Sentences with phrase «smaller number of females»

Of course, it must be noted that the averages are affected by the small number of female CEOs in the analysis: just eight women out of 101 (Oracle has two CEOs).

Lee joins amid an intense debate over the small number of female investors in Silicon Valley.

While there are a very small number of females in every mammal species unable to get pregnant, the United States has the highest infertility rate in the world among humans.

The book «provides detailed descriptions of how each of the three institutions gradually realized that admitting a small number of female students was not enough to ensure that they thrived academically and socially,» Klawe writes.

By allowing a large number of ovulation ovum from a small number of female mice, it makes it easier to perform IVF and embryo transfers.

A congressionally mandated committee is holding public hearings on the issue, a series of recent symposia have focused attention on the small number of female researchers, and faculty women and sympathetic male colleagues around the country are debating the matter more openly with administrators (Science, 11 June, p. 1757).

Wilson says male chimps compete for access to small numbers of females, so they have an incentive to kill each other.

A small number of female Marines already have made it: So far, 13 women have passed advanced combat training.

From the fact that women argue a miniscule amount of SCOTUS cases to the persistent pay gap to the depressingly small number of female equity partners, we all know that the law profession can be terrible for women.

The Court held that it was not necessary for the appellant to show that every female prisoner required to live at an AP has suffered the detriment of being placed at an AP far from her home in order to establish a case of direct discrimination on grounds of sex, and considered that the risk of being placed far from home is much greater for women than for men due to the smaller numbers of female offenders, and the policy decision that the particular vulnerability of women required to live in an AP means that all APs should be single sex.

Limitations include the small number of female children subjects and the lack of postintervention follow - up.

Not exact matches

«The small number of venture firms with female founders and / or an unusually high percentage of female partners invest at elevated levels in female entrepreneurs,» according to a 2016 CrunchBase report on venture capital funding.

If we single out firms that have both a high number of rounds in female - founded firms and those rounds also represent a high percentage of their total, we find a small collection of firms that share a clear attribute: The partnership was either founded by a woman and / or there is a relatively high percentage of female partners.

I already knew about hermaphrodites, but I hadn't realized that besides the small number of completely hermaprhodite people (fully developed genitalia for both the female and male sex) that there were any number of «partial» hermaphrodites.

For males, this meant bonding to a single female and making a lasting investment in a smaller number of children, which he could be reasonably certain were his own.

The small and shrinking number of women on the NYC Council has sparked alarm for Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and other female pols who see their ranks thinning.

But even preventing a small number of bites could have a huge impact because a female mosquito must engorge herself with a blood meal at least twice to transmit a disease such as malaria or dengue — once to contract the disease, and again to pass it along.

«The only way we could do that is because we now have over 500 tracks of female elephant seals, and a small number of them didn't have a pup or lost it at sea, so we could compare and see the effects of pregnancy.

An even bigger problem, he says, is that competitive displays by male birds seeking to mate with females are «only observed in a small number of species around the world.»

So females that lay a larger number of smaller eggs end up with more surviving offspring.

Males with large hyoids and deeper roars but more diminutive testes live in small social groups with often only one male dominating a number of females — a «harem» social model.

Yet only a small number of egg cells are produced by the female body, so they are the limiting factor in many aspects of reproductive science.

But because the number of females with ASD in the ABC Study is small, the researchers say there is not enough evidence to conclude that the effect is sex - specific, although generally, autism is more common in males.

Indeed out of hundreds of male or female fertility genes identified in diverse organisms, only a very small number of them are implicated specifically in reproduction in more than one lineage.

Then a group of evenly numbered male and female singles meet at a restaurant or bar and pair up for six minutes of small talk — the idea being that six minutes of conversation is enough time to decide whether or not you're interested in talking to someone again.

After screening submissions for missing data and removing the small number of homosexual participants4 to increase the homogeneity of our sample, the data for 175 respondents (63 males, 112 females) were retained for analysis.

The box office haul for the female superhero icon is smaller than the box office numbers of some of her caped male counterparts.

Jonathan Morris, the trust's CEO, said the gender pay gap was «merely a statistical measure» and claimed SLT's figures were influenced by its small size, and that it directly employs a large number of female catering staff and learning support assistants, who attract lower salaries.

Number of puppies biorn 2013: 231 In the year 1962 the sisters Josй van de Pas - Stramer and Metha Stramer went to Germany en returned with one male en two female Leonberger dogs from small villages in the near vicinity of Leonberg.

Hobby breeders operate with a relatively small number of breeding females so they often work with other hobby breeders in order to maintain genetic diversity in their breeding programs.

This allows the veterinarian to look through the abdominal wall of female small ruminants to estimate the number of fetuses, the age of the fetuses and even sometimes the sex of the fetuses.

Because the cat must have at least two adult female worms present to make this test positive, a negative test may mean that the cat may only have a small number of worms or that all the worms present are male.

[31] Even a very small number of additional annual female deaths will cause the subpopulation to decline.

However, in the late 1960s and early 1970s Lostutter produced a number of small watercolors and drawings of female subjects where he began to explore many of the elements seen in his later paintings.

According to recent studies published by the AIA (the national professional association of architects) and AIGA (the professional association for design) reveal that, while design and architecture programs attract female and minority students, «the professions don't retain them,» explains design critic Alexandra Lange, «and the numbers are particularly small at the leadership level.»

Yet even if their numbers remain small, more and more female artists are taking on the subject of the male body.

Simmons was one of the small number of primarily female artists who thoroughly transformed contemporary art in the late»70s and»80s.

Auction records were also set for a number of other artists, including Joseph Cornell ($ 4.8 million), Hans Hofmann ($ 4.8 million), Piero Manzoni ($ 14.1 million), Philip Guston ($ 25.8 million), Richard Serra ($ 4.2 million), Luc Tuymans ($ 2.7 million) and Julie Mehretu, whose $ 4.6 million sale of Retopistics indicates her entry into the small circle high - selling female artists, and bodes well for her current shows at both White Cube in London and Marian Goodman in New York.

As we see from the population structure of one male and a number of females, the effective breeding population is far smaller.

Polar bears are one of the most sensitive Arctic marine mammals to climate warming because they spend most of their lives on sea ice.35 Declining sea ice in northern Alaska is associated with smaller bears, probably because of less successful hunting of seals, which are themselves ice - dependent and so are projected to decline with diminishing ice and snow cover.36, 37,38,39 Although bears can give birth to cubs on sea ice, increasing numbers of female bears now come ashore in Alaska in the summer and fall40 and den on land.41 In Hudson Bay, Canada, the most studied population in the Arctic, sea ice is now absent for three weeks longer than just a few decades ago, resulting in less body fat, reduced survival of both the youngest and oldest bears, 42 and a population now estimated to be in decline43 and projected to be in jeopardy.44 Similar polar bear population declines are projected for the Beaufort Sea region.45

However, we did find that in females who experienced parental separation during childhood, the effect was more strongly mediated by poor physical health and a smaller number of friends than in their male counterparts.