Sentences with phrase «small number of regions»

Though Android smartphones hold some records, Apple iPhone 5S and iPhone 5C made a new history with over 9 million sales in just three days after their launch in a small number of regions.

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But the number of small businesses in the Pilbara dropped by 22.4 per cent — the steepest decline of any region.

The government lending data analyzed by Reveal also showed Trident served a much smaller and whiter section of the Philadelphia area than the region's No. 2 lender, Wells Fargo, which overall took in a slightly smaller number of conventional home purchase applications.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

With a fixed number of 600 components, the STOXX Europe 600 Index represents large, mid and small capitalization companies across 18 countries of the European region.

Now RAAW ™ Juices are available in Von's Pavilions, Raleys, Marsh, Giant Eagle, Tops, The Fresh Market, SuperValu, Safeway, a number of Whole Foods regions and larger supermarket chains, as well as the smaller independents in which RAAW ™ Juices were first introduced.

In all, a small swing to Labour (of 2 %, or less) from other parties could see further seat gains fall into the party's hands in a number constituencies (highlighted by the yellow shaded constituencies on the map), with a particular cluster of these target constituencies being located in the Munster region.

First, because it would be embarrassing for an anti-autonomy government if even a small number of non-residents of the upstart region supported the claim.

In Scotland, Wales, and the London Assembly, the fixed numbers of additional members, elected in relatively small regions, are not always sufficient to fully compensate for the disproportionality caused by the single - member district (first - past - the - post voting) tier.

The eyeblink conditioning is stored in a small number of cells in a particular region of the cerebellum.»

This decision appears to be generated by a very small number of excitatory neurons that use acetylcholine as their neurotransmitter located in three brain regions.

[2] This quantity is in fact much larger than the numbers quoted by previous studies which surveyed smaller regions, leaving out many of the cluster's stars that lie further from its core.

And a substantial number of scientists and experienced biotech staff available on the job market in RTP have actually been a positive influence on the recruitment effort at about three dozen smaller biotechnology ventures in the region.

Dr Siddharth Banka, Clinical Senior Lecturer at the Manchester Centre for Genomic Medicine, who led the study, explained: «Our team has identified that this new syndrome is caused by a small deletion on chromosome 6 that affects the function of hypothalamus, a region of the brain that plays a number of important roles in the body.»

The flu virus, H11N2, was found in a small number of members of a group of Adélie penguins tested at two locations on the Antarctic Peninsula, the continent's northernmost region.

Several genomic studies have suggested regions that might influence sexual orientation, but they have relied on small numbers of participants and have been challenged repeatedly.

The mice seem to develop normally when only one copy of the gene is removed, but microscopic inspection reveals a number of small «gaps,» or disorganized regions of tissue (on the scale of a few nanometers) on their aortas, the largest artery in their bodies.

He also allocated the number 43 to the smaller detached region just north of the main part of the nebula.

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.

For example, the number of forest fragments smaller than 10,000 hectares is rather similar in all three regions: 11.2 percent in Central and South America, 9.9 percent in Africa and 9.2 percent in Southeast Asia.

(D) The average number of somatic hypermutations in the pandemic H1N1 patient plasmablast variable region genes compared with primary IgG plasmablast responses to vaccinia (small pox) or the anthrax vaccine, or after at least 4 boosters with the anthrax vaccine.

This is likely true for two reasons; 1) there would not have been much time for a large number of chromosomal rearrangements to occur between these early ancestral human and mouse genomes, 2) and that since divergence with the boreoeutherian ancestor the human genome has undergone only a small number of chromosomal rearrangements meaning that many human telomeric regions are ancestral [58, 73].

A small number of tomcod carried this gene variant before this region of the Hudson River became heavily polluted with PCBs.

The number of stars needed to produce the tremendous luminosity could not be packed into the small region and neither would they produce the peculiar non-thermal radiation.

Furthermore, this line expressed Gal4 in a small region of the wing pouch and a number of neurons during the younger developmental stages.

However, they were not designed to delineate regions of the genome resisting introgression nor investigate the frequency and types of genes involved in genetic incompatibilities, because they were based on a relatively small number of loci (less than 50) and the sampling of the genome was non-random (e.g. overrepresentation of the X-chromosome or regions near centromeres).

