Sentences with phrase «small number of differences»

As you said it is an extremely small number of differences that you find genetically between humans and chimps, but it is an extremely important one, and what seems to make it so important is that a lot o these differences seem to affect what are in effect regulatory sequences.

Not exact matches

Even if it's just a chance to win something small like a gift card or early access to the new feature, it will make a huge difference in the number of people who actually participate.

«It's not a huge number, but for a four - day show, with a total booth staff of six, it makes a difference to my small business's bottom line,» says Mojica.

The Small - Cap and SMid - Cap Equity strategies are concentrated strategies that are not managed to a benchmark, so there are material differences in characteristics, such as the number of holdings and sector and industry weightings.

It's more accurate to say that each week we have a small, statistically insignificant and wholly unreliable forecast for the coming week's market direction, but that when grouped over a large number of instances, the differences in the average return / risk profile of different Market Climates are highly statistically significant.

The modernist / traditionalist distinction was not applied to some religious traditions because of the small number of respondents (Jews) and to others because the division revealed no political differences (black Protestants).

The number of evangelical Christians who have empathy for Israel is large, but the number who would want to see political differences settled via biblical citations is relatively small.

Doesn't make a difference Wenger having a smaller squad, he plays his favourite players regardless of form or fatigue, the rest are there to make up the numbers or if one of his favs gets injured.

«It just shows that everybody has moved up and the number of clubs that can fight at the top is bigger this season and the difference between the teams is smaller.

This season everything is really tight so the small details make a big difference and for them it has made a big difference in terms of their number of points.

I look at annual coaching overachievers and underachievers each year using second - order wins — basically the difference between what the stats think your win total should be and what it actually is — and while three years is a small sample, among the 223 FBS coaches with at least three years of head coaching experience between 2005 - 17, Martin's number is 10th - worst, with an average record 0.9 wins below expected totals.

on this now being a game between fifth and sixth... It just shows that everybody has moved up and the number of clubs that can fight at the top is bigger this season and the difference between the teams is smaller.

The limitations of the research include the small sample size overall, and that although the design aimed to allow for likely contextual and practice differences across BC, the very small numbers of midwives within each stratum further limits the applicability of the findings.

Children can do a number of small things that make a big difference.

It's really not that surprising that the difference between a one - to - three minute delay and immediate clamping was relatively small, especially considering the limited number of outcomes that the study focused upon.

Researchers supporting co-parenting identified a number of fundamental methodological flaws of recent studies that challenge co-parenting of infants and young children: the failure to interview both parents, small and non-representative samples and use of unreliable and invalid measures, and the fact that even these studies have actually found no significant differences in child outcomes in single versus co-parenting families.

The two great points of difference between a democracy and a republic are: first, the delegation of the government, in the latter, to a small number of citizens elected by the The effect of the first difference is, on the one hand, to refine and enlarge the public views, by passing them through the medium of a chosen body of citizens, whose wisdom may best discern the true interest of their country, and whose patriotism and love of justice will be least likely to sacrifice it to temporary or partial considerations.

It's a fairly small number of people who are really upset and really angry who bother to go to the polls, and they do make a difference in years like this.

It should be noted that where few animals are used, small variations in the numbers of animals can lead to large percentile differences.

As for Section 8 and NYCHA prioritization, while it will no doubt make a huge difference to a small number of homeless families, it will have limited impact due to a lack of federal funding.

Making the earlier year's number larger and the later year's number smaller has the effect of reducing the difference between the two.

One of the most significant features of this parliament has been the rise of a much more independent parliamentary party... The small number of frontbench jobs relative to the size of the 2010 intake... The difference between the Coalition Agreement and the manifesto promises that MPs were elected upon... The empowerment of backbenchers by Speaker Bercow... The IPSA factor... No10's party mismanagement... at least ten factors have created what I've called the supercharged backbencher.

In places like Yellowstone and eastern Washington and Oregon, however, smaller wolf populations are too far removed from the remaining core of the species» distribution to really make a difference in controlling coyote numbers.

At the same time, we can not rule out that the difference in the number of contacts is caused by a small group of children who have more frequent contact with their GP because of illness,» explains Anne Mette Lund Würtz.

