Sentences with phrase «small number of people on»

The researchers note that a limitation of the study is the relatively small number of people on which xenodiagnosis was attempted.

Not exact matches

«We want to have a small, massive impact,» Flombaum says, contrasting the approach of attempting to change the lives — and career paths — of a small number of students at a time to that of online education, which can reach a lot of people, but is likely to have just a small affect on each one.

«A trade war on steel and aluminum is going to help a small number of people and it's going to hurt a lot more and drive up prices, said Mary Ann Hurley, vice president, fixed income trading at D.A. Davidson in Seattle.

Although Amazon's Alexa team is just a small fraction of the company's overall workforce of nearly 350,000 people, the number of people working on Alexa is more than several consumer companies combined.

And a small but growing number of people appear to be dropping landline Internet service to rely solely on the mobile Internet.

While it may be difficult to fire someone who is one of a small number of employees, you can't afford to keep someone on the payroll if that person is actively harming that vital foundation.

However, it's far simpler to do consistent, smaller price hikes on drugs used by a far greater number of people in order to make up for revenue gaps.

Which means you have to compromise on one dimension: you can either build something a large number of people want a small amount, or something a small number of people want a large amount.

While it's a shock to get 89 percent of people to agree on anything (smaller numbers agree that the earth goes around the sun and not the other way around, for instance), the fact that working together is less lonely than working apart is hardly a world - shaking revelation.

What I see in SurePayroll's January Small Business Scorecard is that the number of people on payroll dropped slightly (0.1 percent), optimism is low (57 percent), and the average paycheck is up (0.6 percent).

Our testing has shown that doing this in moderation for just a small number of stories can lead to more conversations between people and their friends on all types of content.»

The reality of organic posting on your Facebook page is that only a small number of the people who have liked your page...

Barbell industry structures consist of a relatively few giant corporations on one end, a narrow middle consisting of a shrinking number of mid-sized firms, and a large and growing number of small, micro and one person (solopreneur) firms on the other end.

He's one of a small number of people in the south that are moving money on a regular basis, and he knows what he's doing.

Against All Odds is the story of a small number of people: the 140,000 or so survivors who landed on American shores.

On a very basic level, as a sort of cultural trend, weddings themselves are becoming smaller and smaller affairs: They are increasingly getting cheaper and people are inviting fewer guests (in 2009, 149 came to the average American wedding; last year, that number fell to 141).

The number of people with a significant influence on corporate policy is usually quite small.

how many more mistakes are you American people going to make 7/11 shook your country to the core allowing a mosque near or on this site will make you a laughing stock in the eyes of the world and the small number of muslims who think terror is right will think thay have one yet another chapter on ther fight against the west so on that ground only i think the best thing for the site would be a peoples park where people from all walks of life and religious back ground can be as one A.R WATTS, E ngland

There is a small percentage of people fixed on Bible knowledge (typically fundamentalists), but, by far, the overwhelming number of people are embarrassingly ignorant of Scripture.

The amount of subsequent research conducted on religious television in America has been relatively small in comparison to the large number of people and agencies which have been producing religious programs over the past 35 years.

During the pontificate of former deacon Damasus, Ambrosiaster wrote a little tract On the Arrogance of the Roman Deacons.l6 Besides the propitious factor of the relatively small number of deacons, mention also should be made of their close association with people in their everyday necessities as a common consideration in their election to the episcopate.

If people really want to go to town on his 8 goals in first season, signed on dead - line day, no pre-season, played centrally for only a small number of games (14 in fact) then they should at least keep it in context; look at the first season or comparable age scoring from some of their other heroes like Kanu, Eduardo, Wiltord, Adebayor and RvP — they certainly were not ripping up trees and played centrally all the time.

Before you pull on you SJW uniform and climb onto your high horses, remember that racism is no isolated incident and only a small number of educated people the world over seem to have any sort of perspective on the issue and are genuinely open to people of varied races, while most put up a show to just seem politically correct.

The AARP Sex, Romance and Relationships Survey on the sexuality of people 45 and older found that extramarital affairs happen for only a relatively small number of couples.

