Sentences with phrase «smaller number of causes»

If you revisit a previous post about Pareto's 80:20 rule, you'll recall that the theory states that most results (80 percent) usually come from a smaller number of causes (20 percent).

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That's the number one cause of small business failure.

Michael Ames, author of «Small Business Management,» lists a number of causes, including lack of experience, bad location, and unexpected growth that catch an owner off - guard.

It issued a software patch to fix the behavior, issuing this response: «We have learned of an issue impacting a small number of Google Home Minis that could cause the touch mechanism to behave incorrectly.

David Farmer has warned that this small number of miners still supporting the Segwit2x proposal could cause a fork.

While this may be alarming to many shavers as an excessive number of hairs, the fact that the knot of the average shaving brush contains thousands of individual badger hairs means that this very small percentage will likely cause no noticeable effect on the brush's density or performance qualities.

«Central clearing will play a critical role in correcting long - standing flaws in market structure caused by overconcentration of exposures among a relatively small number of dealers,» according to the TABB Group study, which was commissioned by the World Federation of Exchanges.

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The number of people repressed for their religion under Communism is far smaller (at least an order of magnitude) than the excess deaths caused by these regimes.

Nuisance troublemaking against Christians goes on quite unnoticed in the smaller towns and villages, but the problem in Islamabad became a cause célèbre because a number of diplomats worship in the house parish that seeks to build a permanent church.

substantial, in part because of the political ties of many of its preachers, beginning with their support of a number of conservative causes and candidates in l980, but also because they galvanized strong support from a relatively small group of people who for the first time found a national public articulation of their views.

Meanwhile, those on the margins are typically working with less power, smaller platforms, thinner finances, and fewer numbers and in the face of subtle but pervasive stereotypes, prejudices, and disadvantages that make it nearly impossible to advocate for change without causing friction.

@ZJL I agree that the problem exists of «what came first» or first cause, but a serious study of probability involving just Darwinism (ignoring the problems involvled with the formation of a «perfect enviornment» and the rest of the universe) yields a probabilty so small that to write the number in longhand (without exponents or orders of magnitutude) would take no less than 100 years to put down on paper.

The small number of Shacks included in our calculation of our average cash - on - cash return and payback period may cause these measures to fluctuate and be subject to change.

While that sounds like a small number that will not cause thermal damage, it is easily thousands if not millions of times higher than the energy density shown to cause biological damage in hundreds of studies, as biological damage typically shows up in the micro to picowatt range.

A small number of baby's teeth emerge outside of this pattern, and it's usually no cause for concern.

At the top, you have clustered the small number of deeply engaged people working in intense and in depth ways in propel the cause forward and lead the masses.

Again, social media didn't cause the Tunisian Revolution, but they enabled it — without the ability of a small number of activists to pass along shocking news and imagery from the first wave of protests, they might have fizzled out as so many street demonstrations in so many countries have in the past.

Here's why: though they'd love to spark a mass movement in the Muslim world, their immediate need is to find the small number of people in the West who might be willing to kill themselves and others for their cause (they need Europeans or Americans because they can move freely in the target countries).

The small, invite only, forum at the Assembly's Manhattan hearing room brought together about a dozen cloud technology vendors, including major firms like Microsoft, IBM, Amazon and AT&T, and a number of other technology consultants and lobbyists, as well as Reinvent Albany and Common Cause NY.

«One in 11 Americans has diabetes, and in the last 20 years, the number of adults diagnosed with diabetes has more than tripled,» said Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente Jr. «Making small, healthy changes to our diets and lifestyle as we age can go a long way toward preventing the onset of this terrible disease, which is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States.»

«The same issue that affected other states caused the system in New York to experience sporadic technical issues at a small number of schools on Tuesday morning,» Emily DeSantis, spokeswoman for the state Education Department, said in a statement.

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

On top of the harm caused to the small number who have been sent back to a dictatorship, those left waiting for appeal decisions in the UK are under huge strain.

