Sentences with phrase «small in an absolute»

I have a feeling that you are not, because I read the breastfeeding literature and I have not seen anything that conflicts with my statement that «the benefits of breastfeeding, those that have been suggested by the epidemiological research, are quite small in absolute size».

Most benefits are small in absolute numbers, and do not take into account unique maternal and family issues that make up the reality of new parenthood.

Similarly, getting a fair offer — even if it was small in absolute terms — activated regions in the brain such as the ventral striatum and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex that are involved in automatic and intuitive reward processing.

Both are small in an absolute dollar sense, so even a 40 % decline won't be catastrophic.

Receivables days have expanded rapidly — but remain small in absolute terms, at 6.2 days — reflecting increased adoption of its corporate LowFuelcard, a trend likely to continue (albeit, more slowly).

While the errors are small in absolute terms and do not affect the big picture, they are enough to distort the noisy short term trends which have dominated the public discourse on climate change.

As more and more cities grow and reach a level of what I would call «UHI saturation», the slow growth of big cities and smaller in absolute values UHI increase for cities from a certain size explains a smaller delta UHI for an urban group that contains cities, in comparison with a UHI contaminated average containing many small locations growing — consistent with the results from the BEST study — divergence appearing in the 1950s — and with the logarithmic dependency of UHI growing trend based on population.

All correlations are small in absolute size, with none statistically significant.

Not exact matches

As a result, you are asking a very small subset of the overall entrepreneurial population — both in absolute terms and size of business — for opinions.

And in a country of more than 150 million people, even a proportionally small middle class like Bangladesh's can be quite large in terms of absolute numbers and buying power.

I can't say definitively that the price spike is justified, but given the small absolute increase in market value, I can easily imagine how it might be.

In like manner, if I could not continue to unite with any smaller society, church, or body of Christians, without committing sin, without lying and hypocrisy, without preaching to other doctrines which I did not myself believe, I should be under an absolute necessity of separating from that society.

Let's say you are in absolute command of a small independent military unit.

He recognized with absolute certainty the empty fragility of even the noblest theorizings as compared with the definitive plenitude of the smallest fact grasped in its total, concrete reality.

When so many syntheses of thought have been shown to be too small a garment to fit a growing world of knowledge, when so many preconceptions have had to be revised in every field of knowledge, the modern man is in no sympathetic mood to listen to proofs for the existence of a personal God unless the very knowledge he has so recently acquired can be geared to the demonstration of such an Absolute.

The report, which covers a period from 1945 to 2010, says «the scale» of the abuse «is relatively small in percentage terms, but is a serious problem in absolute numbers.»

Also a small branch of Hinduism (in Bengal) exalts love as sympathy above such empty abstractions as «the absolute,» «the infinite,» or «the eternal.»

@Chad «terrible atrocities, but in absolute terms, dwarfed by what Pol Pot did, he being the smallest of the atheists killers in the 20th century.

Please don't pretend and have everyone living in your small world of absolutes.

If a flood but goes above one's head, its absolute elevation becomes a matter of small importance; and when we touch our own upper limit and live in our own highest centre of energy, we may call ourselves saved, no matter how much higher some one else's centre may be.

Underscoring the fact that «the element of absolute novelty in Jesus» teaching is smaller than is often supposed,» Hamilton affirms that Jesus» distinctiveness lies in how he selected from his tradition certain themes and gave them a completely new emphasis» (LGMW 194).

As the pie enlarges, even if their share is smaller as a percentage of the whole, it is still larger in absolute terms.

this will likely challenge me, i'm not naturally inclined toward teaching, but this is necessary, as i fight, COME AT ME KC, in a small way, the absolute cluster of the next 4 years.

Our core values include an absolute commitment to straightforward business practices, compassion for small businesses, and specialization in the natural products industry.

My concern is that «the audience» seem to be not that interested in «smaller» fighters (see the whole «mighty mouse is not a draw despite being an absolute beast at 125 lbs» thing).

I have in some small part been involved in the protests and getting people involved is an absolute impossible mission.

Goals win matches and the penalty spot is almost an absolute lock with Eden Hazard as the lead penalty taker, therefore the denial of penalties in games big and small could be the difference between a title and a near miss in the future.

But lately they have been saying the absolute risk in Homebirth is small compared to the slight increase in relative risk, and is worth considering.

