Sentences with phrase «small scale a number»

White House officials acknowledged that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times.

Washington (CNN)- The White House acknowledged Thursday the Syrian government has used chemical weapons, including the nerve agent sarin, on a small scale a number of times, according to a statement.

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In terms of the methods, there are a number of smaller scale studies, many of which did not include active control groups.

The number of small and medium scale companies run by families is growing in number, too.

But they have many of the same valuable customer assets, like credit card numbers and e-mail addresses, just on a smaller scale,» says Adam Ely, co-founder and COO of San Francisco - based mobile data security vendor Bluebox Security.

If there are some noticeable gaps in the European venture scene, the first is there is still a small number of European entrepreneurs who have built products and scaled and exited and then went on to become investors, relative to the size of the market.

The same is true, though on a less spectacular scale, for the smaller east Asian economies, a number of which have bounced back strongly from the weakness seen in the first half of last year.

In a number of countries (Singapore, Brazil, Hong Kong) the introduction of computer - aided manufacturing (CAM) technologies in small - scale industries has been very successful.

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.»

We have been alerted to a number of farmers (in addition to me) who have asked APL to please show how the organisation is actively supporting small - scale farms, but to date we have had only platitudes.

For some years now, the Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA) has been monitoring APL's support for small - scale farmers, and what we have witnessed is in fact a systematic campaign to undermine the efforts of the growing number of small - scale pastured pig farmers.

Organic agriculture — identified as a package of intelligent and innovative farming techniques, sustainable and fair food chains based on principles that strengthen small - scale farmers and empower rural economies - are being adopted globally by governments and local authorities, carried out by millions of farmers and supported by a rapidly increasing number of consumers.

I have made it a countless number of times now, both as per recipe for a small scale, and slightly altered for a much l...

If you think you can't restrict your diet, think again... it's soooo worth it!!!! When you wake up in the morning and the scale says a smaller number, it is so exhilarating!!!!!! And I can't believe I am already seeing results.

I also know that these one or two or three years dealing with his sleeplessness as a baby is small in scale when compared to the number of years that we won't have to.

And while his administration routinely touts the plan's size as historic in scale — including in Monday's press release — the non-partisan Citizens Budget Commission says that adjusting for inflation, it's actually the smallest plan since 2000, or the second smallest, depending on how you crunch the numbers.

In an interview, Alhaji Inusah Fuseini outlined concrete measures he intends to take to arrest this galamsey phenomenon and increase the number of legalized small scale mining operations.

Speaking at the second edition of the National Policy Summit (NPS) under the aegis of the Trade and Industry Ministry under the theme, «The Industrial Transformation of Ghana,» in Accra yesterday, he noted that during the period, «a significant number of small, medium and large scale operators were all brought to their knees as a result of four years of «dumsor» (intermittent power supply), induced by the mismanagement of the energy sector.»

The government has since taken a number of actions including suspending the issuance of new licences for the small - scale mining in the country, and it has announced the retrieval of some illegal mining equipment, surrendered by the operators following the massive drive to clamp down on their activities.

The ban on small - scale mining, and the expected extension, has inconvenienced a number of legal small - scale operators, who have even taken to the streets in protest.

Can we even enumerate the number of businesses that started, blossomed and are thriving because of the friendly policies she put in place to drive the growth of cottage, small and medium scale enterprises in this country?

Small scale private house building in the 1980s gave way to more substantial developments in the 1990s and early 21st century and the current local plan visualises a doubling of the number of dwellings to around 1,500 by the early 2010s.

And across all scales, from very small controlled studies of marine plots to those of entire ocean basins, maintaining biodiversity — the number of extant species across all forms of marine life — appeared key to preserving fisheries, water filtering and other so - called ecosystem services, though the correlation is not entirely clear.

In the quantum world, physicists study the tiny particles that make up our classical world — neutrons, electrons, photons — either one at a time or in small numbers because the behaviour of the particles is completely different on such a small scale.