I think we should give justice to the small number of pedestrians killed each year by dangerous cycling by applying the same or similar penalties to that of causing death by dangerous driving and causing death by careless, or inconsiderate, driving.

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.

But in March, Lichun Tang of China's Beijing Proteome Research Center and colleagues reported using CRISPR / Cas9 to correct disease - causing mutations in a small number of viable human embryos.

At the same time, we can not rule out that the difference in the number of contacts is caused by a small group of children who have more frequent contact with their GP because of illness,» explains Anne Mette Lund Würtz.

At time of writing, the virus had not become more severe, causing mild disease in most sufferers but making a small number — probably less than 1 per cent — extremely ill.

The disease is generally pretty mild — on par with flu — but health workers have recently found that a small number of patients seem to go on to develop an autoimmune disorder that can cause nerve damage and paralysis called Guillain — Barré syndrome.

Members of that family, including nonpathogenic E. coli (Escherichia coli), are present in small numbers in the healthy gut and protect against infection with pathogens such as Salmonella, a common cause of food poisoning.

In recent years, we've become very used to tornadoes causing a relatively small number of deaths.

The challenge was to explain how genes act lawfully, and cause organisms to behave lawfully, while being composed of a very small number of atoms, a significant proportion of which may be behaving unlawfully.

Bob Holmes writes that a small downward shift in the mean IQ of a population will cause a relatively large drop in the number of high IQ individuals (23 August, p 30).

«A small number of cells can cause so much trouble.

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.»

Compared with CIVCAS, they attribute nearly three times the number of civilian deaths caused by military forces, only a small portion of which are Afghan national rather than ISAF forces.

Of the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIOf the three strains of HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof HIV known to infect humans, we know that two — the one causing the global AIDS epidemic and another that has infected a small number of people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIof people in Cameroon — came from a chimpanzee virus called SIV.

For example, if one reads the literature on biological invasions published in the 1990s, one will find few efforts by ecologists to present the full picture of the impacts of introduced species — for instance, that a small number cause great health, economic, and / or ecological problems, most have little known impact, and a small number have a positive impact.

They acknowledge that their analyses covered narrow groups with particular types of fertility patterns, and relatively small numbers in the groups of interest, so the results should be interpreted with caution and taken as evidence of cause only for this small group.

Although the number of cases is still very small, and most have yet to be published in peer - reviewed journals, the researchers insist their preliminary findings are cause for concern because this type of brain pathology is virtually unheard of in people this young.

But if even a small number of mutant mitochondria are retained after the transfer — a common occurrence — they can outcompete healthy mitochondria in a child's cells and potentially cause the disease the therapy was designed to avoid, experiments suggest.

Chen cites grant applications as another cause for concern, stating that too many resources go to a small number of good scientists.

The idea is to perform an extremely large number of measurements at A and B and extract the small fraction in which the EEG signals caused changes to the settings at A and B after the particles departed their original position but before they arrived and were measured..

As it results in a smaller number of melatonin receptors, the risk variant of the gene can cause weaker natural melatonin signalling, one of the regulatory mechanisms in stabilising the circadian rhythm.

The consensus position in the research community is that tracing back the biochemical chains of cause and effect to root causes, something that is not yet possible for many common medical conditions, will show that all age - related conditions and their complexities are the consequences of a comparatively small number of types of cellular and molecular damage.

For example, pneumonitis, which a small number of patients on checkpoint inhibitor immunotherapy may experience, can cause some of the same symptoms as a bacterial respiratory infection, but should be treated with steroids instead of antibiotics.

They were surprised to find that the samples contained a small number of fragments of variola virus — the genetic remains of infection with the virus that causes smallpox.

And another one in rodents with lung cancer published in Science Translational Medicine in 2014 found that normal doses of vitamin E and smaller doses of acetylcysteine, an antioxidant supplement, appeared to lead to a three-fold increase in the number of tumors and caused them to be more aggressive.

Several studies have shown that eating lots of meals during the day (something like 8 meals) makes you hungrier, causes cravings, and makes you feel less satiated than eating a small number of meals (3 daily).