Sentences with phrase «smaller body sizes in»

Trophy fish have also adopted smaller body sizes in response to fishers» preference for big fish (which, if killed, do not breed).

Not exact matches

I am sometimes priviledged to be used by Him (available to His ability) in some small ways in His building up of His body... hopefully seeing disciples of all shapes and sizes joining us in this sojourn.

If every configuration of the universe were subject to a separate and independent law, or if very small differences between bodies — in their shape and size, for instance, — led to their obeying quite different laws, prediction would be fin - possible and the inductive method useless.

Fetal stem cells, which may turn out to be useful for treating conditions like Parkinson's, need to be cloned — that is, researchers need to take a cell from a body, put it in an embryo, and grow that embryo to a certain small size before harvesting the stem cells.

The chemical poses particular threats to young children: given their smaller size and the types of foods they consume, they typically take in twice as much acrylamide, per pound of body weight, as adults.

At first was surprised at the small size of the bag considering the price but I must admit it is a good product to bring down the ph of the body and get clean sooth teeth when using it in a toothpaste mixture

Debora and her sister then designed what did not yet exist, a smaller nursing assist pillow in different sizes that was to work with a baby's head and body to bring the baby closer to mom's breast for an easier latch with less needing to hunch over, creating a set - up where a breastfeeding mom could breastfeed hands - free!

This carrier comes in many different sizes so you don't have to worry about the length being too small or too large for your body type.

Since it's smaller than full body pillows, but still offers support for both back and belly, moms with less room in the bed will appreciate the compact size, as will moms who need to travel with their pillows.

Baboosh Body is available in two sizes; small (up to 34 inches) and large (up to 44 inches).

Their toddler carrier is 3 inches taller in the body than their regular carrier (similar in sizing to most SSCs), the hood is an inch longer and the shoulder webbing is 2 inches smaller (because they are used mostly for back carries and this offers a tighter fit).

This sling is available in either a small or a large size to better suit all body types who will be wearing it.

The fact that children are smaller in size means that their skin presents a large surface area relative to their body weight for absorption of environmental substances.»

When carrying your child in the Baby K'tan Baby Carrier, if the carrier feels too loose (i.e., child feels insecure, legs are bumping child's body as you walk, or carrier easily slips off your shoulder), choose a smaller size.

Truly adjustable for the smaller baby the body panel cinches in to allow good fit while expanding to full size to fit just under the shoulders of the bigger toddler.

Specially designed to meet the needs of supporting a newborn or older small baby's body in place of mom's hand or arm, the original Prop»em Up ™ nursing assist pillow Baby's Body Size is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positibody in place of mom's hand or arm, the original Prop»em Up ™ nursing assist pillow Baby's Body Size is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positiBody Size is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positions.

Specially designed to meet the needs of supporting a newborn or older small baby's body in place of mom's hand or arm, the original Prop»em Up ™ nursing assist pillow Baby's Body Size in the Flamingo Fun design is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positibody in place of mom's hand or arm, the original Prop»em Up ™ nursing assist pillow Baby's Body Size in the Flamingo Fun design is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positiBody Size in the Flamingo Fun design is especially helpful in the side - lying and cross-cradle breastfeeding positions.

- When carrying your child in the Baby K'tan Baby Carrier, if the carrier feels too loose (i.e., child feels insecure, legs are bumping child's body as you walk, or carrier easily slips off your shoulder), choose a smaller size.

FEDERATION OF MASTER BUILDERS The FMB is the largest employers» body for small and medium sized firms in the construction industry, and with 11,000 members, it is the recognised voice of small and medium sized builders.

It comes in three different sizes as well as three different colors to keep your pet more comfortable and has a small frame design that covers less of their body, keeping them cooler in the warm weather.

The carnivorous animal, which was roughly the size of a small lion, walked on all fours, its forelimbs and hindlimbs are similar in proportion, and the limbs themselves are pretty short relative to the length of the body.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

The particles of rock and ice in these belts vary in size from the tiniest dust grain, smaller than a millimetre across, up to asteroid - like bodies many kilometres in diameter [2].

«When small molecules are administered, they can stick to many different proteins in the body because their size enables them to interact with many targets, not just the intended target, causing more side effects.»