While a number of ferroelectric materials are known to science and are already used in different applications, their crystal structure does not allow them to be scaled down to a small enough, ultra-thin film for use in miniaturized devices.

Pesticides that kill ticks (acaricides) are available and can be effective at reducing the numbers of ticks, but they are only useful on a small scale.

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.

A small number of postdocs who choose to work less than 100 % time (such as for outside employment or family care responsibilities) may fall under the OT threshold — these will be paid hourly at or above the same rates as exempt postdocs (NIH +2 steps scale converted to hourly), and our contract has protections to ensure these part - time postdocs are treated fairly and compensated in accordance with the law.

Although these platforms can be used successfully for small - scale expansion of hMSCs, other platforms will be required to generate the quantity of cells required to support the increasing number of clinical trials utilizing hMSCs and the subsequent large - scale production.

Very recently, a rather limited number of retrospective studies, utilizing whole genome sequencing (Talkowski et al., 2012) or whole exome sequencing (WES) in small cohorts of neonates and aborted fetuses with various ultrasound and / or post-mortem structural abnormalities (Carss et al., 2014; Drury et al., 2015; Alamillo et al., 2015; Westerfield et al., 2015), provided initial proof - of - principle of large - scale prenatal next generation sequencing (NGS).

Nanotechnology is a group of emerging technologies in which the structure of matter is controlled at the nanometer scale, the scale of small numbers of atoms, to produce novel materials and devices that have useful and unique properties.

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).

Importantly, commercial beekeepers appear to consistently lose greater numbers of colonies over the summer months than over the winter months, whereas the opposite seems true for smaller - scale beekeepers.

the small scale expression of a larger number (up to 20) of constructs to compare yields, integrity in crude preparations.

the small to medium scale expression (and purification) of a small number (up to 5) of constructs to compare yields, integrity and functionality.

The number on the scale also varies greatly with our own individual packaging, so to speak — which in Kourtney's case is small.

The numbers on the bathroom scales are getting smaller, but you still can't seem to budge that muffin top.

It is amazing to see small changes turn into large weight loss numbers on the scale.

The amount of eggs and coconut your diet recommends would probably drive cholesterol and small LDL numbers off the scale.

The numbers on the scales were going up every week but I was getting smaller.

My number one trick is to create balance with one small scale pattern and one large scale pattern.

This style of fast paced zombies attacking in great numbers is reminiscent of World War Z, but the scale is kept just about small enough and less CGI - heavy to seem more realistically threatening.

The Commission argued that the report used «a small number of cases to arrive at a generalized conclusion» and secondly, that report was «contradictory» by making «sweeping general assertions about AMISOM culpability» before «exhaustively interrogating the scale and prevalence» and thirdly, that «report lacks coherence in its account of AU's efforts to prevent and respond» to the allegations (AU, 2014, September, 8, pp.1 - 2).

The D&T Association has shown the positive impact of this type of collaboration via a number of small scale projects and, as a result, the D&T Association is now running its «Skills For Industry» (SFI) programme.

We should anticipate that most new ideas will fail and develop the infrastructure for testing a large number of them on a small scale first.

But such schools are limited in number and small in size — hardly the basis for a large - scale movement.

This small - scale strategy exposes the need for flexibility and personal attention required by a demographic that is about to descend in huge numbers on universities and colleges — low - income racial and ethnic minorities whose parents don't have college educations.

By requiring testing in the same grades as in public schools, and by enacting significant consequences for results in larger scale participants, it is designed to identify and grow effective schools, with an acknowledgment that, as in public schools, some schools will have difficulty adjusting to new academic expectations and a small number may prove incapable of ever adequately responding to expectations.

Finally, the Florida information tells us what happens when a state government tries to bring about class size reduction on a large scale, whereas the Tennessee experiment was limited to only a fairly small number of schools and to much larger reductions in class size.

A small number of CMOs will have grown to serve at least 20,000 students, placing them among the largest 2 percent of school districts nationally in terms of size, while delivering a level of performance that will change the current paradigm of delivering performance at scale.