I'm not quite sure if this embodies the Long Tail effect, perverts it or turns it on its head, but it's fascinating — as in so many other public spaces online AND off, most people are good actors, but a small number of bad ones can really ruin the party.

And since we're talking about relatively small numbers of voters on both sides (via back - of - the - envelope calculation, a VA state legislative district should hold about 60,000 people), a few dozen ballots here and there might matter.

Private polling that showed 88 per cent of the electorate want a public vote on the Lisbon treaty have been criticised for sampling too small a number of people.

It appears that a relatively small number of people watched the lone debate in the election for New York City Comptroller, which occurred on Tuesday, October 17 between incumbent Democrat Scott Stringer and his Republican challenger, Michel Faulkner.

Simply being on the ballot allows a small party to get known to a large number of people and get their ideas to a wider audience.

According to Labour, that works out on average at about # 3,000 per taxpayer, although it is likely that a large number of people would get much less than that and a small number of the richest much more.

«There'll be a number of people that we'll be working with in a different fashion but look, I'm ready to work with anyone who will help New York City whether again it's on those day - to - day issues, the smaller things or whether it's on the big picture issues like saving Obamacare and making sure that the tax code is fair to New Yorkers,» de Blasio added.

There is anger within the business community because many companies are now able to recruit only small numbers of non-European staff as a result of the coalition government's interim cap on work visas for people entering Britain.

When the state's prison population was fairly small, the practice did not have much of an effect on legislative districts, but as the number of incarcerated people grew, so did the impact.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police stops.

The best scenario is when you have majority of the people in the country being law - abiding, that way there'll be a small number who aren't law - abiding so the law enforcement agencies can deal with them,» he said on Eyewitness News.

This system works best for journals that receive a lot of manuscripts and maintains its efficiency and quality by having a small number of people making the final decisions on the manuscripts.

«You will get a lot of different answers from different people, but inevitably the ability of any one of those to convince everyone else that they're right is going to depend on the statistics of small numbers,» says Ross Stein of the US Geological Survey (USGS) in Menlo Park, California, «and we're never going to get anywhere.»

Tournament fields, on the other hand, give small numbers of people very big prizes.

An astonishing number of things that scientists know about brains and behavior are based on small groups of highly educated, mostly white people between the ages of 18 and 21.

A multicenter team of researchers reports that a full genomic analysis of tumor samples from a small number of people who died of pancreatic cancer suggests that chemical changes to DNA that do not affect the DNA sequence itself yet control how it operates confer survival advantages on subsets of pancreatic cancer cells.

Lazer has found a small bony growth on the inside of the skulls of a number of people killed at Pompeii.

Even after the advent of widespread social media, a pyramid of production remains, with a small number of people uploading material, a slightly larger group commenting on or modifying that content, and a huge percentage remaining content to just consume.

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

This trial also looked at the effects of corticosteroids on HIV - positive people, but the small number of included participants meant that the review authors were unsure if the benefits in terms of a reduction of death was preserved in this group of participants.

Johnson and Spagat expected that the success of the attacks, measured in the number of people killed, would cluster around a certain figure: There would be a few small attacks and a few large ones as outliers on either end, but most attacks would pile up in the middle.

However, most prior work has focused on only a small number of brain regions, leaving a gap in our understanding of how multiple brain regions communicate with one another through networks, called functional connectivity, in persons with dyslexia.

A smaller number of people go on to suffer from antibiotic - refractory Lyme arthritis — a painful inflammation of the joints that long outlasts the infection.

Nanotechnology refers to manipulating the structure of matter on a length scale of some small number of nanometers, interpreted by different people at different times as meaning anything from 0.1 nm (controlling the arrangement of individual atoms) to 100 nm or more (anything smaller than microtechnology).

In most cases, the anxiety is provoked by everyday situations such as making one - on - one conversation at a party, or eating and drinking in front of even a small number of people.

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1741-7015/12/86 I asked Lara to provide the studies on which she is basing her blanket statement that gluten is linked to dementia when, based on what I have seen, gluten may be linked to dementia in the small number of people suffering from celiac disease.