They determined that if environmental conditions favor either very small or very large body sizes as opposed to intermediate ones, new species may arise in just tens or hundreds of generations as a result of assortative mating.

«This study provides compelling evidence that the iconic small size of birds results from a chance but sustained pattern of selection for smaller body size spanning millions of years,» says Gregory Erickson of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

With a body the size of a small child and a wingspan of up to two meters, the Blakiston's fish owl (Bubo blakistoni) is the largest owl in the world.

To be sure, the study used a small sample size and has not yet proved causation, but «if we can train people to sense their interoceptive states,» Tsakiris says, «it might make a change in their body image.

The opposite was true in the past — either smaller - bodied species were more likely to go extinct, or there was no association between body size and extinction threat.

«Thus, the use of small populations artificially bred for desired traits, such as smaller body size or coat color, may have led to an accumulation of harmful genetic variations in dogs.»

But if you live in the tropics and are trying to avoid overheating, it should be better to have a smaller body size, which would give relatively more surface area through which to shed heat.

The findings, published in the journal PNAS, suggest that if the bodily environment that a mother provides for her baby is unfavourable, for example through small body size or metabolic dysfunction, the placenta will change the flow of nutrients to the fetus relative to her own state.

A smaller body also suggests a smaller pelvic size in females, so selection would have favored the delivery of smaller - headed babies.

Statisticians reexamined the body of work on heritability in general and declared the sample sizes too small to support the nature - nurture statistics.

«When you go back and see how much of the variation in this gene accounts for the variation in body size in the general population, it's really small,» says Bray.

The team believes that small body size might have been key to maintaining evolutionary potential in birds, which broke the lower body size limit of around 1 kilogram seen in other dinosaurs.

GC - biased gene conversion correlates with recombination rate (86), and new GC alleles reach fixation more easily in species with larger population sizes, which tend to also have smaller body sizes (87).

«One of the most surprising finds was that 125,000 years ago, the average body size of mammals on Africa was already 50 percent smaller than on other continents,» said Smith, a professor in the UNM Department of Biology who has studied megafauna extinction for more than 15 years.

But the skull itself is around 30 % smaller, which is likely to have corresponded to a similar difference in body size.

Sex differences in heat loss responses are dependent on body size and not sex, meaning that larger individuals sweat more than smaller ones during cycle exercise in warm and tolerable conditions.

Produced using cutting - edge methodology and the largest sample of individual early hominin fossils available, analysis of their results shows that early hominins were generally smaller than previously thought and that the increase in body size occurred not between australopiths and the origins of Homo but later with H. erectus (the first species widely found outside of Africa).

Co-author Heidi Parker, a geneticist at NHGRI, says that because humans initially bred dogs for specific traits — say, smaller body size or calm temperament — selection created a population «bottleneck» that narrowed the genetic variation in offspring, leaving them with just a few specific clusters of variable genetic regions.

Their small size gives them unique optical, electrical, and chemical properties, raising concerns that they might have unforeseen effects in the body.

Scientists have started shrinking sensors from millimeters or microns in size to the nanometer scale, small enough to circulate within living bodies and to mix directly into construction materials.

The identification of large - size individuals among the australopithecines — i.e. hominins commonly presumed to be small - bodied on average — shows also that the available fossil record can be misleading, resulting in an underestimate of the hominin phenotypic diversity in any given period.

«We think it's kind of ridiculous that, despite all of us coming in so many different shapes and sizes, we're stuck with small, medium and large,» says Matt Hornbuckle, co-founder of Stantt, a New Jersey - based firm that manufactures men's shirts to fit 70 sets of body measurements.

«We have shown that species with larger brains relative to their body size experience lower mortality than species with smaller brains, supporting the general importance of the cognitive buffer hypothesis in the evolution of large brains.»

Some might consider Pluto to be the king of the Kuiper belt at 2,370 kilometers in diameter, but it is easy to forget that there are a slew of other Pluto - sized or slightly smaller bodies beyond 30 AU.

They found that birds with larger brains relative to their body size survived better in nature than birds with small brains.

The goal of minimally invasive surgery is to perform operations through very small incisions a mere fraction of the size of the incisions used in traditional surgery with equal or superior clinical outcomes and less impact on a child's body and organs.