Sentences with phrase «small number of representative»

«Our analysis, albeit limited to a small number of representative journals, supports the importance of financial investment in research,» Omary says.

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And sure enough, just hours after Comey testified, the House of Representatives voted to repeal key parts of the Dodd - Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, which has contributed to an alarming number of small bank closures since its passage in 2010.

Hence, the number of representatives in the two cases not being in proportion to that of the two constituents, and being proportionally greater in the small republic, it follows that, if the proportion of fit characters be not less in the large than in the small republic, the former will present a greater option, and consequently a greater probability of a fit choice.

In the first place, it is to be remarked that, however small the republic may be, the representatives must be raised to a certain number, in order to guard against the cabals of a few; and that, however large it may be, they must be limited to a certain number, in order to guard against the confusion of a multitude.

In the next place, as each representative will be chosen by a greater number of citizens in the large than in the small republic, it will be more difficult for unworthy candidates to practice with success the vicious arts by which elections are too often carried; and the suffrages of the people being more free, will be more likely to centre in men who possess the most attractive merit and the most diffusive and established characters.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

--RRB- Basing the number of electors on the number of Federal Representatives plus two Senators for each state prevents the dreaded one - man - one - vote which despite the just sound of it, only works in small, homogenous populations.

As representatives of Saugerties, Caroline and Mia will be among only a small number of Ulster County students attending the regional spelling bee.

The Labour leader, a long - term proponent of Lords reform, said the upper chamber is dominated by «a small number of people from London and the south east» and should be more representative.

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

As a result, NAEP never collected in its long - term trend assessment a representative sample of students for any specific state, and the median number of tested students in each state was very small.

During the more than two - hour meeting, the Mayor, Schools Superintendent Lois Harrison - Jones, the School Committee's chairman, Paul Parks, and representatives of other youth and city agencies, agreed that a small number of violent and abusive students are disrupting the city's high schools and should be removed to an alternate setting,...

Given the small sample sizes per nation in international assessments, it's unlikely that a valid comparison could be drawn between the limited number of Grade 8 students assessed per nation in PISA and the nationally representative samples of U.S. Grade 8 students assessed in NAEP and TIMSS.

A record number of registered journalists, including daily news reporters, magazine editors, television news crews, bloggers and electronic media representatives of all kinds chose to file stories based on what they saw at the Show — virtually ensuring that any newsworthy event, large or small, quickly came to the attention of the enthusiast world.

A record number of registered journalists — including daily news reporters, magazine editors, television news crews, bloggers and electronic media representatives of all kinds — choose to file stories based on what they see at the Show, virtually ensuring that any newsworthy event, large or small, quickly comes to the attention of enthusiasts worldwide.

Tracking a large bond index is difficult and expensive, so index funds pegged to the DEX Universe always use «representative sampling,» selecting a smaller of number bonds with similar overall characteristics.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

That is precisely what I have done: Using annual sunspot number as a representative of the long term (on the decadal scale) solar magnetic field impact and small variable component of the Earth's magnetic field, as calculated from data by Jackson and Bloxam.

vukcevic December 12, 2012 at 2:46 pm Reply Earth magnetic change exists, sunspot number is the representative of the solar magnetic changes, it is fact that both react on the oceans, the physics is certain But not on each other, and their impact on the oceans is too small and short - lived [hours for the solar part] to have any significant effect on anything.

With a well advised US President, he and his Administration can lead the way to 1) advocate to the US population they regain leadership of developing, for the benefit of all mankind, the world energy resource that will supply most of the world's energy for thousands of years; and 2) because there are only a small number of IAEA representatives to be persuaded and most would be already inclined to support the changes, the USA could persuade the IAEA delegates to set in process the review of the regulations that are unjustifiably retarding progress in the development of nuclear energy.

3.6 REPRESENTATION We are able to offer representation to a small number of small and fair trade suppliers based in the developing world that do not have representatives or agents in the UK, at a subsidised cost.

Yet these projects need the support of our elected representatives in the EU, who must promote legislation to give community energy a fair chance in a market dominated by a small number of large energy companies.

Follow the Money — 2017 Figure 1c shows that the number of TR series drops off precipitously after 1980 or so, so perhaps it was felt that after 1974 the sample was getting too small to be representative.

Through the years, I have had a small number of account representatives.

Applied to the problem of large - scale legal document review and production, technology - assisted review enables a small number of expert human reviewers to train a computerized system to recognize the subtle differences between responsive and non-responsive documents based on the review of a small but representative sample of the document collection.

This numbers, although large, are more representative of a smaller company within the insurance industry.

The meeting brought together representatives from Mozilla, Google, (S GOOG) Cisco (S CSCO) and Microsoft (S MSFT) as well as a number of smaller startups, and the goal was to come to an agreement on WebRTC, a technical standard that could one day be key to how we communicate over long distances — be it through teleconferences in the office, video chats with grandma or even future telepresence applications that make us feel connected through always - on video appliances.

A Facebook representative confirmed the feature is currently being tested with a «very small number of iOS users» for the time being, but notes there will be more information about this GIF maker arriving in a few weeks» time.

By school entry, 43 — 47 % of Aboriginal children have markers of developmental vulnerability.12, 13 In 2009, the first - ever national census of childhood development at school entry showed that Aboriginal children were 2 — 3 times more likely than non-Aboriginal children to be developmentally vulnerable — defined as an Australian Early Development Census (AEDC) score below the 10th centile — on one or more domains.14 The Longitudinal Survey of Australian Children reported similar disparities for cognitive outcomes among Aboriginal children aged 4 — 5 years, although the number of Aboriginal children was very small and not representative of the Aboriginal population.15 There is currently a dearth of empirical research that identifies the drivers of positive early childhood health and development in Aboriginal children, or characterises vulnerable developmental trajectories.

The study sample was found to be representative of the general population of the United Kingdom at the start of data collection, except for a smaller proportion of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater number of owner - occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).