While the number of regions not covered is similar for all platforms for larger sized regions of 150 bp and above (Figure S9), Life Technologies» platforms SOLiD 4 and 5500xl SOLiD show very high numbers of small regions without coverage compared to HiSeq2000 and Complete Genomics.

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).

It reveals a comparably smaller covered fraction only for regions containing a large number of short repeats, like simple repeats (24 % uncovered at 30x coverage), low complexity repeats (11.9 %), CpG islands (9.2 %), and satellites (3.7 %).

We're starting our trip in Marrekech, and drove out of the city yesterday morning to the Imlil region that boasts a number of small...

A number of historic towns and sites dot the region including Harpers Ferry, a small town containing civil war remnants, and if you're feeling adventurous, there are several camping sites throughout the area.

Here's what you need to consider: If you live in a small town or rural area and you're not into long - distance relationships, the number of online dating profiles within your geographical region is already slim.

Finally, if necessary, send relatively small numbers of U.S. troops to Eurasia to block major powers and destabilize regions.»

Someone's going to be in the headquarters, they're going to decide what number of books are going to each store based on the region, and so stores themselves, when you walk into a Barnes and Noble, let's say, and you talk to that manager, they have a very small amount of wiggle room when it comes to the titles they're allowed to bring in.

Protons are so small that a little dib of ink like the dot on this i can hold something in the region of 500,000,000,000 of them, rather more than the number of seconds contained in half a million years.

If the rear electrode is divided into a number of small picture elements (pixels), then an image can be formed by applying the appropriate voltage to each region of the display to create a pattern of reflecting and absorbing regions.

Unlike your personal credit, it's not expressed in a fairly universal score, but rather is typically expressed in a series of reports that address how timely a business repays vendors who offer payment terms, their payment history with any current small business loans, industry information (including the overall creditworthiness of other businesses within that industry), and comparisons between the business and others within the same revenue class, size, number of employees, and the region where they do business.

The American AAdvantage program also uses a region - based award chart so you can add a connecting flight from smaller airports to any of these gateway airports without increasing the number of miles required.

Given the large numbers of Fox Terriers in the region, they also may have been used, although probably not by Nellis because they were too small for his purposes.

In this test, a veterinarian will insert a needle into an area of concern (an enlarged lymph node, enlarged kidney, thickened region of intestine, or fluid present within the chest) and remove a small number of cells.

When states are adjacent or located in the same region and the animals come from shelters in need, or the numbers involved are small, the public seems willing to go along with relocations if made aware of them.

Although the DLA region is only a small part of the genome, the importance of these haplotype imbalances, small haplotype numbers, and increased homozygosity should not be underestimated [23, 42].

Regions were divided into relative prey abundance based on average number of small mammals caught per year per area, from an annual dataset (Australian Wildlife Conservancy, unpublished data).

Though in many places in the world the idea of  «flying in style» is no longer a reality, flying in a small, safe plane with a comfortable number of passengers is the norm in Belize. You can use this service to fly from mainland Belize out to Ambergris Caye or to many of the countries in the region.

Although Costa Rica is a small country, it is in the bird - rich neotropical region and has a huge number of species for its area.

The American AAdvantage program also uses a region - based award chart so you can add a connecting flight from smaller airports to any of these gateway airports without increasing the number of miles required.

The Centre, a collaboration between Virgin Unite, the non-profit foundation of the Virgin Group and Virgin Holidays, the UK's number one long haul holiday company, will open this September in Montego Bay, and will support local entrepreneurs to create and grow small businesses, ultimately generating jobs for the region.

The reason the Margaret River region is one of the most beloved stops on the CT is mainly because of the sheer number of world - class waves located within such a small area.

Palawan is an archipelagic province of the Philippines located in the region of MIMAROPA composed of the main Palawan Island (which it is named after) and a number of other smaller islands surrounding it, totaling roughly 1,780 islands and islets.

Beginning in the early nineties, McCollum expanded his interests in quantity production to include explorations into the ways regional communities give meaning to local landmarks and geological oddities in establishing community identity, and collaborated with a number of small towns and small historical museums in Europe and throughout the United States, bringing attention to the way local narratives develop around objects peculiar to geographic regions, and drawing comparisons to the way artworks develop meaning in a parallel manner.