With such a limited breeding population, even a small number of deaths from disease can be the difference between the survival of a population or extinction.»

A number of smallish studies have seen differences in the brains of habitual weed smokers, including altered connectivity between the hemispheres, inefficient cognitive processing in adolescent users, and a smaller amygdala and hippocampus — structures involved in emotional regulation and memory, respectively.

To make sure that the closeness rankings didn't reflect a fundamental difference between types of friendships at large and small schools, Bahns and her colleagues adjusted for a number of other variables, including how long friends had known each other and how much time they spent together.

The small number of genetic differences suggest the lice transferred between gorilla and early humans as recently as 3.3 million years ago.

Those with remitted ADHD had relatively higher obesity rates than the persistent - ADHD men, although the small number of men with persistent ADHD makes it difficult to draw any substantial conclusions about this difference.

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

The basic difference between small and long non-coding RNA is the number of nucleotides — the structural building blocks of RNA.

Our study had several limitations: small sample size, lack of randomization, and differences in numbers between groups.

The researchers did not find a difference in skin regrowth between groups, but their findings may be limited because of the small number of rats in the study.

The percentage of fixed differences in nature may be even lower given the relatively small number of individuals used in our study.

Even though it may sound like a small difference the 14 billion neurons amount to pretty much the number of neurons that a baboon brain has or almost half the number of neurons in the gorilla brain.

5500xl SOLiD shows slight improvement over SOLiD 4, except for extremely small regions of 1 — 2 bp, where this slight difference increases to a drastic difference of a factor of 1.5 in the number of regions not covered (on average 384,304 for SOLiD 4 and 260,252 for 5500xl SOLiD).

De Jager told Alzforum that preliminary data from comparisons between a small number of post-mortem AD brain samples and normal aging brains revealed no striking differences in mCH.

However, when the humans were strangers, the dogs stuck around 53 % of the time and wolves 28 % — a difference too small to be statistically significant considering the small number of animals involved.

All of these small choices can amount to a significant number of calories by the time the day is over and can mean the difference between consistent weekly fat loss or complete stagnation.

In their investigation into the survey, they found the difference between the number of marriages from Match and eHarmony, «was even smaller than reported by eHarmony's survey, or possibly favored Match.»

The task starts with identifying larger and smaller numbers (number line prompt) Question 2 directs thinking about direction of travel along a number line Question 3 begins thinking about multiplication / balancing number equations Questions 4 and 5 are from UKMT Maths Challenge past papers and should consolidate thinking and uses the key word difference in Q5.

[22] That report showed that when transfer students were awarded bachelor's degrees, they tended to have more excess credits than so - called native students, but the difference was small and there were a number of possible explanations for that difference.

There were a small number of outcomes favoring Head Start participants at the end of the Head Start year, but no appreciable differences between children attending and not attending Head Start from kindergarten through third grade.

If I know for sure that my efforts can make a concrete difference in the lives of the relatively small number of kids, teachers, and parents I interact with every day, why divert a single ounce of energy to reaching out to lawmakers who seem more intent on bickering with each other than listening to the people they represent?

«But what we've found is that even small number of absences can make a big difference later in student outcomes.»

«In developing an understanding of subtraction as a difference, students might analyze and discuss situations, such as determining what number must be added to another to make them the same, how much larger or smaller one number is in comparison to another, or what remains of a number after part of it has been taken away,» Cawley describes.

With the number of gears increased to eight, the differences in engine speed from one gear to the next are smaller than before, despite the overall range of gear ratios.

Not someone who has ever worked in publishing, who knows what publishers do behind the scenes, or what the issues are, or how the distribution works, or what the boots - on - the - ground challenges are, or how the industry is changing, or what publishers do to help authors build long term careers, or the differences between large and small presses, or the history of returnable books or what it's like to work with major distributors such as Amazon... a sociologist, armed with some numbers.»

However, the primary differences come down to its much smaller Screen Size (4.0 versus 4.7 to 5.0 inches), much lower Pixel Resolution (1136x640 versus 1920x1080), much lower total number of Pixels (0.7 versus 2.1 Mega Pixels), and much lower Pixels Per Inch (326 versus 443 to 468).

While there are a number of small differences between the two models, the biggest is that VantageScore was jointly created by the three big credit bureaus: Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.