the researchers say: Humans spend an unusually small portion of their development — and build an unusually small fraction of their brain mass — in the womb.

The rate of star formation is a small fraction of what goes on in a younger galaxy like the Milky Way, but even these low levels of activity will force theorists to revise their models of how galaxies evolve.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

The batteries also make up a small fraction of the device's weight and cost, regulating small amounts of energy.

For this reason, only a small fraction of light waves propagating inside biological tissues can actually reach the desired target, while the majority is scattered and randomly diffused.

At a mere 500 000 years old — a small fraction of the Pleiades open cluster's age of 115 million years — Trumpler 14 is not only one of the most populous clusters within the Carina Nebula, but also the youngest.

This is a small fraction of the landscape — much less than 1 percent of the surface area of the northern hemisphere.

Sometimes I have a sense of what I'm seeing being a small fraction of what's there.

Kashlinsky shows that if black holes play the part of dark matter, this process occurs more rapidly and easily produces the lumpiness of the CIB detected in Spitzer data even if only a small fraction of minihaloes manage to produce stars.

Black bears in Yosemite National Park that don't seek out human foods subsist primarily on plants and nuts, according to a study conducted by biologists at UC San Diego who also found that ants and other sources of animal protein, such as mule deer, make up only a small fraction of the bears» annual diet.

Coastal habitats, including mangrove forests and sea grass beds, cover only a small fraction of the world's surface, but these fringe ecosystems harbor an enormous amount of carbon.

We have some lecturers, but they are a small fraction of the faculty.»

As a result, only a small fraction of atomic elements, along with a select few diatomic molecules, have been cooled in this manner.

Many hundreds of genes are likely to be involved, with each one playing a role in just a small fraction of cases, and contributing to risk in different ways in different individuals,» said Jones.

According to the nonprofit Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), which has campaigned vigorously to ban use of the technology in waters rich in marine wildlife, recent cases of whale strandings likely represent a small fraction of sonar's toll, given that severely injured animals rarely make it to shore.

Proteus's handler, James Czarnowski, who developed the boat while at mit, says that conversion of even a small fraction of the U.S. shipping fleet to such efficient propulsion would save tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of gallons of fuel annually.

«The proposal is for a small fraction of the affected park land, specifically ponderosa stands that experienced high - severity burn,» said Forest Service spokeswoman Reghan Cloudman.

Each created a shower of particle debris that physicists can scour for traces of the Higgs, which if it exists would have emerged in a small fraction of collisions and then immediately decayed away into other particles.

«This could be the reason why we've only so far been able to explain a small fraction of the heritability of many health conditions, which makes a lot of sense in the context of metabolic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes.»

The minister can only accept a small fraction of the invitations she gets.

Even so, the Hubble's ability to see so many of these lenses in a small fraction of the sky takes them from being a scientific curiosity to serving as a potentially powerful tool for probing the universe's evolution and expansion.

The researchers found that in mice, a single injection of 30 millionths of a gram of these mRNAs — a small fraction of the dose used for a typical vaccine — induced a rapid immune response, which protected mice from intravenous exposure to a separate Zika strain two weeks later.

In two centuries of work, scientists have named and described about 1.5 million species of plants, animals, fungi and microorganisms — only a small fraction of the estimated 10 to 100 million species that exist today.

It represents only a small fraction of an animal's genome (the rest is nuclear DNA), and because it is transmitted only from the mother, it reveals just the genetic history of females.

Early results indicate that a small fraction of the muon antineutrinos behave like electron antineutrinos after the 30 - metre flight, implying that neutrinos do have a small mass.

And rare mutations that caused salmon to grow an extra fin or an enlarged heart sac, for example, began to turn up in a small fraction of the population, says Short.

BP has pledged $ 500 million for research in the Gulf, although only a small fraction of that has yet been handed out, and many researchers are working under rapid - response grants from the National Science Foundation.

But Portegies Zwart, in a new paper (being reviewed for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters), offers up what may be a credible way to find 50 or 60 of our own sun's original siblings, that small fraction of the estimated 1,000 to 6,000 original cluster members Portegies Zwart thinks is located within some 300 light - years of Earth.

Even though water covers 70 percent of Earth's surface, it makes up a very small fraction of the planet's overall bulk.

A small fraction of influential papers get most of the citations, whereas the vast majority of papers get few or none at all.

The researchers found that only a small fraction of fast - food eaters — as little as 8 percent — are likely to make healthy choices as a result of current calorie labeling.

HP Labs can not yet estimate the cost of its process, but the company is aiming for a small fraction of the $ 100 - per - square - foot price tag of conventional flat - panel products.

Coming back to the beginning of the story — the «cliché» part of a physics experiment represents only a small fraction of the entire story.

The team studied the chemical reactions between carbon dioxide and its surroundings once the gas is injected into the Earth — finding that as carbon dioxide works its way underground, only a small fraction of the gas turns to rock.