Absolute risks were small in both groups.

When it comes to breastfeeding, the tiniest of changes in the odds ratio or relative risk will excite them, even if the absolute difference is very very small.

Basically, the observational studies find that when very low - risk women have home births following thorough prenatal care, attended by skilled practitioners who transfer to hospital promptly when signs of a problem appear, the absolute increase in risk to the child is small, less than 1 per 1000.

Rates of obstetrical intervention are high in U.S. hospitals, and we found large absolute differences in the risks of these interventions between planned out - of - hospital births and in - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein U.S. hospitals, and we found large absolute differences in the risks of these interventions between planned out - of - hospital births and in - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein the risks of these interventions between planned out - of - hospital births and in - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein - hospital births.38 In contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analyseIn contrast, serious adverse fetal and neonatal outcomes are infrequent in all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein all the birth settings we assessed, and the absolute differences in risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein risk that we observed between planned birth locations were correspondingly small; for example, planned out - of - hospital births were associated with an excess of less than 1 fetal death per 1000 deliveries in multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analysein multivariate and propensity - score - adjusted analyses.

Both studies reported some increased risk in morbidity among women with more than one prior cesarean delivery, although the absolute magnitude of the difference in these risks was small (eg, 2.1 % versus 3.2 % composite major morbidity in one study)(74).

I would call a situation where large numbers (maybe still a small minority, but in absolute terms a large number) of police are acting in this way a situation of «major disorder».

And while with more voters the standard deviation becomes larger in absolute terms, it becomes smaller as a percentage of the vote.

It must also examine cost implications as well as strategic necessities...» Angela Eagle assured us that the small print had not been forgotten, but the wrong presentation could lose Labour votes in Scotland, and Trident is surely not one of our absolute red lines.

For example, an absolute threshold in the number of votes (e.g. requiring a certain proportion of the whole population or of registered voters to be elected rather than a plurality of the vote) can seem intuitively appealing but has never, to my knowledge, been implemented for a national election, precisely because leaving an important office unfilled is a problem (unless, of course, you subscribe to radical small - government ideas, in which case the question seems moot and you might just as well do away with elections or democracy itself).

Chicago in the 1930s, the Great Depression - a time of unemployment, fear and corruption, and the perfect time for a small - fry crime boss and his henchmen to make it big, to seize a greater power, an absolute power.

He said EAD is just the division of the country into small geographical area to facilitate enumeration, adding «to us in the commission, getting the 2016 Census EAD right is not an option but an absolute necessity in the quest to deliver to the nation an accurate, reliable and acceptable census.»

Even though this dust is just a few degrees above absolute zero, it still emits feebly in the infrared; the power of the telescope coupled with the relatively small distance to the galaxy make it easier to spot.

«Everything happens in a small vacuum chamber where we have a very dilute vapor of atoms which are cooled close to absolute zero,» Lukin said.

The panel found that in some cases, hormonal treatment is appropriate, and confers only a very small increase in absolute risk of disease for many middle - aged women.

Hudson's laboratory used laser light to cool tiny amounts of the reactant atoms and molecules to an extremely low temperature — one one - thousandth of a degree above absolute zero — and then levitate them in a space smaller than the width of a human hair, inside of a vacuum chamber.

«However, it's important to remember that even if the relative risks are high, the absolute risks of CP and epilepsy are still small,» says researcher Martina Persson, paediatrician and associate professor at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine in Solna.

Prices of drugs in the antiinfective class had the smallest average absolute increase of almost $ 334.

Despite the increase in risks, the absolute risks «to any individual child of a man at any age are quite small,» Malaspina says.

The scientists chose the number eight to be smaller in one context and bigger in the other, showing that the effect depends on relative amounts rather than any absolute preference.

And indeed after determining the absolute brightnesses of lots of Cepheids (in the Small Magellanic Cloud and elsewhere), it turned out that there is such a universal relationship (different chemical composition has some influence on this, too, but this can usually be taken into account easily).

Although a seemingly small proportion of Texans obtained insurance through the state's Marketplace, the large absolute numbers had a substantial impact on increasing access to insurance coverage in the United States.»

Because all the stars in the Small Magellanic Cloud have approximately the same distance to us, the observed relationship between apparent brightness and period implies that there is an equivalent relationship between absolute brightness and oscillation period.